Lou Baldanza

Shot B CAM pickups and Drone (Phantom 4 Pro) for the San Diego stop of Thrillist's travel series in partnership with Hilton Hotels.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b3r9h9q0akhka2w/AADW3m1v0VSegn443nmZV3YEa?dl=0

Cinematic Editor within the Video & Post Production Deptartment. Worked on World of Warcraft and Overwatch IP content pieces.

Commercial Promo Spots for Paragon and Battlefield 1

Produced/Shot/Edited a promo/campaign crowd funding piece for LA-based Theater Company, the Fugitive Kind (http://fugitivekind.org/)

Produced/Edited/Shot video piece for fundraising efforts for a proprietary card game envisioned and designed by local LA Entrepreneurs. Link to campaign page included here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/341509569/twisted-trivia

Resident Shooter/Editor for LA-based Theater company. Headed by Ovation award-winning Director Amanda McRaven & Playwright Megan Brown.

Shot for the media team on location in Bradley, CA at this year's Lightning in a Bottle Music Festival. Some acts included Jamie XX, Grimes, and The Lucent Dossier Experience.

Shooter/Editor for a variety of Disney's programming roster. Focused on 'micro content' or short form packaged produced for online and social media outlets.

Small docu-style vignettes featuring the good deeds of various Non-Profits based in and around Los Angeles

Casting/Development Editor for Season 16. Focused on Social Media "Influencers" and Instagram Stars.

Parody Rap Music video for YouTube blogger, "The Broke Agent" https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnIX8Sa_qObx2GFZhZ0maOA/videos

Prepped deliverables (AAFs, XMLs, QT refs, etc) for for Color & Sound (Wildfire Sonic) for feature film "The Pickle Recipe" starring Jon Dore & David Paymer.

Created a Playlist Visualizer in Adobe After Effects & Premier that is designed to be updated and automatically adjust its animations relative to weekly hour long playlists produced by the Bingo Players & Hysteria Radio. Link to Video: https://vimeo.com/132288107

Shot on Arri Alexa Studio

Created a :30 "Infographic" spot for startup company Rchive showcasing the features of its online encryption functionality and user interface. Also provided sound design and Voice over elements. Link to video: https://vimeo.com/130254725

Commissioned by Las Vegas.com to produce a series of docu-style vignettes showcasing various special interest groups that hold annual events and competitions at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

http://creativecollision.la/ Edited/shot BTS material for a Commercial Spot for Whole New Home.(https://www.wholenewhome.com/home) We were provided with WD HHDs for our DIT/Media MGMT and I coordinated a 90 second spot that coincided with their marketing efforts. Link to video: https://vimeo.com/128561113

Link to Video: https://vimeo.com/125270092 Link to Artist's Website: http://www.gazzomusic.com/

Playout & Highlight Editor for Fox Sports' roster of programming and recap shows.

Gathered sizzle and promo material for Samsung in its product tents (VIP & Gen. Admin) at this year's Coachella Music Festival in Indio, CA (weekend 1).

Wrangled Media, Backed up drives, set timelapses, supported main camera operators in B-roll pickups and INTV segments for internal Sizzle Reel purposes.

Screenplay by Charlie Roth. Starring Kate Siegel & Jon Gormley Link to video: https://vimeo.com/119293410

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Contributed Creative Direction, Editorial, FX work, and Sound Design to Promo Spot for Swedish DJ duo DaDa Life. https://vimeo.com/114504717

Contributed Editorial to an Industry Awards montage video honoring the work and films of Richard Linklater. Featured clips from "Boyhood", "Dazed & Confused", "Waking Life", and "School of Rock", amongst others.

Maintain the turnover and all post-related tasks for a +65k subscriber, +9 million view YouTube channel producing southern-style content and comedy segments. https://www.youtube.com/user/SouthernWomenChannel

Screenplay by Charlie Roth. Starring Jack McClean & Charlie Roth Link to Video: https://vimeo.com/113462955

Scripted Comedic Reel Material. Link available here: https://vimeo.com/117202312

Cut a 20 minute docu-series/reality style episode featuring various high-profile Spa and Resort locations in and around the Los Angeles area.

Development Reel Interviews for shows tentatively titled "Baby Psychics" & "Screensavers"

"Nescafe" Spec Spot Spec Commercial submission for Tongal (https://tongal.com/), a crowd-source/video content submission website. Final Cut: :30 https://vimeo.com/107621886 :15 https://vimeo.com/106628915 password(s): nescafe123

Independently produced Pilot chronicling the struggles of a team of veteran Trapeze artists.

Lead AE and assistant story producer on an internal focus group pilot for TLC. Non-aired Pilot that didn't test well with the network and was subsequently shelved.

Set goPro Timelapses and assisted with B-Roll pickups for Samsung Brand initiative featuring new smartphone and tablet lines on display at Coachella 2014

In-house assistant to colorist and Flame artists. Conforms using Davinci resolve and Autodesk Lustre in addition to basic media management/archiving/deliverables/ftp uploads.

Billionaire Toys (E!) - AE Redstone (Feature Film) - AE, Sound Design That Gal (Documentary) - AE Partial list: Laugh Mobb Presents: "We Got Next" Arnez J " Racially Motivated" Bo Burnham "What" Doug Stanhope "Beerhall Putsch" Mike Birbiglia "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend" Aziz Ansari "Buried Alive" Sinbad "Make Me Wanna Holla'"

Day AE (FCP) for "House of Kayne", "South Beach Tow" & Untitled Saddlebrook Pilot for the Golf Channel

Night/Swing AE - Transcode, Group, Sync, AMA (tapeless), etc.

Set PA/Transport/Camera Assist

Casting Reel & Segment editor for various shows. Credits include: "End of Life" (season 1) "Cold Justice" (season 1) "Top Chef" (season 11)

Studio Camera Assist/DIT/PA for web content portion of Oxygen's "Best Ink". Hosted 1 vs. 1 elimination tattoo competitions using volunteer "skins". Assisted with camera & sound set up, data backups, drive MGMT, locking down the set, getting talent to and from airport, transporting gear/equipment.

Grouped, synced, organized, transcoded, uprezzed footage from multi-cams & car cams. Also assisted story team with cut downs, string outs, assembly cuts, & scene beats for episodes 509 & 510.

Set PA for Season 2 Promo pickups of "The Burn" with Jeff Ross.

Assisted the casting department with cold calling & researching springboard diving mentors to be paired up with celebrity guests for a 2 hour special pilot that aired on fox on January 9th. Cut interview footage/packages for internal/executive decision making in regards to the final cast and format of the show.

Assisted DP on a short film project featuring Danny Trejo ( http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001803/), Sam Daly, (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2301600/), and Angelina Assereto (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2266551/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1)

3 month tenure in the Post department on location in Newark, NJ. Assisted in library/media management & ingest, tape labeling, package & wire drive (internal) outputs, story team assistance (string outs, cut downs of interviews), and basic assistant editor duties (grouping, syncing, trancoding, dubbing)

Video can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/39155485

Assembled using FCP 7. Video can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/36265125

Freelance wedding editor for Tim Alan Smith Videography (http://timalansmith.com/) and individual clients. Work samples/Event recap reels can be seen here: https://vimeo.com/user15859582/videos

Set design & construction/renovation for a local pub located in Syracuse, NY. Assisted key construction crew with dismantling and reassembly of restaurant interior and managed patrons during celebratory re-opening ceremony. http://www.foodnetwork.com/restaurant-impossible/mcshanes/index.html