Scott Witthaus
Creative Editorial | Post Production Services
Welcome to Witthaus Editorial, a creative editorial company. This website showcases my experience and work as a film and video editor and post-production supervisor. Specializing in commercial work and narrative storytelling, I bring a unique vision to every project, whether it's a commercial, documentary or video work for non-profits. The work below runs from the most recent work to non-profit work to a collection of commercial and marketing work from various points in my career. Hopefully, this site will be updated often. My contact info is at the top of the page, to the right. Let's make some great work together!
5-Hour Energy
Seriously, one is enough. This was a lot of fun as I got to edit this for students from my final cohort at the VCU Brandcenter.
Spotify
A fun spec spot for Spotify highlighting the fact that Spotify has a playlist for nearly everything.
The Inspiration Series
A series of short documentaries profiling the giants of the advertising industry. I have been lucky enough to edit four of these with a fifth one in the works. The series was created and produced by Rick Boyko, former Chief Creative Officer Ogilvy North America /former Director of the VCU Brandcenter in partnership with the ADVERTISING Club of New York / International ANDY Awards and the AICP.
The full series can be found here:
The Judge: Character. Cases. Courage
"The Judge: Character, Cases, Courage" is a full length documentary on Judge Robert Merhige, one of the nation's most influential judges in the 1960's through the 1980's. The full version can be found on Amazon Prime Video HERE.
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Non-Profit Work
No big budgets. Maybe just an iPhone. But I love doing this type of work. It's just a different level of satisfaction when helping real people and real causes.
Knott Alone - Hold Fast
Hold Fast is an organization that is helping our veterans and first responders deal with the issues they might bring home with them. I am incredibly honored to be a board member for Hold Fast. This video just came together on an oyster harvesting trip in the waters of the Chesapeake Bay using one iPhone.
holdfast.vet
James River Association
This was never supposed to be a "real" video. I was tasked with documenting the unveiling of a sculpture at the James River Association's downtown Richmond education center. But, I had a a couple of cameras and some wireless mics and suddenly a tribute video came together.
https://thejamesriver.org/
Coming soon -
Staunton Montessori School
Blue Ridge Children's Museum
From the wayback machine....
An Assortment of Other Work
Virginia Tourism
A fun little spot from a few years ago. And yes, Dave Matthews gave us permission to use this song.
A More Perfect Union
Probably the favorite spot of my career. The client called from LA, unhappy on how the edit was turning out. They sent me all the footage but no storyboards or current edit versions. "See if you can find something" was the request. When we sent our finished spot back to them, they were blown away saying "we had no idea that story was in the footage we shot".
Gotta love that.
Triumph Boats
How else would you test drive the world's toughest boat? I actually bought one of these boats after this campaign!
Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield
Anthem knows how to make things easy for you. No matter how weird you are.
Von Dutch Apparel
A somewhat strange spot for Von Dutch apparel from many years ago. It was deemed a bit too strange and never it made to air. But, what would you do?
Advanced Weapons Technology
One great thing about freelancing is that you never know what the next project will bring. AWT is a manufacturer of custom-made tactical, defense and competition weapons.
Advance Auto Parts
