Charley King
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Mostly staying home this year. Went back to Lubbock last year. Will go to daughters for awhile Christmas Eve, going to future son-in-laws parents for Christmas dinner. I am taking Friday and Monday off. I need a rest.
Charlie
ProductionKing Video Services
Unmarked Door Productions
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada -
Finally a use for the Kiki wipes, and no where to get them. Where is the original toaster when you need it?
Charlie
ProductionKing Video Services
Unmarked Door Productions
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada -
[Jeff Raskin] “A) Completely by accident (happens more often than I like to admit)”
One of the reasons I always say, “I’d rather be lucky than good any day.”
Charlie
ProductionKing Video Services
Unmarked Door Productions
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada -
My biggest client, for several years was Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority. Their annual budget was over $35 million. The TV ad campaigns usually ran around $750,000 to $1 million for approximately 4-9 Ads. I also had a client that would come to ma and give me a script and ask if we could do it for under $200.
The only real message here is when asked how much a 30 sec spot costs, reply how much is a grey suit?
Charlie
ProductionKing Video Services
Unmarked Door Productions
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada -
[Chaz Shukat] “Now after 25 plus years I am first beginning to “study” editing technique. I hope that doesn’t ruin my style.”
Hopefully, you will learn that you are already doing it right. But then what is right? Who sets the rule what is right? If it works but doesn’t follow a particular rule, is it not right?
I also hope you don’t ruin your style by learning how someone else does it. The thing that makes us what we are as editors is our uniqueness, our individual style. Little tricks that fit in with your style are good. Copying someone elses actual style is not.
Charlie
ProductionKing Video Services
Unmarked Door Productions
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada -
Ya know, funny thing about that. When I am in the middle of something, noise just ceases to exist. You could literally set off a bomb behind me and I would not hear it, I only hear what pertains to whatt I am doing. I think that is one of the reasons I love this business, I can just disappear into my own little world of neverland, and the big horrible world around me is no longer so big or horrible.
Charlie
ProductionKing Video Services
Unmarked Door Productions
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada -
I started as a projectionist in a TV Station, in 1962. I was responsible for film projection, slide projection, and telops (4×5 cards with polaroid pictures and/or hot press type). In 5 months I was promoted to film director, hard job putting commercial reels together, and editing movies down to fit time frame. 3 months later I became chief projectionist and was given the job of editing a documentary on film. I edited the opening sequence using a stop watch to figure the music rythmn and did that edit during a cartoon show which I changed reels every 7-8 minutes, a litttle hard concentration. I edited the remainder of the documentary physically reading the sound track visually. I didn’t know how to use a sound reader, so I would put it on a projector hear what was said figure edit points, then take it off the projector and pick my edit points from the optical sound track. This won my first award for editing.
I learned camera, audio, videotape operation, directing, producing during the next 5 – 7 years by doing.To be honest I have never had any formal training, I learned by doing and observing others that I enjoyed working with and loved how they did things. My philosophies of editing, directing, producing, etc are a mixlture of all of those guys.
I think any of these positions are just a feeling, nothing you can learn from a book really. As to how long it takes to learn, I’m still learning, and believe I will be until I finally can’t physically do the work anymore. I have been asked many times during a production, “How long does it take to learn that?” my reply is always the same, “when I finish learning I will tell you how long it took.”
Charlie
ProductionKing Video Services
Unmarked Door Productions
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada -
Hey Grin,
read my comments in Art Of the Edit.
(No Need for me to repeat. hahaha)Charlie
ProductionKing Video Services
Unmarked Door Productions
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada -
Congratulations. I’m proud for you, hang in there it sounds like you are gonna be happy with (place new name here) that replaced ole Bessie.
Have a wonderful holiday season, enjoy the family and the new toys, and have a very prosperoous New Year.
Love ya man
Charlie
ProductionKing Video Services
Unmarked Door Productions
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada -
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Charlie
ProductionKing Video Services
Unmarked Door Productions
Flamingo Las Vegas Hotel
Las Vegas, Nevada