One of the biggest (and most rewarding) challenges I’ve found as an editor is taking multiple interviews, ideas, etc. and combining them in a way that flows. The flow I’m talking about is of course starting with an idea, linking it to the next, then to the next, etc. until you have a complete thread/story arc.

The following edit I did is an example of this. I was given 4 interviews, and footage from Terminator 1, Terminator 2, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Terminator Salvation. I was told to create a coherent story using all of these elements. Below is what I came up with.Ultimately, I would have liked to have also included Terminator 3 in this story, to make it fully complete, but as hard as I tried, the very few and brief mentions in the interviews of Terminator 3 that I had always seemed to come to a dead end.  That, and the fact that we didn’t have any Terminator 3 footage on hand (which would have meant more time would need to be spent sourcing it), also made it an easy decision to omit all but the very brief mention of Terminator 3.