Editor

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An editor works to marry the intent of a script with the available recorded material to tell the best possible story. Their general goal is to find the most economical way to convey the content of the narrative to a viewer.

In so doing, an editor must view every scrap of recorded footage — often totalling many times the proposed running length of an episode — to select the best takes of each scene, with which they can produce a "rough cut". This cut will generally run overlong and serves only to give an idea of the potential of the material. From this point, the editor will add completed CGI scenes and pick-ups, working closely with producers and directors to refine the product until it is "locked", or visually completed. Then, the editor will send their locked version to various post-production artists, such as graders, musicians and ADR recordists. On very rare occasions, the previously "locked" episode will return to the editor for a final change, as reportedly happened with the Rose Tyler scene in Partners in Crime.

Though they generally adhere to the writer's suggested scene order, the director's notes, and the producer's wishes, they are not simply technicians carrying out instructions. They are a vital part of the creative team, and can often bring narrative dimension to a piece that other team members could not have foreseen. On some occasions, they may independently create versions which deviate from received instructions in order to demonstrate possibilities their colleagues had not considered.

Editors were initially relatively unimportant to the production of Doctor Who. For most of the 1960s, episodes were filmed more or less in narrative order, alike to stage plays. Many early episodes do not feature even a single edit; others have no more than one or two. Instead, the show employed a process know as vision mixing, where "cuts" were made live in-studio between a group of cameras. Even into the late 70s, many episodes employed only a "film editor", a term, while subject to somewhat ambiguous usage, normally meaning "the person who edited footage captured on film". This role existed from the beginning of the 1963 version's history, since location and special effects work was normally captured on film stock, while studio work was recorded on videotape. From season 16, the credit of videotape editor became regular, and the shift in 1986 to unify footage through persistent use of outside broadcasting cemented the importance of the once rarified role in the production process.

Today, most all footage is captured through a unified medium, as is industry standard. All footage thus comes through a single editing bay, making the editor a central figure in the hierarchy of post-production.

List of editors

Doctor Who

Series 1

• Mike Jones (Rose, Aliens of London, World War Three)
• John Richards (The End of the World, The Unquiet Dead, The Long Game)
• Graham Walker (Dalek, Father's Day, Boom Town, Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways)
• Liana Del Giudice (The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances)

Series 2

• Liana Del Giudice (The Christmas Invasion, New Earth, School Reunion)
• Crispin Green (Tooth and Claw, The Girl in the Fireplace, The Idiot's Lantern, Fear Her)
• David Cresswell (Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel, Army of Ghosts / Doomsday)
• Mike Jones (The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit)
• Alan Levy (Love & Monsters)

Series 3

• John Richards (The Runaway Bride, Gridlock, The Lazarus Experiment)
• Matthew Tabern (Smith and Jones, The Shakespeare Code, Human Nature / The Family of Blood)
• Mike Jones (Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks)
• Will Oswald (42, Utopia)
• Jamie McCoan (Blink)
• Mike Hopkins (The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords)

Series 4

• Mike Jones (Voyage of the Damned, Partners in Crime, Planet of the Dead)
• Mike Hopkins (The Fires of Pompeii, The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky)
• Will Oswald (Planet of the Ood, The Unicorn and the Wasp, Turn Left, The Stolen Earth / Journey's End, The Waters of Mars)
• Philip Kloss (The Doctor's Daughter, Midnight, The End of Time)
• Crispin Green (Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead)
• Richard Cox (The Next Doctor)

Series 5

• James Pearson (The Eleventh Hour, The Vampires of Venice, Amy's Choice, Vincent and the Doctor, The Lodger)
• John Richards (The Beast Below, Victory of the Daleks)
• Will Oswald (The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone)
• David Barrett (The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood)
• Mat Newman (The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang)

Series 6

• Adam Recht (A Christmas Carol)
• Tim Porter (The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon, The Girl Who Waited, The God Complex)
• Simon Reglar (The Curse of the Black Spot)
• Peter H Oliver (The Doctor's Wife, Night Terrors)
• James Pearson (The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People)
• Úna Ní Dhonghaíle (A Good Man Goes to War)
• Will Oswald (Let's Kill Hitler)
• Anthony Boys (Closing Time)
• Anthony Combes (The Wedding of River Song)

Series 7

• Tim Porter (The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship, A Town Called Mercy)
• James Pearson (Asylum of the Daleks, The Angels Take Manhattan)
• Mike Hopkins (The Power of Three)
• William Oswald (The Snowmen, Cold War)
• Mark Davis (The Bells of Saint John)
• Sam Williams (The Rings of Akhaten)
• Nick Arthurs (Hide)
• Selina MacArthur (Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS)
• Matthew Cannings (The Crimson Horror, The Name of the Doctor)
• Iain Erskine (Nightmare in Silver)

