Skills

Editor Skills

• Working use of DaVinci Resolve, and introductory knowledge of Avid.
• Documentary editing and storytelling by creating the right tone, pacing, finding humour, and developing characters.
• Ingesting footage without an assistant editor, making selects, adding titles, reframing shots, adjusting audio levels.
• Using AI transcripts to locate audio.
• Adding music, narration, sound effects, and exporting cuts.
• Ingesting footage and exporting cuts.
• Troubleshooting hardware and software problems.
• Listening to feedback, and incorporating notes from producers, directors, and broadcasters.

Producer Skills

• Creative role, from concept to completion.
• Writing creative materials and designing one-sheets with Adobe Illustrator.
• Pitching broadcasters at film festivals, including Banff, Whistler, Hot Docs.
• Creating project budgets.
• Coordinating local, Canada-wide, and international documentary shoots.
• Providing notes on rough and fine cuts.
• Completing interim and final cost reports and communicating results to other producers and funders.
• Submitting completed projects to national and international film festivals.
• Business Affairs management, including submission of federal and provincial tax credit applications, CRTC, funding applications, contracts, chain of title documentation, and release forms.
• Promotion, including press kit writing/design, project website design, social media writing/posting.