Chainsaw Editors Win Emmy for Editing HBO’s “Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame Concert”
August 31, 2010
Source: Chainsaw
Hollywood—Bill DeRonde and Michael
Polito, principals of the post production facility Chainsaw,
shared an Emmy Award Saturday night for their work on the
HBO special “The 25th Anniversary Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame Concert.”
The award came for Outstanding Picture Editing for a Special
(Single or Multi-Camera).
Chainsaw Editor John Zimmer and freelance editor Mark Stepp
were also named in the award. It is the third Emmy Award for
DeRonde (who was Supervising Editor) and the fourth for Polito,
but the first that they have shared.
“This award is especially meaningful to Mike and me because
it was a project that we got to work on together,” said
DeRonde.
Virtually all of the post work for the 4-hour Hall of Fame
Concert special was conducted at Chainsaw’s Hollywood
facility, including creative editorial, color grading and
final editorial. Presented with more than 100 hours of HD
source material, the Chainsaw team prepared the show for broadcast
in less than two weeks.
Documenting a unique two-night concert at New York’s
Madison Square Garden, the special featured many of the biggest
stars in the history of rock and included once-in-a-lifetime
performances by Aretha Franklin and Annie Lennox; Metallica
and Ozzy Osbourne; Bono, Mick Jagger and Fergie; Bruce Springsteen
and Patti Smith; Simon & Garfunkel and Crosby, Stills
& Nash.
“Getting to edit a show that featured so many of our
musical heroes was amazing,” DeRonde said. “The
cut was a little different from what we usually do for television.
The pacing was slow and cinematic…we let shots play out,
undercutting it to make it more filmic. We wanted people to
see Bruce Springsteen, Mick Jagger, Bono. It was all about
the artists on stage.”
DeRonde and Polito have, combined, more than two dozen Emmy
nominations, many of them for music-related programming. DeRonde’s
previous Emmy wins came for “American Idol” and
“A Supernatural Evening with Carlos Santana.” Polito’s
previous three Emmys Awards all came for broadcasts of “The
Kennedy Center Honors” (in 1997, 1999 and 2005).
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