I wonder if DeDe Allen ever worried about going out of style? For those of you not in the know DeDe Allen was one of the greatest film editors to ever live. She had a fifty year career, and edited so many groundbreaking classic films: The Hustler, Bonnie & Clyde, Dog Day Afternoon, Read More
I had never heard of the Laughing Samoans before, but it turns out that they are pretty funny guys who travel all over the world doing stand-up comedy about Samoan life and culture. The good folks at Pacific Islanders in Communication in Honolulu tapped me to create a 2-minute trailer highlighting their documentaries about Samoa, which would show on a big screen before the Laughing Samoans’ concerts while on tour in Hawaii. Pretty cool! Read More
They caught me on a good day.
I was reading the SF Cutters Final Cut Pro editors listserv when a post appeared seeking editors for a pro-bono editing project. Great music, great cause, no pay.
I was feeling rather sorry for myself that day. This first quarter was typically slow…folks tend to start projects at the beginning of the year, Read More
Recently a colleague who was setting up his first long-form documentary project asked for advice about how to best organize his footage. Specifically, he asked, “How do you/and your editor review and log the observational footage and determine what is relevant? How do you organize your selects inside FCP? (By scenes, events, themes?) Any red flags to be aware of that might bite me in the rear 9 months from now?”Read More
What a difference a video makes!
A small non-profit with a big heart and even bigger goals and aspirations puts it all out there on their home page with this short rock-umentary style video, directed and produced by long time co-collaborator Tacy Hess Gaede, co-produced and edited by moi, with some hot graphics and effects by Stanford Chang. A great team effort to showcase the big talent and enthusiasm in a sweet little Colorado town… Almost 500 hits on Vimeo already, Read More
I wonder at what point I became aligned with the underdog? To me, it feels like it’s coded into my DNA. I naturally want to support and back David instead of Goliath…the A’s instead of the Giants…and of course, never the New York Yankees. This sentiment serves me well as a documentary editor…Read More
Okay, this is one of those cautionary tales you often read on the internet…starting with this question:
“If you kicked an entire pint of iced green tea on your computer right now, how much work would you lose?”
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| MacBook Pro motherboard, which I hope never to see again |
Happy New Year everybody from the edit room at Gravity, where my partner Stanford Chang has been kind enough to let me camp out today, this first work day of the new year. I love working at home, but sometimes it feels good to get up, get dressed and really GO to work. Today felt like one of those days.
So I’ve taken a personal pledge to use less plastic in 2011. I had switched to reusable shopping bags and have been avoiding taking any plastic bags for shopping for sometime. But plastic containers have slowly crept back into my life as a convenience, since they’re all recyclable, right? WRONG! Not in Hawaii. Here in the Islands, Read More
Aloha friends!
Kudos to the incredibly talented and wonderful voiceover actor Cynthia Dorn, and to John Dennis for the kick-ass mix!
This week I’m back to work on documentary scenes for colleague Mark Birnbaum in Dallas…so I’m cut, cut, cutting away…
Aloha friends…I am slamajama…and it’s been tough to get to blogging, in addition to editing full-time, tracking October baseball with both the Rangers and the Giants in contention for a Pennant, AND now the Hawaii International Film Festival in full-swing. Fortunately, film co-conspirator Ellen Frankenstein has been blogging away, and so this week, a re-blog (is that like a re-tweet?), as featured in the Huffington Post:Read More