Melanie Escano
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WHAT OUR MEMBERS DO: Melanie Escano, Assistant Editor

I’m an assistant editor on “Chicago Med.” I process dailies, organize and mark scenes, add in temporary sound effects, mock up simple visual effects, score temporary music, export producer/studio cuts for review, troubleshoot technical issues, turn over the locked show for sound, music, and color departments — and my editor, Dorian Harris, ACE, gives me scenes to cut.

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Technology

Seeing Things: How Glenn Cote and the ‘Alien: Earth’ Team Got Those Special Effects

“Alien: Earth” lead visual effects editor Glenn Cote and his team certainly had their hands full, liaising with eight different visual effects vendors and supplying them with everything needed to efficiently generate animated creatures or complete post-viz shots, while also providing picture editor Regis Kimble with elements he needed, as quickly as possible, to keep the show on schedule.

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‘The Paper’ and Its Cuts: The Team Behind the Peacock Mockumentary Tells All

“We redressed the whole set to look like a 1970s newsroom. Greg Daniels and Michael Koman based it on Frederick Wiseman’s documentaries — the black-and-white film look, the texture, the gear. We brought in period costumes and typewriters, even had a few people smoking, and shot on black-and-white 16mm film. Even the aspect ratio was different from the rest of the show.”

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