Saturday, December 17, 2022

Careful editing will improve your presentation

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At Inc. on December 16, 2022 there is an article by Carmine Gallo titled Jerry Seinfeld’s editing tip will make your presentations shorter and more concise. In it film editor Peter Holmes said:

 

“He’ll cull the best material and go to work on it, shaving it down until there’s not a wasted syllable … At times, he can be brutal about throwing things away in the edit, but I can’t argue with the results.”

 

Mr. Gallo’s three ways to edit are:

 

Recognize that editing is necessary but hard.

Resist information dumps.

Get help.

 

The scissors cartoon was adapted from one at Openclipart.

 


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