About me
I am an experienced, enthusiastic, organised, and creative individual. I currently work with Prime Focus Technologies to ensure that Channel 4 content is suitable and safe to be broadcasted on Channel 4's range of channels, utilising my organisational skills and tools such as sticky notes to work efficiently and reliably on multiple tasks simultaneously.
I have worked on two of my own YouTube channels, which have amassed close to million views and close to thousand subscribers between them. I created these videos from scratch, from the creative writing and planning phase through editing in Premiere Pro, to delivery. I used YouTube Analytics to drive my decision making, for example to analyse my demographics, click through rate, and other statistics to see who I should target my videos at and how I should do so. I have also created videos for platforms such as YouTube Shorts and Instagram. I created thumbnails for these YouTube videos in Adobe Photoshop.
I also re-versioned many true crime videos from some of YouTube's largest true crime creators to be platformed on Facebook, I obtained this work from a company named Jellysmack. This involved me shortening YouTube videos down to under 10 minutes, from original videos that were sometimes over an hour in length, and also adding effects, transitions and text to improve a viewer's engagement with them. To shorten these videos, I identified good moments from the videos and strung them together in a way that maintained the flow of the video and kept them engaging and suited to its target audience. I completed this work fully remotely, using Premiere Pro, which required me to be self-motivated, highly organised, and comfortable at working to deadlines, all without someone present in the room to push me. I was paid per project for my work at Jellysmack, so I gained the skills to deliver content at scale, while maintaining a high level of quality and responding quickly and effectively to feedback given on the videos from the team leaders. I also had access to analytics on Jellysmack's videos and used this data to improve future videos and continue to hit performance targets, while also hitting volume targets required by the organisation.
I have a love for new technologies and highly enjoy getting to try new tech out and experiment with it. I am also highly active in the Virtual Reality space, with me running a mindfulness group in VRChat, consisting of over 700 members on Discord and over 500 on the VRChat group. Through sharing circles, this group allows individuals to share experiences and thoughts to a welcoming group. This group has helped many of these individuals become more open about their emotions and connect with others. I previously recorded two short films completely in VR Chat, for which I planned and storyboarded the shoots, direct actors, and edited and colour graded the footage. I also commissioned music for one of them.
I greatly enjoyed working on and completing the Google Data Analysis course on Coursera, and thrived under the pressure of sticking to deadlines given to us by INCO Academy, the organisation that funded the course for us. During this course we learned and practiced BigQuery, SQL, Tableau, R and Microsoft Excel. This has given me the skills to further analyse performance data from content I work on and further understand how to create and read data, no matter what in what form this data is presented.
Collaboration has been a large part of my career from my years of education right through to the current day. I was very quick at learning the Unreal Engine, which was needed for my role in creating a short film as part of the course. As a result, even though I was working on colour grading and with the Virtual Art Department predominantly, I also assisted many others in their roles. I helped the VAD, worked on the storyboard, and made last minute alterations to environments, while also helping with tech issues on the shoot day.
After completing this course, I assisted the Academy of Live Technology with the marketing of a Virtual Production Taster Day event, including working out strategies to reach out with people who would potentially be interested in this event and cold calling and emailing. Throughout the fast-paced event, I communicated with and assisted these diverse range of individuals with any problems they encountered. The response from this event was highly positive and some individuals went on to apply for further Academy of Live Technologies courses. This experience, as well as previously mentioned experiences, made me comfortable in having discussions with various individuals from various positions, including stakeholders, organisers, and participants. I am a highly patient individual and will take the time to listen to differing viewpoints and work together with others to come to a conclusion that is beneficial to everyone involved.
Skills
Content, Editing, Post Production
Sector Experience
Animation, Arts, Cinema, Data Services, Film (Short / Documentary), Social Network / Community, Television