A year and a half later and We’re All Gonna Die Season 2 has officially launched on CraveTV. Being a part of a team and reflecting on all the work that went into the final product are some of my favourite and most rewarding parts of this job. The fact that I get to MAKE FILMS… for a living? Is a privilege and honour that never fails to awe and inspire me.

Produced by 90th Parallel Productions, the makers of Season 1. I was blessed to work alongside Stuart Henderson (Exec. Producer), Javiera Quintana (Producer/Post-Super) and Susanne Cuffe (Business Manager, Office Manager). Our post editing team involved brilliant and inspiring story editor, Emma Kassirer, Series Editor and Canadian Screen Award Winner Kirk Ramsay, and editor Roderick Deogrades, CCE. As the first assistant editor, I also got to build out a team and worked alongside Assistant Editor Bahar Hassabi, who kept me sane at the end as we prepared for the online process.

This episode required a lot of temp VFX and temp graphics, which editor Kirk Ramsay lead. My role was to log, keep track, and make sure to communicate with graphics team and Redlab VFX team to get the final result you see here.

Space was a really really fun episode but tough to get our heads around. Two existential risks in 30mins is a tall order but I think we found the sweet spot. I mostly did a deep dive of visual research, temp GFX, final GFX, and sound effects. Editors Rod and Kirk did an outstanding job making the story flow seamlessly from one subject to another. Anyone graving Sunny D?

Editor Kirk asked me at the beginning of the season, what do you want to get out of this season? And I said - I’d love to edit. And he said, okay let’s edit an episode together and share the credit. Just that humble act alone was enough for me, and he went up and beyond in mentoring me in the section I got to contribute for one of my favourite episodes. A big shout out to Field Director Ben Travers for working our subjects and interviews to perfection.

An extremely complex episode - I mean how do you show nanotech when it’s not visible to the human eye? Editor Rod Deogrades, CCE did an amazing job with sound effects, voice over work (that scene pictured left has both of our voices recorded and automated to make the nanobot voices) and visual details that brought this episode together. Bio magnification and synthetic biology (*shivers*).

A really fun and wonky episode. Look out for the little details that make Kirk’s editing so ENJOYABLE to watch. Is it Barenstain or Barenstein? Are we in a simulation? What is reality? Another amazing episode that challenged us visually and conceptually. Big congrats to the GFX team for explaining quantum mechanics and computing.

Editor Rod Deogrades, CCE did an outstanding job reconceptualizing this episode from being focused on one element of death to being an episode devoted to how people think of (or don’t) death broadly. Not easy to do in 30mins - again he knocked it out of the ballpark. I got to work with Rod on the final scene, looking back over two seasons and Jay’s journey. I feel very blessed to have received that mentorship and learned a lot of valuable editing knowledge. Thank you Rod for the opportunity.

Another really amazing editing moment came when the Producer and Post-Super called me to inform me that both editors had individually called her to advocate for my “additional” and “picture editing” credits based on my contributions in the edit suite. That made my day, week, month! To know that my editing team stood beside me and recognized my work is what every assistant editor hopes for. Thank you Rod and Kirk for your unwavering support.

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We worked with DVSN media who brought us the most brilliant graphics, 3D Jay, and explanations of universe that were (in Jay’s words) tricky biscuits.

Our online team at RedLab was amazing! We had the best online editor, Adam Gagnon who made all our white space scenes clean and cord free. Adam took what we had been looking at for a year and made it into a proper show - so talented. Doug Melville oversaw the entire process and made sure no stone was left unturned! It was an extremely detailed show and he not only kept up the entire time but was also a true delight to work with. Our delightful sound mix team, lead by Michelle Irving (S1) and Drew Snyder, brought everything to life. It gave me great joy to HEAR the episodes and graphical details. Our colourist, the very talented AJ McLauchlin, also did such a natural but stunning colour mix on our flat footage.

Our final episode ends with this AMAZING song by Mose Allison, thanks to our Exec Producer Stuart for the creative nugget and Producer Javiera hunting it down and securing the license for the show. Happy listening.