Michaela Simon

Examined scripts and network ideas with senior production staff to create shooting schedule and production budget. Hired crews and contractors and negotiated rates of pay, approved the booking of resources, equipment and suppliers.

Responsible for coordinating 15 dance video shoots in 21 days. Coordinated physical production, talent, location, and post-production departments.

Edited casting interviews and managed casting website for Casting Director and Network.

Story Produced for Season 2 of Disney's Fairy Tale Weddings. Contributed creative input on storylines in collaboration with story team and editors. Organized episodes on Avid and executed network notes.

Post AP for Amazon’s Jonas Brothers documentary, "Chasing Happiness." Synthesized/produced archive for story; created string outs from paper cuts & raw footage for creative concepts of the film. Other duties of my role included: researching and developing stories that reflect the film's narrative and themes; managing schedules; invoicing; managing and producing deliverables, ensuring their final delivery to the Network (i.e. archival logs, clearance logs, lower thirds/graphics logs, music cue sheets, and elements lists.)

Utilizing Avid software, created string outs from paper cuts and raw footage. Contributed recommendations to enhance story and convey message in alignment with objectives.

Story produced on AVID; directly working with Post EP and Editor for development talk show pilot.

Field and story producing. Story editing on Premiere and AVID. Booking/Casting. Casting editing and pre-interviews. Production coordinating and management.