The Edit Bay: Recent Episodes
Shane Ross
Using making a puzzle as a metaphor for cutting a documentary and reality show. No, really...it's a cool metaphor, as metaphors go. Here... "Editing a documentary is like assembling a 1000 piece puzzle with 40,000 pieces." See? Cool, right?
A network executive can't seem to tear his eyes away from his iPad while giving notes on a show.
Many movies and TV shows have little easter eggs hidden in them...commercials too. I tell you a few examples of Easter eggs I and my fellow editors have planted.
There is a difference in how news production and documentary production happens...here are two stories about how we learned this the hard way.
Editors are already pigeon holed into categories such as scripted or documentary or reality, but now we are being categorized by the TV networks we cut for.
Editors aren't button pushers, we are story tellers. And this is a story about when I had issues with a script...
Please don't sit next to us when we tackle the first edit. Leave us to our own devices.
Camera people always leave me notes on the footage they shoot...this is my note to them.
TV Networks and film studios more and more want to "green light" the editor who is slated to work on projects.
A blacksmith bucks the system by making a new hammer and changing the way blacksmithing is done. So does Apple
Do you have clients that work you to death, for little or no pay? Then you are working for a Grinder...
Credits...all those names you see at the end of the show you watched. Some might be missing.
In commercials, you have to do things perfectly. Like make sure that the driving car isn't in park...
Editing with a laptop is pretty common nowadays. But it wasn't all that common in 2003, on the set of a David Mamet movie...
No, not ACTUAL babies. Segments of shows that you worked really hard on...poured your life into...don't work. You have to kill them.
Sometimes an editor can get too involved in a project, and needs another set of eyes and opinion to help them tell the story right.
A comparison of how cops on the TV show THE WIRE are similar to those of us in post production.
A funny thing happened at a conference...we found out that a show we were doing for one network, was also being done by ANOTHER network...
Just when you thought a show was done...they PULL you back in! Creative notes given after the show was onlined and fully mixed.
Some people start with lovely words, others shoot straight from the hip. Either way, the network gives you notes...
Not everyone has the talent to be the next big director...so go where your talent lies.
An editor has to deal with a "producer" who is not from the film industry. And try to show him why his cut is better.
It seems I can recall all the footage from shows I have worked on years before. And it is creeping into my everyday life.
You think you need TRUE 24p monitoring? Well you don't...and I show you why in this special VIDEO podcast.
All about how I got started in the biz, and tips for people who want to join the biz, or are in it but are feeling discouraged because they feel like they are going nowhere. Been there.
Ever land a job where some piece of equipment you are required to use is something you never used before? Me too!
On the set there is a rewrite, and suddenly the playback footage doesn't match the script. What are you to do? Pull a MacGyver!
NAB 2009 Special - While Shane is busy at NAB, he asked a couple of hid friends to tell stories of their own.
Shane goes off script to do a live "talk" and tell two stories about troubleshooting computer issues.
Ever talk to someone you worked with and thought you had met before, but never have? Me too.
Hey, everyone gets fired, right? This is about getting fired in L.A. Well, a couple stories about that.
Working with the director is a collaborative art. He can't always see the footage like you do.