Hey everybody we're back with another commission podcast and due to the nature of the work I think it's going to require a bit of an explanation

So the commissioner is a fellow who wants to be credited as liver dad and he commissioned us to watch his fan edits of the

Walking Dead season 3. Now a fan edit is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. You take a piece of work, like a film or in this case a TV show, and you treat it just like an editor in Hollywood treats raw footage they get from the director. You splice it, you reassemble it, you change the sequences, you can put in

different audio and visual effects, you can take stuff out. And that's just what liver dead dad's done here.

He took the first 10 episodes of the Walking Dead season 3 and turned them into two movies.

One called The Killer Within, one made the suffer combined.

They run for just about 3.5 hours. Jim, I still think it's

premature to talk about what we think of this edit because I want to talk a little bit

about the history of fan edits and their legality and other

because I imagine a lot of people have no idea what the subculture is about.

You've been in it I think more than I have.

You want to talk a little bit about like the history of fan edits when you

became aware of them and then we can kind of go from there.

Yeah, I'm definitely not like a fan edit scholar. There are people out there who are like way into this scene. I was kind of on the edges of it. The thing that really

started it for me was the Star Wars prequels. Those prequels were, you know, notoriously bad and because they were, you know, in the Star Wars line, everybody loved Star Wars, people wanted to see better films.

And it was clear that George Lucas was not going to make those better films.

And so people just started tinkering with what they had, you know?

And this is something that's incredibly difficult to do because you talked about like,

a fan that it is just essentially taking you know the

editing process with less footage but it's but it's already cut footage you don't have

a lot of the luxuries that editors have where like they have separate

audio tracks, none of the music is layered over the dialogue yet. They just have multiple takes, hours of footage to condense down.

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