Retrospective Videos

Retrospective videos are like a cornucopia of goodies for an editor. They encompass videos and still photographs combined with background music, on-screen text and sound effects. Combined, they tell a story. Below are several retrospective videos done for friends in honor of their 40th birthdays.

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Laughing matters. For whatever reason, I was always fascinated with the unappreciated art of audience "sweetening." I view this as a tool: like music, sound effects, dialogue, etc. It is everything combined together to show flow smoothly make the show smoothly. It is all timing. With skill and a little luck, a well-executed laughter track (infamously branded "canned laughter") can be a work of art contributing to a larger work of art. Overall, its role is just one part of the puzzle that make for great television.

Here is some work I have done over the years.






​Two short films produced for 48 Hour Film Project in 2005 and 2006, respectively.

I was Boom Mic operator for ¿POR QUE? and added the laughter track during post-production.

I was not involved in the production of THE RED NAVEL. I added a laughter track later as a practice exercise.









THE PINK PANTHER SHOW originally aired on Saturday Mornings from 1969 to 1980. NBC and ABC requested that a laugh track be added to the soundtracks, standard practice at the time. Since the Pink Panther cartoons were originally produced as theatrical short films without laugh tracks, both theatrical and television versions have appeared over the last 45+ years. 

Some television versions (with laugh track) have not been seen in over 30 years. It is these entries that I created a laughter track for.

Some of these videos are featured on our Pink Laffs YouTube page.
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​Feature films like GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM were not immune to the laugh treatment. This was added to a slide-conversion-to-DVD order containing over 500 images taken by the client during his service in Nha Trang, Vietnam.

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