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” I wish the Seahawks hadn’t cut their offense off with penalties.”
what you are referring to is the bias officiating that went on throughout the game. vegas won the superbowl.
hummer had a pretty good spot, the bud light magic fridge was pretty dang funny, and the fedex cave man was good. the burger king spot got funny towards the end, but that is the luxury of a :60. overall, i thought the spots got a little better this year. the public is being weaned of janet jacksons boob.
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Client:
Burger King
Agency:
Crispin Porter + Bogusky – MiamiPost Production:
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being an editor is about making a script more than what is scripted. i’ve been doing this for 14 years if you include the schooling. use your instincts. only break the rules when appropriate and without a trace.
i encourage those who want to get into this industry to make sure they search out work that is creatively driven. don’t get sucked into something you really don’t want to do. the harder path is the more creative path.
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i’m curious as to weather using samples for commercial purposes is actually legal. are they actual samples from existing sources? if so, then they can’t be legal to use, unless it’s for your own use.
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get a smoke.
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there are a couple ways. 1st way is to rotoscope or matte out the subject from the background and 2nd is to shoot the subject on green screen. this 2nd could be more difficult to replicate because of the two environments.
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we invested in a dub station for a few good reasons. A. all i have to do is lay the spots out and hand off to someone else to do so it doesn’t tie up the avid. B. you can charge a seperate fee C. it’s more efficient.
we purchased the pioneer 2 dvd burner deck. it’s probably already paid for itself. i think we charge something like $50 per dvd or something. it varies, but each project requires about 8-10 dvds (usually for approvals and revision viewings etc). and if you have any experience burning a dvd from a mac, it’s really really worth the investment. i rarely make any other kind of dubs (vhs, 3/4″, beta, etc). but if it comes up, i usually just make these right out of the avid, unless multiple copies are needed.
another thing are quicktime uploads to our website ftp. we do this quite a bit as many of our clients are not in town at the time of the screenings. and they’ve grown quite accustom to viewing cuts this way. it’s much better than shipping dubs to multiple locations at the 11th hr.. this process ties up the avid, but we charge sperately for uploads as well. i don’t work on long form stuff very often, so this isn’t too bad. each spot takes about 10 minutes to export, compress and upload. i think we charge something like $50 a pop for this as well. this can be knocked back based on the bid actuals by the producer here. one of those fudging areas.
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not an fcp user, but in the avid you can create multiple bins and organize them in folders. you could create your pix, audio, cuts, etc bins by section/scene types, create a folder named with this section/scene and put those bins withinn that folder. can fcp do this? not sure why one would want to put 3 minute clips in new projects. that could be problematic i would think. but what do i know? good luck.
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yes it has increased. but more importantly the quality of my projects have increased. if you work on quality projects, the money will follow. when i say quality, i mean overall. not just what you put in. but what the director puts in, the dp, the producer, etc. if your focus is money in this very competitive crazy industry, then you most likely will have stressful times, and you will quickly grow bitter. i’ve seen this happen to many.
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the tools will change for each of the specialists, but the specialists will remain the same. artists with unique talents to used as a group. obviously this can be cost prohibative for many projects. but the work suffers in the end if done by one.