2013 specials

• Liana Del Giudice (The Day of the Doctor)
• St.John O'Rorke (The Time of the Doctor)

Series 8

• Will Oswald (Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, Robot of Sherwood, The Caretaker, Dark Water / Death in Heaven)
• Selina MacArthur (Listen, Time Heist)
• John Richards (Kill the Moon, Mummy on the Orient Express)
• Phil Hookway (Flatline)
• Lucien Clayton (In the Forest of the Night)
• Adam Trotman (Last Christmas)

Series 9

• Selina MacArthur (The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar)
• Will Oswald (Under the Lake / Before the Flood, The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion, Heaven Sent, Hell Bent)
• Adam Green (The Girl Who Died, The Woman Who Lived, The Husbands of River Song)
• Mike Jones (Sleep No More, Face the Raven)

Series 10

• Adam Green (The Return of Doctor Mysterio)
• Will Oswald (The Pilot, Smile, Oxygen, The Eaters of Light, World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls, Twice Upon a Time)
• Adam Trotman (Thin Ice, Knock Knock)
• Xavier Russell (Extremis, The Pyramid at the End of the World)
• Edel McDonnell (The Lie of the Land, Empress of Mars)

Series 11

• David Fisher (The Woman Who Fell to Earth, Demons of the Punjab, It Takes You Away, The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos)
• Rebecca Trotman (The Ghost Monument, Rosa)
• Helen Murphy (Arachnids in the UK, The Witchfinders)
• Ulrike Münch (The Tsuranga Conundrum, Kerblam!)
• Edel McDonnell (Resolution)

Series 12

• Rebecca Trotman (Spyfall, Orphan 55)
• Tom Chapman (Spyfall Part Two, Orphan 55)
• Joel Skinner (Revolution of the Daleks)

Torchwood

Series 1

• William Webb (Everything Changes, Day One)
• Mike Hopkins (Ghost Machine, Greeks Bearing Gifts)
• Mike Jones (Cyberwoman, They Keep Killing Suzie)
• Bobby Sheikh (Small Worlds, Out of Time)
• Richard Cox (Countrycide, Combat)
• Phil Hookway (Random Shoes)
• Nick Ames (Captain Jack Harkness)
• Elen Pierce Lewis (End of Days)

Series 2

• William Webb (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, Reset)
• Mike Hopkins (Sleeper, Meat)
• Richard Cox (To the Last Man, Adam, Dead Man Walking / A Day in the Death, Something Borrowed, Exit Wounds)
• Fergus MacKinnon (From Out of the Rain, Fragments)

Series 3

• Will Oswald (Children of Earth: Day One, Day Four)
• Philip Kloss (Children of Earth: Day Two, Day Five)
• John Gillanders (Children of Earth: Day Three)

Series 4

• Hunter M. Via (The New World, Escape to LA, Immortal Sins)
• Padraic McKinley (Rendition, The Categories of Life)
• Michael N. Knue (Dead of Night, The Middle Men, The Gathering)
• Sara Mineo (The Categories of Life, End of the Road)
• Mark J. Goldman (The Blood Line)

The Sarah Jane Adventures

Series 1

• Mike Hopkins (Invasion of the Bane)
• William Webb (Revenge of the Slitheen, Eye of the Gorgon)
• Matthew Tabern (Warriors of Kudlak, The Lost Boy)
• Bobby Sheikh (Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)

Series 2

• Will Oswald (The Last Sontaran, The Mark of the Berserker, The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith)
• Mike Hopkins (The Day of the Clown, Secrets of the Stars)
• Ceres Doyle (Enemy of the Bane)

Series 3

• Will Oswald (Prisoner of the Judoon, The Eternity Trap)
• Mike Hopkins (The Mad Woman in the Attic, Mona Lisa's Revenge)
• Ceres Doyle (The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, The Gift)

Series 4

• Will Oswald (The Nightmare Man, The Vault of Secrets, Lost in Time, Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith)
• Ceres Doyle (Death of the Doctor, The Empty Planet)

Series 5

• Tim Hodges (Sky, The Curse of Clyde Langer, The Man Who Never Was)

Class

Series 1

• Adam Green (For Tonight We Might Die, The Coach with the Dragon Tattoo, Nightvisiting)
• Andy Morrison (Co-Owner of a Lonely Heart / Brave-ish Heart)
• Edel McDonnell (Detained, The Metaphysical Engine, or What Quill Did)
• Robbie Morrison (The Lost)

K9

Series 1

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