Ben Brunetti Email & Phone Number

Oakland, Ca

Urban Homestead is a real estate company initiating and leading residential and commercial developments within the Bay Area. Our mission is to promote sustainable development and create work force and affordable housing options through urban infill construction and the renovation of existing residences. The Bay Area is a desirable place to live due to the abundance of jobs, great weather, boundless outdoor activities, cultural attractions, and amenity filled neighborhoods. With the high demand and increasing number of emigrants moving to the area, housing prices have gone through the roof and priced many individuals and families out of the chance to own their own homes. Urban Homestead seeks to the address the affordability problem of our community and the neighborhood challenge of keeping our culture and vibrancy while maintaining growth. As a modest, small scale developer, we hope our contribution will help make a difference and keep the Bay Area great.

Oakland, Ca

Funky Monkey Kidz is a children's media production company. We create educational books, entertaining films, sing-out-loud songs and interactive media for kids! As Chief Funky Monkey, I concept the stories, direct the action and manage the content of our production studio. On our Youtube channel, we take popular nursery rhymes and add a new twist. We're bringing new life to classic fables. And we make our own stories for you to sit down with your kids and enjoy a laugh or two.Our pictures books are for children ages 0-5. We have the "Little Monstrion" series in production with the first book, "Please Share" published and in circulation. In addition, we are working on a second series of books based on a little girl named Luna. Our content is easy to learn and provides a safe space for your little ones. So sing along, dance around and monkey about!

Oakland, Ca

Contract video director, producer, designer for broadcast, advertising, documentary and motion graphics projects. I have worked with clients Hard Rock Cafe, AAA, National Geographic Channel and more.

San Rafael, Ca

Worked as a video producer for the Big Picture, a TV and corporate video production company with multinational clients; Ernst & Young, SanDisk, IBM, Genentech, & RHI. I produced short form and long form TV shows, large scale corporate events, commercials and promotional videos.Being a small company, I wore many hats and roles including:• Creative Direction. Designing a visual style for our video projects and directing the production to achieve and maintain the look. Includes developing storyboards and shot lists for the production. • Concept, develop and pitch video projects as marketing solutions for our clients. • Client interface and management of projects. Responsible for outward facing communications and dealing with any client requests/problems. • Scriptwriting, writing treatments, research and editing of transcripts in developing the written story.• Oversee productions in the field and in the studio. Direct actors, VO talent, and crew.• Plan and organize productions for special effects and motion graphic elements.• Post-produce and edit, follow projects through post-production. • Design visual style, stage design and graphics for our events• Motion graphic design and typographic design for our videos• Videography, lighting and shooting when needed.• Successfully work on multiple projects with overlapping deadlines• Maintain high quality standards we have on all video products and for client delivery

San Francisco, Ca

Oakland, Ca

• Creative directs the content and design of the television show, “Warriors Weekly,” for the NBA’s Golden State Warriors and featured on CSN (Comcast sports net). I received 3 Emmy-nominations for my work as Creative Director.• Produces and edits behind-the-scenes segments and profile segments of the show. Shoots and directs the talent, camera, interns, selects music, sound effects, and develops the storyline of each piece.• Develops and designs the look of all graphical elements within the show including show opener, bumpers, lower 3rds, interstitials etc. Brainstorms concepts, draws storyboards and manages designers to assist in the creation of the graphics.• Consistently meets deadline of multiple segments per week over an 8-month season.• Produces green screen shoots for motion graphic elements as well as, commercial and promotional productions. Directs, designs and edits commercial promotions for the Warrior’s and their sponsors.

• Contracted to develop and design commercials, bumper content, and interstitial graphics for the start-up IPTV technology company and it’s accompanying TV channel.• Produced over 30 pieces of content that marketed the company and assisted in the growth of reaching 1 million cable TV subscribers.• Brainstormed concepts, pitched ideas to clients, wrote treatments, scripts and drew storyboards.• Advised on video issues, compression systems and contributed to the technical business plan.• Designed graphical assets with Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects and CD4. Edited projects on Final Cut Pro and created music and sound effects in Soundtrack.

· Produced and edited over 60 news videos that appeared on the WSJ online distribution network.· Directed reporters and guests for camera and prepared news stories into scripts for video.· Scheduled and coordinated the production of in-studio and field news web videos. Managed the green screen studio, lit with multiple Arri and Lowel lights and setup sound for shoots.· Operated remote studio cameras and composited / switched the video feed with GlobeCaster 8000.· Shot field video on Sony Betacam SX and HVR-Z1U. Edited video on Final Cut Pro. Compressed and delivered content for the online Brightcove distribution platform.

· Organized, produced and edited a web video show, "The Daily Entertainment Report," with over 80 episodes created for online distribution channels; Veoh, Brightcove, Revver and Youtube.· Wrote scripts daily on the latest entertainment news. Researched and selected accompanying graphics, photos and content. · Directed the daily shoots and on-camera talent. Managed and guided performance.· Created custom lower 3rds and transition graphics for the shows using After Effects, Motion, and Photoshop.· Edited the two shows with Final Cut Pro and delivered content before end-of-day. Compressed for online distribution.Shot video with Sony HVR-Z1U, HVR-V1U and the Canon XL-2.Goodstorm.com ­ Interactive Video

· Designed and taught a film production course on film and 2D animation production· Graded and evaluated students work and learning progress.

2004· Edited 5 short documentary videos and 3 instructional DVD projects. Shot video with Sony PD-150, DSR-250, and Canon XL-1.· Designed motion graphics for the documentary and instructional projects, as well as, marketing materials for the films including flyers, posters, websites and DVD covers.· Troubleshot and performed technical maintenance of five non-linear editing and graphic computer stations.· Maintained and organized production and post-production schedules.· Authored the DVD navigation and graphical layout of the final projects.

· Organized film and video master tape library and archived elements using Filemaker Pro.· Coordinated Audio/Video equipment for the use within the 7 story, 400 person advertising agency.· Logged and digitized video on an Avid Media Composer. Edited rough cuts of online and television commercials. As well as designing and creating animations for use in the commercials.· Dubbed tapes and DVDs for clients. Implemented a DVD system for easy layoff of live projects and the archived tape library.

Ba, Film And Digital Media

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