Feature & a short

Episode #44 - Welcome to the fifth Fresh Air Award! Four cinephiles continue a Fourwind Films tradition of awarding a film that pushed cinema forward the most as an artform during a particular decade. To be nominated, a motion picture has to have advanced cinema in some way and made a lasting impression on how movies are made. This episode delves into the decade that saw the first full decade with sound becoming mainstream in film and the introduction the Technicolor three color process, 1930-1939. To start the episode, our host, Justin Joseph Hall goes through a quick history lesson on what was happening in cinema business and technology in the decade. The four cinephiles who select the nominees in this panel are cinephiles Elizabeth Chatelain, Justin Joseph Hall, John Robert Hammerer and Kevin Hinman. Any moving images that came out in the appropriate decade is eligible for nomination. Nominations spanned documentaries, shorts, animated films, and feature films. They featured cinema with thoughtful use of sound design, the first feature animation, films with the Technicolor three color process, the template for romantic comedies, and maybe the most famous film of all-time. Here is the link to all the nominations: 1930’s Fresh Air Award Nominees - Letterboxd list There were several overlaps, but here are the main nominations made by each panelist: Elizabeth Chatelain nominees Rules of the Game (1939) M (1931) Colour Box (1935) Sisters of the Gion (1936) It Happened One Night (1934) Justin Joseph Hall nominees The Wizard of Oz (1939) Gone with the Wind (1939) Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937) Land Without Bread (1933) Lampião, o Rei do Cangaço (1937) John Robert Hammerer nominees Duck Soup (1933 ) Freaks (1932) Porky in Wackyland (1938) Rules of the Game (1939) Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937) Kevin Hinman nominees M (1931) Flowers and Trees (1932) King Kong (1933) Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937) The Wizard of Oz (1939) To find the 1930’s Fresh Air Award winner click on this link! We hope you enjoy this episode! Share with us your own lists, comments, arguments, and films that we left out via social media @fourwindfilms. We’re on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn. Thanks for listening, Season 8 to come shortly! Thank you to our cinephiles who did joined this out of their passion. To hear more from them, visit links below: Elizabeth Chatelain Quatre-Vents Post-Production Movie Directing & Writing Justin Joseph Hall Quatre-Vents Post-Production Fourwind Films John Robert Hammerer Director's site Kevin Hinman Magnum Opus Spesh to Death Credits for podcast: Production Company - Fourwind Films Fresh Air Award Contributors for 1900s Decade - Elizabeth Chatelain, Tracey Goessel, Justin Joseph Hall, & Kevin Hinman Host - Justin Joseph Hall Editor - Billie Jo Laitinen Sound Mixer - Hans Bilger The theme song of Season 6 is New Tires by Silent Partner. Additional Music - The Beat Goes On by Backyard Wrestling & As the Stars Turn by Pandelion.

Episode #43 - Riki McManus began with her own talk show on KQRS Radio in Minneapolis while still in high school. She went on to the commercial industry in Minneapolis as On Camera and Voice Over Talent. McManus continued as an agent and then became the Director of Plaza Three Model and Talent Agency. She opened the first casting company in Minnesota, where Purple Rain was the first feature she casted. Since then, she has cast approximately 20 feature films. She won a Clio Award for a self-promotion piece she did with The Fallon Agency in Minneapolis for her company. Our screening took place at the Minnesota Discovery Center the largest museum the largest museum complex in Minnesota outside the Twin Cities. For her short, Riki brought Rated Directed by John Fortson with his directorial debut that won 14 Best Short FIlm Awards at Festivals. We have to say our audience would have given it award as well. The subject matter of the film is so relevant in our technilogical world, it’s a short about social media commenting how kind we are in our society. We had The Rustic Pig pack a school lunch for each of our audience members to enjoy during the screening. The feature Riki brought to screen was Purple Rain, which was not only Prince’s debut feature, but also the first feature Riki worked on as well. She tells stories of when she met Prince, the difficulties in casting the film, and experiencing one of Prince’s famous free concerts. So check this out and don’t forget to drink some champagne and celebrate Prince as we did on this very memorable night at the Minnesota Discovery Center. Credits: Host - Justin Joseph Hall Production & Event Space - Minnesota Discovery Center Food - The Rustic Pig Post-Production - Quatre-Vents Editor - Billie Jo Laitinen Sound Mixer - Hans Bilger Production Assistant - Elizabeth Chatelain Production Company - Fourwind Films The theme song of Season 7 is New Tires by Silent Partner.

