As a Production Designer and Art Director, I have been responsible for the visual output of many TV shows (Dancing with the Stars, Celebrity Duets, The X-factor and many other programs), Drama series, music videos, short films, advertisements (Lloyds, Kipling, Samsung…), fashion photo shoots and film as well as food styling for print. I have also worked on freelance stage design for theatre.
I have moved to the UK in 2017 and worked as a Producer, Quality Controller and Translator on a Travel show for almost two years.
My duties ranged from preproduction (research for content and locations of filming abroad, aiding in prep when it comes to the permits and paperwork needed, liaising with the tour guides before, during and after the shoots) to post production (quality control in the form of directing the editor with the rushes in order to obtain the best creative outcome every week, editing the work myself sometimes, translating into different languages (English, French and Arabic) and managing the social media platforms).
I am currently freelancing as a Production designer (clients include Lloyds Bank, Starling Bank, Vodafone, Nuffield health), theatre stage manager as well as assistant producer on many TVCs.
Some of my design work can be seen on the following pages
https://www.behance.net/thealiakel
https://aliakel.wordpress.com/
Many Thanks for taking the time to go through this and look forwards to hearing back from you.
Best
Projects
- Production Design- Breadcrumbs to Tokyo filmProduction Design - "Breadcrumbs to Tokyo" Film Creation and execution of the art direction for the film that deals with a patient battling dementia and remembering specific episodes of her life - most notably the amount of fun she used to have in the Japanese casinos playing in the famous "Pachinko parlours". the most challenging thing in this film but equally as rewarding was to create this parlour and source the actual machine (the frames housing these machines were built on location) and the
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Work history
Freelance Art director
London, United KingdomFreelance
As a Production Designer and Art Director, I have been responsible for the visual output of many TV shows (Dancing with the Stars, Celebrity Duets, The X-factor and many other programs), Drama series, music videos, short films, advertisements (Lloyds, Kipling, Samsung…), fashion photo shoots and film as well as food styling for print. I have also worked on freelance stage design for theatre.
I am currently freelancing as a Production designer (clients include Lloyds Bank, Starling Bank, Vodafone, Nuffield health), theatre stage manager as well as assistant producer on many TVCs.
Some of my design work can be seen on the following pages
https://www.behance.net/thealiakel
https://aliakel.wordpress.com/
Skills
- Set Deisgn
- Set Decoration
- Production Design
- Art Diection
- Visual Art
- Art Department
- Television Production
- Art Film
- Set/production Design
- Food Styling
Education
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Bachelor of Arts (BA) American University of Beirut -AUB
- Beirut, Lebanon