Comedy Master Class: Dan Harmon, Creator of Community 

"Okay, Phil. We got a very important master class video that needs cuts and editing. We expect it to inspire thousands with his words of genuine creativity." "Anything special you want me to do with it?" "Just make sure to lower the master volume and pan EVERYTHING left."

You came here for a Comedy Master Class and you left thinking about the importance of good editing.

I love the content and insight from Dan, but the technical issues really bring me down on this. How does a world media festival publish a video with audio only working on one mono channel, with editing and camera work that cuts away from the relevant subject?

He is fantastic, he knows the business and were it is going. He is a writer, you can see it in how he is on stage. I feel I learned a lot from.

God damn would it have been perfect if instead of the generic suit guy, he had a picture of Jeff Davis instead.

"Cultural revolution and progress always follow the laughter, never the scowls." Wow, that was deep

9:30 me: I wonder if we can see that girl closer cameraperson: yes

Great audio! Great Editing!

At around 9:50 the camera becomes fixated upon the girl for a while.

Awesome stuff! Dan Harmon is fantastic.

Mono audio? Why only coming through the left headphone?

just in case this might help someone watch this video windows key -> type "settings" -> press enter press "ease of access" press "Audio" on the left menu Turn on mono audio Remember to turn it back off after you've watched the video

Who edited this footage, it's awful. Great workshop, but they cut away from a bunch of stuff you want to see.

"Yeah? Eh.. Alright" Is exactly how I'd respond onstage to praise by a peer.

oh jeez this is such a good talk

The girl interviewing him was his girlfriend at the time who he married that year and then divorced the year after

I wish we could actually see the slides as well. But nonetheless, fantastic speech. Good on the guy for being funny. Edit: oh wait, never mind, we do end up seeing the slides. i spoke prematurely.

Man, parts of this talk really land differently listening in 2019, now that we know what we know about Mr Ed.

maybe someone should take a Master Class on video editing

Dan Harmon was successfully Incepted! "Elephants" (if I remember correctly) was exactly the same example JGL character uses to define "Inception" to Saito at the beginning of Inception...if memory serves. And Yes, pun intended.

I’ve been living less than a hour away from this festival wtf!

I literally thought that something happened to my right earphone but tyen the commment section saved me

You know, it's weird, sometimes answers come to you in the strangest form... thank you for touching on so many topics I am handling as a creative person.

9:07 - Dude, chill.

I wonder if the guy who edited this video cared about his work

Great interview questions!

I Love this man. Let Community last longer than f.r.i.e.n.d.s

Whats with the creepy camera man from 9:05-10:05?

Love Dan awkwardly denying that handshake at the beginning.

your earphones are fine

I saw someone taking notes.

I can't help but hang off of every word that he says; Im not hooked on community or rick and morty, but i seemed to be hooked on this character known as Dan Harmon himself.

What is the title of the Syd Fields book he's talking about?

Audio is in Mono (left speaker) :(

For a media festival this audio is pretty bad.

almost great job filming this, don't give up

Great stuff. The camera work at the start is a bit ... well... :P

The shoddy camera is all part of the bit, it's pretty funny when he/she/it is checkin out that girl.... COMEDYYYY!

8:59 Darn Harmon; genius. =]

9:45 I'm willing to bet the camera operator and director/board operator are talking about the girl in the middle of the frame. What other explanation can there be for such a long moment spent on some random in the crowd while the keynote speaker is in the middle of a joke that clearly has a visual component to it.

Can someone tell me the name of the book he's talking about at 18:33 ? It's not my native language

why is my life a tragedy? who stole all my stuff before I was born? im obsessed with harmon, louis ck, tarantino and jordan peele

9:40 is s creepy, the camera just gets locked onto to her for like 5 minutes 😂

The Camera Work is ironically comical!

I just don't understand dislikes anymore

Anyone else getting Slavoj Žižek vibes?

The sound is SOOO low!!

Community needs a Die Hard episode!

Moderator: Alright, now let’s open it up to questions. First Question: Okay. So, your show’s cancelled now......... Me: Great start.

On cell: mono audio in accessibility menu.

why is this sooooo quiet? volume at 100% and it's sooooo quiet.

