Megan Reilly

Creative principal, CFO, and Business development lead for the company; Produce, write and doctor scripts, interview, direct (in studio and on location), manage logistics, talent, and crew, and direct video edits.

For the Boston Bruins, I was hired by their production company–Cortina Productions–to script doctor and produce the flagship, wide-screen introductory film for the team’s state of the art, multi-media visitors’ center. As writer and producer, I was responsible for compelling storytelling, implementing stakeholder notes, audio/visual asset research, acquisition, and tracking, narration supervision and “take” selection, and in close collaboration with Cortina’s Creative Director and Director of Post, overall edit direction and supervision. Over time, my role expanded to also producing Heritage Hall’s other large screen exhibit, “Cups,” a series of short films depicting each of the team’s 6 Stanley Cup wins.

As a consultant on a 5-person content team for Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), I helped imagine and build a beta version of a new, online learning platform. For the team, I designed, produced, and wrote multimedia interactive activities that resulted in a green light from the board to create the go-to-market product. As Media Lead for the start-up phase of the new product, Leader Lab, I developed the media budget, hand-picked and hired the production and post-production teams, crafted the production guidelines, designed the video workflow for 4 content teams, and wrote, produced, and directed video for the new platform's multimedia activities.

As a consultant to Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), I developed the editorial and visual standards for HBP's first-ever, global content licensing partnership, in which an international company licensed Harvard Business Review content for use in online animations about business best practices. In this position, I trained a team in India to write accurate, pithy scripts, and reviewed and signed off on all cuts--overseeing storyboards, voice over, music, and sound effects. Before moving on to my next product start-up for HBP, I hired, trained, and managed my replacement team.

-Oversaw Project Management Team, project budgets and scopes of work; -Directed Production schedules, casting, crews, and post-production; -Via Agile Management methodology, implemented inter-departmental (project management, graphics, software development & A/V integration) weekly scrum sessions for sprint planning, and backlog prioritization; -Conducted weekly client meetings including media design charrettes, milestone presentations, and alpha and beta review sessions; -Wrote scripts for interactive experiences as well as layered media presentations and linear films, directed voice over talent and post-production sessions; -Reviewed interactive, A/V-integrated prototypes and provided direction for interactive development and production to in-house and freelance graphic designers, video editors, animators and software development contractors; -Wrote narrative functionality documents describing interactive media concepts, visitor experience, and interpretive messages; -Wrote proposals, project sheets and company descriptors; -Mentored department staff, supporting individual professional development and fostering an open, effective team dynamic.

4-minute recruitment and marketing video for MIT Sloan Action Learning Dept. that explains the goals and benefits of the program.

Produced, directed and edited 11 videos for MIT Sloan's Global Giving Challenge--a fundraising challenge requiring an extraordinarily high percentage of alumni participation in order to unlock a half-million-dollar gift to the school. Videos were designed to inspire alumni to donate via email and web distribution. Mission accomplished.

Sizzle reel featuring Damien Palanza, Patrick Bonzagni and the rest of the gang from the nutty and wildly popular Real Cape.com website