An editor friend of mine made an observation to me after AWA 2023 that I never edited with current sources, so it was sometimes easy to pick me out in blind contests. It was accurate – I’m usually very behind on watching things, given my already-huge backlog, but I wanted to deliberately defy their expectations for the next big blind contest, RICE in 2024.
Unusually, I actually watched Overtake! as it was coming out, so it was only a few months old when I started editing the video. I’ve been an F1 fan for a few years, so the iconic opening theme that includes the car engines as part of the music seemed like a perfect pairing. I went with the opening size version of the song rather than the full length version, since I didn’t think I could sustain the energy needed for three and a half minutes with the available footage, but I think that also ended up biting me later when I ran out of song for the finale and had to rush the conclusion. I wish I’d been able to find a happy medium between them, but my audio editing skills couldn’t find good cut points to shorten the longer version.
The length also ended up biting me in a couple of cases, as it was too short for many contests’ main categories, but also wasn’t an opening parody or a commercial.
Overall, this wasn’t a bad effort, and I’m glad to have edited a video to yet another series that felt heavily overlooked.
Video – Overtake!
Audio – Brian Tyler – F1 Main Theme
Completed January 2024
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