In episode 22, Erwann introduces Piotr and Ricardo to French cinema by sharing his utter lack of knowledge of his own country’s movies and directors. He gets into the movies that made him and hopes to inspire the viewers to follow his recommendations. Piotr also shares a couple of French movies he enjoys, while Ricardo repeatedly repeats « Amelie » and « 400 Blows » to make it look like he knows French cinema.

Films we've mentioned: https://boxd.it/yEV92$6o32JEcX6Y6QAtUc

--

We'd love to hear from you!

Questions? Comments? Improvements? Episode ideas?

Shoot us a message at podcast@cuttothepoint.com

Or you can send us a voice message here: https://www.speakpipe.com/CTR

Where we make our movie watchlists: https://letterboxd.com/ (not a sponsor)

--

Cut To Reveal Instagram: https://instagram.com/cuttoreveal

Cut To Reveal website: https://www.cuttothepoint.com/podcast

Cut to Reveal YT channel: https://youtube.com/@cuttoreveal

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 21 and Erwann is back from his vacation! He shares with Piotr and Rick how it’s been cutting a TV series for the first time. Erwann talks about how he got the job, creating the films grammar, working with a progressive shortage of coverage and other challenges, plus working with a composer for the first time. The discussion leads Piotr into mentioning the latest video from Every Frame a Painting on YouTube about sustained two-shots. There’s a little back and forth about the evolution of shot length and the way actors convey emotion. From there they get into Ricky putting up sound proofing in his new home editing suite. Then Erwann asks the guys to share one movie/ show from the watchlist that week and Ricky gives three...

What’s your favorite TV series right now?

—

Here are link to some things mentioned in the episode:

DCPomatic: https://dcpomatic.com

Every Frame A Painting - The Sustained Two-Shot: https://youtu.be/mn2Dcy-NDTw?si=Cejm2hBnkM8tOVWf

Cold Little Bird - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21654496/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Doctor Who - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31433814/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Russel T. Davies - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0203961/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Brats - https://boxd.it/BMHK

The Brat Pack - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brat_Pack

The Promise Land - https://boxd.it/B1hA

--

We'd love to hear from you!

Questions? Comments? Improvements? Episode ideas?

Shoot us a message at podcast@cuttothepoint.com

Or you can send us a voice message here: https://www.speakpipe.com/CTR

Where we make our movie watchlists: https://letterboxd.com/ (not a sponsor)

--

Cut To Reveal Instagram: https://instagram.com/cuttoreveal

Cut To Reveal website: https://www.cuttothepoint.com/podcast

Cut to Reveal YT channel: https://youtube.com/@cuttoreveal

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re out of our teens into our twenties this season. Episode 20! Piotr and Ricky respond to a listener question about how editing informed Piotr directing his short film, “Yellow Ticket.” Prepare for some good anecdotes, plus a George Romero reference. Piotr congratulates Ricky on winning Besting Editing for his work on “Holding These Moments” at the Palma Film Festival in Mallorca. Then they get into their weekly watch-list.

What’s your favorite non-zombie George Romero film?

—

Links to few things mentioned in this episode:

Yellow Ticket - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt28756177/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

George Romero - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_A._Romero

Holding These Moments - https://boxd.it/sg1Y

Palma Film Festival - https://palmafilmfestival.com/category/winners/february-june-winners/

Furiosa - https://boxd.it/tABk

Porco Rosso - https://boxd.it/1Tp2

--

We'd love to hear from you!

Questions? Comments? Improvements? Episode ideas?

Shoot us a message at podcast@cuttothepoint.com

Or you can send us a voice message here: https://www.speakpipe.com/CTR

Where we make our movie watchlists: https://letterboxd.com/ (not a sponsor)

--

Cut To Reveal Instagram: https://instagram.com/cuttoreveal

Cut To Reveal website: https://www.cuttothepoint.com/podcast

Cut to Reveal YT channel: https://youtube.com/@cuttoreveal

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In episode 19, Ricky and Piotr start off by making fun of Erwann then talk about Camerimage International Film Festival in Torún, Poland. Hopefully Ricky can attend with Piotr this November. After that they give shout-outs to podcast listeners Khalid and Robert for sending in constructive feedback and thanks. If you guys are reading this description you are much appreciate. Piotr and Ricky then make fun of Erwann in the Olympics and discuss how mind-blowing post-production must be for the games. This brings up a 2005 article, that Ricky found written by Paul Hirsch, ACE reminiscing about The Droid Olympics, a competition amongst assistant edits in the late 70’s to early 80s. A fun look back at a hidden time in film history. Piotr then talks about how he used the Milanote app to break down a possible film project into individual cards on a digital board, similar to how great editors like Walter Murch will use photos and post-it notes to see a films structure. After which Piotr mentions that LOST, his favorite TV Shows is now on Netflix and Ricky talks about how great of an edit The Bear S3 Episode 2 is. Shout out to editor Joanna Naugle, ACE from SENIOR POST for that.

