Olympic 2016 - Blue Carpet

Edited.



Current NPPA styles & trends is to have nat pops (natural sound), more nat pops, quick cuts, nats, EXTREME close ups and a bunch more nats.

What happened here?

As I was going through the nearly 240min of footage from August 12th I had every intention of doing the standard NPPA nat-pack. But after going through the Blue Carpet interviews I found something missing. My desire to use cutaways.

B-roll is the best part of editing. It is when you get to be creative. When you can break away from a talking head and show the cool shots. I love editing b-roll. B-roll is the best part of editing...

It was a strange thing, I felt no desire for adding nats, close ups, more nats, cut-aways, or anything else.

Just the SOTs, the "Sound-On-Tape" cut together. To me it was raw, it was pure and it worked.



Re-edit for the official version which went live on YouTube included graphics, quick opening montage & music. With out an anchor at a desk to introduce the video, the video needs to introduce itself, so I think the additions are needed, but when I want to re-watch the "editor's cut" I can watch my first cut a cappella.