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Mark Day (born 22 February 1961) is a British film editor.He won two BAFTA Awards for Best Editing for State of Play and Sex Traffic, both directed by David Yates with whom Day also worked with on The Way We Live Now, The Young Visiters and The Girl in the Café; the former two projects gained Day two Royal Television Society award nominations for Best Tape and Film Editing along with two ...
- British
- Harry Potter film series
- 1986–present
- Film editor
Mark Day. Editor: Ex Machina. Mark Day was born on 7 November 1958 in Middlesex, England, UK. He is an editor, known for Ex Machina (2014), Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011) and The Legend of Tarzan (2016).
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Mark Day (born 22 February 1961) is a British film editor. He won two BAFTA Awards for Best Editing for State of Play and Sex Traffic, both directed by David Yates with whom Day also worked with on The Way We Live Now, The Young Visiters and The Girl in the Café; the former two projects gained Day two Royal Television Society award nominations for Best Tape and Film Editing along with two ...
Mark Day Biography. Mark Day (born 22 February 1961) is a British film editor.He won two BAFTA Awards for Best Editing for State of Play and Sex Traffic, both directed by David Yates with whom Day also worked on The Way We Live Now, The Young Visiters, and The Girl in the Café; the former two projects gained Day two Royal Television Society award nominations for Best Tape and Film Editing ...
- An Intelligent Cut
- Early Break
- Ex Machina
- Swift Shoot
- Meticulous Edit
- Versatile Tool
- Editing Skills
Twice BAFTA winning editor Mark Day has had a hugely successful career to date. His film credits include four Harry Potter films and he is currently working on Harry Potter director David Yates’ Tarzan (to be released in 2016). Before beginning work on Tarzan, Day edited Ex Machina, the directorial debut of The Beachwriter Alex Garland, which is du...
Day became an editor a few years later and says his first big break as a drama editor came on a film called Number 27, which was written by Michael Palin and directed by Tristram Powell. “From there I edited various BBC films with directors such as John Schlesinger, Jack Clayton, Richard Eyre and Paul Greengrass,” he adds. “I also met and worked wi...
Day’s latest film credit is Universal Pictures’ forthcoming, much anticipated sci-fi release Ex Machina, written and directed by The Beach’sAlex Garland and shot at Pinewood and on location in Norway. The film is an intense psychological thriller centering on Caleb (Domhnall Gleeson), a young computer coder at the world’s largest Internet company. ...
Ex Machinawas shot anamorphic on the Sony F65 and F55 and captured in 4K Raw at Pinewood Studios and on location in Norway. Day was based in Pinewood Studios for the duration of the shoot. “It was a fairly swift six week shoot at Pinewood,” he explains. “I was editing the previous day’s rushes every day until the end of the shoot and then basically...
Editing Ex Machinawas the first time Day had worked with Alex Garland: “Not only is he an excellent writer but he is an equally talented director; totally driven and focused, but also collaborative and always willing and wanting to try things out and experiment. We worked very closely together throughout the fine cut, analysing every scene meticulo...
As with all the other high-profile feature films Day has cut so far, he edited Ex Machinaon Avid Media Composer. “I switched to Avid when I started Harry Potter eight years ago and haven’t looked back since,” says Day. “It’s a very versatile tool for editing big visual effects features, but also just as good for low budget ones.” We had a fair amou...
When asked what skills he would consider essential for a film editor, Day reels off the following list: “Diplomacy, patience, psychoanalysis, tenacity, emotion, passion, vision, stamina – I could go on and on!” Copy written by Jake Bikerton, first published in Televisual in 2014
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Mar 1, 2021 · This is a short excerpt from the ‘Virtual Glass of Wine’ British Film Editors interview series. Mark Day talks about how he started out working in the film i...
