Oscars Nominations Rundown: Review

Josh & Tom’s Oscars Nominations Rundown: Review

For mine and Tom’s rundown, we wanted to do something a little different – rather than follow a formulaic set up, we wanted to poke fun at Oscars, ourselves and film in general. The main reason behind this was because we wanted to keep the audience engaged throughout and talk about films in a way we love versus reading from a pre-planned script and hoping for the best.

It’s for this reason that, the only written aid we had was the award nominees – I & Tom were confident enough in our abilities to talk about film that we didn’t need a script. I did however wrote up a sheet of bullet points reminding us where our next topic should lead too should we begin to lose focus but we never found ourselves using it.

Inspiration for our work came to me a few months before we’d even started planning, as I knew we’d be doing this eventually. I wanted to do something in a similar style to some of my favourite YouTubers/Filmmakers RedLetterMedia, a film production group based within Milwaukee, Wisconsin who create skits (as well as actual films) for YouTube based on new film releases/older films.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I believe it went very well, when it came to editing it took a while to chop down the nearly hour long footage to a watchable 20 minutes of content but I had fun doing so. Being able to edit this kind of project allowed me to use some of my editing skills that I otherwise wouldn’t be able to use at all.

For both the Rundown & Post Show we had the same approach to humour, though the post show had to be out a lot quicker, and Tom had given editing duties to me the day before as he was unable to edit the video after splicing it together via multi-cam due to a lack of knowledge with Premiere Pro. This meant I had to start editing the footage the next morning and have it finished, rendered and uploaded onto YouTube in time. This greatly reduced the editing I could do, but I still did what I could and tried to have fun, using the Oscars stream to the best of my ability.