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Here are a couple of examples of some of my early editing work. Back in the mid 90s I was transitioning from public access TV producer and film student to the community media center staff person and filmmaker I am today. The world of media making was transitioning too, from analog videotape to digital video. The following two TV show intros are examples of both transitions.

The first was an intro I cut together for a Show I co-hosted and produced with Greg “Flameape” Giordano called Studio 8 Uncensored (later called Studio 8 Live and still later, Video Free Burlington). This may actually represent the very first thing I ever cut on a non-linear digital editing workstation. It was a Media 100 that Burlington College had on loan for a weekend workshop on digital editing. This is circa 1996 from a VHS bump I found lying around and digitized the other day…

Studio 8 Uncensored Intro from Bill Simmon on Vimeo.

Welcome to Reality was hosted by the inimitable Dan Zucker. The show was part hoax, part irate rant, part improvised theater, part social experiment and part deranged psychotic break.

This was edited using a “linear” tape-to-tape edit suite on 3/4″ U-Matic tape in 1997. That quick shot of me sitting in an edit suite in the studio 8 intro (notable for my lack of beard) was taken in the room where I cut the WTR intro.

Welcome to Reality Intro from Bill Simmon on Vimeo.

Apologies to Thomas Dolby.