A very interesting experiment

So, moving on somewhat, lets enter more murky territory.

A poem would help here.

Take a look at this poem.  It's by Simon Armitage.

I know.  It's a poem.  How very dare I.  Go with me on this though, I am going somewhere with this and it is, to me, the crux of understanding how to edit professionally.

It ain't what you do, it's what it does to you

I have not bummed across America with only a dollar to spare, one pair of busted Levi's and a bowie knife. I have lived with thieves in Manchester. I have not padded through the Taj Mahal, barefoot, listening to the space between each footfall picking up and putting down its print against the marble floor. But I skimmed flat stones across Black Moss on a day so still I could hear each set of ripples as they crossed. I felt each stone's inertia spend itself against the water; then sink. I have not toyed with a parachute cord while perched on the lip of a light-aircraft; but I held the wobbly head of a boy at the day centre, and stroked his fat hands. And I guess that the tightness in the throat and the tiny cascading sensation somewhere inside us are both part of that sense of something else. That feeling, I mean. What does this poem - hopefully something - make you feel? It's quite visual isn't it.  Lots of beautiful observation that could create pictures in your mind.  And those images, say the thieves in Manchester and then padding through the Taj Mahal come very close to one another. So, get to the point Paul. Here goes, when you think of thieves of Manchester quickly followed by padding through the Taj Mahal how does that make you feel? There is nothing in the words demanding that you feel anything.  The poet has simply put two images alongside one another. It has juxtaposed them. So, what do you feel and when you answer that, is, what you feel written anywhere in the poem? Nope. That's magic. Or (if you didn't like the poem) it's not magic at all, its tragic and a waste of your valuable life time. Don't worry, I'll do another example in a moment. However, this is an example of the theory behind the Kuleshov effect as well as hinting at what the great Sergi Eisenstein called Montage Editing. Not Rocky.  Ever!