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Richter’s years of experience working with superstar talents like Rage Against the Machine, The Police and Prince have given him the insight to understand the nuances of collaborating with big personalities in order to bring out the best in them. Richter’s mission is simple – to empower the artists and the viewer, and deliver engaging entertainment.
As a Music Video Director, Richter’s creative use of humor and innovative visual style garnered accolades for artists as varied as De La Soul, Nine Inch Nails, Missy Elliott and Dr. Dre. These collaborations resulted in nominations for multiple MTV Music Video Awards, Billboard Music Awards and a Grammy Award nomination for best short form music video.
His live concert Directing style and unique Editing rhythm has been refined over many years of filming and cutting live performances for talent as diverse as Prince, Metallica, John Fogerty and Avicii. Richter has spent 1000’s of hours, personally, editing concert films and videos. His experience is personified through the creation of the ultimate live concert experience where the viewer feels like a member of the audience.
Richter’s extensive experience in both the music world and the sports world has given him the tools he needs to take the viewer deep into the subjects’ stories. Jeff is the consummate storyteller, showcasing the talent and their journey. He knows a musician and/or an athlete’s story doesn’t just end or begin with a live performance or a competition, but the entire path to the performance. His creative and powerful use of archival materials and in-depth interviews create films that are a complete experience, a journey of exploration, emotion and entertainment. All genres… all sports…all stories…are respected, entertaining and honest!
Reviews
Active Measures (2018)
Full of good info for the uninformed
Active Measures is a decent documentary filled with a lot of useful information for those who really haven't been keeping up with the deep dive into the facts associated with whole tRump Russia story. It is full of important info for people to know. Everyone in congress should be forced to watch it.
Stylistically, the interviews are filmed a little too simply, subject looking off camera, simple lighting, same medium shots, looking left, looking right, etc. nothing very unique or creative about the way it was filmed. Boring.
The editing style is also pretty straight forward. Not really creative (except when they add graphics) Way too much talking head, archive, talking head, archive, etc. back and forth. Almost always the same pacing.. regardless of what's going on story-wise.
The info graphics/animations were really good but used too sparingly. When in doubt next time... more graphics. People love graphics and information, and they were done very well
Now for the bad part... I found 90% of the music to be terrible. They really didn't use music to create any sense of drama. It seems really random, almost like they added a lot of it it after it was already edited. Sometimes, the music was so wrong it was distracting. The bottom line is that it's just not good music, or good use of music.
Don't get me wrong, I think people should watch this movie. I still think it deserves a 7 because of the info it contains. I just think it could've use another editing pass (that includes how you use music folks) and been more creative in its presentation
Watch it. Spread the information it contains. Put the pressure on your representatives to make the tRump administration pay for the crimes