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31 MAY-JUN 14 / CINEMONTAGE filmmakersdestination.com 818.777.1111 / 818.777.0169 / 800.892.1979 Find Us DOWNLOAD FROM APPLE APP STORE AND GOOGLE PLAY STORE Universal Studios_Post Prod & Media Services ad_Editors Guild CineMontage_12.12.13 beautifully. Later in the previews, I was very happy with the audience reaction because it was a hard thing to achieve. Like in any comedy, you're honing. You're seeing what jokes play. You're cutting the film down for pacing. You end up doing a day or two of reshoots, and that's what we ended up doing. CM: Can you talk about your visual effects editor, Kevin Jolly, and your first assistant, Brian Addie? JF: Brian and I have worked on seven movies together, and Kevin has worked on Ted and A Million Ways. I'm very lucky to have the crew that I have. There's a lot of visual effects, because there are some gags that have to do with the bull hitting the guy and the ice block coming down. And there are a lot of cloud backgrounds, obviously, when you shoot a Western, and there's a dream sequence. There was way more visual effects work on Ted, because he's a CGI character, and you're cutting together blank backgrounds until you get the bear. Brian and Kevin are both invaluable in terms of helping me achieve those things in the Avid and setting up green screen. Seth is very exact about how he wants his visual effects to look, so there's a lot of double- checking. "Are you sure you want this? Do those clouds look funny?" I also want to mention additional editor Debra Neil Fisher, who worked with us on Ted and A Million Ways, and her assistant Dave Clark, who contributed so much. CM: Does MacFarlane shoot a lot of takes? JF: He's very good about his instincts and knowing that he's got it — he really doesn't do a lot of takes. In the beginning, when I worked with him on Ted, I was very nervous because it was our first time together, and you want to do your best work. But as we've moved on into this, we're very much in sync. I think we're both looking for the honesty in the performances and making the jokes play as best they can. f CineMontage_May-Jun_14-3.indd 31 4/15/14 2:50 PM