Matthew Neel

Organized all third-party digital elements of hour-long documentary series within Avid software, and logged changes on shared spreadsheets. Cut hi-resolution video, audio and graphics into all episodes. Cooperated with daytime assistant to make final creative changes with producers, and initial stringouts of several acts and scenes. Backed up all series-wide media.

Ingested previous day’s footage into editing software; organized for multiple editors. Exported episodes for internal and network review. Prioritized tasks for night crew. Prepared legal and “show bible” paperwork for network. Researched archival materials, and acquired hi-resolution versions of archival. Worked exceptionally close with post team throughout.

Ingested previous day’s footage into editing software; organized for multiple editors. Exported episodes for internal and network review. Prioritized tasks for night crew. Prepared legal and “show bible” paperwork for network. Researched archival materials, and acquired hi-resolution versions of archival. Worked exceptionally close with post team throughout.

Prepared legal and “show bible” paperwork for network, including fixing mistakes made by previous season’s crew. Researched archival materials, and acquired hi-res versions of archival. Viewed episodes for Quality Control – made note of needed blurs, dead pixels, crew in frame, bad effects renders. Delivered final tapes and drives to post facilities and network.

Attend to day-to-day post production of hourlong documentary series. Common tasks include prepping deliverables, researching stock images & newspaper articles, QC-ing episodes, shuttling drives to post facilities, backing up drives shared storage. Am asked to perform some AE tasks on company projects such as exports for online viewing, creating archival mixdowns, ingesting media and syncing audio.

Responsible for checking out production vehicles, assisting Production Management with runs, load in/out of all set materials. Assisted Art Department on-set, and performed other duties as needed in a very busy Video Music Awards environment.

Assisted load in/out of set materials, and set-up with Art Department. Took photos of talent and contracts for Casting, and other needs on-set as they came up.

Became editor of feature-length, festival-bound documentary after spending a month as the AE. Worked closely with the director and producers for duration of ingesting media and cutting, as well with the colorist and sound mixer for online process. Responsible for finding, gaining rights for, and overcutting all archival footage and score.