Episode #42 - Justin Joseph Hall is an award-winning, multilingual multimedia director and founder of Fourwind Films and Quatre-Vents. His work has been acquired by major television networks such as HBO and he’s worked as a lead creative on projects that received awards at The Emmys, TriBeCa Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, and more. Our screening resumed back at Fourwind Films’ headquarters. For his short, Justin brought his short series, Marcellus Hall an Artist in New York City. The five episode season has won six awards and been nominated for many more around the world. The documentary is of New Yorker Illustrator Marcellus Hall who also wrote the song Life Is Still Sweet that inspired Float On performed by Modest Mouse. We screened the entire series back to back and served white and yellow cheese with steak in conjunction with the series. The feature Justin chose inspired his series with a one-on-one interview that endures the entire documentary. It was Errol Morris’ Oscar winning Fog of War where Robert McNamara goes through thought processes of military decisions during major wars of the United States of America. We served a juicy homemade Vietnamese Beef And Lettuce Curry during the screening. To learn more about Justin Joseph Hall, sign up for Fourwind Films newsletter. Credits: Host - Justin Joseph Hall Production & Event Space - Fourwind Films Post-Production - Quatre-Vents Event Producer - Laura Davi Editor - Billie Jo Laitinen Sound Mixer - Hans Bilger The theme song of Season 7 is New Tires by Silent Partner.

Episode #41 - Colin Buckingham is an actor and writer who’s worked on Mr. Robot & Sleep No More. He cares deeply about how to improve society as a whole and reflects that in the work he pursues. We held the live event an intimate Fourwind Films studio with a small group of friends and colleagues. For his short, Colin brought the short he wrote and starred in, November Ninth, a personal tale of being assaulted on the election day in 2016. Colin coalesces his accounts of being bullied for his dwarfism into an eight minute action revenge story that takes place in a Manhattan bar and hence we served our audience beer. The feature Colin chose was an account of two outsiders going on a roadtrip during COVID that yields an unexpected friendship between a woman who believes in aliens and a sad recluse with dwarfism. The chosen fiercly independent movies were paired showing experiences of dwarfism and living with a condition not fully understood by society. Our audience enjoyed Chinese takeout and a classic diner ham sandwich and fries plate during the screening. Check out more from Colin Buckingham for his latest via his website. Credits: Host - Justin Joseph Hall Production & Event Space - Fourwind Films Post-Production - Quatre-Vents Editor - Billie Jo Laitinen Sound Mixer - Hans Bilger The theme song of Season 7 is New Tires by Silent Partner.

