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Moving on from news
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John,
Regarding trying to find a client who you can work for to build you reel and resume, any tips on how to do that? How did you do it?
Chris
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Chris I was at CNN for five years before moving out to post production. What CNN taught me was the need to make quick decisions under heavy deadline pressures. And I was cutting for an international market. I also took advantage of the fact that we were non union and learned a LOT of gear.
So those were three things I really played up when i went looking for a job outside of CNN. The ability to make quick decisions and not waste the client’s time turned out to be one of my strongest selling points along with the amount of gear I could operate.
I think news is an excellent proving ground because you have to be able to tell a complete story on 30 to 90 seconds for the most part. That’s excellent training.
It seems many people now when they are looking for editors what they are really looking for is q hot motion graphics guy who can also cut. Not me, I’m always looking for storytellers. Motion graphics guys are a dime a dozen, but good storytellers are harder and harder to find.
Walter Biscardi, Jr.
Editor, Colorist, Director, Writer, Consultant, Author, Chef.
HD Post and Production
Biscardi Creative Media“Foul Water, Fiery Serpent” featuring Sigourney Weaver coming soon.
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Walter,
Thanks for the feedback. It’s good to know that some facilities are looking for editors. I can do motion graphics, but the truth is I’m not very good at it and I’m not super interested in it.
So when you talk about getting to learn a lot of gear at CNN, what do you mean? We don’t have a lot of extra “gear” at my station. It’s local news so it is pretty bare bones. How do you go from bare bones local news to high end post production?
Chris
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