Christopher Mcdaniel Email & Phone Number

Long Beach, California, United States

Graphic Designer:Creatively design flyers, social media posts, publicity tags, developing of logos, web banners, video overlays, proposal (slide-deck) for seminars and presentations on a monthly basis resulting in effective advertising, sponsorship, support and increased viewership of the network. Design 5 to 15 second video transitions including music, scriptures, and station identifications. Create Station ID “overlay” graphics that are displayed over the video.• Utilize… Show more Graphic Designer:Creatively design flyers, social media posts, publicity tags, developing of logos, web banners, video overlays, proposal (slide-deck) for seminars and presentations on a monthly basis resulting in effective advertising, sponsorship, support and increased viewership of the network. Design 5 to 15 second video transitions including music, scriptures, and station identifications. Create Station ID “overlay” graphics that are displayed over the video.• Utilize Adobe Photoshop to design and create visual elements, ensuring they align with brand guidelines and project requirements.• Integrate Photoshop-designed visual elements into Adobe InDesign for comprehensive long-form layouts, including the pagination and formatting of multi-page printed materials such as flyers, brochures, and reports.• Ensure consistency and quality across all printed materials, from the initial design phase in Photoshop to the final layout in InDesign.• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite, leveraging the full capabilities of Photoshop and InDesign to produce professional, high-quality print materials• Use Adobe Illustrator to design and create vector-based objects, including logos, page design elements, and custom fonts, ensuring precision and scalability across various media.• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate Illustrator-created vector graphics into larger projects, such as branding initiatives, print materials, and digital content.• Work closely with other design tools within the Adobe Creative Suite, such as Photoshop and InDesign, to create cohesive and visually appealing final products.• Utilize Adobe Premiere Pro to edit and produce high-quality video content tailored for social media platforms, including YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.Broadcast Producer: As Producer, analyze performance data to inform executive leadership on decisions for future productions, marketing, and personnel. Show less

Los Angeles, California, United States

Graphic Designer: Created all the graphics used in video production (overlays, lower thirds, slates, etc.) Created the corporate “bible” for all color schemes, typefaces, logos. Designed all promotional material used on social media, websites, direct materials, and collateral swag. Created corporate media storage for all graphic images and maintained meta-data and taxonomies that ensured national compliance.Media Management: Directly formatted media (video and… Show more Graphic Designer: Created all the graphics used in video production (overlays, lower thirds, slates, etc.) Created the corporate “bible” for all color schemes, typefaces, logos. Designed all promotional material used on social media, websites, direct materials, and collateral swag. Created corporate media storage for all graphic images and maintained meta-data and taxonomies that ensured national compliance.Media Management: Directly formatted media (video and audio) for archiving and future collateral use. Cataloged all video/audio messages, TV programs, and long-form media files using Excel, OneDrive, and Media servers. Distributed weekly broadcast program files to various Over-the-Air Broadcasters servers using FTP, Go Anywhere, Sharefile, and similar vendors. Maintained a database of traffic flow of TV programs from acquisition, to editing, review, and closed captioning, and then to distribution to broadcasters (OTT, OTA, and App streaming).TV Producer: (https://cmcdee.com/c-mcdee-portfolio). Innovator and producer of the flagship Bible teaching TV show for RJM, “Time In The Word (TITW).” Designed the structure of the TV show – modular segments to speed editing, ensure consistent quality, and uniform graphics, audio, lighting, and on camera presence. This structure has been used in over 1,600 hours of programming. Video Asset Management including archiving and maintaining a digital library of 1000, 2-hour long form productions, and 1600, 30-minute episodes (formerly a physical library of tapes), currently digital on-air files and the distribution to Broadcast points. Generated meta-data & taxonomies for indexing of all Video Assets. Supervised weekly pre-recorded and remote (virtual) production of three long-form and 10 episodic messages for broadcast and streaming. Edited and added sourced materials, such as illustrations, into messages to enhance final production and increase viewer experience. Show less

Richmond, Virginia Area

Handled Advertising production for many clients - print materials, Magazine ads & placement, newspaper, etc.Studio & Location Photography, TV Commercial spots, Radio Ads, Layout & Design are just some of the many things we produced from start to finish. Closed in 1991 to go into full time ministry.