Experience

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  The Finishing Suite

  • Founder & Finishing Artist

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  The Finishing Suite

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Founder & Finishing Artist

    • 2016 - Present
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    • Founded The Finishing Suite, a boutique post-production facility in Ponsonby, Auckland• Motion picture colour-grading and finishing delivered to distributors and networks in Aotearoa and around the world• Invisible 2D VFX• Image restoration• Beauty and digital make-up• Title design• End credits• Mastering• DCP Authoring and theatrical QC• Subjective Broadcast QC checks• LTO8 data backup

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  Hybrid Motion Pictures

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Company Director / Producer

    • 2009 - Present
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    • Co-founded Hybrid Motion Pictures, a filmmaking collective.• Produced and self-distributed feature film Jake, released theatrically around New Zealand in June 2014. "★★★★ Imaginative and endlessly witty." - Sunday Star-Times "★★★★ The smartest bit of low-fi high-IQ science fiction New Zealand has produced." - The Listener • Jake nominated for 3 New Zealand Film Awards in 2014• Managed crews from as small as 2 to 30+.• Produced, directed and shot short films, music videos and web virals.• Focused on creating big production values from limited budgets and resources.• Produced, directed and shot corporate internal communications videos for commercial clients.• Effectively used social media platforms to build and engage audiences. • 2013 short film Paralysis picked as a favourite by Sir Peter Jackson.

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  Freelance

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Online Editor, Colourist, Finishing Artist, Post-Production Supervisor

    • Jun 2014 - 2016
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    • Available for freelance online editing, colour grading and motion picture finishing.• Offline editing.• Post-Production supervising for any project.

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  Country TV

  • General Manager of Production

    • Feb 2014 - Jun 2014

    • Oversaw all in-house production for the channel.• Managed a small staff of camera operator, editor and motion-graphic artist. • Quickly, within just a few months, substantially lifted the standard of the channel's content.• Wrote and implemented a technical standards for delivery document.• Completely overhauled the daily news and weather studio show from SD to HD.• Developed Studio to Skype interview method for regular interviews with remote rural talent.• Implemented sponsorship and contra deals into on-air campaigns.

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  Images & Sound

  • Online Editor

    • 2007 - Feb 2014

    • Highly client service focused.• Operated both Avid Media Composer and Autodesk Smoke to online feature films, TV shows, TVCs and short films.• Onlined hundreds of hours of prime-time TV drama including Outrageous Fortune, Power Rangers, Go Girls, The Almighty Johnsons and Nothing Trivial. • Also doco shows This Town, NZ Story, North, South, Intrepid Journeys, Off The Radar, Radar’s Patch, Global Radar, Ice, Keep Calm And Carry On and Working Holiday.• Built strong working client relationships with a wide range of producers including South Pacific Pictures, Jam TV, Greenstone and various commercial agencies. • Worked with majority of High Definition formats including 4K and stereoscopic 3D.• Mastered content for broadcast, web and cinema releases.• Cut TVC campaigns for major international brands.• Developed and implemented internal company intranet using Silverstripe CMS.

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  Gibson Group

  • Freelance Online Editor & Colourist

    • 2006 - 2006

    • Worked for various production companies and facilities around Wellington, mainly online editing and colour grading at The Gibson Group using Avid DS Nitris.• Broadcast content included drama series The Hothouse, doco series Here To Stay, art focussed magazine series Frontseat and the documentary telefeature Flight of the Conchords: A Texas Odyssey. • Non-broadcast content ranged from museum installations to educational DVD resources.

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  Eyeworks

  • Online Editor

    • 2004 - 2006

    • Used Avid Media Composer to ensure prime-time reality TV shows met international broadcast standards for delivery to networks in New Zealand, Europe and the USA.• Learned to colour-correct in an extremely fast-turnaround environment.• Formats included Treasure Island, Shock Treatment, My House My Castle, DIY Rescue, Hot Property, and plenty of others.

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  Weta Digital

  • Production Assistant

    • 2000 - 2001

    • Sourced and managed reference material and on-set data for VFX artists during pre-production and production of The Lord Of The Rings trilogy.• Shot and logged DV reference footage of Motion Capture and ADR sessions with A-list talent.• Assisted visual effects cinematographer Brian Van't Hul shooting pick-up plates.• Used Adobe Photoshop to compile environment tiles shot by Three Foot Six film units for CGI cyclorama building reference.