Employment History
2010 Director/Producer & Freelance FCP Editor T/A A2Bpostproduction
Clients - The Co-operative|Arts Council Wales|British Institute of Learning Disabilities|Heartbeat Travel Guides|ORCi Ltd|Motor Racing Live|Centre for Alternative Technology, National Sound & Screen Archive Wales, University of Wales, Aberystwyth|
2009 Senior Editor/Videographer: Fast Forward Video Productions/Repairer TV
Shoot (XDCAM HD), edit, produce promotional videos for corporate clients and content for specialist IP TV channel. Key responsibilities: Management of post-production workflow, Final Cut system setup, training junior staff, motion graphics and DVD design, encoding, uploading and editing CMS for web channels.
2009 Director/Producer: Web promos for Motor Racing Live Ltd. Self-shot/edited promos for stunt school and stock car racing corporate experience days for use on Red Letter Days and multiple websites.
2009 Editor/tutor: Theatre, Film, Television Studies Dept, Aberystwyth University
Working with MA students to edit the Department's first HD documentary project shot on Panasonic HVX171.
Also Edit Assistant (Archive) for Power and Place documentary commissioned by Centre for Alternative Technology, dir: John Burgan.
2009 Post-production, ob-docs, BBC Wales PS Website.
Short ob-docs of young people across Wales for problem share site. Producer/Director Sara Penrhyn Jones.
2008 Editor: Tunnel 2K VNR, Silverspoon Films.
Web video news release of the Tunnel 2K wheel chair race promoting the sponsor. Key responsibilities: Edit, motion graphics and web conversion.
2008 Editor: The Making Of Dream Girl, cuts for Film15 (DVD) and British Council Website.
Documentary funded by British Council/Wales Arts International. Key responsibilities: Edit, motion graphics and DVD/web conversion.
2008 Editor, Dream Girl, Film15
Short funded by the Welsh Broadcasting Trust/Film Agency for Wales/Pete Saunders Trust. Key Responsibilities: Final cut system setup, film edit and audio mix.
2008 Offline Editor, Ancient Discoveries, Wild Dream Films for A&E US, The History Channel
13x60' prime time programmes. A series that uses dramatic tests and reconstructions to make genuine discoveries about the ancient world. Exciting, cinematic and with ground-breaking CGI.
Credits - Death Weapons Of The East, Lost Science Of The Bible, Ancient Torture Techniques.
TX: September 2008 (History Channel US), UK April 2009 .Key responsibilities: Floating editor on series, setting up FCP projects from SAN (MetaSAN) and offline parts of programmes.
2007 Offline (Series) Editor, In Search of Timbuktu, Nick Sanders Films for ITV, Men & Motors 6x30' prime time programmes. Nick Sanders presents a series of programmes documenting two very different, but equally strenuous, motorcycle treks across Africa TX: August 2007. Key responsibilities: Ingest/media managemet, offline edit all programmes for series, including music, motion graphics, stings, bumpers.
2006/2007 Offline (Series) Editor, Biker Britain, Nick Sanders Films for ITV, Men & Motors
10x30' prime time programmes. Nick Sanders presents the series exploring the nation's fascination with motorcycling. Along the way Nick runs into racers, bike builders, adventurers and rides the Wall of Death! Includes reviews and interviews with Valentino Rossi and Hairy Biker Dave Myers.
TX: September 2007. Key responsibilities: Ingest/media managemet, offline edit all programmes for series, including music, motion graphics, stings, bumpers.
2005/2006 Production Assistant, Film15 Ltd.
Training young people (14-24 year olds) in script development, camera skills and editing (Adobe Premiere) for a variety of film-making projects in Mid-Wales. Delivering workshops and hands on training. Production of video shorts for young peoples film festivals.
OTHER RELEVANT EXPERIENCE:
1998 A/V Assistant Techinician, Sir John Cass Dept of Art, London Guildhall University
1997 Editor, Down The Dogs (BBC Talent 2000 winner) *, London Guildhall University for BBC2 Talent 2000 Competition Documentary on Wimbledom Greyhound Stadium/Racing, part of 1x60' compilation programme.TX: 30th October 1997, BBC2 Learning Zone.*Edited as an undergraduate and selected by BBC Talent.