Scott Lazes

Category: Bonus Cuts

  • Bonus Cuts | Sally & Russell Robinson: A Neighborhood Divided

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    I just finished a massive project producing the multimedia for the Harvey B. Gantt Center‘s annual Jazzy Holiday Luncheon. For the project, I got to interview a number of amazing people, including Harvey Gantt himself, Dr. Henry Louis Gates as well as many others.

    One of the videos I produced was a profile piece on Sally and Russell Robinson – two influential community leaders and arts patrons from Charlotte – who were one of the Gantt Center’s honorees at the luncheon. Like most projects I work on, the majority of what we shot did not relate to the story I was trying to tell about them and was thus cut from the finished piece. One excerpt from my interview with the Robinsons, however, that did not make it into their final piece I had to share. In it, Russell Robinson recounts a traumatic experience he had growing up in Charlotte, NC when he and another white child started playing with two African American children in their neighborhood in the 1930s and were confronted by the police.

     

    Bonus Cuts | Sally & Russell Robinson: A Neighborhood Divided from Scott Lazes on Vimeo.

  • Bonus Cuts | Eva Noblezada: 2013 Blumey Awards

    Eva Noblezada’s performance of “Holding Out for a Hero” from the musical ‘Footloose’ at the 2013 Blumey Awards:

  • New ‘Bonus Cuts’ Series

    I’ve interviewed a lot of people on camera – probably hundreds at this point. They range in length of time and depth, but the fact remains: I’ve asked a lot of people questions literally on the record.

    Only a tiny fraction of what is recorded, though, makes it into the final cut of a 2-3 minute video that I produce or edit for my clients. And that’s a travesty because people raise lots of interesting points when I interview them that either don’t pertain to the narrative I’m crafting, or in some cases it just takes an interviewee too long to get to the point.

    So today I am posting the first video from a new series that I’m calling Bonus Cuts in which I will upload interesting video excerpts that don’t make it into the final cut of my videos. The first segment comes from an interview with fabric designer Wesley Mancini. You can watch the finished version of the video that we produced about Wesley for McColl Center for Visual Art from which this interview excerpt was pulled.

    Bonus Cuts | Wesley Mancini: Who wants to be tolerated? from Scott Lazes on Vimeo.