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comedy. i just updated my spot reel and it is currently all with humor driven work. comedy for spots is difficult only because you have :15-:60 seconds to tell a story, pace it, sell something, and make the audience laugh.
my experience: to be a successful editor of humor is DON”T MISS the funny. keep your eyes open. sometimes shots 211, 215, and 204 are not funny by themselves, but together they make something great. or sometimes it’s good to let things just play out if you have a gem of a moment. or cut it up if it’s story driven comedy. but if the content in which you are given isn’t funny in itself, then making it funny is highly unlikely.
reel here:
https://pupo.com/kellyany feedback would be appreciated. thanks
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be careful not to overdo it. it will have negative effects on the quality of your work and therefore your ability to attract bigger and better projects thereafter.
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since they don’t know what the f#$k they’re doing, tell them you cannot make a ‘for air’ dub until it is up to broadcast spec. end of story. otherwise, if you make it and there are problems, guess who’s fault it is? jeeze this type of crap bugs me.
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if you want to take a look, it’s under ‘local spot’ catagory called ‘samurai trailer’. it got beat by the coinstar spot. thanks.
https://aice.org/finalistsframe2005.html
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i cut a trailer for seattle film festival a couple years back that involved a fight scene between two sword wielding samurais that eventually embraced in a kiss only to be destroyed by a meteor.
the fight scene footage was really C-. i ended up having to flop shots, speed shots up, repo, etc. basically i had to milk the footage to the extreme. as an editor i did what i could and then some. the biggest thing that helped was sound. i really pushed the limits with sound design and layered in taiko drums as well. i still would have liked to have had more compelling footage in the end, but it turned out pretty good for what it was. the concept was solid enough to make it work too.
never forget to use sound in editing. it can tell 50% of the story.
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my guess is that he/she is thinking that supplying you with larger than HD sized images will give you more room to crop, zoom, etc the image. other than that not sure what MOCO is.
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everything we finish in the spot world is either to Digibeta or HD. nothing else. it’s the industry standard. we just purchased one ourselves.
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exactly. that is what a lot of younger editors need to learn. when not to cut. ‘boogie nights’ has a nice long no cut intro starting with a steadicam op held via a crane disconnects and walks into the night club. nice effect. must take HOURS to light and choreograph. if i see it being done now, i kind of feel like ‘okay, this has been done. stop showing off.’
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okay, we got it. just kiddin
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not sure if there is one definative answer, but ’emotional tempo’ could be close. if anyone tells you it’s the speed of your cuts, then they are not editors. it has to do with the internal clock. the same clock that connects to music.