Chris & Alexei are joined by Bill Waters (@billwaters) to talk creative friction, never being afraid to ask about working with someone (aka shoot your shot), and the idea that everyone is a potential client. Then, Moderator Flora joins us to administer the 2nd Annual Sizzle Reel Spelling Extravaganza (which is waaay more difficult than we expected).

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Chris & Alexei are joined by RETRO1920 (@Retro1920) to talk… well… everything! This one goes out on many philosophical limbs, including long-from vs short-form storytelling, steps to take when building a production business, achieving goals, pitching, inspiration, trends… this one really goes all over the place.

Watch THIRDY - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xju6_-7Kk4

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Chris & Alexei are joined by Brian Maxwell Mann (@BrianMaxMann) to talk keeping your edit skills sharp (even if there’s no edit work coming in), piracy and copyright laws, and the meteoric rise of Brian’s YouTube channel! It’s a good one!

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Chris & Alexei talk TikTok’s “$0 content budget”, auteurship, and sticking to your style even when people don’t like it! Plus, Chris (0-3) goes up against Wes Anderson in our latest Chris VERSUS!

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Chris & Alexei talk Sizzle Reel LIVE SHOW, Reed Hastings’ comments about YouTube and TikTok being Netflix’s competition, and then it’s time to crash the boards, where we talk editor/director partnerships, how to politely beg for work, and more!

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Chris & Alexei are joined by Luis Domingo (@loopy.doop) to talk baby voice rap, surreal 3D design aesthetics, After Effects, and more! PLUS: Second half of the show, we do our Adobe Premiere Tools Panel 2022 Entry Draft, where we pit Chris’s Cutters vs Alexei’s All-Star Cutters!

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Chris & Alexei talk NAB 2022, their experience slithering around the show floor, some of the coolest booths they saw, and how they lost their money! Plus: Chris almost got his luggage stolen!

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Chris & Alexei talk NAB preview, read some of your emails about workplace complaints, and our slow expansion into the production game!

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Chris & Alexei are joined by Amy Gasaway (@aimestocheese) and Bill Waters (@billwaters_) to go through a meticulously detailed, day-by-day breakdown of our time covering Treefort Music Fest this year! Topics include: overnight edit turnarounds, managing/communicating with a team of shooters as an editor, how to pivot your documentary when the story starts to shift, making last-second executive decisions for the sake of the story, and so much more! Enjoy!

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Chris & Alexei are joined by the rest of the gang (Bill Waters, Amy Gasaway, and Vince Alvarado) to go through a bracket of our favorite projects!

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