Episode #40 - Welcome to the third Fresh Air Award! Four cinephiles continue a Fourwind Films tradition of awarding a film that pushed cinema forward the most as an artform during a particular decade. To be nominated, a motion picture has to have changed movies in some way and made a lasting impression on how movies are made today. This episode delves into the decade that saw the beginning of successful commercial sound in cinema: 1920-1929. Before getting into the nominations with the panelists, our host Justin Joseph Hall goes through a quick history lesson on what was happening in the decade businesswise and technology-wise. The four cinephiles who select the nominees in this panel are cinephiles Elizabeth Chatelain, Tracey Goessel, Justin Joseph Hall, and Kevin Hinman. If the piece has moving images and came out in the appropriate decade, it is eligible for nomination. This group chose an array of documentaries, shorts, animated films, and feature films, including films with the first synchronized score with animation, the first montage, a commercially successful duo tone color film, and the first soundtrack synched on the film strip. Nominations by each panelist: Elizabeth Chatelain nominees Battleship Potemkin (1925) Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) Un Chien Andalou (1929) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Tracey Goessel nominees Nanook of the North (1922) Don Juan (1926) Steamboat Willie (1928) The Play House (1921) The Toll of the Sea (1922) Justin Joseph Hall nominees Un Chien Andalou (1929) Nosferatu (1922) Battleship Potemkin (1925) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Man with a Movie Camera (1929) Kevin Hinman nominees Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) Drifters (1929) Un Chien Andalou (1929) Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) The Gold Rush (1924) To find the 1920’s Fresh Air Award winner click on this link! We hope you enjoy this episode! Share with us your own lists, comments, arguments, and films that we left out via social media @fourwindfilms. We’re on Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, and LinkedIn. Thanks for listening, Season 7 to come shortly! Thank you to our panelists who did joined this out of their passion for cinema. Credits for podcast: Production Company - Fourwind Films Fresh Air Award Contributors for 1900s Decade - Elizabeth Chatelain, Tracey Goessel, Justin Joseph Hall, & Kevin Hinman Host - Justin Joseph Hall Editor - Billie Jo Laitinen Sound Mixer - Hans Bilger Additional Sound Recordist - Elizabeth Chatelain, Kevin Hinman, Ricky Rosario The theme song of Season 6 is Getting It Done by Kevin MacLeod. Additional Music MOMFG & The Drums! provided by Kevin Hinman & Magnum Opus for interludes. Music in the public domain used in this podcast: Deep Blue Sea - Clara Smith One of Battleship Potemkin’s Scores - Eisenstein wanted the scores to be updated about every decade. Don Juan Soundtrack - Context on who wrote it “William Axt used two pieces that owned by Robbins-Engel, "The Fire Agitato" and "In Gloomy Forest," along with several pieces of European classical music including compositions by Richard Strauss.

Episode #39 - Justin Joseph Hall’s work has been acquired by major television networks such as HBO and he’s worked as a lead creative on projects that received awards at The Emmys, TriBeCa Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, and more. He is Director and Founder of Fourwind Films. Dorie Hall hosted the podcast which was held as a private screening in Minnesota. For his short, Justin brought a never publicly screened version of Yeon-Gi, an experimental Buddhist themed movie. This version was created in 32x9 aspect ratio, and includes a full reflections visible on screen. The emotional short created a lot to talk about in our discussion. The feature Justin chose to screen is the famous location documentary, Samsara. During the screening Fourwind chefs served a mouthwatering combination: potstickers, burgers, fries, and a cola. Through the visuals of nature and human altered locations, Samsara shows nature on land nearly void of life until we encounter various locations of cities and former settlements. It’s an emotional journey around the earth with seemingly no connection except our location on the earth and what the montage movie weaves together through the beautiful images. Credits: Host - Dorie Hall Editor - Billie Joe Laitenin Sound Mixer - Hans Bilger Event Space - Hall Family Home Photographer - Laura Davi The theme song of Season 6 is Getting It Done by Kevin MacLeod.

