21 -  Masterclass with Chad Pop: Editing

21 - Masterclass with Chad Pop: Editing

Author: Gino Shelile November 27, 2023 Duration: 28:45

In this episode, Gino chats to multi award nominee Chad Pop about editing, from his early days at AFDA to a six year stay at one of South Africa's top advertising agencies to finally stepping out into the big wide world with his own company.

Chad was privileged to be nominated for Best Editor at the AFDA graduation awards as well as for the Rocket award at the 2017 Promax Africa Awards.

In 2018 he was ranked number 11 in the Best Editor category by the Loeries Africa/Middle East Awards.

Chad discusses the joys of being thrown in the directing deep-end, and the difficulties of changing from the fast paced styles of short-form television, like ads and promos, to the intricate nuances of long-form work, like movies and documentaries.  

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