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I’m cutting a new feature and you can watch me…

A film comes together in the editing… so they say. At the same time, editing is an “invisible art” and a good cut is often the one you don’t notice.

Now you can see the magic come alive, when I open up my editing timeline and let you shadow me as I cut scenes on this upcoming historical crime thriller “Effigie – Poison and the City”, shot in the Hanseatic cities of Rostock and Bremen, Germany. The film is directed by Udo Flohr and produced by Patricia Ryan and Udo Flohr.

Watch this episode free by clicking here

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3 Elements Editing Challenge: Winners Announced!

It is my pleasure to announce the winners of the 3 Elements Editing Challenge. Before I do, I do want to congratulate all participants for stepping up. I find that taking action generally leads to good things. 

So the fact that you got out there, put yourself on the line and faced the elements – all that in the name of Art – Kudos!

As a reward to all participants you will get “Anamorphic on a Budget” by Tito Ferradans. It’s the ultimate DIY Guide on how to achieve the cool cinematic Anamorphic Look on the cheap! This means in-camera:

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Ready to Compete in The Pitch Editing Challenge?

Take The Pitch Editing Challenge with Epidemic Sound: https://thisguyedits.com/epidemic (Click the “Commercial Plan” Free Trial – Rules, Deadlines &  Prizes further down…)

Additional prizes by Hollyland: https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/search?Ntt=lark%20150&N=0&InitialSearch=yes&sts=ma

and The Go-To Editor course: https://thegotoeditor.com

THE PITCH EDITING CHALLENGE

Take the 60 sec. (or less) editing challenge and compete for some amazing prizes worth over $3000,-. 

For this editing challenge, I partnered with Epidemic Sound, which is a premium library with 30,000 music tracks and 60,000 sound effects.

DO THIS: Get a 30-Day Free Trial COMMERCIAL PLAN from Epidemic Sound using this link: https://thisguyedits.com/epidemic.

Pitch me your story and compete for $3k in prizes.

Download some music tracks and sound effects, feel free to cancel the account once you are done (you still get 30 days full access.) Start designing your pitch teaser/trailer for a film, youtube channel or product. This can be a real project or something you always wanted to develop. Please use some SFX and/or music from Epidemic and be sure to submit with the same email you use for setting up the free trial account.  (Tip: You may want to also record some dialog or voice over to help with the story.)

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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 3-Elements Editing Challenge: Winners To Be Announced Nov. 1

Take the Envato 3 Elements Editing challenge: https://thisguyedits.com/envato (Sign-up for a Free Trial) to win a Sony ZV-1 and more…

Additional prizes from Tito Ferradans: https://www.youtube.com/c/AnamorphicO…

and The Go-To Editor 2.0 Course: https://thegotoeditor.com

THE 3 ELEMENTS EDITING CHALLENGE:

Take action and cut a 60 sec. (or less) film and get a shot at winning some amazing prizes

For this editing challenge, I partnered with Envato Element, which is a premium creative assets library with over 56 million video, audio, graphic, font, 3D, motion graphic and website assets. 

THE VIDEO BELOW EXPLAINS THE CHALLENGE AS WELL:

Prizes include the new Sony ZV-1, 3 x annual subscription plans to Envato Elements, 2 x free lifetime memberships to the Go-To Editor course, 2 x sets of oval inserts to modify two widely used lenses (Helios 44 and Rokinon 35mm) giving you an anamorphic lookL we even throw in the Helios 44 lens,  a digital anamorphic guide and some cool merch from This Guy Edits. 

Made for content creators and bloggers, the Sony ZV-1 is a game changer with instant auto-focus racks, beautiful skin-tones and bokeh and one-button everything. We even throw in the Vlogger Accessory Kit with wireless grip and 64GB SD Card

For more product details: https://amzn.to/2DH3Dso

But what is the exact challenge?

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Who won the DarkRoom Editing Challenge? (Winners Announced)

It is my pleasure to announce the winners of the DarkRoom Editing Challenge. Wait… before I do, I do want to congratulate all participants for taking action. I can’t stress how often I see talent go to waste by procrastination and pushing off.

So the fact that you got out there, put yourself on the line and faced the darkness – all that in the name of Art – Amazing!

I have to say, especially in Round 2, I’ve listened to so many great submissions, I actually thought that I would have not been able to place myself. What I mean is: the competition got really really good. So kudos!!!

In Round 1 we had 35 submissions.

Guess how many we had in Round 2? 

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The DarkRoom Editing Challenge

THE DARKROOM EDITING CHALLENGE:
https://thisguyedits.com/darkroom (Click the “Commercial Plan” Free Trial) – Rules and Instructions further down…

Take the 60 sec. editing challenge and win from a boatload of prizes: over $3000,-. (Be sure to read the tip at the bottom to increase your chance of winning.)

For this editing challenge, I partnered with Epidemic Sound, which is a premium library with 30,000 music tracks and 60,000 sound effects.

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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/