Television Producer Director
Overton, United Kingdom
I've been freelance for 3 years now, working as a TV Producer/Director in different Creative Services departments. Have also been doing more writing. Well versed in productiion techniques and knowledge of Branding, Marketing, Advertising. Freelance 2008 - Clients include: BBC Worldwide; Discovery; CNN (shoots in Paris & Copenhagen); Five USA; ChelloZone; Five; PHD; Turner (Cartoon Network, Cartoonito and Boomerang); Reed & Mackay; NBC Universal; Sci Fi; 13thStreet; ETV: Warner TV; Ripley’s Believe It or Not; Fox; UKTV (Dave, Good Food, Alibi); Equals3. Work involved: copywriting; promos; shortform interstitials; cameraman (National Film Awards; Royal Philharmonic; music videos); interviewing CEOs and Government Ministers; webdrives; competition spots and microsites (for secondary clients including BT Vision, Virgin, Mattel, Lego, Lucas Films); ...continuity scripts; web videos;
marketing/sales tapes. Five 1996 • 2008 Senior Producer, Creative Services • Developed promos, idents, menus,
sales... tapes, marketing tapes, barker tapes and leaving tapes (which are the hardest to do!); programme stings; slides; title sequences; channel packaging; copywriting; online content; scripts; developing channel brand; VO direction; continuity; commissioning music; producing graphics; directing shoots (digi, HD, 16mm, 35mm); telecine. All to brief and deadline. With a smile. Central ITV 1996 Six months as a freelance promo-maker Orbit, Rome 1994 • 1996 Helped launch the World’s first, fully digital, radio and television satellite network. Everything from scheduling, programming, barker tapes, studio directing, scripts, continuity, shoots and promos MTV 1992 • 1993 Transmission Controller, mixing the hits with videos and live shows. Sky 1989 • 1991 Joined before launch as Transmission Director working across the, then, 5 channels on the UK’s first satellite network. Education University of Stirling 1983 - 1987 BA Hons, Film & Media Studies; 2:1 (Included a year at University of California, Berkeley) Extras: • Consultant, "Russell Brand On The Road" TX BBC4 Dec 2007 • Director, "Avalon - a Field in Glastonbury" TX C4 Mar 2000 (released on DVD 2007) • Cameraman on various projects, including: Paul McCartney; Pete Townshend; Yoko Ono. • Film Credits: • “Glastonbury” directed Julian Temple • “MC5 • A True Testimonial” directed David C. Thomas • “A Technicolor Dream” directed by Stephen Gammond • Director, “The Real McCoy”, short film winner for Cutty Sark Whisky. Other technical skills include: Editing (Avid/FCP/Quantel) ; DV/Super8 cameras; Photography Skills: Blogging
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