Here's how you can improve your worth as an assistant editor.
While assistant editing is absolutely a career in itself, many assistant editors are working toward becoming an editor. Unlike many jobs outside of the film industry, there’s no real clear-cut way to make that jump—every editor’s trajectory is different.
We spoke with editor Nicole Brik of the Netflix series Dead To Me about her path to becoming an editor, what she thinks are the essential skills every assistant editor should have, and how to learn them.