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February 23, 2024

A Creative Legacy: Katie Kennedy

This year marked our 8th time sponsoring the Silver Medal Award for AAF Madison. The primary way we sponsor the award is by creating a short video vignette of the winner featuring soundbites from friends, colleagues, and family; some storytelling [...]

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January 12, 2024

Year of Creativity: A Reflection

As we take a trip down memory lane reflecting on 2023 here at Backflip, we're ready to relive the fun times, conveniently misplace the more stress-inducing memories, and celebrate the wins we managed to snag along the way! So, what's the buzz in our [...]

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December 11, 2023

Unveiling Legends: Crafting the Extraordinary Life of Wayne Harris

I distinctly remember the kickoff meeting we had for this project. John, Luke and I were there explaining our usual approach for the Silver Medal Award video. It’s typically a docustyle piece that focuses on the recipient's life story. It’s told [...]

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November 15, 2019

What I learned from Studying Film: Part 2

In part one of this series, I talked about discovering my passion and finding my own reason to commit to getting a degree in Communication Arts (Radio, TV, and Film). In part two, you can read about how this decision was solidified through positive [...]

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October 15, 2019

Four Editing Tips For Beginners

Hey guys, Andrew Christofil here. I spend about 35 hours a week editing videos and I suppose I have some tips for beginning editors that I think might be useful to check out if you fit into that category.

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September 23, 2019

The Power of Good Sound Design

CRASH!

TINKLE!

BRAAAAM!

I realize in a written blog post those sounds might be hard to recognize, but if you heard them in a movie or a tv show, you’d recognize the sound instantly.

Often times, the sound design goes unnoticed. Sure, you hear the [...]

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August 12, 2019

The Power of Stock Footage

As an editor, you’re tasked with crafting a story that meets the client’s requests both in content and a stunningly visual way. You are at the mercy of the production team being able to acquire the shots necessary to tell the complete story.

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August 05, 2019

Finding Diversity in Repetition

This past fall I was given the toughest assignment of my editing career thus far. 

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July 15, 2019

Knowing When to Stop Editing

Everything must come to an end. It’s a sad but very real truth that everyone must come to grips with at some point in their lives.

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April 09, 2019

Post Production Scheduling and Organization: A New Way

“How’s that project coming along?”

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