[Watch the video interview on Youtube here]
Film Courage: I understand you love poetry?
Lucas Harger, Film and Commercial Editor, Supervising editor, and Partner at Bruton Stroube Outpost: I do yes.
Film Courage: Have you written poetry yourself?
Lucas: I have from time to time. I’m more of a reader and an enjoyer, a basker. I just like to be with a poem and just read it. I have but I would not call myself a poet in any way.
Film Courage: How would you compare poetry to editing?
Lucas: The link for me, the relationship between poetry and editing comes in tone and rhythm. That’s all the poem is. It’s also the distillation of a large thought, a large concept. There are poems that are more elaborate but the poems that I gravitate toward are distilling, complex human emotion and experience in a succinct of a way as possible. That’s through tone, like a Seamus Heaney poem. You can just paint this amazing picture of a landscape in a human emotion and the connection to that landscape in two lines. It’s the use of the tone of the words, the specific words that he’s using to put next to each other that elicit…(Watch the video interview on Youtube here).
About:
Lucas Harger is an acclaimed film and commercial editor, supervising editor, and partner at Bruton Stroube Outpost. Interspersed between long-form editing, Lucas cuts broadcast and web commercials for nationally recognized clients such as but not limited to: Nike, Enterprise, Anheuser-Busch, Uber, Amazon, Apple & Disney+. Priding himself on being a key collaborator across diverse project categories, Lucas brings passion and creativity to every venture. Building timelines and teams are his passion.
CONNECT WITH LUCAS J. HARGER
Advertisement – contains affiliate links
(As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases)
More affiliates:
Camera we use for interviews – https://buff.ly/3rWqrra
Sound we use for interviews – https://amzn.to/2tbFlM9
Other books on Amazon that Film Courage recommends – https://buff.ly/3o0oE5o