VOLUME CHECK! WHY YOU NO FIX AUDIO?

That Rosanne and Cosby references at 13:20 didn't aged well

My left ear loved this.

Obligatory "my left ear enjoyed this" comment

When the camer doesnt show anything, make sure your audio is not in left channel only pls.

Are my headphones broken? Two tracks of audio bro.

Was the person manning the camera even looking at what they were shooting?

I have the exact sweater he's wearing in this. This isn't important. But It's interesting to me.

The sound seems to be inactive.

9:34 why is he zooming in on that girl lmao

My right ear is feeling so lonely right now… :(

The Banff World MEDIA Festival really skimped on the cam ops, TD, and audio, huh?

Im afraid only the left side of my brain is learning comedy

That guy was great! Every thing he said was damn harmonizing with me...what was his name?

my left ear enjoys the audio

It's kinda scarry wheren there's no Rick around to keep Bird Person lecturing at bay.

I love that you had 50% women on your staff

Is the PowerPoint dlc?

it has no sound or is just me?

He's the first person I've ever seen wearing a Wolverine t-shirt. Fucking legend.

I got to the first 11 minutes when I remembered just how fucking amazing a character the Joker is.

"Saw game premise material" I wrote this awhile ago and found it jigsaw instead shows his captured victims him doing stand up on stage, and he would start with something like I want to tell a joke...I was in my wheelchair and my wife was next to me some asshole ran into the building while we were leaving and slammed the door into her pregnant self causing a miscarriage *stares into camera intensely* you have 60 seconds. victims are freaking out trying to break out and are mostly like wtf was that do you know him I don't even think he's on Netflix why did we watch that we have to break out. this happens over and over with jigsaw doing more sets of open mics and the only people that survive are the ones who laugh. they have a mechanism attached to their diaphram chained their limbs to the walls and if the machine detects laughter from shaking and has to hear the sound of it they will be let go and become jigsaw's opener

I feel Dan on Syd Field. It's an intensely badly written book, but at least it's something that gets you somewhere.

Fix the audio!

9:18 when they leave the camera on the audience for a bit for no reason

Funny watching this now that Rick & Morty has achieved legendary status

@16:40 why is she being a control freak?

Does Dan ever wear laces in his shoes?

11:35

What kind of master class deserves left channel only?

amazing presentation that is interesting to many more people than those that are looking for a career in comedy. however it seems like everyone who was part of the production of this video (except harmon ofc) needs to get a fucking clue lol... what the fuck is up with the camera work??? why the fuck is the audio only on one mono channel??? i mean the Banff is not exactly a small organization XD

You know what whould be funny? To blindfold an editor! :)

You can totally tell all the straight-faced people in the room are 'suits.'

Is it a frying voice contest?

The mic was on his left side. Blame Dan.

*a person who lives just west of Banff* umm...yeah...

Diversity requires more effort on the part of leadership which is why buy in at the top is so important. You want a diverse writers room then you need to work harder to get it. Period. That's how the system is currently setup.

You could tell he has no confidence Rick and morty will succeed

Pick a side. That was a wake up call.

who else is madly in love with Erin?

This was clearly made before Mr. Ed's sexual misconduct allegations.

Was the cameraman coked out?

This guy does a lot of self-praising events from his Harmontown doc to these type of things.

if youre wondering why its not perfectly curated to your viewing needs thats because we are lucky they even filmed it. this wasnt for us it was for a very serious and ambitious group of professionals.

For those of you who are extremely annoyed by the audio, if you download the video onto your computer and drop the audio into an audio editing program, all you have to do is convert the audio from stereo to mono and it will fix it. Enjoy!

Ya'll done goofed and fucked up the audio, how even, I dunno, but it's annoying. Thanks for the upload despite that :)

someone needs an master class in interlacing video

Weird, how many commenters seem to have never seen a taped conference talk. What moron is running around telling people RU-vid is a place for studio quality cinematic presentation? The sound sucks and the edit is rough. You'll survive. We'll get through this tragedy together.

What the hell weird-ass manipulative, controlling move was that at 00:16:37 ?