{"id":401,"date":"2015-02-23T13:37:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/02\/23\/meet-chuck-workman-the-oscar-montage-man\/"},"modified":"2015-02-23T13:37:00","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:37:00","slug":"meet-chuck-workman-the-oscar-montage-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2015\/02\/23\/meet-chuck-workman-the-oscar-montage-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Chuck Workman, the Oscar montage man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/02\/21\/387814405\/the-king-of-condensed-films-meet-hollywood-s-montage-master\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ByW6ms2Xk5o\/VOtlJfbiB5I\/AAAAAAAABgw\/lyqdawU_G40\/s1600\/workman.jpg\" height=\"238\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s  really nothing else we have to say about the Oscars last night apart from congratulating <i>Birdman<\/i> for its big win. Instead, let&#8217;s direct your attention to one of the most important people behind the scenes at the biggest award show of the year. He&#8217;s Chuck Workman, and he creates the clips played during the Oscar ceremonies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2015\/02\/21\/387814405\/the-king-of-condensed-films-meet-hollywood-s-montage-master\">NPR put together a great profile<\/a> about Workman and his twenty years of experience cutting clips for the Oscars. There&#8217;s a ton of skill on display, whether that&#8217;s matching cuts for a montage, reducing a film to a highlight reel, or finding a single great scene from an actor&#8217;s entire career. Everyone in the industry seems to have great respect for him and his talents. You&#8217;ve gotta respect his craft, even if his interview is tinged with some disdain towards new media.<\/p>\n<p>Workman is one of the many people who gets overlooked when dolling out credit to the film industry, and we always love to see more attention thrown their way.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s really nothing else we have to say about the Oscars last night apart from congratulating Birdman for its big win. Instead, let&#8217;s direct your attention to one of the most important people behind the scenes at the biggest award show of the year. He&#8217;s Chuck Workman, and he creates the clips played during the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[212,263],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academy-awards","tag-links-of-interest","tag-oscars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}