Lee James

• Directed 30 member production crew to create a proof of concept action sizzle, “The Most Interesting Man in Show Business,” with high-profile stunt team. • Supervised post production with Davinci Resolve color correction, graphics package, VFX compositing, and sound design. • Directed camera department with Arri Alexa camera and lighting crews.

• Managed post production staff for weekly top rated live-to-tape fashion and pop culture talk show featuring Joan Rivers. • Scheduled editors, producers, graphic artists, assistant editors, and audio sweetening for multi-camera studio taping according to network grid. • Oversaw finishing edit to ensure episodes for technical quality, audio mixing, sound design and graphics timing. • Maintained and organized project media assets, including encoding multi-camera field shoots, graphics packages, transcoding digital video, photos, and archival video on per episode basis. • Support and troubleshoot advanced hardware such as AVID workstations and Adobe Creative Cloud based editing systems.

• Created sizzle packages for live-to-tape EVS playback for studio taping. • Supervised camera crews during press junkets and red carpet events. • Secured rights and clearances for all weekly music, photo and video images. • Negotiated significantly discounted rates with vendors such as Getty Images, Associated Press, and Celebrity Footage.

• Created segments for Christmas special showcase for new products from Sephora, Playskool and Microsoft. • Collaborated with PR departments from HBO, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros and Sony Entertainment. • Coordinated location shoots with production crew and talent. • Coordinated research team of production assistants.

• Created sizzle reels of video games to present at key industry trade shows, including the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), E3 Live and Blizzcon for Blizzard. • Researched new products and games, and created story segments from archival in-house media library. • Supervised the playback of deko and EVS elements during live-to-air events. • Developed pro-gamer and game arena packages for Direct TV live coverage of Blizzcon.

• Recruited and pre-interviewed eye witnesses, scientists, university professors and aviation experts in Los Angeles and United Kingdom. • Secured rights to film at Cardiff Airport and Museum of Science & Industry in Manchester in United Kingdom. • Pitched story segments and researched topics of UFO and unexplained phenomena.

• Produced and wrote story beats for multiple episodes. • Created field producing guides and developed show scripts. • Pre-interviewed museum experts, including local guides for location shoots. • Negotiated special permissions to film at Chengdu Panda Research Base and Terracotta Army Museum in Xi’an.