Episode #38 - WARNING: This episode is a workflow episode. It is made for people with extensive knowledge in post-production and can be a confusing listen if you do not have an interest in the material. If you do not have that particular background skip to another one of our episodes. Welcome to another Feature & a Short differences episode where we chat about differences in working in Feature versus short movies. In this episode Director, Editor Justin Joseph Hall explains what criteria to look for when choosing a hard drive in general, but specifically what will save you time on feature projects. Thank you to Bobby O’Brien for requesting this podcast The Biggest difference between a feature & a short is really the transcoding, export time, transfer times (backups). The first thing to look for in either a feature or a short movie is the connection. There are three modern connections found in the fall of 2022 USB-C Thunderbolt USB-3.0 Ethernet connection to a network is also an option if you happen to be working off of a large storage network in an office. Otherwise another storage device to consider is a RAID = redundant array of independent disks. It’s probably not worth it to invest in an expensive RAID for short. There are 3 main ways to set up your RAID. RAID 0 RAID 1 RAID 5 We go through all types, but recommend RAID 0 for editing digital video, mainly because it’s the fastest way to read and write data. Don’t forget to backup your hard drives in three separate physical locations. Plan out before you start post-production where your three locations will be. Justin suggests a few brands G-RAID Seagate LACIE OWC Justin also suggests to diversify backup types including going through what an LTO tape is. Quatre-Vents is Fourwind Films’ sister company in Minnesota! They can be your solution for LTO Tapes and all other Post-Production needs . In the podcast Justin tells how you can get 70% back on video expenditures through tax incentives through Quatre-Vents. Some are direct rebates, just by hiring us and others in the region. Justin also goes through various options of powering your drive and pricing for drives. And don’t forget to always include hard drives in your budgets! Credits: Production Company - Fourwind Films Host - Justin Joseph Hall Editor - Billie Jo Laitinen Audio Mixer - Hans Bilger The theme song of Season 6 is Getting It Done by Kevin MacLeod.

Episode #37 - Ellen Goosenberg Kent is an Oscar winning documentarian who knows how to produce a compelling story first and foremost. She is always interested in the price paid by common people going against difficult odds, often fighting government systems often unintentionally. She is incredible in her long and varied work. We had the pleasure to talk with her at Nitehawk Cinema - Williamsburg in front of a live studio audience while we screened the documentary. For her short, Ellen brought MTV short Anastasia. Activist Anastasia Shevchenko was accused of being a threat to Russian state. She was kept under house arrest for two years. Sarah McCarthy’s short documentary tells the story of a civil rights advocate and single mother who longs to see her children grow up in a free society in a deeply personal account of her family and the sometimes unseen cost of activism. The movie is a deeply humanizing tale of the price paid by a woman struggling for freedom and her family’s safety and peace of mind The feature Ellen chose is her latest, Afghan Dreamers also courtesy of MTV. During the screening Nitehawk’s chefs served a mouthwatering combination: Sheer Chai, an Afghani Salad, and Kabuli Palaw. Through the story of a robotics team in Afghanistan, Afghan Dreamers recounts the advancements of women in the country since the American invasion and the effects of the Taliban taking over after the Americans left. Using various stock footage of government officials, the story of these high school students is a rollercoaster of joy, pain, hard work, and the country’s struggle for women’s rights in a conservative society. Credits: Host - Justin Joseph Hall Editor - Billie Joe Laitenin Sound Mixer - Brian Trahan Sound Mixing Assistant - Hans Bilger Lead Marketing Agent - Isabel Restrepo Event Space - Nitehawk Cinema - Williamsburg Photographer - Piper Werle Sponsors: Documentarian Emanuele Mengotti & the documentary Stranger at the Gate by Joshua Seftel. The theme song of Season 6 is Getting It Done by Kevin MacLeod.

Episode #36 - Shirley Venard is an incredible Minneapolis-based actress who uses her life experiences to embody a character. She’s kind, thoughtful, and a teacher. She loves to tell stories which is why we love her. Shirley brought Oscar-winning short movie The Railroad Lady (La Femme et la TGV). The first tale of a lonely woman in this pairing. Shirley looked at the great actresses of the 1900’s to find her short and her and Justin talk of Jane’s fake orgasm that made her famous. The feature Shirley chose is the Zellner Brother’s Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter. The Japanese, Texas made movie that was largely shot in Minnesota. It was a Sundance Film Festival favorite, making Minnesota & Japan look beautiful on the silver screen. See Shirley Venard’s work in our short movie Prologue. In the forecast to look forward to please check out Marcellus Hall an Artist in New York City which is playing around the world. Credits: Host - Justin Joseph Hall Editor - Billie Joe Laitenin Sound Mixer - Brian Trahan Sound Mixing Assistant - Hans Bilger Lead Marketing Agent - Isabel Restrepo Event Space - The Woman’s Club in Minneapolis Photographers - Dakota & Dorie Hall The theme song of Season 6 is Getting It Done by Kevin MacLeod.

