Aaron Howell

Research, crowdfunding, outreach, and pre-interviewing potential interview subjects. Booking travel and equipment, as well as managing hiring and the interview process. Handling all aspects of archiving and prepping footage footage for editing with AVID, including 4K/2K/UHD footage.

Associate Producer duties include assisting in the development of new projects, production managing and coordinating ongoing projects, general research, and hiring. Assistant Editor duties include media management, consolidating/transcoding, archiving media, logging, stringouts, editing station maintenance, minor editing, and managing the archive and general equipment.

ISIS management, final outputs, network deliverables, overcutting graphics, minor editing fixes, prepping timelines for audio mix, minor color correcting, ingesting footage into AVID, title creation in AfterEffects, setting up AVID projects and organizing dailies.

Coordinated delivery of footage to NBC, setup mobile editing stations, and managing media.

Shuttled cast from airport to hotel to set, handled all needs of cast during production, insured communication with producers and provided producers with production support, helped onset when needed greeking and setting up for show, worked as onset production assistant when not with cast, and assisted associate producers.

Assistant to Scott B, executive producer at Antenna Films helping organize production equipment, Antenna archival material and in general assist with minor office organization and management.

Worked as a production assistant for follow up filming carrying camera gear, setting up lights, obtaining appearance releases, driving cube truck and assisting camera person. We shot on P2 cards.

Production documents (call sheets, contact sheets, maps, shot list, etc), equipment rental, hiring, payroll, hotel bookings and travel logistics, clearances, appearance releases, setting up media workflow, OTF interviewing, crew management during shoot days, minor editing with FCP and AE creating timelapses, and post media organization.

Wrangled cast for follow up filming assisting them around town as the prepared for shoot day. During shoot days wrangled and helped as a production assistant working with camera department, setting up lights and obtaining appearance releases. Also helped briefly organizing releases for deliverables.

Drapery, trestle building, craft services, stage building, shuttle driving, art department production assistance, stage decorating, load in and load out, equipment runs, lunch setup, and general onset production work.

Media manager and associate producer for the Sea Shepherd boat the Sam Simon downloading, organizing and logging all media, acquiring all necessary releases, developing daily story beats, production and camera support, interviewing crew, GoPro camera setup, covering shooting shifts during production, and assisting producer with daily story notes.

Shuttled cast from airport to hotel to set, handled all needs of cast during production, insured communication with producers and provided producers with production support, helped onset when needed greeking and setting up for show, worked as onset production assistant when not with cast, and assisted associate producers.

Stand in for cast for the first few episodes of the season.

Helped carry and setup equipment, handled all runs, and purchased and setup craft services.

Setup all lighting and camera equipment, greeted talent upon arrival, obtained appearance releases and performed all necessary runs.

Onset assistant chauffeuring audience to set, purchasing and setting up craft services, handling runs for equipment and props when necessary, setting up dressing rooms and production meetings, stage lock up, and cleanup of the set. Also helped breakdown the set returning equipment, driving the cube truck and cleaning up.

Shuttled cast from airport to hotel to set, handled all needs of cast during production, insured communication with producers and provided producers with production support, helped onset when needed greeking and setting up for show, worked as onset production assistant when not with cast, and assisted associate producers.

Volunteered to help during the final shoot day, first time working on a feature film set, watched and called the roll to the outdoor patio where lunch and craft services was being served.

Helped carry equipment, provided camera assistance, acquired all appearance releases and did all necessary runs.

Studio PA handling all necessary runs and assistance.

Researched shoot locations and found experts to interview nationwide, provided historical background information on time periods and places, helped research words and phrases specific to American culture, helped release locations and interviewees, and provided archival research through libraries, historical societies and archival houses.

Researched the cost and plausibility of various analogies to show the size and scale of what science is really talking about when it talks about the universe, performed all archival research and appeared as an on-camera assistant for the experts.

Provided production assistance during shoots days, and ran media tapes between E3 and the production office for quick turn around on online promotional videos.

Profiles of USC Medical Patients that aired during Dodger game. Helped setup equipment and lighting for interviews, did all necessary runs and provided camera assistance.

Picked up all equipment and props, purchases and setup craft services, handled all runs and drove the production van.

Office PA and field PA handling the ordering and pickup of necessary equipment and props, helping with lighting and background setup during shooting, handled all runs and drove the production van.

Helped setup all lighting and equipment, preformed all necessary runs, purchased and setup craft services, and picked up necessary equipment (lead PA during shoot days with Julia Roberts). Worked as the post PA handling archival research, doing tape and graphic runs, and organizing and wrapping up all network deliverables.

Picked up and helped setup all equipment and lighting, acquired all necessary releases, handled all runs, labelled all tape media, and drove the production van.

Picked up and helped setup all equipment and lighting, acquired appearance releases, handled all necessary runs, drove the production van, purchased/setup craft services, and during post organized all network deliverables.

Researched story lines for various episodes, handled permits and releases nationwide, setup interviews and organized various appearances of local politicians and experts, researched for beat sheets and provided factual information for hosts, researched props and tools for hosts, helped create production binders, and handled all hiring off office interns.

Helped with equipment, lighting, craft services and runs during shoot days in Los Angeles.

Transcribed lengthy interviews with Holocaust survivors.

Producer, writer, director, videographer and editor of short documentary film that debunks the myths of rent regulation through the story of various tenants living in New York.

Wrote, edited and filmed for NYU's local news cast that happened every Tuesday and Thursday.

Office PA doing runs around Los Angeles.

Logged episodes of The Carol Burnett Show; researched archival images online and through the UCLA library system; during post helped with network deliverables; and worked as a productions assistant during interview shoot days helping with lighting, equipment, driving the production van, setting up craft services and doing any necessary runs.

Logged raw footage and transcribed interviews.

Logged raw footage for story producers and conformed final scripts for network deliverables.