Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods

Dallas Taylor is the host and creator of Twenty Thousand Hertz , a lovingly crafted podcast revealing the stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds. Dallas is also the Creative Director of Defacto Sound , where he has led thousands of high-profile projects ranging from blockbuster trailers and advertising campaigns to Sundance award-winning films and major television seri...

We were fortunate to be joined by Senior Global Marketing Executive Dana Flowers and Writer, Producer, Marketer Kelly Turner for this discussion. And yeah, it was dopetey f'in' dope!   We talked about how Dana, Kelly and others are helping the industry evolve to be more representative of the diverse audiences this industry markets to; who's doing good work and leading the way in this regard; what...

Who better to have our first one-on-one after the long hiatus? HELEN AHN , of course! Coming off of her well-deserved Clio Entertainment Impact Award , Helen came back on the show to discuss Mentorship (and whether there's a better word for that); How our best work is still in us - "I don't know if I could have done that until this very day;" Her passion to leave a lasting legacy, specifically in...

For today's panel discussion, we were joined by three leaders from Ignition Creative , Jaclyn Thomas, SVP AV and Creative Director; Dhruv Kumar, Assoc. Creative Dir. and Sr. Editor; and Eric Breshears, Creative Dir. of Print; (with a cameo from Wayne Watson, Pres. and Exec. CD) to have a candid conversation about how we're all doing. We've all been through a lot as an industry, collectively and in...

We're Baa-aaack... It's been a minute! A little longer than we first planned. But we're glad to be back with the next chapter of Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods.  Host and Exec. Producer, Corey Nathan hops on to say hello again and to give a rundown on the exciting new direction the program will be going including panel discussions on topics folks in entertainment advertising care about, subscriber...

Sean Uyeoka, Editor at Aspect, arrived on the scene with quite a splash with a BLACK MASS teaser that garnered so much industry recognition that he finished when he was still an assistant. Since then, Sean hasn't looked back having gone on to contribute to a diverse range of other top notch pieces such as trailers for ANNABELLE CREATION, MOXIE, MOTHERLESS BROOKLYN, FIVE FEET APART, CAPTAIN UNDERPA...

In Part 2 of our convo with David Kim, Sr. Editor at Zealot, we talk some more about his time with Transit and the great team there; Helen and David get into some spirited debates about k-pop; we go deep on some more projects including PARASITE, CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE and TEA WITH THE DAMES; David shares about what makes Zealot's culture so great; and then we talk some more k-pop!

This is Part 1 of our 2 part conversation with David Kim, Senior Editor at Zealot. David has done such a diverse range of work from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to The Willoughbys , from Central Intelligence to I, Tonya ; New Order , Parasite , Hacks   and so many more. We discuss growing up in SoCal, how much of a hero his mom is, how he spent time in other jobs before he ever got into the traile...

This is our latest installment in our series of speaking with folks who've gone from making fan trailers and mashups to being rising stars in the trailer industry. On this episode, we have both Joel Walden of Mark Woollen + Assoc. and Lyle Goodale of Giaronomo. Joel's had several standout projects including work on I'M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS, JOJO RABBIT and HIGH LIFE among others. Lyle's also...

Kate Cox and Gregg Ostrin are two of the most prolific writers in the entertainment advertising industry. Kate has spent her career as a freelance writer working for many agencies, mini-majors and major studios. She shares about her early work such as how she collaborated on the campaign for PLATOON, as well as more recent projects like with FOCUS FEATURES. Gregg is a staff writer at InSync PLUS ....

On this episode we have both Miguel Branco and Clark Zhu . They are both rising star trailer editors - Miguel is cutting at Rogue Planet and Clark is at Wild Card. Miguel and Clark were both doing fan trailers and mashups as passion projects before they ever got into the trailer industry. Their stuff online got a ton of attention, justifiably so, because they're really good. In both their cases, t...

Ricky Strauss has worked at the highest levels of both Entertainment Marketing AND is a prolific film producer. He's also had a significant impact on our culture. Ricky's work as President of Participant Media brought groundbreaking, conversation-starting films that have had lasting impact on the way we think about important issues in our world. More recently in his role as President of Content an...

