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WHAT IT TAKES To Edit Big TV Shows

Josh cut on House of Cards, Bloodline and currently edits COUNTERPART (w/ Oscar Winner J.K. Simmons). Here’s his take on cutting it in Television.

Counterpart is a sci-fi thriller on STARZ. Editor Josh Beal is currently editing Season 2 and allows us an inside view of his timeline as he demonstrates scene work and speaks to:

– The editor’s role
– Storytelling techniques
– The workflow on a TV show
– The responsibility of the Assistant Editor
– How to become a TV Editor

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WHAT IT TAKES To Edit Documentaries

Mohamed El Manasterly is one of the Emmy Winning editors of “The Square”. This 2013 Egyptian-American documentary film by Jehane Noujaim depicts the ongoing Egyptian Crisis until 2013, starting with the Egyptian Revolution of 2011 at Tahrir Square. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 86th Academy Awards. It also won three Emmy Awards at the 66th Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards, out of four for which it was nominated.

In this video Manasterly opens up his timelines to demonstrate how he organizes the dailies by themes and characters and how to ultimately arrive at a 3-act structure for a full-length documentary.

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The Power of Sound in Film

 

Sundance-winning film sound mixer Ugo Derouard reveals the power of dialog editing, sound design, and audio mixing.

The 5 Five Steps of Audio Post Production:

  • 2:20 Sound Editing
  • 3:05 Spotting Session
  • 3:37 Dialog Editing
  • 7:03 Sound Design
  • 11:08 Sound Mixing

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Ugo Derouard is a Sound Designer & Supervising Sound Editor and has been successfully working in Hollywood since 2006. Over his career, Ugo has worked with A-List Directors and Music Composers, on Award-winning Films, TV Shows, Commercials and Documentaries since 2002.

Ugo’s work as a Supervising Sound Editor and Sound Designer has been featured many times at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2012 for the film “The End of Love” featuring Mark Webber & Michael Cera, again in the 2014 “Life After Beth” with Aubrey Plaza as well as the 2015 Grand Jury Winner “SMILF” with Frankie Shaw and Thomas Middleditch.

Contact Ugo at http://ugosound.com/