If there was an editor/ AE Olympics what would your event be?

—

Here are some links of things we mention in the episode:

EnergaCAMERIMAGE Int. Film Festival - https://camerimage.pl/en/

Olympics Broadcast Services (OBS) - https://www.obs.tv/home

The Droid Olympics: When Editing was a Competitive Sport - https://cinemontage.org/the-droid-olympics/

Golf Tech is Hidden in Plain Sight (Marques Brownlee) - https://youtu.be/MV1qaFv4VUg?si=iuFmNBjc3w1rCLy6

Milanote App (not a sponsor) - https://milanote.com/

LOST (on Netflix - also not a sponsor) - https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/70136118

Sanctuary (also on Netflix) - https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/81144910

Paul Hirsch, ACE - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0386532/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

Joanna Naugle, ACE - https://www.joannanaugle.com/

SENIOR POST - http://www.senior-post.com/

--

We'd love to hear from you!

Questions? Comments? Improvements? Episode ideas?

Shoot us a message at podcast@cuttothepoint.com

Or you can send us a voice message here: https://www.speakpipe.com/CTR

Where we make our movie watchlists: https://letterboxd.com/ (not a sponsor)

--

Cut To Reveal Instagram: https://instagram.com/cuttoreveal

Cut To Reveal website: https://www.cuttothepoint.com/podcast

Cut to Reveal YT channel: https://youtube.com/@cuttoreveal

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ricky and Piotr suspect that Erwann is competing in the Olympics so they talk about 8 Productivity Hacks for Editors without him. These hacks aren’t dependent on software or hardware so editors of every skill level can benefit from them. Piotr and Ricky also discuss the impact of Meta’s new opensource AI rotoscoping model: SAM 2, Yellow Ticket screening at the Bridge Film Fest in Verona, Italy and their recent watch lists.

What keeps you focused on an edit?

*Full disclosure: you can learn more about these productivity hacks in Piotr’s online course, The Editing Chef.

—

Some links for things mentioned in the episode:

The Editing Chef - https://cuttothepoint.gumroad.com/l/the-editing-chef

SAM 2 - https://ai.meta.com/sam2/

Bridge Film Fest - https://bridgefilmfestival.eu/

Tiger King - https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/81115994

Sanctuary - https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/81144910

Captain America: The First Avenger - https://boxd.it/28b0

--

We'd love to hear from you!

Questions? Comments? Improvements? Episode ideas?

Shoot us a message at podcast@cuttothepoint.com

Or you can send us a voice message here: https://www.speakpipe.com/CTR

Where we make our movie watchlists: https://letterboxd.com/ (not a sponsor)

--

Cut To Reveal Instagram: https://instagram.com/cuttoreveal

Cut To Reveal website: https://www.cuttothepoint.com/podcast

Cut to the Point YT channel: https://youtube.com/@cttp

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Piotr and Ricky talk with editor-author-podcast host Steve Hullfish, ACE about his latest book, Art of the Cut, Vol. 2. They get into how he prepares for interviews, how over 360 interviews with top editors have influenced his own work and the 3 common traits of great editors. Steve also shares the edit/ film making books he always goes back to, a great bad-client story and how he literally cut and pasted together the first volume of Art of the Cut! And there might be a good back and forth about how AI will impact assistant editors.

What books inspire you as an editor/film maker?

—

Here are links to some of the things mentioned in the episode:

Art of the Cut, Vol 2 - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003410805/art-cut-steve-hullfish

Art of the Cut, Vol 1 - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781315297132/art-cut-steve-hullfish?context=ubx&refId=afed0ea5-c5f0-4c45-a215-78a0b0939a27

Art of the Cut podcast - https://open.spotify.com/show/6hu9cnAzPTRlwJOVTIY18d?si=ef04feb6661e4dc8

Orson Wells on editing - https://youtu.be/_peCBApLTzs?si=FAPwgoT9-kOl3qLZ

Books:

Making Movies by Sydney Lumet - https://a.co/d/hOtFagv

Into the Woods: A Five-Act Journey Into Story by John York - https://a.co/d/aPrDMN2

In The Blink of an Eye by Walter Murch - https://a.co/d/dp5rYa0

--

We'd love to hear from you!

