Small Business Tactics for Editors — Interview with Editor Rachel Bastarache Bogan : Episode 80

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Rachel Bastarache Bogan is a owner of Renegade Digital Post — a video editing company providing Hollywood-caliber services to filmmakers and content producers outside of Hollywood. In this interview, Nick and Josh find out Rachel’s strategies for working with new clients, how she finds clients not only locally but across the globe, and much more.

LINKS

• Renegade Digital Post (Rachel's company)
• Rachel's Twitter: @rachelfinder
• How to Edit Videos That People Want to Watch (Rachel's book)
• Taipei in Motion Video (Rachel's viewing recommendation)
• Screenlight (online video review service)
• Getting Things Done (book)
• The 12-Week Year (book)

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Interview with Twain Richardson : Episode 79

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In this episode we bring our friend Twain Richardson on to guest as he tells us all about setting up a career right in the heart of Jamaica. Establishing oneself in a market where production is pretty sparse compared to the likes of LA and NY can be immensely challenging. While most people feel the pressure to move to Hollywood to "go where the work is", there are those who thrive where they are and set themselves as a niche service provider in the TV and commercial industry.

If you are currently considering whether you need to relocate to be successful, give a listen to Twain's story.

TOPIC TIMECODES

• ~11:30 Introduction to Twain
• ~12:20 What is Jamaica's client base like?
• ~13:58 Describing his workspace layout
• ~15:05 Twain's origin story: go to work or go to school?
• ~19:09 Getting a mentor early in your career
• ~20:33 How do you tell a good story?
• ~21:19 Twain's "Frame of Reference" site filled with valuable interviews with established editors (which is now defunct but you can still find individual articles like this)
• ~25:58 The value of networking and asking questions from other editors out there; great lessons learned from talking with the pros
• ~31:20 Have you ever felt the pressure to relocate and why did you decide to stay put?
• ~33:43 Big differences in work environment depending where you are geographically - Are there still deadlines in Jamaica?
• ~39:50 What in the hell is a toque?...

LINKS

• Frame of Reference - Interview with Jamie Cobb
• Frame of Reference - Interview with Vashy Nedomansky
• Frame of Reference - Interview with Eddie Hamilton
• The Phantom Editor Offers to Help With the Han Solo Film Director's Cut
• Twain's work website ForPostProd.com
• Watch Twain's work on Vimeo
• Follow Twain on Twitter @TwainRichardson

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The Office Life : Episode 78

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Nick and Josh reunite to bring you a conversation about Nick’s life-altering, career-changing decision… his move to the office life!

Nick recently began a contract that rips him out of his spare bedroom editing bay and thrusts him into the middle of an office in busy Toronto.

In this episode Nick and Josh catch up and recap Josh’s recent visit to meet Nick IRL. You’ll learn, as Josh did, that Canadians don’t know this one basic fact about the US. 

TOPIC TIMECODES

• ~12:00 Nick describing his journey into the office life
• ~19:30 Productivity in the office vs. in the home office
• ~25:00 Feeling the time crunch / What’s important in life / Parkinson’s Law
• ~31:00 Nick realizes he’s an entitled millennial :)
• ~39:00 Listener Chris’ question about the next steps to becoming a freelancer with a production company

BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

• Book Yourself Solid — Michael Port: http://www.amazon.com/dp/0470643471/?tag=shonbe-20
• Super Mario: How Nintendo Conquered America — Jeff Ryan: http://www.amazon.com/dp/1591845637/?tag=shonbe-20 

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Screenwriting tools with Luke Guidici : Episode 77

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In this episode we chat it up with Luke Guidici, screenwriter and generator of really strange story concepts.

He's worked in LA as an extra, grip, PA, camera operator, AD, producer, editor, falconer, writer and director. In our interview he lets loose with some steps to break you out of your funk and into writing stories NOW, plus some techniques that even some larger movies fall short on that you should focus on like "save the cat" and "show, don't tell" (for GOD'S sake, do the latter one).

LINKS

• Official Luke Guidici website and stuff
• Follow Luke on Twitter, why dontcha?
• Fountain software for Screenwriters
• Read some scripts for pilot TV episodes

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Editing in Japan and Across the Globe with Norman Hollyn : Episode 75

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Our guest today is none other than Norman Hollyn. Norman is a media expert. He is, of course, an editor as well as a professor of Cinematic Arts at USC and travels all around the world as an editing educator.

Norman and Josh discuss Norman’s time teaching abroad, different editing styles across the globe, trying to get emotions out of your audience and much more.

LINKS

• The Lean Forward Moment
• http://normanhollyn.com
• Follow Norman on Twitter @Schnittman

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An Interview with Mae Manning : Episode 74

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Mae was bartending and raising a daughter in Atlanta when a producer approached her after seeing her music mashup projects that she continued to work on in her spare time.

Self-taught and self-propelled, after seeing a trailer for Zack Snyder's 300 she immediately vowed to become an editor.

She's a delightful and talented person to begin with but she's also a real-life example of what you should do if you're passionate about your work but have no doors open to you to the industry.

WATCH THIS

LINKS

• Follow Mae Manning on Twitter
• Art of the Cut: Conversations with Film and TV Editors by Steve Hullfish
• GalsNGear - NAB hosted lively discussions and gear demos with female industry leaders on NAB Show LIVE! — women from across the spectrum of technical jobs in production and post

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