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!!!