Video Production and Editing Gonzo Style
- Posted on 2nd November 2016
- in divorce & remarriage, Entertainment, entertainment books, Final Cut Pro, Love Story, New York City, Video Editing, Video Production, Video Production & Editing
- by Ben
This story is from Chapter 32 of my
video production and editing
book Waiting for Elizabeth (which is also a love story).
Author Ben Bryant’s Third book cover (Elizabeth Hepburn)
In November of 2000 I upgraded my camera to a Sony DSR PD150, a tool far superior to the Panasonic it replaced. November and December of that year were very good work/billing months. On one day in November I had three shoots for three different clients.
The second shoot on that busy day was for a guy named Jeff Hodrick, who had created glow sticks that attached to roller-blades and skate-boards. His slogan was “FlipStix, they’re for night Tricks”. The two shoots – a skate park and table top product shots – I did for Jeff were only an hour each but the edit was another thing altogether. It went on intermittently until June of 2001. He kept on getting what I called “gonzo” footage and we’d re-cut his sales demo. This gonzo material was shot by friends, kids, his brother and whomever else he could enroll in the project. I have no idea how many recuts we did but I used many, many effects I’d never tried before. The Voice Over is by Mr. Hodrick.
Here’s what we ended up with.
I never saw or heard from Hodrick again after the last edit but I don’t think his product ever hit the big time. Jeff, if you happen to see this, get in touch.
Click here to get more tales about video production and editing in Waiting for Elizabeth.
PS: In the vlog I mentioned my video production of Christo’s The Gates. Here’s my vlog about that project.
Tags: entertainment book, FiipStix, Jeff Hodrick
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