In The Blink of An Eye: A BBC Between the Covers Book Club Pick

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By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. The reader is pulled along with the narrative, eager for Kat and her team to find the clues, ones which are left by the author for the reader to find and follow before the detectives get there. There are clues you can pick up on, and links that can be made fairly quickly given what we as readers know verses what the Detectives are able to uncover, but the who and the why .

In the Blink of an Eye is a dazzling debut from an exciting new voice and asks us what we think it means to be human. In the Blink of an Eye is a dazzling debut from an exciting voice and asks us what we think it means to be human. Lock is sometimes blunt and careless in language as he doesn’t understand emotion, however the constant stimuli of working in the field allows him to reset his boundaries on occasion. He is pure software, but is able to project a totally lifelike 3D image, both of 'himself' (in various avatars) and of people who feature in the case, 3D data presentations and more.Much as I love a crime novel, the market is flooded and it’s hard to find one that really stands out. But the emotional aspects of Kat’s work, her feelings of total loss and grief over her husband’s death are very real too. I’m very late in reading this book, particularly as I’ve had it on my TBR for so long, but I’m very glad I’ve now caught up as it was a brilliant story with a truly fascinating premise, and blended the thrills, mystery and humour in a way that I loved.

Murch noticed at some point in his career with Gene Hackman, that where Hackman blinked was often a good place to cut a sequence (just before the blink). Murch has a chapter on all the new software out on editing film and he is still a bit skeptical it can deliver on all its claims.She believes in gut instinct, experience and being able to read people’s emotions which is everything the AI Lock can’t do and is only programmed to work on logic and facts. But when the two missing person's cold cases they are reviewing suddenly become active, Lock is the only one who can help Kat when the case gets personal. Best Quotes ‘Suggestion is always more effective than exposition’ 'Always try to do the most with the least’ ‘What they finally remember is not the editing, not the camerawork, not the performances, not even the story - it’s how they felt’ ‘Editing…is not so much a putting together as it is a discovery of a path’ ‘You could sit in one room with a pile of dailies and another editor could sit in the next room with exactly the same footage and both of you would make different films out of the same material’ 📔 Summary and Key Ideas 🎞️ Why Do Cuts Exist? I’m not sure how I’d feel about working along side AI, but it certainly seems to take some of the strain out of the legwork, an example being Lock’s ability to review hours of CCTV footage in just seconds.

I'm really glad this is not a standalone book and I am looking forward to reading the second book a bit later this year. The last part of th Each one has something to add to the story and each one has the potential to grow as the series develops. Frequently, it takes more work and discernment to decide where not to cut—don’t feel you have to cut just because you are being paid to. Even better are the bits where he delves further, into the theoretical underpinnings of what a cut is, and why they work at all given the unfamiliarity of jump cuts in day to day life (so one would think).Overall, there's a good balance here between the SF and mystery aspects (though there is a very predictable plot twist near the end).

I thought the AI premise was such a brilliant concept, feeling scarily plausible and highly effective. In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing. who knows maybe Mark Zuckerberg has a whole fleet of AI detectives scouring the internet for anti-metaverse individuals LOL.

A scene made up of only twenty-five shots can be edited in approximately 39,999,999,999,999,999,999, 999,999 different ways. Murch has taken years of experience in the film industry and poured them into this work of theory and art. It was great to see a female detective be respected by her peers and superiors, and be allowed to be good at her job and at most aspects of her personal life. S.’s finest decades of cinema, the 1970s, Walter Murch is part psychologist philosopher and part editor in this short treatise on film editing. The paperback has just been published on Jan 4th 2024, and incredibly, is now Waterstones Thriller of the Month!