Whirlwind!!! - videos for Disney Jan-March 2013

Wow.  This gig has turned full-time.

Not in the legal sense such that I get benefits, retirement, park access, and all that, but I am here 40 hours a week!  Permalancing is great.  I usually get full-time hours, but also the flexibility to take off whenever I need or want to.  The downside is that there is no guarantee of those 40 hrs.  There may be a slow week where there is no work for me to come in and do at all!

Thankfully, January, February and March have been so busy so far that I've gotten to work a lot, and on some projects that were actually broadcasted!  Here are a few of the most interesting pieces I edited....

RunDisney's 20th anniversary marathon weekend - recap of the family 5K and kids races.

A 1-minute sizzle piece highlighting the last 60 years of Disney magic. This one of 6 videos I cut for a live show that aired in Columbia in February. 

A cute promo piece for the 2013 EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival (March 6-May 19th) :)

The number of videos I've worked on so far this year is ridiculous I can't believe I get to do this for a living!  Disney really is the place where dreams come true...and sometimes that dream is your job!!  Stay tuned for more behind the scenes stuff soon.

The Press Event.

On December 6th, Walt Disney world officially opened its biggest expansion in the history of the parks, New Fantasyland. Now of course, TV stations, websites, radio hosts, etc. all want to come get footage and report on the new section of Magic Kingdom, but we can't just have news crews running around the parks whenever they please!  So, on Dec 6-8th we held a press event! It was nuts.

Thankfully, I wasn't out in the park filming.  I was, however, stationed at the Contemporary Resort Convention Center, where we set up an edit room to assist all the news crews with stuff they needed.  We edited footage together with their reporters to complete video segments that they could air, and even provided a satellite link for them to broadcast live. On top of THAT we provided all the b-roll we have from around the parks of anything they could ever need.  My role was to help run the whole show, making sure producers were matched up with editors, incoming footage got converted, and that final edits made it to the crews on flash drives or through FTP.   Since I worked long nights and early mornings, they actually put me up at the Grand Floridian :-) and every meal was catered!  If it wasn't so chaotic, I'd want to do it all the time :)  Here are a few pics:

Ken Montgomery, Edit Captain, the guy I assisted.  Edit stations in the background

Heck yeah.

You can read all about the expansion of Magic Kingdom here.


I really enjoyed working the press event.  I feel like I learned a lot and was stretched.  I met people in the business and freelance editors who work at different places in Orlando.  One guy I met worked for Universal Studios (park) and worked on the Harry Potter ride, and got to meet the cast when they came to film it!  Very cool. 

Tune in next time for an update on all I've worked on in 2013 so far :)

Ordering Room Service at the Grand Flo!!!