Editing The Red Shoes (1948 film) (section)

===Filming===
Filming of ''The Red Shoes'' took place primarily in [[Paris]], with principal photography beginning in June 1947.{{sfn|Connelly|2005|p=5}} [[Jack Cardiff]], who had shot Powell and Pressburger's ''Black Narcissus'', served as cinematographer.{{sfn|McLean|2008|p=35}} The shooting schedule ran for approximately fifteen weeks, on a budget of {{GBPConvert|300000|year=1947|showdate=no}}.{{sfn|Connelly|2005|pages=5–6}} Filming also occurred on location in London, [[Monte Carlo]], and the [[French Riviera|Côte d'Azur]].{{sfn|Connelly|2005|p=58}} Some sequences were filmed at [[Pinewood Studios]], including the stage and orchestra pit sequences, which were sets constructed specifically for the film.{{sfn|McLean|1988|p=37}}
{{quote box|width=27em|align=right|bgcolor=#ffc0cb|quote=It is the way the film is shot and edited, the number of close-ups, a particular handling of the tools of cinematic technique, that creates the drama; there is more revealed by method than anything inherent in the dramatic context of the scenes.|source=Critic Adrienne McLean on the film's technical feats{{sfn|McLean|1988|p=46}}|salign=right}}

According to biographer Mark Connelly, the shoot was largely copacetic, with the cast and crew having a "happy time" on set.{{sfn|Connelly|2005|p=6}} On the first day of the shoot, Powell addressed the cast and crew: "We'll be doing things that haven't been done before, we'll have to work very hard—but I know it's going to be worth it."{{sfn|Connelly|2005|p=6}} The shooting of the film's central ''The Ballet of Red Shoes'' sequence took approximately six weeks, according to Shearer, who recalled that it was completed in the middle of the production.{{sfn|McLean|1988|p=39}} Powell disputed this, instead claiming that it was the last portion of the film to be shot.{{sfn|McLean|1988|p=39}} Filming the ballet proved difficult for experienced dancers, who were used to performing live ballet, as the filming process required them to spend hours preparing to shoot moments that lasted sometimes only a few seconds.{{sfn|McLean|1988|p=54}} Shearer recalled that the ballet sequence was "so cinematically worked out that we were lucky if we ever danced for as long as one minute."{{sfn|McLean|1988|p=54}}

The shoot overran significantly, totalling twenty-four weeks rather than the planned fifteen, and the final budget ballooned to over £500,000.{{efn|name=budget|Sources vary for the final production budget of ''The Red Shoes'': Biographers Mark Connelly and Kevin Macdonald both state the total as {{GBPConvert|551927|year=1947|showdate=no}},{{sfn|Connelly|2005|p=6}}{{sfn|Macdonald|1994|p=295}} though historian Sarah Street provides a lower figure of {{GBPConvert|505581|year=1947|showdate=no}}.{{sfn|Street|2016|p=110}}}} John Davis, the chief accountant of [[The Rank Organisation]], forced a £10,000 cut to Powell and Pressburger's salaries due to the film going over budget.{{sfn|Connelly|2005|p=6}} Because the shoot was extended so far beyond schedule, Powell and Pressburger promised the cast and crew a [[fortnight]]'s holiday in September.{{sfn|Connelly|2005|p=6}}