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Jon Dudkowskihopes to give back just as much as he ’s receive working as an editor in Hollywood for 20 twelvemonth . He ’s also a large believer in creating goal and turning dreams into reality – like when he landed his dream inStar Trek , work on Paramount+ ’s first enfranchisement series inDiscoveryfrom the premier episode " The Vulcan Hello " to seeing its last voyage in the series , " Life Itself , " working on 18 of the 65 episodes across all five season . He ’s also worked on several other hit show along the style , includingBuffy the Vampire Slayer , Fringe , The Umbrella Academy , andThe gentleman in the High Castle . He spoke to Bleeding Cool about if he matte extra pressure working on his dream undertaking , how he feel fans will imagine more lovingly ofStar Trek : Discoveryas time overtake , and learning his craft while on Fox’sFringe .
Bleeding Cool : With your fandom and getting the work in the franchise , did you palpate like there was a disjoined chip on your berm to ensure ' Star Trek : Discovery ' succeeded compared to when you approached your other work ?
I truly make out Star Trek , which has been my childhood dreaming , so the stakes were high , but I also teach some on the side . One of the affair that I talk to my students about is encourage them to forecast out … there ’s an exercise I ask my students to do : I state them to make two top ten lists , one of the artwork , media , and whatever has touched you and made you feel something very strongly , whether it ’s a song , photo , house painting , or whatever . I make that top ten list , put it aside , and then make a top ten leaning of your phantasy Hollywood jobs , whether that ’s the artwork theater director on ' Rosemary ’s Baby ' , choreographer on ' Thriller ' , or whatever it is . Imagine as you close your eye , you could have any Hollywood line of work . What are the ten jobs that are just the nerveless frigging thing you could suppose ? Look at those two listing , and if you front at them objectively , everyone will have unlike lists .
you could see artistically what somebody is all about , see what moves them , where their Passion of Christ lies , and there ’s that Venn diagram , like those two lists that create rope . They come together and whatever is right there in the middle . That is where your passion and the reason you ’re in the business organisation issue forth together , and for me , that was Star Trek . Everything I ’d done before , like I solve on ' Buffy the Vampire Slayer ' , ' Fringe ' and before I say , ' Star Trek : Discovery , ' I was on a show . I ’m wearing this shirt now , ' The Path , ' which is this fabulous show .
I had done a lot of stuff I was majestic of and that I cared about enormously , but nothing as much of a bullseye for me as ' Star Trek . ' I came into ' Discovery ' , and I put everything I had into it because it ’s what I ’ve always wanted to do . It was never about " success or loser . " I do n’t know if we often have any material control over that . The mankind is so complicated , there ’s the marketing and so many things that come together , but I know I poured my heart and soul into it . We were lucky enough that there were enough Star Trek fans .
' Star Trek : Discovery ' does n’t work for every fan . There ’s hatful of people , you may go on the gameboard , and there ’s plenty of people that say , " ' Star Trek : Discovery , ' these are my problem . " If it ’s not this , it ’s that or , " It ’s not episodic enough . Maybe it ’s get too much of a political order of business . " To those same mass , I promote you to go check ' The Original Series ' or any of the shows .
Like ' Star Trek V ' and " What does God involve with the spaceship ? "
Exactly ! you’re able to go back to any of them , and the matter about Star Trek fans that is funny is they ’re very passionate and often detest whatever the current version of Star Trek is , but they still watch it . When the next one get along and they ’re like , " No , this one is horrible , but that one last one was great ! I remember you ’re already start out to see that people are starting to conceive more lovingly of ' Discovery ' , because it ’s gone . I never choke into it say this must succeed , but I went into it say , " I must put everything I have into this because this is what it ’s all been about , is to get to this degree and to do this show , and this is my test ! " This is my creative test as to who I am professionally and creatively , and I ’m thankful I get down the chance to do it , and it was such a treat .
You touched upon it earlier , I wanted to ask you about ' Fringe ' because like it was one of the early series where it helped put you on the mapping as an editor . What does your time on that show teach you about your craft ? As a side note , what was it like work on and edit on a show that boast Leonard Nimoy ?
I edit out most ofLeonard Nimoy’sepisodes , which I was excited about . In ' Discovery ' ( in the installment ' Unification III ' ) , he had passed by that degree . His only true appearance on ' Discovery ' was also my first episode ( I directed ) . I loved ' Fringe ' , and I lucked into it . It was the first author tap back in 2006 was going on . I had done a piddling bit of work with Bad Robot on an ABC show call ' What About Brian ? ' and at that stop , I had edited a duad of episodes of this rom - com and dramedy , which was this cringy beach volleyball game movie that I did , an autonomous plastic film ( ' Green Flash ' ( 2008 ) . I did n’t have a lot , but I ’ve always been a visual effects laborious … I grew up in fear of ILM ( Industrial Light & Magic ) . I raise up in Santa Fe , so it was down the street . Visual effects have always been a big part of my life , and so from the beginning , work out on ' Buffy ' and everything else , I was heavily into VFX , so a friend of mine who ’s a ocular effects supervisor was turn on the ' Fringe ' pilot , and he say they want a visual effects editor and I take work .
I read , " Oh , I ’d eff to do that , " and so I fare on add-in when they were doing the pilot , and I had a lot of playfulness with it . I was working 100 - time of day week . The thing about working on those shows and doing a internet show of that shell , on that agenda , because we were crank out like 24 or 25 episode on time of year one . It meant that I literally live at the role . My fiancé at the prison term , who ’s now my wife , would jest I would add up home , cascade , sleep for an hour , and then roll flop back to the office . We were at the office all the metre . It was an awing team . Jeff Pinkner and Joel Wyman were the showrunners , and they came up under a lot of the same people . He earned his stripes on ' Alias ' , and I had mentored with editors from that show , and so there ’s a director on that show , Fred Toye , who was our train producer for a phone number of season , and he had been an editor in chief . He is both a mentor and a coach in a stack of ways , and there ’s another editor , Maryann Brandon , who has done a batch of written material for JJ [ Abrams ] .
I ’d sort of grown up with the same people that Jeff considered his community , and it was a proficient fit , but I was really unripened when I pop out ' outer boundary . ' I was good with ocular effect , and I was a creative , out - of - the - box mind . I ’m heavily into technology , now also AI , and I ’m always push on the edges of what ’s technically possible , but I was n’t very good then , candidly . When I started , I was unforced to work really hard , but I had a lot to learn . Since we were working 100 - time of day week , we were working our butt off every exclusive week , you learn how to get considerably chop-chop . I would reason I did n’t feel like I was on top of it and sharp as an editor until time of year two or three of ' Fringe . ' By that point , I matt-up I started to get it . There ’s a cleaning woman , Tanya Swerling , who had been an editor in time of year one and then became the creative producer over editorial , and she is the one who coached me through being more than just a technician , but being an creative person and taking the scene and saying , " OK , you receive all these expert skills , and that ’s fantastic , but the meat of the caper is being an creative person , taking the footage , and turning it into something that shit citizenry sense something peculiar and palpate what the script was designed to make them palpate . I probably should give most of the acknowledgment to Tanya for give birth the patience to sit with me and work me up to fastness because she ’s truly an exceptional editor program .
I hope ' Fringe ' nonplus a revival .
All five seasons ofStar Trek : Discoveryare available on Paramount+.Fringeis available on digital .
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