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Describe your job role and the kinds of projects\/clients you work with.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n My bread and butter comes from the commercial world. Over the years I\u2019ve worked directly with the creative teams at advertising agencies on a lot of 30 second spots of all types, but I especially love dialog and comedy or anything more focused on human interactions vs. style and fashion. Lately, I\u2019ve been editing a lot of documentary projects, mostly for pharmaceutical clients. I love working with footage of real people – distilling the stories to bring out the emotion and making the storytellers their most eloquent – so take the \u201cchallenges\u201d that come along with pharma as part of the deal. I\u2019m often asked to \u201cfinesse\u201d the dialog to adhere to some kind of legal requirement while still maintaining the essence of what the subject was trying to say. It\u2019s kind of a puzzle with its own satisfaction. I hope I\u2019m out of the business when AI is good enough to do this without my editing magic. Occasionally I\u2019ll find a project outside of advertising, like a series of half hour performances of a comedy\/improv actor I know. I\u2019ve also worked with a few independent director friends on their short films and features.<\/p>\n What does an average day look like in your post production working world? <\/strong><\/p>\n I always say I sit for a living. Most of the time I work from home on a laptop computer with an additional monitor with one of my cats or my small dog on my lap. I work on Premiere for editing but often have to jump onto Photoshop or After Effects for more detailed effects. I enjoy creating sound design for my projects. I have the option of working at our studio at Bandit, but usually save that for when clients want to come in and hack through things together. But, overall, I have a lot of independent creative control. Mostly, these in-person sessions happen after I\u2019ve put together a pretty polished cut and just the last few details have to be sorted out. Those sessions are becoming increasingly seldom, especially with clients I\u2019ve worked with for a long time. Doing revisions on my own and posting them for review is just too convenient in a world where everyone is now working on multiple projects at once.<\/p>\n