I was born in Germany in 1979. Last year, I graduated with a Bachelors Degree in Fine Arts from the
University of Colorado. I stayed in Denver to pay off my debts before moving to LA. Now mostly debt-free, I'm LA-based and looking for editing work.
Ok, ok, enough history already.
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell is one of my favorite essays and it informs most of my work. Film, like language, can fall into "prefabricated" thought patterns of previous works and that stymies the creative spark. Audiences can detect this, even if they don't have a concious understanding of it. People just sense that something is familiar in a way that makes the work disposable or worse, boring.
Good filmmaking creates a contrast between what the viewer experienced before a film and what they feel during a film.
Based on these two assumptions, if an edit, mode of story telling, or piece of footage has been over used, it ceases to have any impact on the viewer. An example would be the difference between a viewer seeing the two towers fall for the first time and seeing the same footage now. After seeing it so many times, it doesn't stop the viewer cold. I try to understand what the intent of a piece is, thereby allowing me to find a novel approach to the subject matter.
Also, I have almost no ego, so if my approach doesn't work I can use a suggested method. If you like to work with someone who is very easy to get along with, then I'd be happy to meet you.
Ok, ok, enough history already.
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell is one of my favorite essays and it informs most of my work. Film, like language, can fall into "prefabricated" thought patterns of previous works and that stymies the creative spark. Audiences can detect this, even if they don't have a concious understanding of it. People just sense that something is familiar in a way that makes the work disposable or worse, boring.
Good filmmaking creates a contrast between what the viewer experienced before a film and what they feel during a film.
Based on these two assumptions, if an edit, mode of story telling, or piece of footage has been over used, it ceases to have any impact on the viewer. An example would be the difference between a viewer seeing the two towers fall for the first time and seeing the same footage now. After seeing it so many times, it doesn't stop the viewer cold. I try to understand what the intent of a piece is, thereby allowing me to find a novel approach to the subject matter.
Also, I have almost no ego, so if my approach doesn't work I can use a suggested method. If you like to work with someone who is very easy to get along with, then I'd be happy to meet you.
