Paxton Klein

• Assisted Producers with internal team & client production meetings, data/scheduling management, bid tracking, miscellaneous costs/purchase orders, travel management, and equipment rentals. • Streamlined Dailies sessions and administered detailed notes to Producers, Supervisors, Leads, and Artists. • Supported team members with production workflow/pipeline, acting as a liaison between departments to ensure smooth running of all projects, helping to successfully deliver commercials for Nike, Kona Big Wave, Dodge, CrowdStrike, and Traveler’s Insurance. • Collected and edited footage into clips for Deepfake technology used in Nike’s ‘Footballverse’ commercial, winner of the 2023 Clio Gold Award for VFX and Silver British Arrows Award.

• Assisted director, costume designers, camerapeople, and other crew members to ensure that production ran smoothly and efficiently.

• Assisted DOP and 1st AC in setting up a 3-camera configuration and the respective lighting equipment. • Operated one camera, panning the shot to the DOP’s liking.

• Co-Producer/Writer/Director/DOP and Editor for a low-budget pilot created by Casey Smerczynski and myself. • Awards: Best Series Pilot (NYIFA), Best Series Pilot (Oniros Film Awards), Best Webisode (LGBTQ Unbordered International Film Festival), Finalist (Red Movie Awards), Official Selection (Malibu Film Festival).

• Produced a 30-minute presentation video for Dartmouth College Engineering Team’s SHREWs Project submission to captivate and inform a virtual audience and NASA executives. I conducted team interviews, filmed rover action shots, and designed/animated the title card and lower third graphics. • Illustrated a graphic that depicted the exploration cycle of SHREWs in lunar craters for the final paper, which won a Forum Award for Best Technical Paper.