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Home » So What Do Editors Talk About When They Talk All Day?

So What Do Editors Talk About When They Talk All Day?

I had a chance to cover the seminar “Inside the Cutting Room: Sight, Sound & Story” earlier this month. Organized by Manhattan Edit Workshop, the City’s leading edit training operation, the day-long gathering pulled together multiple generations of top editing talent.

Whether you were interested in the still nascent concept of transmedia (although the Tribeca Film Festival did feature it for the first time this year) as shown in “Hotel 626”, were curious about the sound creation and editing challenges of Life of Pi, or wanted to hear from editors who worked on classic films by Sidney Lumet and Woody Allen, well, this was the place to be.

But if you couldn’t make it and still wanted an idea of what these storytelling luminaries discussed, please read the full article by clicking here.

For those not sure, I’m including the beginning grafs to give you the sense of what it was all about. The rest of the article can be found on the Editors Guild website link above.

“Inside the Cutting Room: Sight, Sound & Story,” Manhattan Edit Workshop’s celebration of all things editing, took place this past June 8th. This marked the first time the edit training company presented the daylong event. Considering how complicated it can be to organize such programs, MEWshop (that’s their web address) did quite well, with panels that moved along with nary a hitch.

Held at The French Institute in mid-town Manhattan, a crowd of some 300 professional and neophyte film editors, enthusiasts, and students spent the day attentively listening to five panels that discussed everything from new Internet-enabled formats like transmedia to the old practice of cutting and splicing.

Josh Apter, founder and president of Manhattan Edit Workshop, served as the amiable MC during the day; he covered for the usual technical glitches that pop up in any event with innumerable video clips to present. Apter also announced that the popular editor’s training facility would be moving into new headquarters later in the year.

Interactive Media: Blurring the Line between Post and Production

The day began with a panel that explored transmedia, a welcome addition to such events that recognized that new forms of narrative are still to be explored. This past April New York’s Tribeca Film Festival recognized transmedia storytelling for the first time, giving this nascent form some official recognition.

Transmedia storytelling or narrative continues to be a slippery term to nail down. One straightforward definition is that it is an approach to story telling that happens across multiple digital platforms and formats.

On the panel were Oscar Tillman and Adele Major from B Reel along with Evan Schechtman from @radical.media. Gordon Burkell, founder of the website Art of the Guillotine, moderated.

Tillman and Major discussed one of their major web-based projects, Hotel 626 created in 2008 for Frito-Lay. The snack company was bringing back two older flavors of Doritos, and their marketing department wanted a new type of ad campaign to promote them. Tillman and Major created a unique approach to engaging the young audience the advertiser wanted: an online game that featured a twist on those childhood books that placed you at the center of attention.

 Game players, trapped in Hotel 626, were required to perform a series of tasks to escape. Tillman and Major brought players into the narrative by taking the player’s picture at random times and then at some point in the game, that picture would appear hanging in the room of a crazed murderer as if the player was to be the next victim…

 

About Dan Ochiva

New York City-based journalist and NYCPPNEWS founder Dan Ochiva writes and consults on film, video, and digital media technology.

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Parks has recently shifted her focus from supervisor to hands-on sound design, and we talk about how it’s never too late to pivot on your career path and find the thing you love doing wherever you are in life.

Click on this link to read the rest of the article on No Film School’s site.

NJ – Governor Murphy signs $14B Incentive Program Bill – the NJ Economic Recovery Act of 2020

 Film tax credits — amending existing programs to include provisions for so-called New Jersey film partners and New Jersey film-lease partners and allowing an additional $200 million of tax credits annually over 13 years.

Click this link if you want to read the full article on the Lexology site. http://bit.ly/35NtDx6

Film Commish announces date for production restart

In her December 18, 2020 news update, MOME Commissioner Anne del Castillo announced that the Film Office is now accepting permit applications for production activity that begins on July 27th.

She also announced awards now (Awkwafina) and more. To read all of the Film Commish’s bloggy sort of news column, click here.

Stimulus Offers $15 Billion in Relief for Struggling Arts Venues

The coronavirus relief package that Congressional leaders agreed to this week includes grant money that many small proprietors described as a last hope for survival.

For the music venue owners, theater producers and cultural institutions that have suffered through the pandemic with no business, the coronavirus relief package that Congress passed on Monday night offers the prospect of aid at last.

To read the full article on The New York Times’ site, click here.

If you want to start production, here’s the latest news from the Mayor’s Office

Phase 4 production guidance is available on the Film Permit website. All production activity, whether it requires a Film Permit or not, must comply with New York Forward Industry Guidance.

For more information see, please refer to the State Department of Health’s Interim Guidance for Media Production During the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. Please review the guidelines and FAQ before submitting permit applications. The Film Office is operating remotely, so please allow additional time for Film Permit processing.

The above paragraphs contain links to the various FAQ – just mouse over the relevant words.

Nikon to Stop Making Cameras in Japan

Nikon has fallen on hard times as of late as its camera sales have cratered, and now there’s a new indicator of how dire its financial situation is: the company is reportedly pulling the plug on making cameras in Japan after over 70 years of doing so.

To read the full article on Petapixel’s site, click here.

NVIDIA Uses AI to Slash Bandwidth on Video Calls

NVIDIA Research has invented a way to use AI to dramatically reduce video call bandwidth while simultaneously improving quality

What the researchers have achieved has remarkable results: by replacing the traditional h.264 video codec with a neural network, they have managed to reduce the required bandwidth for a video call by an order of magnitude. In one example, the required data rate fell from 97.28 KB/frame to a measly 0.1165 KB/frame – a reduction to 0.1% of required bandwidth.

To read the rest of this article on Petapixel, click this link.

 

 

 

Union Health Plan Dodges Film Workers’ Suit Over Virus Relief

Law360 (October 9, 2020, 5:22 PM EDT) — The Motion Picture Industry Health Plan’s board can’t be sued under ERISA for allegedly flouting its duties when it relaxed plan rules in response to COVID-19, a California federal judge has ruled, nixing a proposed class action filed by two cinematographers who still couldn’t qualify for benefits.

In an order entered Thursday, U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner granted the board of directors’ motion to dismiss Greg Endries and Dee Nichols’ Employee Retirement Income Security Act suit accusing board members of breaching their duty to treat all plan participants fairly.

Endries and Nichols, members of Local 600 of the International Cinematographers Guild, said in July that the board left them and others “out in the cold” in its attempts to address the problems COVID-19 caused for plan participants.

But Judge Klausner agreed with the board’s contention that the case, which alleged a fiduciary breach, should be tossed because plan administrators don’t act as fiduciaries when they amend health care plans.

Read the full article on the Law360 site by clicking here.

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Anthony Russo and Joseph Russo photographed at the PMC Studio in Los Angeles for the Variety Playback Podcast.

The Russo brothers, directors of the all-time top grossing film “Avengers: Endgame,” quietly secured a roughly $50 million cash infusion for their production company AGBO from Saudi Arabia earlier this year, multiple sources tell Variety.

In a deal brokered and closed at the beginning of the pandemic, the Russos received the investment from an undisclosed Saudi bank in exchange for a minority stake in the brothers’ Los Angeles-based shop.

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