Experience

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  freelance

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Motion Graphics Designer

    • Apr 2014 - Present
    • London, United Kingdom

    Providing motion graphics, animation and VFX for broadcast for a range of clients including Ogilvy, BBC, ITV and Financial Times.

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  BBC Television

  • Motion graphics artist

    • Jun 2012 - Apr 2014

    Working with BBC Factual Productions, within a small specialized team to create motion graphics to inject life, fun or drama, and to communicate clearly. Role required focus on maximising time within tight deadlines,and delivering effective results within budget. Primarily using After Effects and Creative Suite, jobs include titles, maps, text animations, 3D and compositing on a wide variety of programmes with a broad range of requirements.

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  BBC

  • Edit Assistant/Support

    • Jan 2008 - May 2012

    Short form video editing for BBC Factual web clips, supporting other short form edits through the edit process and training beginner editors in using Final Cut Pro on a XSAN based network. Maintaining and monitoring the facility, including system clean ups. Assisting new or less confident users with approachability and patience, to allow them to get the most out of their edit time. This role also allowed me to take on occasional After Effects graphics work to assist productions with last minute graphics needs.

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  The Farm Group, Clearcut, Eye TV, Lion TV etc

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Freelance Post-Production Support

    • Mar 2007 - Jan 2008
    • London, United Kingdom

    Worked for a broad range of top-end London post production houses to support edits, prep and log footage, conform offline to online edits, QC and playouts for broadcast masters, and multiclip editing in both Avid and FCP environments for broadcast. Worked with a range of teams and established a broad professional network, whilst accruing new business and managing bookings, invoicing and paperwork conscientiously.

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  BBC Television

  • Digital Technician

    • Nov 2006 - Mar 2007

    This role involved supporting a large edit facility with edit suite trouble-shooting, tape and tapeless ingest, media management, playouts and QC for broadcast, as well as some short form editing. Working in a Final Cut Pro/xSAN environment within a large team with fast turnaround requirements, and a high attention to detail at all times.