Summary

I have written, produced and edited over 75 independent film trailers. I have been a "hired gun" to help create pilot episodes for several reality and cooking shows, including "Down Home with the Neely's" for The Food Network (in its eighth season),

Credits

3/19 – 6/19

Editor 60 Minutes (Season 52)

CBS — TV — CBS4 News
3/19 – 6/19
6/17 – 8/17

Preditor CBS News Sunday Morning

CBS — TV — CBS4 News Details
6/17 – 8/17

• Edited news packages for CBS This Morning with Charlie Rose, Gayle King and Norah O’Donnell for daily news cycle. • Senior Story Editor for the Award-Winning News Magazine Program CBS Sunday Morning. • Worked collaboratively on headlining stories with Mo Rocca, Martha Teichner, Conor Knighton, and Jane Pauley.

9/15 – 8/17

Preditor

Staff Position — Amazon.com Details
9/15 – 8/17

• Hired as a founding production team member to ideate and iterate the launch of a daily video produced out of Amazon’s Studios in New York. • Pitched stories ideas to Executive Producers and followed them through conception to completion. • Produced, shot and edited original content for multiple digital media platforms including web, social, LiveStream and Amazon.com, including man-on-the-street interviews, tours, DIY, instructional how-to’s and sizzle reels.

1/14 – 3/14

Story Editor (Sportsdesk) The Olympic Games / Torino, Beijing, Vancouver, Sochi

NBC — TV — NBC Sports Details
1/14 – 3/14

• Worked on location in NBC News’ Sportsdesk Department, cutting daily stories related to the athletes and the events surrounding the Olympics Games.

3/12 – 6/12

Editor The 67th Annual Tony Awards

CBS — TV — White Cherry Entertainment
3/12 – 6/12
6/11 – 9/11

Creative Executive (Producer, Casting, Editor) SCRATCH (Pilot)

MTVU — TV — Stampede Productions Details
6/11 – 9/11

I competed in a competition for MTV to create a pilot series. The concept was a reality web series about creative types - artists, comics, models - who moved to NYC to pursue their dreams, following them as they audition - very live and very real.

3/08 – 12/10

Preditor (Writer and Editor)

Staff Position — Follow Productions Details
3/08 – 12/10

I worked closely with the two Executive Producers to create the pilot episode for this successful series. It was a brand new style of editing at the time: a cooking show featuring cutaways to their lives outside the kitchen. It was innovate for cooking shows at that time.

3/10 – 6/10

Editor The 65th Annual Tony Awards

CBS — TV — White Cherry Entertainment
3/10 – 6/10

Orgs

  • I am part of the Editor's Collective

Media

  • AprilWilson_Pre-editor_2015Reel

Recos

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Education

Class of '95

University of Oxford

attended/Medieval English History
Class of '95

Hendrix College

BA/English History

My Gear

  • Canon EOS 5D Mark III
  • AE
  • outlook
  • Instagram
  • Sony 4K HXR-NX5R
  • Zoom Box Audio Record
  • Avid Media Composer

Skills

  • Reality
  • AVID Media Composer
  • Editing
  • Broadcast Television
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Word
  • DVD Studio Pro
  • Adobe Creative Cloud
  • Adobe Photoshop
  • Adobe After Effects
  • Cable Television
  • Adobe InDesign
  • won 3 Emmys