Cutting Class
16 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 23 ratingsA podcast about film and video editing. Interviews with the best editors across a variety of fields, from features to TV to commercial to art, telling the stories of how they got where they are and what they’ve learned along the way. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cuttingclass/support
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CC_S01_B_EP02_KateAspell
December 05, 2023 18:01 - 26 minutes - 61.1 MBA good post-producer is hard to find. They have such a difficult job of managing budgets and clients, scheduling, finding talent for jobs and keeping everyone involved happy, fed, on track to finish and doing their best work. And to us editors they can and should be our main line of defense against clients overreaching, to deliver more than they agreed to or work more hours or whatever it may be. My guest, Kate Aspel,l is one of these great producers who has the ability to stay on top of a...
CC_S01_B_EP01_CrystalMoselle
November 15, 2023 17:51 - 22 minutes - 50.4 MBHey everybody, welcome to the Bonus Round of Season 1 of Cutting Class. As I mentioned at the end of Jen Dean’s episode I’m doing something a little different with these bonus episodes and I’m hoping it proves to be interesting and of value to you: I’m speaking with non-editors about editing. People who work closely with editors and likely have never really expressed out loud some of their feelings about editing and editors. And first up is really top notch: Crystal Moselle is the celebr...
CC_S01_EP12_JenDean
September 07, 2023 14:44 - 1 hour - 152 MBJen Dean is a NY-based commercial editor and mother with a sharp eye, a quick wit and a love for Texan psych rock. After studying under Stan Brakhage she got her start at Lost Planet as Hank Corwin’s assistant, eventually moving on to cut her own award-winning projects from fashion to comedy to docu style and everything in between. She’s an editor’s editor and has been in this edit world for long enough to be known and respected by anyone and everyone who’s also been around long enough to kn...
CC_S01_EP11_PaulRogers
December 14, 2022 20:47 - 1 hour - 142 MBPaul Rogers is an LA-based editor best known for his astonishing work on the breakout hit film Everything Everywhere All at Once. His wild resume also includes The Eric Andre Show, You Cannot Kill David Arquette, The Death of Dick Long, Dream Corp LLC, and a number of great music videos notably including DJ Snake & Lil Jon’s extremely viral “Turn Down For What”, Haim ft A$ap Ferg’s “My Song 5” and Lauv ft. Julia Michaels “There’s No Way.” He, along with his partners at Parallax Post, co-edite...
CC_S01_EP10_AndreDreJones
July 22, 2022 19:48 - 1 hour - 147 MBAndre “Dre” Jones is a Los Angeles-based editor with a flair for dynamic, stylish music videos, commercials and films. Notably among these is “Pop Star” by DJ Khaled ft. Drake (which was nominated for a VMA video of the year), Rosalia’s “A Palé,” Rosalia and The Weekend’s “La Fama,” Ariana Grande’s “34+35,” Summer Walker, Cardi B and SZA’s “No Love,’ and Bella Poarch’s viral video for “Build a B.” There’s more actually. Like Beam - “Planet Beam”, Nicky Minaj ft. Lil Baby - “Do We Have a Pro...
CC_S01_EP09_AaronIButler
April 06, 2022 01:15 - 1 hour - 142 MBAaron I. Butler, ACE is a Los Angeles-based multi-disciplinary editor best known for his work on the second season of HBO’s wildly popular TV show Euphoria. He’s responsible for the most intense hour of television I’ve seen in a very long time, Season 2 Episode 5 “Stand Still Like the Hummingbird,” also known as the Rue running for her life episode. He’s also previously cut Kanye’s “Jesus is King” Imax film, the films JT Leroy and I Am Michael, a number of documentaries including HBO’s Cries...
CC_S01_EP08_EileenMeyer_AaronWickenden
January 12, 2022 17:54 - 1 hour - 137 MBEileen Meyer and Aaron Wickenden are two outstanding editors who have collaborated on three major documentaries: Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain, Television Event and Best of Enemies: Buckley vs. Vidal. They’re also prolific individually: Eileen previously co-edited the Oscar-nominated/Sundance Audience award winning doc, Crip Camp, and cut on the Netflix doc series The Devil Next Door; while Aaron has also cut or collaborated on such very notable docs as Becoming, Feels Good Man, ...
