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    Beast Assistant Editor Jason Stratton Wins First Place At AICE Detroit Camp Kuleshov Competition

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    This "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air/Grayskull" mashup won the first place honor at AICE Detroit's Camp Kuleshov contest for assistant editor Jason Stratton of Beast in Detroit.

    Trailer competition for assistants, judged and awarded on the same day, also honors work from Lisa Roberts of Territory and Randall Kupfer of Hudson Edit

    DETROIT --

    Will Smith meets He-Man in the winner of the AICE Detroit Chapter’s Camp Kuleshov trailer competition for 2014.  Assistant editor Jason Stratton of Beast/Detroit took first place for his trailer for “The Fresh Prince of Bel Air/Grayskull,” a mashup of the 1980s animated TV series “He-Man and the Masters of the Universe” cut to the hip-hop theme song from Will Smith’s breakout 1990s sitcom.

    Second place at the competition went to assistant editor Lisa Roberts of Territory for “The Odd Couple,” in which she took the classic Neal Hefti theme song from this iconic TV series and re-cut it to scenes of detectives Rust Cohle and Marty Hart from the first season of HBO’s “True Detective,” with Woody Harrelson’s character cast in the Felix Unger role and Matthew McConaughey’s as Oscar Madison.

    Third place went to assistant editor Randall Kupfer of Hudson Edit for “True Detective Squad,” in which he took the opening title sequence from “True Detective,” initially designed and produced by Elastic, and replaced many of the characters and scenes with those from the 1980s comedy “Police Squad,” starring Leslie Nielsen.

    The brief for the assistants entering Detroit’s Camp Kuleshov was a TV watcher’s delight: they could choose any show previously or currently airing on FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS, HBO, AMC or Showtime and create a sixty-second TV show opening sequence for it using source material from a different series.  An example would be reimagining the opening sequence for “The A Team” using footage from “Diff’rent Strokes.” The only material they were allowed to use from the original show is the opening theme music and the opening titles, although that’s not mandatory.

    The Detroit Camp Kuleshov competition, which was organized by Hudson Editorial EP Kristin Redman, was the first Camp Kuleshov contest to be both judged and awarded on the same day, November 19.  A jury of Detroit-area postproduction pros, along with invited agency creatives and editors, reviewed the entries at a meeting held at Territory, with the awards presentation and party taking place later that night at The Loving Touch, a combination pool hall, bar and music venue. A cash prize of $500 was presented to Stratton for his first place winner.

    AICE’s Toronto Chapter will finish up the 2014/2015 Camp Kuleshov season with their competition in January.

    Click here to view the first, second and third place winners in AICE Detroit’s Camp Kuleshov contest.

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    A Closer Look At Proposed Measures Designed To Curb Google’s Search Monopoly

    Thursday, November 21, 2024

    U.S. regulators are proposing aggressive measures to restore competition to the online search market after a federal judge ruled Google maintained an illegal monopoly for the last decade.

    The sweeping set of recommendations filed late Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Justice could radically alter Google's business, including possibly spinning off the Chrome web browser and syndicating its search data to competitors. Even if the courts adopt the blueprint, Google isn't likely to make any significant changes until 2026 at the earliest, because of the legal system's slow-moving wheels.

    Here's what it all means:

    What is the Justice Department's goal?
    Federal prosecutors are cracking down on Google in a case originally filed during near the end of then-President Donald Trump's first term. Officials say the main goal of these proposals is to get Google to stop leveraging its dominant search engine to illegally squelch competition and stifle innovation.

    "The playing field is not level because of Google's conduct, and Google's quality reflects the ill-gotten gains of an advantage illegally acquired," the Justice Department asserted in its recommendations. "The remedy must close this gap and deprive Google of these advantages."

    Not surprisingly, Google sees things much differently. The Justice Department's "wildly overbroad proposal goes miles beyond the Court's decision," Kent Walker, Google's chief legal officer, asserted in a blog post. "It would break a range of Google products — even beyond search — that people love and find helpful in their everyday lives."

    It's still possible that the Justice Department could ease off on its attempts to break up Google, especially if President-elect Donald Trump... Read More

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