Before getting into the nominations with the panelists, our host Justin Joseph Hall reads an excerpt from film historian David Kiehn of the Niles Film Museum about the second full decade of cinema. The four cinephiles who select the nominees in this panel are cinephiles Elizabeth Chatelain, Justin Joseph Hall, Kevin Hinman, and Jason Tucker. If the piece has moving images and came out in the appropriate decade, it is eligible for nomination. This group chose an array of documentaries, shorts, animated films, and feature films, including one with the film with the first synchronized score. Here is the link to all the nominations: 1900’s Fresh Air Award Nominees - Letterboxd list There were several overlaps, but here are the main nominations made by each panelist: Elizabeth Chatelain nominees Rituais e festas borôro (1917) Birth of a Flower (1910) Gertie The Dinosaur (1914) A Man There Was (1917) Shoulder Arms (1918) Justin Joseph Hall nominees Suspense. (1913) The Oyster Princess (1919) The Perils of Pauline (1914) Cabiria (1914) The Cameraman's Revenge (1912) Kevin Hinman nominees A Dog's Life (1918) J'accuse (1919) Different From the Others Richard Oswald (1919) Gertie the Dinosaur (1914) South (1919) Jason Tucker nominees Rapsodia Satanica (1917) Frankenstein (1910) Falling Leaves (1912) Spring Fever (1919) The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918) Hope you enjoy this episode! Share with us your own lists, comments, arguments, and films that we left out via social media @fourwindfilms. We’re on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Thanks for listening, Season 6 to come shortly! Credits for podcast: Production Company - Fourwind Films Fresh Air Award Contributors for 1900s Decade - Elizabeth Chatelain, Justin Joseph Hall, Kevin Hinman, & Jason Tucker Host - Justin Joseph Hall Sound Mixer - Brian Trahan Additional Sound Recordist - Dakota Anthony The theme song of Season 5 is This Monster by Sun Nectar.

Episode #34 - Justin Joseph Hall love sifting through mounts of footage to carve out the most interesting aspects of what he discovers in a short amount of time. Today he honors Downtown Community Television where he learned to cut their style of vérité footage by showing his favorite movies they’ve made.

Episode #33 - Ilaria Polsonetti is an Emmy nominated Editor of documentary films. She creates smooth edits in her edits and enjoys creativity in her work. She is kind and collaborative in her process which she goes through today in our episode. Ilaria brought the New York Times OpDoc Dulce. It’s an ideal documentary for Ilaria that has patience, fantastic locations and subjects, and great sound. It’s an example of the documentaries she would always love to work on in a Direct Cinema style slice of life. The feature Ilaria chose is VICE’s Black South Rising: Inside Charlotte's Mostly Black and Brown Government. Ilaria and her VICE team put together the time after the killing of Keith Lamont Scott by the police in Charlotte, North Carolina documenting the change in the government as more people of color ran for office. It was an emotional screening that shows what it is like when new people take place of old governments. Learn more about Ilaria Polsonetti and her work on her website. In the forecast to look forward to please check out host Justin Joseph Hall on With Nothing to Say chatting about his entry into film and how he shaped his career.

Episode #32 - Meet Rebecca Stern, a producer, and director of documentary films. She has absolutely soared in her career since one of her first jobs as a Production Coordinator on the Oscar-nominated feature documentary Cartel Land. Her directorial debut Well Groomed is now streaming on HBO. Rebecca is open, humble, and just a delight to be around. Our appointed contributors for Feature & a short are asked to choose one short and one feature, and they have to have been involved with one of them but not the other. Rebecca brings the sleeper success Snowy. This documentary short is about a pet turtle named Snowy whose owners embark on a journey to find what would make him happy. We have a discussion about funding short films, and what Rebeca thinks needs to evolve about that process. The feature is The Thin Blue Line, a film Rebecca had never seen - though she has worked on films about the legal system and incarceration in the US.