CC_S01_EP07_EvanSchrodek
October 29, 2021 20:37 - 1 hour - 136 MBEvan Schrodek is a Los Angeles-based TV, film and documentary editor best known for his work on the zombie-apocalypse smash hit The Walking Dead. After assisting on season four he moved up to editor on season five and continued cutting for seasons six, eight and nine. He also recently edited the thriller series Panic and he’s soon to be known even more for his work on the upcoming Resident Evil series on Netflix. ********* On this episode we get into: - The Pleasure of Horror and cutting...
CC_S01_EP06_JakeBurghart
August 17, 2021 19:39 - 59 minutes - 112 MBJake Burghart is a prolific editor, cinematographer and director known for his work at VICE media over the past 15 years. As one of the company’s first video hires during its transition from free magazine to behemoth news and entertainment network, Jake set the look and tone of the videos as both camera person and editor. He got his first big break in the early 2000s shooting and editing the Against Me! documentary, "We're Never Going Home," then after joining Vice cut The Vice Guide to Tra...
CC_S01_EP05_StephanieFilo
June 30, 2021 19:11 - 1 hour - 118 MBStephanie Filo is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning editor best known for her work on HBO’s A Black Lady Sketch Show and Supervillain: The Making of Tekashi 69, among many many others. Now based in Los Angeles but having grown up in Colorado and Sierra Leone, Stephanie also cuts many social impact docs, including her own PSA “End Ebola Now” which was viewed widely, spawning dance videos from celebrities to bring awareness, and helped lead to the eradication of Ebola in Sierra Leone. She’s al...
CC_S01_EP04_JasonGoldwatch
May 18, 2021 07:05 - 1 hour - 170 MBJason Goldwatch is a Los Angeles-based Director and Editor best known for his music videos for some of hip hop’s finest rappers. A brief collection would include Nas, Jay-Z, Kid Kudi, Common, Schoolboy Q, Pusha T, Alchemist, Evidence, Conway the Machine, Atmosphere, The Roots, Action Bronson and Kool Keith. In this episode we trace his career, from making Beastie Boys tribute videos in high school to being the youngest signee to Spike Jonze’s production company to starting his own company a...
CC_S01_EP03_MikkelEGNielsen
April 20, 2021 07:09 - 59 minutes - 137 MBMikkel E.G. Nielsen is the Oscar-nominated [edit: Oscar WINNING!] editor of Sound of Metal and a recent BAFTA and Critics Choice Awards winner for Best Editing. He’s a Copenhagen-based feature and commercial editor, previously known for his work on Beasts of No Nation, Madame Bovary and A Royal Affair. In this episode we discuss: -how he approached the edit in Sound of Metal -creating empathy for an aggressive character -maintaining a toolkit of skills for use on any project -the joy o...
CC_S01_EP02_KimmyDubé
March 30, 2021 07:09 - 55 minutes - 128 MBKimmy Dubé is a Los Angeles-based commercial editor, known for her comedic and action spots. After starting out as an intern at Lost Planet in NY she rose the ranks to become a rostered editor, cutting excellent work like AT&T's "It's Not Complicated" campaign with SNL's Beck Bennet (very few commercials make me laugh like those do) and eventually departed for Cosmo Street in Los Angeles, where she now works. Her wonderful sense of humor has garnered her many friends and fans in the industry ...
CC_S01_EP01_ColbyParkerJr_PT02
March 09, 2021 09:04 - 56 minutes - 130 MBColby Parker Jr. Pt 2. The editor of Ant-Man, Friday Night Lights, Patriot’s Day, Deepwater Horizon, Hancock and the pilots for The Leftovers and Ballers talks more music, Marvel, Pete Berg and cutting action with heart. In part two we cover: Sacrificing a great shot for the story Being on set for Friday Night Lights Finding the emotion in a coin toss Giving explosions in the sky their big break Do you have to play an instrument to make it today? Meeting salty Hollywood heroes For m...
CC_S01_EP01_ColbyParkerJr_PT01
March 09, 2021 08:55 - 49 minutes - 113 MBColby Parker Jr is a Los Angeles-based feature editor known for his high adrenaline action cutting for films like Ant-Man, Friday Night Lights, Patriot’s Day, Deepwater Horizon, Hancock and the pilots for The Leftovers and Ballers. Some of the topics covered in part one: Learning from Marvel editors Adding emotion to an action story Cutting music videos in the middle of the night with Diddy Why he didn’t want to work with the Beastie Boys For more information and supplemental video cli...
CC_S01_Promo
February 28, 2021 22:11 - 2 minutes - 2.19 MBWelcome to Cutting Class, a podcast about film & video editing as told through the lives of some of the top editors in their fields. Episode 1 coming soon. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/cuttingclass/support