Experience

• Producing small and large projects, coordinating with talent, crew, business owners and subjects. Often involves developing a schedule, a script, and a shot and equipment list, procuring supplies and contacting any third parties whose permission may be required for a shoot.
• Directing both hosts and subjects.
• Interviewing subjects.
• Videography, includes shooting in various environments like boats and from moving vehicles. Can also involves the use of various camera tools like drones, slider dollies, and cranes.
• Lighting for interviews and lighting products and food.
• Sound Engineering, selecting microphones, affixing them to subjects and tuning them for the best results. Monitoring audio capture to ensure all is running as it should.
• Editing video, from 30-second commercials to near feature-length natural attraction spotlight videos and many formats in between (like 30-minute television shows and smaller bite-sized web videos).
• Video post processing, specifically color correction / balancing and color grading.
• Motion graphics; using Apple Motion and Adobe After Effects to develop visual effects as well as text overlays (like lower thirds).
• Video technical expertise, understanding media management, codecs, and troubleshooting hardware, software, and camera gear. Also building and maintaining desktop RAID configurations.
• Sound design & mixing: Mixing multiple audio channels, sweetening the mix with sound effects, maintaining an effects library, and equalizing the SFX, music, and voice together in a pleasing balance.
  Captioning videos, both hard and soft.
• Programming and maintaining a television media server and auditing the server via an XML output and spreadsheets.
• Sales and marketing, maintaining client contact, addressing client needs and creating marketing materials.