MasterChef: Legends

Editors - Molly Shock ACE, Matt Cluett, Ezra Hudson

MASTERCHEF: LEGENDS editors Molly Shock, Matt Cluett and Ezra Hudson join The Rough Cut to talk about their ACE Eddie nominated work on Season 11 of the reality TV juggernaut.

Featuring celebrity chef Gordon Ramsey, the cooking competition pits amateur and "at home" chefs against one another in an ongoing gauntlet of culinary challenges until only one contestant is left standing.  The competition takes place in the MasterChef soundstage located in Los Angeles, CA; which includes a large kitchen area with several cooking stations that are overlooked by a balcony, a well-stocked pantry, a freezer/fridge area and a fine-dining restaurant/seating dining area room used for certain challenges.

MOLLY SHOCK ACE

Aspiring director Molly Shock discovered her love of editing through her disdain for being on set.  The DGA's loss was unscripted tv's gain as Molly's storytelling skills and eye for "salty looks" has helped create some of the most popular shows in the world of reality television.  Too numerous to name in their entirety, Molly has edited such reality tv standouts as;  BEYOND SCARED STRAIGHT, TOP CHEF MASTERS, PROJECT RUNWAY, SURVIVOR, NAKED AND AFRAID and RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE ALL STARS.  Always up for a challenge, Molly has never met an escape room she didn't like or a turkey she couldn't cook.

MATT CLUETT

Matt Cluett's first opportunity to try his hand at cutting unscripted tv began in Australia on the Aussie versions of many well known reality franchises, including shows such as;  THE BIGGEST LOSER, THE APPRENTICE, SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, THE X FACTOR, WIFE SWAP, AUSTRALIA'S NEXT TOP MODEL, THE BACHELOR and of course, MASTERCHEF AUSTRALIA.  Currently on his third season of MASTERCHEF: LEGENDS, Matt focuses much of his attention on the "super tease" element of the show.

EZRA HUDSON

USC film school grad, Ezra Hudson initially found himself on a track to being a "very" junior feature development studio exec and then marketeer at Legendary Pictures.  At that point Ezra considered the process of post production to be boring, based on some brief experience he had visiting a film cutting room while he was in high school.  Despite that previous conception of post, Ezra knew he needed to do something more visceral and vital with his talents.  That desire put him back on course with editing, joining shows like LEGO MASTERS and DANCING WITH THE STARS, and ultimately leading him to lend his "God's eye view" to the finishing phase of MASTERCHEF: LEGENDS.

Editing MasterChef: Legends

In our discussion with MASTERCHEF: LEGENDS editors Molly Shock ACE, Matt Cluett and Ezra Hudson, we talk about:

• What it's like to be on a show that can have a team of up to 20 editors
• How they divide up the workflow with “Builders”, “Polishers”, & “Finishers”
• How you work remotely with such a large team
• Why the cold opens and "next on" segments are so important to the whole context of an episode
• Managing the sheer volume of media required to make a show like MasterChef

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