This Guy Edits is a YouTube channel with over 470,000 subscribers where you can watch this guy edit. I’m an ACE Award nominee who cut for James Cameron, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, and Sundance filmmaker Mark Webber.
You might have heard the saying: ‘Great editing is invisible.’ While that may be true, I aim to shed a little light onto the craft. I’m not saying that I have achieved greatness or ever will. This channel is simply about helping you (and me) become more aware of the creative power of editing and celebrating the “invisible performers in the editing room.”
My favorite book on Film Editing is “In the Blink of an Eye” by Academy Award winner Walter Murch: http://amzn.to/20ujg6B
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
My premium online editing course is open for enrollment, for the second class. Hundreds of students signed up and are now busy working on their craft. If you like to check out the course, visit the course page.
The Go-To Editor is designed to put your editing career on a path of success.
This course is for beginners and intermediates and can be used with any editing system. As a matter of fact, if you don’t have any editing software, I’ll show you in the course how to get started with DaVinci Resolve (which is a free download).
The course has 6 Modules and covers basic editing, advanced storytelling, branding and career strategies. It includes dailies from various genres (narrative, documentary, branded) with several scenes for each, so you can build an entire story arc.
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I recently posted a YouTube poll on what constitutes your most significant challenge for forging an editing career.
Can you guess what over 40% of the 1400+ participants picked?
“I struggle to find clients.”
It is why I am so excited to announce my newest webinar:
The Editor’s Survival Guide to Networking.
Save The Date: May 28th, 9 am – 12 pm PST (Limited Seats Available)
This interactive webinar shows you how to take your passion for filmmaking, the resources you already have, and the opportunities you should create for yourself to elevate your game.
It will teach you my proven system to target and convert industry leads into long-term relationships.
In this webinar, you will learn:
How to build a network from scratch
How to create a new network with the contacts you want to have
How to successfully reach out to your dream directors, producers, and clients
How to follow up with them
How to have a successful job interview
How to negotiate rates
How to leverage up to your next job, gain referrals, and build a Rolodex that can give you the opportunities you aspire to in the long run
I’m excited to announce my upcoming live and interactive webinar, “The Film Editing Formula,” where I share the five critical components to thriving as a feature film editor.
A few months ago, I was listening in on a panel with Kelley Dixon, ACE, one of the lead editors on Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, and the new Star Wars show “Star Wars: Obi Wan-Kenobi.”
She spoke about the things she wished she knew when starting her career. She didn’t have a mentor that could have helped her pick up some of the essential “golden nuggets” about the craft and industry.
And she’s convinced that this knowledge would have saved her years on her path to breaking in. It worked out for her anyway, but it took, in her estimation, an extra three years of agony, paying dues, and set-backs.
Soon after the panel, we figured out a way to get hold of Kelley and asked if she would consider becoming a mentor for one of my students in the Go-To Editor course (calling back on what she shared during the panel.) She said yes.
While this student is one lucky son of a gun, it made me think about other ways to make this kind of knowledge and experience available to more aspiring editors.
So I started to develop a clear and easy-to-follow guide for beginners on a budget.
I call it the
The Film Editing Formula
It’s a 3-hour live Webinar where I drill down on the five critical components every successful film (and video) editor masters.
You already know that I value storytelling as the number one superpower of great editors. But there is a lot more to a thriving career. I started with what it took to get my first feature film editing job and modeled it for your personal editing success.
I have distilled everything down:
From what I have learned through my own experience,
From working and talking with other pros
From making videos about editing on the channel
And finally, from teaching newbies at various film schools.
It all boils down to one webinar, which you can now.
The Film Editing Formula is a step-by-step roadmap for anyone curious about editing and turning it into a passion and/or job. The seminar is not only live and interactive. You also get a recording and slides to use in the future.
Attend from home. The concepts apply wherever you are in the world, as long as you are curious, passionate, and always pro-active.
Here’s what you will get:
Three hours of live demonstrations.
Time to discuss your questions and engage with interactive challenges. What’s the saying? If you go it alone, it takes twice as long.
I will demo case studies on selecting, storytelling, and cutting.
We detail the three tactics I use to get jobs that excite and pay bills.
And it will lay out a pathway that brings you significantly closer to the opportunity to edit feature films?
If you want this, secure your spot while taking advantage of the early bird price:
If you have a notion that editing could be more than just a hobby, you should take this opportunity seriously. We haven’t decided yet on how many spots will make available as we’re refining the technical limitations of a live class like this, so don’t delay. If the seats are gone, they are gone.
The Film Editing Formular is the only seminar of its kind, and right now, we have no concrete plans for a repeat.
It is my pleasure to announce the winners of The Pitch Editing Challenge. Before I do, I want to stress how much I enjoyed this competition. It was great to see so many exciting channel, film, and product ideas.
Even if you didn’t win, you created something for yourself. The more you do it, the more you realize that you have all the power in telling your stories and creating your reality. So kudos for stepping up.
In Round 1 we had 49 submissions.
In Round 2 we had 80 submissions.
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For a limited time only, Effigy – Poison and the City, the period thriller I recently edited, will be available for online streaming by Laemmle Virtual Cinema. The film is available for the U.S. market but should also be accessible through a VPN service (Virtual Private Network) from anywhere in the world.*
The film won the Grand Prize (Golden Aphrodite) at the Cyprus International Film Festival (CYIFF), and I was honored with the Best Editing Award. The Hollywood Reporter and the New York Times just recently reviewed the film favorably, and we are currently in consideration for the Golden Globes as Best International Film.
Effigy – Poison and the City is Udo Flohr’s first feature, which he also co-produces. It’s the true story of Gesche Gottfried, one of the first female serial killers ever identified, who murdered 15 people with rat poison between 1813 and 1827. She was found guilty of killing her parents, her three children, her twin brother, three husbands, and some friends and neighbors. Another 20 victims were lucky enough to survive. In 1831, Gottfried was executed for her crimes at age 46.
Effigy was shot in Germany. Thomas Kist, N.S.C. handled the cinematography. The screenplay was written by Peer Meter (based on his own stage play and on original court records), Udo Flohr, and Antonia Roeller. Set design by Christina v. Ahlefeldt-Laurvig and Knut Splett-Henning.
Here is a conversation with Udo and myself, as we discuss the editing process of the film and what it took to pull off the project.
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