5 things to learn about editing

Something that I learned from this article is that parts of Elf were taken out by the editor to keep the tone of innocence alive in the film.  Another thing I learned from the article is that to be an editor you need to be good at storytelling, not just editing and putting clips together. I also learned that you have to maintain a good attitude to be successful as an editor. Something that I didnt like about this article is that they swear in the end, I just feel like it's sort of unprofessional.  Something that I liked about this article is that it shows how other elements of a movie can make it successful, like how he expected The Hangover to not be successful because of the editing, but it ended up the very opposite. A question I have about the article is why does the author use Quotes to name a film in the beginning but then italics the rest of the article.