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Rebooting ‘Roots’
The idea to reboot the legendary, award-winning miniseries Roots nearly 40 years later was executive producer Mark Wolper’s, and it did not come easily. […]
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Guild Members Participate in Home Makeover Project
In a tremendous outpouring that embodies the true spirit of “taking care of our own,” volunteers from the Motion Picture Editors Guild joined others from the entertainment community in June to improve the safety […]
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The Del Spiva Experience:
Music editor Del Spiva chuckles when asked how he explains the job of a music editor to the uninitiated. For Spiva, explaining the job can be a Socratic experience; he throws challenges at his questioners until they comprehend the nature of his work. […]
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Train Spotting
Scoring Mixer Bobby Fernandez
Catches ‘The 15:17 to Paris’
Robert “Bobby” Fernandez was never in any doubt about what he wanted to be while growing up. “My mother used to take me every week to see a movie in downtown Los Angeles,” he recalls. “I always wanted to be a scoring mixer — even before I understood the job.” […]
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Posting ‘Naked’: Picture and Sound Editorial on the Hit Nickelodeon Show
There’s an old adage in show business that if you want to ensure success, avoid working with kids and animals. Don’t tell that to picture editor Craig Cobb and supervising sound editor Louis Bertini, MPSE, who help post one of Nickelodeon’s hit shows, The Naked Brothers Band. […]
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‘Monsters’ Mash-Up: Joyce Arrastia and Eric Dapkewicz Pioneer 3-D Editing in Animation
DreamWorks Animation’s Monsters vs. Aliens may seem like your average CGI-animated blockbuster. But it’s more than that; it’s the first animated feature from DreamWorks that’s been planned, start to finish, as a stereo 3-D film. […]
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Sundance Report: The Editor as Jack-of-All-Trades
It wasn’t so long ago, it seems, that editors spent most of their time in editing rooms simply editing. Many of us remember the days when we spliced pieces of film together, drew dissolve marks on the celluloid with grease pencil and projected our work picture with only a single audio track for directors, producers and studio executives. […]
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Disney’s Great Green Hope: Can ‘The Princess and the Frog’ Save Hand-Drawn Animation?
After the death of its founder, the Walt Disney Company struggled. It hadn’t had a big animated hit in years, until Ron Clements and John Musker directed The Little Mermaid in 1989, kicking off a series of hit films including Beauty and the Beast and The Lion King. […]
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising: The Editors of ‘Mad Men’ Reveal the Truth Behind the Lies
Created by former Sopranos writer Matthew Weiner, AMC’s acclaimed Mad Men unveils the curiously alluring world of Don Draper, a top New York advertising man in the 1960s who has built his life around a series of lies. […]
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‘Bored’ to ‘Rock’: Eluto and Reticker Cut Comedy Year-Round
What do NBC’s 30 Rock and HBO’s Bored to Death have in common? Both are award-winning half-hour comedies that poke fun at their creators/head writers/executive producers (Tina Fey and Jonathan Ames, respectively). […]
