Craig McElwee

Food and travel documentary show contained an at home cook along segment over Riverside FM with our host and six contributors. Worked with contributors to determine what computer/audio equipment they had and supplied them with needed equipment, did tech tests with them running through the recipes with them and ensuring they had all ingredients, and setup their camera shots and lighting over a video call. Obtained needed releases from contributors. On set, handled all six contributors and host to keep them on schedule and understanding how the technology worked.

Work in both office and field on 6 episodes of New York City metro area reality series. Book transportation and arrange travel, reconcile all crew expenses, scout and setup locations prior to shooting. Arrange Covid testing for crew and procuring PPE. Obtain all releases for all contributors and audiences involved. Assist Production Manager in the field with any additional duties required. Complete photocaptions, music cue sheets, promo photo logs, and other deliverables through delivery.

Hire local Florida crew and liaise between NYC and local teams.

Hire all local Florida crew and reconcile all local expenses and liaise scheduling and content between the client and crew.

Book all domestic travel for NYC based crew, obtain permits, and travel in the field to manage set on three episodes. Reconcile petty cash, cashet cards and credit cards. Log releases and troubleshoot in the field. Backup media nightly in the field using ShotPut Pro. Complete and upload deliverables through post.

Assist booking international travel and assembling travel itineraries. Reconcile credit cards and petty cash. Ingest releases to server and create release logs. Watch cuts to release episodes and assemble character lists for legal team. Assist with deliverables. Work with post with on transcriptions and script assembly. Hire local crews and book studios in LA. Travel with crew on local shoots to assist on set.

Take notes in the writers room during pre pro. Book international and domestic travel for crew and talent. Obtain carnets for international shoots. Reconcile all credit card, petty cash, and cashet expenses from international and domestic shoots. Travel in the field for domestic portions of the shoot. Negotiate rates and hire crew. Drive talent in the field and obtain releases from locations and interview participants. Scan and log all releases from the field and release cuts through post. Assemble scripts and assist with deliverables.

Obtained visas and carnet for all American crew to India for the Shah Rukh Kahn episode.

Assist production team scanning and logging releases and watching down cuts to create released character grids.

Assist production team scanning and logging releases and watching down cuts to create released character grids.

Assist crafty, wrangle talent, load in and out.

Maintain the office and our dropbox, assemble location lists, conforming show scripts, build production binders, media archival, etc. Travel with crew to location to work on set building lights and assisting camera team, obtaining releases, taking crafty/lunch orders.

Made crafty runs, locked set, and assisted with G&E.

House Hunters International Seasons 117 - 132: Assemble production binders, assigning transcriber work daily, complete music cue sheets and photocaption logs, log and prep newly received hard drives from the field, create packets for onlining shows, assist in tracking episode development from radio to fine cuts, and maintain the office.

Master Control Operator with Lexington NBC affiliate. Ingest, trim, subclip, air, and log commercials and promos. Receive Live shots for news. Operate Chyron generator during news casts.

Assisted on set helping craft services, as well as aided art department dress and break down sets.

Assisted Art Department as a production assistant to furnish an empty house, and later break down and clean the set. Additionally, I aided on set as a PA making crafty runs, locking set, and any additional help that was needed.

Planned and created shot lists for the production. Conducted test shoots with various Zeiss and Canon Cinema Lenses using a Canon C500. Operated camera throughout production. Student Emmy winner for Best Short Form Fiction at 2017 NATAS Ohio Valley Chapter.

Assisted in building FlyCam, Assisted Steadicam

Helped build cameras in the Olympic Aquatic Stadium, Assisted Steadicam throughout Swimming events

Worked in grip/electric department setting up lights and various grip equipment, as well as helped build the dolly and wrangle cable.

Operated camera during Louisville City FC vs Pittsburgh Riverhounds.

In charge of keeping track of and setting up all grip and lighting equipment, including slider, dolly, reflectors, diffusion, etc. Student Emmy winner for Best Short Form Fiction at 2016 NATAS Ohio Valley Chapter.

Kept track of and organized all grip and electric equipment. I was in charge of all dolly, slider, and jib builds, as well as on set safety. I assisted in setting up lights throughout production. I drove the grip truck for the entirety of the production.

Created and executed lighting plans throughout production, as well as kept track of and organized all lighting and grip equipment. Student Emmy winner for Best Short Form Fiction at 2015 NATAS Ohio Valley Chapter.