Alexander Newman
Creative Producer at Short Order Production House- Claim this Profile
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Bio
Credentials
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Photography, Bachelor of Fine Arts
San Francisco Art InstituteDec, 2017- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Short Order Production House
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United States
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Creative Producer
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Apr 2019 - Present
Directing and Producing commercial spots, documentary-style projects, award-winning Podcasts, animations, educational series, photoshoots, social media campaigns, and other video projects for clients of all stripes – from non-profit organizations to large corporations and more.Developing creative ideas, and writing pitches, bids, and project proposals to present to clients. Budgeting projects, casting/hiring talent, hiring freelancers and crew members. Negotiating contracts with all, and maintaining an awareness of rates and usage fees as they impact project budgets. Being the main point of contact for clients, while managing multiple projects in different stages of production. Meeting deadlines in a fast-paced environment, while maintaining a high level of project organization.Executing creative development, script writing, research, and storyboarding. Collaborating with everyone from visual effects artists to scriptwriters, and more to ensure stories are authentic, impactful, and insightful. Executing initial story edits and assistant edits in post-production. Interviewing people from a wide range of backgrounds, for documentary projects, Podcasts, and other pieces.Managing teams of freelancers, during production and post-production. Coordinating with clients, talent, location, and crew, as the main point of contact for everyone throughout production, to bring creative ideas from development to the final cut. Leading internal marketing projects for the company, including the push to launch the new Short Order Production House website. I worked with web developers and artists to create new visual elements and branding, wrote updated copy for new products, and used a CMS to organize content.
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Photographer
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Oct 2013 - Present
In Rapture is an artistic collaboration composed of two siblings. Dr. Rachel Grace Newman, the creative director, is a graduate of Stanford University with a PhD in Art History who is currently a research fellow at the National Gallery of Art. Alexander Newman, the photographer, is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute with a B.F.A. in Photography. In Rapture, so named for the rapture with which we hold our ancestors who came before us, explores history and identity through large-scale styled portraits, narrative photography, and video projection. Our work seeks to access the ancestral world and repair ruptures to our ancestral lines caused by the interwoven histories of colonialism and capitalism. We examine ancestral connections to geographic sites in a world impacted by the forced and voluntary migrations that took place under colonialism. An important part of our project is to create a photographic portraiture of people of color that avoids visual strategies which partake in the histories of visual violence deeply intertwined in the history of photography, specifically its role in maintaining colonial modes of power. These modes, which center on the body, reify race as a biological or scientific reality thus erasing the complexities of a lived existence. Our work ties together the process of reconciling our ancestral history with the present moment, the marshalling of religious imagery and images of divinity from classical painting, and the creation of a space that is simultaneously real and otherworldly.
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LaVelle Productions
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United States
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Movies, Videos, and Sound
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1 - 100 Employee
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Photographer and Production Assistant
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Sep 2018 - Apr 2019
Responsibilities and Accomplishments• Editing and shooting behind the scenes and on-set still photographs.• Assisting with the setup of lighting and equipment for both in studio and on location shoots.• Researching and digitally restoring archival photographs for company projects, and maintaining an organized file structure for archival images.• Creating and curating social media content.• Responsible for photographic coverage of company related events, such as the 2018 Blingo to Cure Duchenne charity event, and the 2019 Hardwood Legends Dinner.• Shooting and editing product photographs for photography and video equipment, to be rented when not in use at the studio.• Assisting with large scale digital printing of photographs.
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San Francisco Art Institute
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United States
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Higher Education
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1 - 100 Employee
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Library Circulation Assistant and Archival Assistant
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Sep 2016 - Dec 2017
I assisted professors and students in acquiring books, exhibition catalogs, archival records, films and other library resources upon request.I digitized, edited and archived historic photographic negatives and slides dating back to the early 1900’s to add to the digital archives.I organized and cataloged books and exhibition catalogs in the library collection.I archived audio and video from lectures at SFAI to add to the library database.
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Archival Assistant and Guest Curator
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Jan 2017 - Sep 2017
I assisted in the task of reorganizing the archive of all artist exhibitions ever to have occurred at SFAI. This task required both rehousing content to appropriate standards, and noting contents within online data spreadsheets in preparation for the eventual digitization of the archive.I scanned in historic film negatives and digitally enhanced them for purposes of reprinting, as well as for their eventual addition to the digitized archive.I curated a show “Eighty Years of Visual History: A Collection of Photography Exhibitions from the Archives of SFAI” which involved selecting archival materials for display, including contextual information for all materials pulled, and installing and deinstalling the photographs and other archival documents displayed. The show ran from August 28th, 2017 to September 11th, 2017.Interfaced with visitors to the Atholl Mc. Bean Gallery at SFAI to provide contextual information about the ongoing archival exhibition, "Ghosts of the Tower".
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Gallery Docent
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Jun 2016 - Aug 2016
I provided an important resource to visitors at Pier 24, through answering their questions, and engaging in discussion about the photographic works on display. There is no wall text present in the space, so gallery docents provide much of the contextual information about the artists and their work.I assisted at the front desk checking in visitor belongings and reviewing gallery procedures and gallery guides with them. This was a volunteer position. I provided an important resource to visitors at Pier 24, through answering their questions, and engaging in discussion about the photographic works on display. There is no wall text present in the space, so gallery docents provide much of the contextual information about the artists and their work.I assisted at the front desk checking in visitor belongings and reviewing gallery procedures and gallery guides with them. This was a volunteer position.
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Education
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2015 - 2017
San Francisco Art Institute
Bachelor of Fine Arts - BFA, Photography
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