Client
TEDx
Category
Producer + Editor
Project Timeline
2-3 Months
A TEDx salon lives or dies on the talk itself. There's no set dressing to hide behind, no B-roll to cut away to when something drags. It's one person, one idea, and a room that either leans in or doesn't.
Before any of that got to editing, it had to get captured correctly, cameras placed so we had real coverage to work with later without a single camera operator stepping into a speaker's eyeline or blocking the audience's view. That part covered all four talks.
In post, my job was making sure the edit didn't get in the way of the talk, cutting for the moment where the idea actually lands instead of chasing polish for its own sake.
Production started before anyone walked on stage: laying out Blackmagic cameras for coverage, running audio, and setting lighting that held up across four different speakers with four different presences. The angles had to do two jobs at once, give an editor real coverage to work with and stay out of the way of an audience that came to watch a live talk, not a film shoot. From there, three of the four talks came to me for post.
The first pass was building clean coverage that tracked each speaker's energy without calling attention to the cuts. Then graphics work to support the slides and on-screen text, then color to match everything to a single look across the night. The back half of the project was rounds of notes with speakers and organizers, protecting the pacing while making room for the changes each person needed to feel good about their talk going public.
