Carlo De Santis

Lead content producer for ETOnline.com. My job is to assign out news stories to producers, proof read scripts and watch down final cuts for accuracy. In addition to those duties, I also created widely-shared videos using footage from the extensive Entertainment Tonight vault.

Conducting interviews with celebrity talent in various settings, balancing getting breaking news topics and helping them promote their latest projects. Conceptualizing games and in-studio segments. Writing segments for broadcast, making sure all must-mentions and promotional materials are included.

Kept a calendar of celebrity events. Shot b-roll and photographs on red carpets for stock footage library that the company was working on.

Conducted interviews with icons, survivors and sex symbols for People Icons specials, hired for West Coast field shoots from Conejo Valley to San Francisco, oversaw camera crews, directed shooters in the field, staged backgrounds for interview settings, ensured proper b-roll was being shot, sent footage across country overnight via FedEx for deadline, transferred footage from MicroSD to hard drive

Field producing segments on various news and entertainment related content including human interest and pop culture stories, managing and coordinating various shoot details for segments in multiple locations, procured custom props for multiple shoots, sending footage across country overnight via FedEx for deadline, transferred footage from MicroSD to hard drive

Produced and conducted red carpet interviews with A-list celebrities for news segments Coordinated media assets for the ET publicity department using Live-U technology for breaking news Wrote segments on news events using field tape as well as handout footage Sourced vault footage for the show's 30th anniversary segments

Wrote and scripts for segments that would be viewed in the morning meeting, oversaw edits until completion before they were mixed down and delivered, produced segments without the help of news desk, research or graphics

Researched details to write scripts for constantly changing details on a tight deadline, ordered graphics and ensuring all spellings were correct, sourced footage from AP and photos from Getty Images, checked social media for updates, sitting with the edit to oversee footage placement, conducting on the fly interviews with talking heads or MOS