Denim - Behind the seams

I really liked the humorous spin to this interesting subject. I look forward to more from you. GL.

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Very interesting...

Great job. I really liked your use of voiceover, your voice adds a lot to the piece. Good choice of a subject. He was interesting enough where I didn't get bored with the pod, even though you just stayed in that same store for the whole time. GL.

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MikE

I really like what you are going for here and I have a couple of suggestions:

1) Check your audio mix. There was at least one moment when music was playing that was fighting with something being said on camera.

2) Tighten up the edit a bit. The guy walked off camera and it lingered there looking for something to shoot for a good 3 or 4 seconds. It's mostly there. Just a couple of soft spots.

3) There's a big Irony missing here. Denim was created as a strong cheap work cloth like canvass. Levi started out making tents with it and then later made work clothes for miners. Strouss came up with the idea of putting rivits on the weak points so they wouldn't tear under stress.

There is a great irony that could be created here between the guy in a denim shop talking about the finest woven denim and justifying $250 jeans as a lifestyle choice. . and the history of this material that was created to serve the hard working classes as a tough, cheap, utility fabric.

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Thanks Plisko for your comments. With regards to #1, yes I agree the audio could've been tweaked, there was music playing in the background through the stores stereo. #2 was an edit I did on purpose. I wanted to emphasize Dave's giddy'ness when he was talking about jeans..he just stepped off to go fetch that roll of denim, so rather than hide it with a clever edit, i opted to leave it in like that. And as for you rpoint on #3, yes I agree, irony would've have been a good element, however I choose not to make it into a documentary, but rather a unqiue topic on an every day fabric. To call out the irony of denim I felt would've been cookie cutter. Thanks for your comments!

GL!!!

This make me realize that people is also diying of hunger around the world. How really important is a 650 USD denim jean?

Worth it just for the tip of freezing jeans with lemon.

Jeans in the freezer? Hmm. Fun pod. Check your audio and see if you can fix it in some parts. GL.

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putting jeans in the freezer! wow. that bit of info just changed my life. thank you.

it's also good information on the world of denim. : )

I like this pod. Nice pace, good interview. Great video. GL

Interesting. Cheers on the GL. Pleasse check out my pod about "transfrancisco" <a href="http://www.current.tv/watch/131787952">link</a>

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