Bryan Shaw is a multi award-winning editor who has worked on a wide range of documentaries and dramas. Among the documentaries are Sense of Place: Robin Morrison, Photographer; Back from the Dead – The Saga of the Rose Noelle; and series An Immigrant Nation. Shaw moved into editing dramas with Street Legal, then went on to edit a number of other drama series including Outrageous Fortune, Westside, The Almighty Johnsons, and Spartacus.

In this ScreenTalk, Shaw talks about:

• How all the elements came together on documentary Sense of Place: Robin Morrison, Photographer
• The challenge of telling the story of four men trapped in an upturned catamaran for Back from the Dead – The Saga of the Rose Noelle
• Admiring the shooting on the streets style of drama series Street Legal 
• Editing Outrageous Fortune, a show set on his old home turf
• Combining his passions for motorcycling and 8mm film with award-winning documentary Love, Speed and Loss
• The challenges of dealing with visual effects on drama Spartacus
• Almost causing an accident on the set of Sione’s 2 - Unfinished Business
• The joys of dealing with 70s society and music for Outrageous Fortune prequel Westside 
• Why having more than one director on a TV series is a good thing

This video was first uploaded on 15 March 2016, and is available on YouTube to embed and distrbute via this Creative Commons licence.
 
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