Joshua Meyers (“The Pursuit”) Geeking Out On Long-Form Doc Workflow

OWC Radio Host, Cirina Catania talks workflow and story for the Netflix original feature documentary, "The Pursuit," with Josh Meyers, the head of post-production and co-founder of Emergent Order. Founded in 2011, Emergent Order is an independent studio that develops and produces films and multiplatform content. Most recently, Josh was the lead editor on the feature documentary, "The Pursuit," a four-year journey chronicling the life of economist, musician, and president of The American Enterprise Institute, Arthur Brooks. It was featured at the Dallas and Cleveland film festivals and can now be seen on Netflix. Josh has worked in the film and broadcast industry for 20 years, cutting his teeth on network promos, music videos and commercials at Nickelodeon, WWE, UFC, SpikeTV and the Paramount Network. His company’s first feature film, "At the Fork," premiered at the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival where it was acquired by Samuel Goldwyn Films. For more information on Josh and his partner, John Papola, visit emergentorder.com For more about our host, filmmaker, tech maven and co-founder of the Sundance Film Festival, Cirina Catania, visit cirinacatania.com. If you enjoy our podcast, please subscribe and tell all your friends about us! We love our listeners. And, if you have ideas for segments, write to [email protected]. Cirina is always up for new ideas! This Episode * 00:08 - Cirina introduces Josh Meyers, the head of post-production and co-founder of Emergent Order.* 06:36 - Josh talks about his experience in creating the documentary film, The Pursuit.* 10:43 - Josh shares how they were surprised Arthur Brooks would play the French horn on stage while filming the movie.* 16:35 - Is the documentary film, The Pursuit, scripted?* 19:49 - Josh explains how they dealt with color spaces, even though they used multiple cameras.* 26:22 - Josh’s favorite hardware from OWC that helps his machine run faster.* 31:41 - Josh elaborates on how they finance and get funding in making their projects.* 36:11 - Josh describes what’s in his workstation, the software, and the hardware he uses.* 43:27 - Josh explains how useful the X2Pro plugin was in sweetening The Pursuit’s audio.* 53:27 - Visit Emergent Order’s website, emergentorder.com, to check out the fantastic stories they produced. Jump to Links and Resources Transcript This is Cirina Catania with OWC Radio. Joshua Meyers is the head of the post-production and also the co-founder of Emergent Order. And we saw each other recently at the Creative Summit in Cupertino, where he gave a presentation about the workflow on a movie called The Pursuit. Hi, Josh, how are you today? I'm doing great, Cirina. How are you? I'm wonderful. We just have to talk about this because this was an incredible production. So can you tell people who are listening? What is The Pursuit, who was in it, and what was it about?  Sure. The Pursuit is a feature documentary, and it's based on the writings and talks of Arthur Brooks.