COLBY PARKER JR., A.C.E. (part 1)

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Listen to this episode from Cutting Class on Spotify. Colby Parker Jr is a Los Angeles-based feature editor known for his high adrenaline action cutting for films like Ant-Man, Friday Night Lights, Patriot's Day, Deepwater Horizon, Hancock and the pilots for The Leftovers and Ballers.

Episode 1 kicks us off with Colby Parker Jr., ACE, a Los Angeles-based feature editor known for his fast-paced, high-adrenaline work on most Pete Berg directed films including Friday Night Lights, Deepwater Horizon, The Kingdom, Patriot’s Day, Battleship, Mile 22, Hancock and the pilots for the HBO shows Ballers and the Leftovers. Colby was also recently brought into the Marvel Cinematic Universe as co-editor of Ant-Man. And, as you can see from the title, is a distinguished member of the American Cinema Editors, which we discuss in pt 2, and which I am keeping here as A.C.E. to Colby’s wishes.

Some of the topics covered in part one:

• Learning from Marvel editors
  

• Adding emotion to an action story
  

• Cutting music videos in the middle of the night with Diddy
  

• Why he didn’t want to work with the Beastie Boys
  

A few clips from some of Colby’s films:

And some classic music videos