Cathy Trope

Processing crew payroll on large production with 500+ crew members including adjustments, auditing previous payroll for errors, ensuring compliance with specific union rules and troubleshooting pay and start paperwork issues.

Assisted with payroll on large production with 500+ crew members including adjustments, auditing previous payroll for errors, ensuring compliance with specific union rules, and troubleshooting pay issues.

Handled SAG paperwork on set, coordinated transportation for talent, researched locations, casting, social media, fetched coffee and scrubbed fake blood off of windows...short film life!

Reduced crew due to COVID so I handled SAG paperwork, payroll paperwork, craft services, picking up meals, assisting the COVID officer with sanitizing surfaces, and ensuring locations were left clean at wrap.

Researched various types of media with regard to U.S. rodeos in the 1920s through 1940s and identified potentially usable pieces of historical footage.

Ran the audio playback off of Adobe Premiere for an actor who was responding to a "voice."

Downloaded, reviewed and catalogued clips of news footage, wrote news articles and legal documents for use on screen, transcribed news clips.

Tracking expenses, identifying opportunities to economize, sourcing catering, and general on-set support during production.

Prepared location agreements, crew and cast deal memos, vehicle use agreements, scouted and negotiated locations, general production support on set.

First A.D. plus assisted with continuity and setting props, obtained signatures on all releases, handled payments to cast and crew, and did still photography.

Responsible for completing all SAG paperwork, nondisclosure agreements, location agreements, W-9's, crew deal memos and releases, tracking petty cash, and completing expense reports.

Production Assistant, Still Photographer and Dogsitter ;-) Horror/Comedy Short

Script Supervisor/P.A. Picked up lunch and did supply runs in addition to being the script supervisor on a competition short that had to be completed in one day!

Ensuring guests arrive and check in as scheduled, advising producer of status, and set up/break down of stage and furniture for talk show.

Set dressing and setting props. Also, additional casting.

Legal research and took photographs of several crime scene locations.

Small production so also served as 2nd assistant camera in addition to regular PA duties like moving props, errands, bringing actors to set, cleaning sets.

Script Supervisor on micro budget feature-length film.

Script Supervisor on USC student film short.

Script Supervisor on USC Student Film Short. This film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Dances with Films Festival in 2004.

Script Supervisor on 35 mm comedy film short.

Script Supervisor on film short.