Questions? Comments? Improvements? Episode ideas?

Shoot us a message at podcast@cuttothepoint.com

Or you can send us a voice message here: https://www.speakpipe.com/CTR

Where we make our movie watchlists: https://letterboxd.com/ (not a sponsor)

--

Cut To Reveal Instagram: https://instagram.com/cuttoreveal

Cut To Reveal website: https://www.cuttothepoint.com/podcast

Cut to the Point YT channel: https://youtube.com/@cttp

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this quick episode, Piotr uses learning to ride his electric unicycle BACKWARDS as an analogy to discuss with Ricky the way we learn editing. The words intentionally, incidentally, experimentally and accidentally are thrown around, but what it boils down to is that being a good editor isn't something you learn in a book; It's something that comes with years of doing it repeatedly; finding out new things along the way by accident or experimentation. Also, in this episode we hear about Ricky's house-moving whoas, his trip to Copenhagen and watching Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation. Plus, Piotr mentions the Polish Netflix series, 1670.

Can you ride a unicycle backwards?

--

Here are links to a few of the things mentioned in this episode:

Electric unicycle - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_unicycle

Intentional vs Incidental Editing - https://typeset.io/questions/what-are-the-differences-between-incidental-and-intentional-901555hj2s

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - https://boxd.it/5rI4

1670 - https://www.netflix.com/de-en/title/81553471

--

We'd love to hear from you!

Questions? Comments? Improvements? Episode ideas?

Shoot us a message at podcast@cuttothepoint.com

Or you can send us a voice message here: https://www.speakpipe.com/CTR

Where we make our movie watchlists: https://letterboxd.com/ (not a sponsor)

--

Cut To Reveal Instagram: https://instagram.com/cuttoreveal

Cut To Reveal website: https://www.cuttothepoint.com/podcast

Cut to the Point YT channel: https://youtube.com/@cttp

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 15 is all about Erwann and Piotr’s gear. They talk about what equipment they use in their home suites and even what they bring to onsite jobs. Erwann loves his mouse and so does Piotr! They run through their headphones, speakers, mics, keyboards, monitors and even touch on control surfaces, stream decks, kitchen timers and something about a new foot pedal contraption. To be clear - fancy equipment or even a lot of equipment do not prove that you are a good editor. All the gear the guys have now, they’ve accrued overtime and are comfortable with and that’s what makes the difference. Also, Piotr mentions Parkinson’s Law in regards to time management and they share the stand-out movies from their week - Piotr - Kramer vs Kramer; Erwann - “Infestation”

What gear are you rocking?

--

Here are links to most of the gear mentioned in the episode (not sponsors):

Elgato USB-C Stream Deck - https://amzn.to/3zNL3Md

Elgato Stream Deck Pedal - https://amzn.to/3LvBqnK

Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro X LE On-Ear Headphones - https://amzn.to/466Pg9P

Logitech MX Master 3 Advanced Wireless Mouse - https://amzn.to/3Y6xrFK

Kali Audio Studio Monitors - https://www.kaliaudio.com/product-line-up#Studio-Monitors

Digital Kitchen Timer - https://amzn.to/3Sbnhjs

Tangent Element work panel - https://www.tangentwave.co.uk/product/element/

Røde PodMic microphone - https://amzn.to/4cIQoTj

Focusrite Scarlett 2i2 USB Audio Interface - https://amzn.to/46b6aEf

Parkinson's Law - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law

Kramer vs Kramer - https://boxd.it/h0w

Vermines (Infested) https://boxd.it/Egl4

--

We'd love to hear from you!

Questions? Comments? Improvements? Episode ideas?

Shoot us a message at podcast@cuttothepoint.com

Or you can send us a voice message here: https://www.speakpipe.com/CTR

Where we make our movie watchlists: https://letterboxd.com/ (not a sponsor)

--

Cut To Reveal Instagram: https://instagram.com/cuttoreveal

Cut To Reveal website: https://www.cuttothepoint.com/podcast

Cut to the Point YT channel: https://youtube.com/@cttp

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.