Shelby Wagner

Directed and managed hosts & celebrity guests during live show taping.

Produced & coordinated music and dance performances for weekly live results show. Came up with creative concepts & executed (music, staging, lighting, props, wardrobe, etc.). Directed and managed talent backstage on show days.

Researched, coordinated & produced music and dance performances for weekly live results show. Handled performance rehearsals, wardrobe notes, props and camera blocking. Directed & managed talent on show days.

Screened contestants at open auditions, conducted extensive phone interviews with contestants, created biographies on contestants, pitched contestants’ stories to execs, scheduled & coordinated field shoots, prepped contestants for interviews with the host, shot on the fly interviews, managed 8 finalists on trip to Europe, handled music clearance during post production

Produced live show elements, collaborated on music selections, clearance & edits of songs, managed judges & celebrity talent during show, involved in multiple aspects of preproduction & casting of judges and professional skaters.

Worked with Casting Director on finding talent, conducting in field interviews, & pitching candidates to network.

Worked with Casting Director on finding talent, conducting pre interviews, & coordinating candidates to send in audition tapes.

Answered phones, scheduled & coordinated with the other assistants, attended to any additional needs of the director during preproduction.

Developed story beats, outlined schedules for shoots; coordinated schedules with talent, acted as main liaison with talent-communicating with them on regular basis for story updates, cleared locations for filming purposes, on call for every shoot & helped troubleshoot, coordinated with talent tasks outside of filming incl. blogs, VO sessions, press, etc.

Interviewed potential candidates, including multi state field castings, wrote paper cuts & assisted in the edit, coordinated & came up with the creative for shoots, explored new ways to find & cast talent

Scheduling & budgeting, booked permits in LA & NYC, shot and set up audio on Sony HDV Z1U, created bins and timelines in Avid, collaborated on VTR package concepts.

Coordinated shoots in the field, helped develop create concepts for packages, assisted editing process by picking and pulling footage, shot & produced moments in behind the scenes footage on Sony HDV Z1 Camera.

Responsibility included getting talent to various locations, domestic and international travel with the talent, and providing producers with story notes

Shot ‘Confessionals’ on Sony HDV Z1 Camera, took notes/time code/assisted field producer on dancer rehearsal shoots, forward planned, mic-ed talent, wrote Story So Fars

Created the Pre Production Booklet & call sheet, kept track of petty cash, coordinated equipment rentals.

Assisted in the Breed Ring, retrieved information from the Best of Breed winners, and ran the information back to the script dept.

Story Assistant

Took notes & time code out in the field, assisted field producer on the dancer’s rehearsal shoots, wrote Story So Fars logging major story notes