Lauren Meltsner

Talent Coordinating, Cast Interviews, Creative Development, logistics

Directing Talent, Camera direction, heavy interviews, logistical planning, heavy travel

Creative development, cast direction, heavy interviewing, camera direction, logistical planning, heavy travel

Coordination of very large cast and creating background packages, reveals and heavy interviewing. Working closely with the doctors for scene work and interviews. Personally handled over 20 cast members - camera direction, talent direction, worked directly with celebrity talent and directed them in the field.

Field and Story Producer for 8 Episode Docu series. Supervised crew, created schedules and managed locations. Directed Camera, facilitated and followed story, development of episodes, secured multiple locations for shooting, conducted green screen interviews, OTFs, directing of all scene work

Worked in the Development and Casting for several new projects at Magnetic Productions in Hollywood. Conducted Skype interviews for casting and edited those videos. Conducted international research for several projects for multiple networks. Development of pitch materials and in charge of the organization and coordination for all working projects.

*Field Story - Assisted the Executive Producer in the development of story beats and in charge of tracking all story beats in the field. Writer - Interview documents, creative development. Directed cast in developing scene beats, and doing OTFs. * Post story producer - Final Cut pro string outs

Story/Field producer Tracking story, interviewing, conducting OTFs, directing camera, tracking releases, obtaining competitive bites during interviews, working with A List celebrities on set and in interview, coordinating story for a cast of 18, working with cast members who are extremely diverse, Note taking, hot sheets, casting one sheets,

Worked closely with editors, AVID string outs of challenges and dinner services, pulling interview bites, addressing of network notes, assisted with VO.

- development of story lines for cast members - development of cast one sheets and location one sheets for each episode - Conducted green screen interviews - Conducted OTFs - development of culinary stories, worked side by side with chefs in the kitchen for every episode. - Avid string outs

Game development, script development for hidden camera food game show. In charge of all production schedules and hiring and managing crew. Managed all gear rentals. Selected each contestant at random and assisted in the implementation of each game played. In charge of game player OTFs in the field.

Story development, logistical planning, cast wrangling, development of shoot schedules, product integration, music clearance, creative development

Story development and production of detailed string outs on AVID. Worked daily at length with Editors, wrote VO, and served as a writing assistant to the Executive Producer.

Detailed note taking in the field. OTFs Post production - AVID string outs, writing VO, pulling interview bites

Avid string outs, writing VO, pulling interview bites