Episode #31 - Welcome to another COVID Feature & a Short episode: Mastering File Differences. In this workflow process share, Director/Editor Justin Joseph Hall explains how to export the proper master file for your archives or for delivery. This is important in order to future-proof your final file and what you’ve invested all of your time and your money into. Justin shares how to preserve the best possible quality for your project’s posterity by covering: equipment, creating a master file for a short film versus for a feature, high resolution, why you should avoid letterboxing, suggestions for finishing codec (not H.264!), JPEGS, for example, JPEG 200 files or Targa files for animation, incorporating audio and graphics into your master file, subtitles (don’t include them), and file labeling.

Episode #30 - The four cinephiles in this panel are filmmakers Elizabeth Chatelain, Justin Joseph Hall, and Inga Moren Tapias, as well as actress and public speaking coach, Shirley Venard. If the piece has moving images and came out in the appropriate decade, it’s up for nomination. This group chooses an array of documentaries, shorts, animated films, and feature films, including one with the best-trained dog in cinema history.

Episode #29 - Megan chose a short film she shot called We’re All Alright, which she fell in love with as soon as she finished reading the script. She talks about the film’s central themes of depression and female friendship, what it was like working with a majority female team, and the challenges of filming on a fire escape. For the feature film, Megan stuck to the theme of mental health with Short Term 12, about young staff members working at a foster care facility. It’s an independent film that continues to find fans years after its release (2013) and is also known for its phenomenal ensemble of now critically acclaimed actors including Lakeith Stanfield, Brie Larson, Kaitlyn Dever, John Gallagher Jr., and Rami Malek.

Episode #28 - There’s a connection between 70’s cult classic “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” and Justin Joseph Hall’s directorial debut, “Prologue,” which he gets into this episode of Feature & a short. After watching the two films, Justin answers audience questions. He shares what it was like collaborating with writer Piper Werle on Prologue’s script, how locations are characters in themselves, the casting process, and horror movies that explore the fear of having children. Prologue is a multiple award-winning short film charged with secrets and terrible communication skills. It follows Julie, a young Italian immigrant living in Northern California who is perfectly happy in her marriage until she stops being able to go along with what her husband wants. With the unexpected help of an elderly stranger who thinks Julie is someone she is not, the young newlywed navigates how to live her truth. Starring - Claudia de Candia, Shawn Thomas Diefenbach, Shirley Venard, Ariel Woodiwiss Screenwriter - Piper Werle Assistant Director - Kate Branom Assistant Producer, Set Photographer - Daria Huxley Producer - Ricky Rosario Cinematographer - Gary Jaquez Director, Editor, Colorist - Justin Joseph Hall Justin Joseph Hall is an award-winning, multilingual Director and founder of Fourwind Films and Quatre-Vents. His work has been acquired by major television networks such as HBO and he’s worked as a lead creative on projects that received awards at The Emmys, TriBeCa Film Festival, Brooklyn Film Festival, and more. His many years in the industry allowed him to guide audiences through unforgettable thought and emotional experiences working primarily as a Director and Editor. He has held positions as Editor for networks such as HBO, NBCUniversal, and PBS. At Downtown Community Television he helped pitch and develop the show Axios (2018-2021), the Emmy-winning documentary series. Abuela’s Luck (2018) was picked up by all HBO’s streaming platforms and slated to be adapted into a full-length feature movie. His mastery of post-production and the visual arts has awarded him opportunities to work with Major League Baseball, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, National Geographic, Discovery, and BMW, to name a few. Justin’s work as a Director has procured awards. Prologue (2020) is a superb, surreal exploration of relationships and miscommunication winning Best of Awards at Manhattan Film Festival and Worldfest Houston International Film Festival. His docu-series on creative careers, Artist & the City (2021) won 6 awards including the Audience Award for Best Series at YoFiFest. Justin believes in two things: diverse perspectives help solve complex problems and that first rate execution of an idea matters more than the idea itself. That’s why since he hit the ground running into his career in 2008 and he has directed and managed a talented workforce from New York to Paris to Tokyo. Since 2014 under Justin’s direction, Fourwind Films creates high fidelity media exploring statistically underrepresented perspectives. It’s sister company, Quatre-Vents was created in 2022 to help create a greater Episode #29 - Post-Production industry in his home state of Minnesota. He disrupts the redundant motion picture industry with relevant, fresh perspectives, including his own.

