About Craig

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    I am a conscientious worker who has a strong passion for editing. In the short time I have been in the industry I have worked at two highly reputable companies ITV and Evolutions and have worked my way up at ITV starting as a client services runner progressing to a technical runner and from May 2011 have been working as an edit assistant at this busy post facility.

    Whilst in this role I have enhanced my knowledge and have gained excellent technical skills.

    I am able to work with both tape and tapeless media and I am fully competent at conforming from a variety of formats. I have gained strong troubleshooting skills and am extremely committed to any task set, working well under pressure. I am a strong team player and am able to demonstrate excellent organisational skills and multi task when required.

    Whilst working at ITV I have been able to further my knowledge within the post production process and I am completely dedicated to gaining even more experience within this area with a view to attaining my ultimate goal of becoming a skilled editor.
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    Employment History

    May 11 - Current: The London Studios (ITV)
    Edit Assistant
    • Ingesting rushes from tape and tapeless media.
    • Conforming both tape, tapeless and relinking studio based shows.
    • Playouts onto a variety of mediums.
    • Creating AAF's and files for the sound department
    • Avid troubleshooting.
    • Prepare files for digital delivery via a variety of online web servers.
    • Working with a wide variety of formats.
    • Setting up suites ready for clients and patching decks to suites.


    Nov 10 - May 11: The London Studios (ITV)
    Technical Runner
    • Manage the tape library for ongoing projects.
    • Assist in the running of the machine room including digitising, creating aafs, digicuts and playouts.
    • Acting as a liaison between clients and assistants.
    • Labelling tapes and creating record reports for Masters.
    • Keeping tape stock up to date.
    • Stripping tapes
    • Setting edit suites up in the morning for clients.

    June 10 - Current: The London Studios (ITV)
    Client Services Runner
    • Ensure client's needs are catered for by offering a full client service.
    • Acted as a messenger between edit suites and the machine room.
    • Working as a member of a team to ensure that adequate stocks beverages and food are in plentiful supply.
    • Filing work orders and staff rosters.

    Sep 09 - June 10: Evolutions
    Client Services Runner
    • Ensuring the smooth running of the building is kept "best for clients".
    • Acted as a messenger to edit suites, machine room and library services.
    • Covered reception and had experience booking in and out tapes and dvds.
    •Learnt more about general VT services and duplications.
    •Assisted MCR operator's in creating clones, dubs etc...


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    Education

    2006 - 2009 York St John University
    2:1 B.A (Hons) Film & Television Production.

    2004 - 2006 Sandringham School, St. Albans, Hertfordshire.
    A Levels: AVCE ICT: A, Photography: B, Media Studies: D.

    1999 - 2004 Sandringham School, St. Albans, Hertfordshire.
    10 GCSE's A to C including English and Maths.

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    Industry Qualifications

    Achieved a 2:1 BA Degree in Film and Tv Production.
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    Technical Equipment

    • Avid
    • Avid Isis
    • Cinegy
    • Final Cut Pro
    • Adobe Photoshop
    • Macromedia Dreamweaver
    • Mac Snow Leapord
    • Microsoft Word XP
    • Microsoft Excel XP
    • Microsoft Publisher XP
    • Microsoft PowerPoint XP
    • Adobe Photoshop







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    Referees

    Chris Swan
    Client Technical Manager
    The London Studios
    Upper Ground
    London
    SE1 9LT
    Email: chris.swan@itv.com
    Tel: 020 7157 5555

    Frixos Constantine                                        
    Managing Director                                         
    Poseidon Films                                               
    Hammer House                                              
    117 Wardour Street                                       
    London                                                        
    W1F 0UN                                                      
    Email: poseidon@poseidonfilms.com
    Tel: 020 7734 4441

    Chris Inwood
    Facilities Manager
    6-7 Great Pultney Street
    London
    W1F 9NA
    Tel: 02075803333

    David Hurworth
    Manager
    Jessops
    2 Piccadilly
    York
    North Yorkshire
    YO1 9NU
    Tel: 0845 458 7330

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    Skills

    - Excellent editing skills using Avid and a good working knowledge of Final Cut Pro.
    - Excellent knowledge of all major VT formats
    - Excellent Knowledge of tapeless formats.
    - Good client liaison skills
    - Liaison with production, facilities.
    - Preparing offline programs for online conform
    - Importing / exporting vision & audio files on both Mac & PC
    - Play out of sequences to Digibeta, HDCam SR/ DVD
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    Technical knowledge;
    Avid media composer, Final Cut Pro, Avid Unity, Cinegy

    For encoding:
    Sorenson, Streamclip, Content Agent

    Decks:
    HD, Digi Beta, XDcam,  and DVcam decks
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    Additional Information

    Industries

    • TV

    Licenses

    • Basic Driving (PLG)
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