Work history
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Camerawork and Lighting LecturerCity Varsity, Cape Town, South Africa
- Cape Town, South AfricaFull Time
As one of a team of lecturers, we each taught a different discipline of film and television production on a three year course for a diploma qualification. Each your group consisted of between 20 and 30 students mostly around 18 or 19 years of age. My main tasks and responsibilities consisted of the following:
Responsibilities:
Deliver lessons in cinematography theory and host workshops.
Develop and update course content.
Research, plan and prepare lessons.
Provide general administration support to staff and students.
Setting, moderating and marking of assessments.
Implementation and remediation of student work readiness programs.
Student guidance and mentorship.
Skills:
Cinematography theory and practise.
Slide preparation and lesson planning.
Public speaking and presentation.
Student counselling and career guidance.
Administration, scheduling and organisation.
Microsoft office.
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Video EditorCardova Production
- Cape Town, South AfricaFull Time
As an editor I was responsible for cutting an assortment of different content for the television program Expresso on SABC3. This ranged from editorials to pre records to promo videos. Close collaboration with producers, directors, voice over artists and final online and mix was a crucial part of the process of completing edits to ensure the standard was kept in line with the shows high quality. As I had skills with a camera as well, my other main responsibility was to work with the chef to shoot recipe recap videos for the food recipes cooked during the live show.
Responsibilities:
Work closely with segment producers, directors and the show producer during the editing process.
Construct informative and entertaining inserts using collected imagery and audio.
Produce polished offline edits in very short turn around times.
Incorporate voice over to create inspiring stories.
Cut together promotional content.
Deliver offline edits to sound mix and online for broadcast.
Shoot and edit food recipe recaps for the live show.
Skills:
Final Cut Pro 7, FCP10, Premier Pro
Colour Grading
After Effects.
Voice over scripting.
Skills
- Video
- Photography
- Directing
- Producing
- Video Editing
- Motion Graphics
Education
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Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television Production, Cinematography and Video ProductionSAE Institute Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
The degree course lasted three years and covered all aspects of production including concept and pitching, pre production, shooting, editing and VFX. We worked on a range of assignments including TV pilots, short films, commercials and documentaries. We were lucky enough to receive guest lectures from a number of reputable industry professionals.