Trailer Geeks and Teaser Gods

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...

For those who are blessed to call Helen Ahn Cutler friend, the four words that come to mind are heart, soul, mind and strength. Because Helen is all heart, all soul, all brilliance and so powerful in all the best ways. All the time! We discuss her work as an Editor and Creative Director at some great shops like Ant Farm, JAX and her stint at Paramount Vantage. But any introduction of Helen has to...

Co-host Brandi Seymour, 10 year entertainment advertising industry veteran, and Corey discuss some great pieces of work from the last several weeks. Lily Lasuzzo, SVP Global Creative Advertising at LionsGate, makes a special appearance to discuss the fabulous  Barb & Star.  Here's what's on the docket: Barb & Star Go to Vista Del Mar  Teaser ; LionsGate, Trailer Park The United States Vs. Billie H...

Dave Yocum and Kelly Yocum are both great trailer editors. And, yes, they're related - Dave is Kelly's dad. Dave is a legendary editor, producer, creative director at Create Advertising Group. He's responsible for some of the most admired trailers of all time including the 300 Trailer and the Bohemian Rhapsody Teaser. He's also known for creating most of the Harry Potter trailers as well as campai...

Tom Grane, Co-founder and CEO of Mob Scene, arguably the pre-eminent creative agency for strategic content, such as Behind-the-Scenes and what's called "EPKs" Electronic Press Kits, in the entertainment industry. Mob Scene also has a widely respected trailer division along with social/digital, brand work and original productions. Tom shares his experience navigating family and the company through...

Today's guest is the first of what we'll be doing a lot more of in 2021: Bringing in folks who are in the trenches now. Louis Plamondon, Trailer Editor at Zealot, who some might know as "Sleepy Skunk," is helping to shape the trailer industry of today. He's perhaps best known for those incredible trailer mashups he's been doing since 2010. But he's also a pretty killer editor on major campaigns su...

How may people on the planet can say they've been involved in 2,500 major motion picture campaigns? Tony Seiniger can! His work includes some of the most iconic movie posters of all time such as Jaws, Rocky Horror Picture Show, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, 9 to 5, Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Poltergeist, Moonstruck, Private Benjamin, Schindler's List  and on and on. Joined...

Charlotte "Charlie" Honess, a groundbreaking trailer editor and producer who's known for so many great pieces from the original The Fast and the Furious teaser to The Devil Wears Prada, from True Detective to The Glorias and so many more, has won multiple awards, leading the way and influencing so many other prominent women as well as everyone in the trailer industry. Plus, Charlie discusses the i...

Steve Panama was not only the CEO and Creative Director of Kaleidoscope, which established the standard for what a modern trailer shop could be before there really was such a thing as trailer companies; he is also the trailblazer who was the first in the industry to transition from film to non-linear computer editing systems, as well as the first to bring fiber into the process as a way for creati...

Joel Wayne, long-time EVP of Crea Adv at Warner Bros and living legend in the trailer industry, started in the late 1950's among the real-life Mad Men of Madison Ave. Joel came to Warner Bros in 1980 and spearheaded campaigns for Chariots of Fire, Road Warrior, The World According to Garp, Outsiders, Risky Business, The Color Purple, Beetlejuice, Driving Miss Daisy, Goodfellas, New Jack City, X, Y...