Freelance Video Editor

This is a documentary on an experimental music composer that I directed and co-edited. The final video draws from footage of interviews, the composer walking around the university, and musical performances, as well as a lecture, so it was a complex edit that brought together a lot of different elements. Along with the video editing work, there was also a lot of sound work to be done just to get it sounding normal.

Most of this piece is edited with a standard documentary style, but we decided to employ some cinematic devices during a certain musical sequence to bring some life into it and do something a little out of the ordinary. This is a pretty well respected American composer, but he’s also quite a character so we wanted to capture that.

This was one of the harder video editing projects I have been involved with because of the amount of material we had to construct a film of around 15 minutes. We had hours of footage to sift through and many different days of shooting to bring together, but it came out nicely and it is presented in a smooth logical order thanks to our planning and hard work in the editing room.

Oh, and on a related note, if there are any composers out there who are looking for work online in the form of film scoring opportunities or anything else, this is a great site to check out that will list your composer profile and also list composing jobs that people can submit. Any type of music composer should find this site to be helpful, and there is even a section for video game composers, which is one of the newest areas in music production and scoring.

Here is an example of a documentary that I directed and helped film and edit, street drummer. We tried to convey a very minimal street style and capture the urban night environment. The editing of this video is also pretty minimal, as we were going for realism and as little flashy cinematics and edits as possible. It was a hard project to put together because of the tangents that the drummer, Donald D, would go off on when we were interviewing him. Also, the unplanned nature of it all made for a lot of work in the editing room getting together a cohesive whole in the end.