Episode #27 - WARNING: This episode is a workflow episode. It is made for people with extensive knowledge in Post-Production and can be confusing if you do not have that background. If you do not have that background skip to another one of our episodes. Welcome to another COVID Feature & a short episode: Coloring Differences. Owner of Fourwind Films, Justin Joseph Hall, has worked on many projects as Colorist. In this episode he gives us some tips about giving working on a feature and a short as a colorist. It’s important to budget your time and tell people how much it costs. You need to know what program you can use, if you are onlining the material and where you are taking the hand off point from the editor (if you are not editing the film.)Justin guides you through topics like creating a budget and that it’s important to ask questions like how many looks and set ups you need to create. He goes through other essential things to consider in color are color space and exports.If you have any Post-Production questions, email Justin Joseph Hall directly at justinjosephhall@fourwindfilms.com or check out Fourwind’s blog page for helpful tips in creating media.

Episode #26 - WARNING: This episode is a workflow episode. It is made for people with extensive knowledge in post-production and can be confusing if you do not have that background. If you do not have that backgorung skip to another one of our episodes. Welcome to another COVID Feature & a Short episode: Assistant Editing.Most assistant editors want to advance their career to become and editor someday.Owner and Editor of Fourwind Films, Justin Joseph Hall, has worked on many projects as Assistant Editor. In this episode he gives us some tips about Assistant Editing. First off to know the different jobs in Post-Production to find opportunities to experiment and try different things. Always discuss at the beginning of the project how your credit is going to be. Remember that as an assistant editor you gotta be the organizational voice. You want to have an easy-to-read organizational format. Be consistent with the way you label files as you working on a team! Talk to the editor about gaining a system for ingesting and synching. Color-correction and sound-mixing are essential parts to consider for a complete proper project. It’s your job to make sure that your work is accurate and that you maintain a high quality product for finishing your video!If you have any Post-Production questions, email Justin Joseph Hall directly at justinjosephhall@fourwindfilms.com or check out Fourwind’s blog page for helpful tips in creating media.

Episode #26 - WARNING: This episode is a workflow episode. It is made for people with extensive knowledge in post-production and can be confusing if you do not have that background. If you do not have that background skip to another one of our episodes. Welcome to another COVID Feature & a Short episode: Setting Up in Post-Production Differences, which focuses on how to set up a project in post-production. What differs the most between working on features and shorts is which software editing you use. Owner of Fourwind Films’ Justin Joseph Hall suggests Premiere for faster turnaround time and Avid for longer projects. He also gives us some tips about folder structures and file labeling. Specifically that organization skills are extremely important in post-production. Know your camera. Know your codec. You wanna make sure that things will sort in a logical manner in order not to cause yourself a lot of work towards the end of the post-production process. Here is a link to our folder structure template that is mentioned in the episode. YYYY-MM-DD (Name of Project) Episode hosted by: Justin Joseph Hall. If you have any post-production questions, email Justin directly at justin.joseph.hall@fourwindfilms.com or check out Fourwind’s blog page for helpful tips in creating media. Host - Justin Joseph Hall