This is part 2 of our conversation with Brent "B Rock" Rockswold, Senior Editor/Producer best known for such seminal pieces including ROGUE ONE , THE LAST JEDI , and FURIOUS 7 . In this part of the conversation we do a deeper dive on the work itself. In addition to the above, we discuss a :60 he did for JURASSIC WORLD , his STAR TREK: INTO DARKNESS trailer and THE FORCE AWAKENS trailer he co-edite...

We start today's episode with the Director of Music at Aspect, Alison Sieh, who shares about a great fundraiser for Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. Then we get into Part 1 of our 2 part conversation with Brent "B Rock" Rockswold, Senior Editor/Producer best known for such seminal pieces including ROGUE ONE , THE LAST JEDI , and FURIOUS 7 . Today we discuss how B Rock got into the industry; the dedica...

Neal Spector has 3 distinct chapters in his career: starting out as one of the "Mad Men" of mainstream advertising; then paved the way and dominated home entertainment advertising; and more recently has re-made himself again as the owner of Ammo Creative , that is playing at the highest levels in all the areas that define our culture from brand to digital, movies and television, design, writing, e...

Tina Hsu and Casmir Jordan of Rogue Planet break down what it's like working as POC women in the industry. Listen to them chat about rhythmic cutting styles, their breakthrough franchise finishes such as MORTAL KOMBAT and BUMBLEBEE, as well as a special conversation about unicorns  . Featuring special guest Helen Ahn Cutler!

Tommy "Pitt" Malatesta, Editor/Producer at AV Squad, is doing some of the most ground-breaking work being done today. You'll notice he's very quick to talk about all the other incredibly creative people that are part of the collaborations that result in all of his work including the most renowned pieces he's known for such as The Witch  trailer ,  Hereditary  trailer and  The Green Knight  teaser...

Craig Murray started out writing copy for Disneyworld in the mid 70s before working for Disney's film studio as a writer in creative advertising. Then in 1986, Craig got an opportunity to work on trailers from concept to completion - thus the beginning of Craig Murray Productions, aka CMP, and later Mocean which has gone on to earn E ntertainment Agency of the Year 3 times over.

Chad Misner, is well known and well loved as one of the most respected editors and creative directors of the entire trailer industry. M ost recently Chad was the SVP of Creative Advertising at Focus Features and, prior to that was responsible for 2 of the greatest trailers of all time Little Children and The Social Network , among dozens, if not hundreds of other brilliant contributions. Some othe...

Mike Ferman, editor/producer from Buddha Jones is absolutely prolific conquering theatrical, broadcast and streaming, working on campaigns for major studios and mini-majors, for domestic and international, for action, drama, horror and even documentaries: We're talking about A Good Day to Die Hard | The recent McCartney 3 piece | The Walking Dead | Fearless | Birds of Prey | Glass | Ready Player O...

Aimee Pitta is an award-winning writer/producer and marketing exec who's created successful campaigns for almost every major studio from the early days of New Line, with top agencies like Trailer Park, and as a consultant with Paramount, Lionsgate and Roadside Attractions. Aimee is also a published author (having just won TaleFlick's writers award first place for The Theory of Invisibility) , the...

Eugene Fillios is the founder and creative director of Creature Street, a trailer company that's worked on campaigns such as Halloween , Candyman , Minions , The Hunt , The Invisible Man and many more . Something that's also unique about Creature Street is that they're based in Portland, Oregon.  On this pod, we discuss everything from Eugene's days as a professional musician, starting over in the...

Kevin Abernathy started out making, as he would say, "really bad YouTube videos" with his friends until one day he randomly followed his passion for "previews" and moved to L.A. to pursue his dream. Game Grumps brought him unexpected fame in the world of video games. But his heart has always been in trailers, aka coming attractions. On this episode, along with our dynamo co-host Helen Ahn Cutler,...

Many in our industry know Samantha Hart from her time as a Creative Executive at Gramercy, Searchlight and Universal where her creative marketing campaigns brought prominence and Academy Awards to films such as  Fargo, Dead Man Walking and Boys Don't Cry while earning cult status for indie features Dazed and Confused, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Priscilla Queen of the Desert. Sam later transit...