They had just gone into the studio with Iron & Wine to film the re-recording of his classic tune “Flightless Bird, American Mouth” for the new Twilight: Breaking Dawn soundtrack.  To add to it, Marketa Irglova from The Swell Season came in to sing harmony on the the track.  They asked if I thought I could cut the video in the two weeks I was in town.  I said ABSOLUTELY!

Currenlty, WordPress.com doesn’t support VH1 embeds.  So if you wanna see it there here it is. The VH1 link has over 70,000 views already!

First, “A Handy Guide For The Easily Distracted”, the vignette I cut with Miranda as a promotional piece for her new film The Future.  Now that I’ve found an embedable link for the video, I decided to repost a note about it.  Check it out!  Then click the link below it to visit the original site with the posting and read a great interview with her about her work.

Click here to read her interview.

Next, a music video I cut featuring Reggie Watts. This video was finished a few months ago, but I haven’t had the time to write about it.  The band featured in the song is Eagle And Talon, a super-awesome duo producing some great tunes.  Shot by Catherine Goldschmidt and edited by me!

Lastly, the 2011 Teen Choice Awards!  Yay!  Harry Potter was the big winner at this year’s awards, so they asked me to cut a tribute package for the film to close the show.  It got a great response and even a mention in the Hollywood Reporter and other news sites.  Check it out here.  You can also watch the presentation from the TCA below it.

Recently, she and I worked together on repurposing a deleted scene from the film into a vignette for Nowness.com.

MIRANDA JULY on NOWNESS.COM

(Since embedded videos don’t always work on WordPress, click the link!)

And if you haven’t watched the trailer for the movie, here it is:

Recently, a friend of mine asked me to help her out cutting the video packages for the awards ceremony for the 3rd annual Indiecade Festival.  Indiecade is the International Festival of Independent Games.  In short, it is meant to be a sort of Sundance Film Festival for games produced outside the usual “studio” system.  The project comprised of thirty-two short :15 packages for each of the finalists in the festival and a finalist montage to open the event.   To balance out the work I had the help of fellow editor and USC Interactive Media student Cory Sanford, so I had more time to focus on the important opening montage.

All of our source footage came from each of the different production teams for each game, so you can imagine that all our media came in a nearly infinite amount of flavors.  I took advantage Perian‘s ability to open nearly any type of video file, and kept with a traditional offline/online workflow in my new version of Avid Media Composer 5. (Thanks Avid!)  Combining these two allowed me to turn nearly every source I was provided with into 10:1 Avid media straight from the source video file, since Avid’s Import tool employs every Quicktime codec (i.e. Perian) installed on my editing system.  From there I was able to edit seamlessly without worrying about different codecs and without carrying around with me a boatload of media.  Once the edit was locked, I simply decomposed the Avid sequence and batch-imported the master clips at 1:1 from the original source files of those various flavors.  It worked like a charm.

The event was hosted by Levar Burton of Reading Rainbow and Star Trek: The Next Generation, two mainstays of my childhood.  It also featured live DJ sets by 8-Bit Weapon and awesome presenters including Isaiah Mustafah and Seth Gordon, director of The King Of Kong.  The show was at Sony Studios in Culver City.  It was a really fun event and a great festival to be a part of.  Slides below:

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Freddy & Francine – Live @ The Mint 2009

Directed, Shot, and Edited by Robert G. Wilson.  Additional camerawork by Adam Deyoe and Katharine Goldschmidt.  Read the full post here.

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Untitled Sketch Group – FunnyOrDie Internet Comedy Series.  Cinematography by Robert G. Wilson.  Episodes 2 & 3 edited by Robert G. Wilson.  Read the full post here.

At the time of uploading to Funny Or Die, they didn’t support HD uploads.  So, here are HD versions with links to the FOD originals.

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Milo – Emerson College BFA Thesis Documentary

UPDATE: The password to view this video is “robgwilson.com”.  It was protected because the film hasn’t been released so it can’t be available for search.  However, I can display it if you navigate your way here, to view my work.

Congrats to the happy couple!  In all seriousness, my friends Katharine Brandt and J. Claude Deering just got engaged, and I cut both of their reels!  They are both fantastic actors.  Claude was recently featured in a Jeep commercial and Katharine just appeared in the great play Manuscript which she also helped produce!  Congrats guys.  Love ya!