James Taylor Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

This is a voluntary role that I have undertaken in my own time. I have been mentoring numerous students and graduates get roles within the creative sector. Using my prior knowledge of working within industry I have been able to help them understand and navigate the process of getting their first role within industry.Having been on the programme it has enabled me to understand how to approach mentoring, in a format that works for both myself and the mentee.

London, United Kingdom

My duties involve having to offer technical support, demonstrate software and techniques for the Visual Effects course that I am a part of. As this is within a university I have found that I have enhanced my skillset with the interaction that I have with the students as I have offered them guidance and support through their years of studying.As it is a Visual Effects course, it is very much a software based course with some elements of practical filming within a green screen studio… Show more My duties involve having to offer technical support, demonstrate software and techniques for the Visual Effects course that I am a part of. As this is within a university I have found that I have enhanced my skillset with the interaction that I have with the students as I have offered them guidance and support through their years of studying.As it is a Visual Effects course, it is very much a software based course with some elements of practical filming within a green screen studio. There are various parts to the course that I offer support on where by I demonstrate various techniques and how to use different software that would allow the students to go on to do their own work.The software that I use are Nuke, 3DEqualizer, Vicon Blade, Motionbuilder, Maya and Premiere just to name a few. When I am not showing students how to use software I am often in a studio environment showing students how to film for green screen and also how to film in preparation for matchmaking. Show less

London, United Kingdom

My roles here include: Editing - Content for web viewing for clients such as O2, ComparetheMarket, More Than, Nationwide to name a few. These are predominantly for Youtube channels with regular viewers over 100k. I also Online edit TVC's ready for broadcast and Offline edits for various projects and clients. Creation of mood films for internal pitches and clients. Motion graphics - amendments on current after effects projects. Media managing - I work within a team of… Show more My roles here include: Editing - Content for web viewing for clients such as O2, ComparetheMarket, More Than, Nationwide to name a few. These are predominantly for Youtube channels with regular viewers over 100k. I also Online edit TVC's ready for broadcast and Offline edits for various projects and clients. Creation of mood films for internal pitches and clients. Motion graphics - amendments on current after effects projects. Media managing - I work within a team of people making sure that the video server does not go past its optimum performance. Regularly media managing older projects making sure that the right assets are kept for any future amendsme nts etc. House maintenance - Making sure that camera kit is fully working and going on the correct shoots. Backing up of rushes and transcoding to right format for freelancers and editors to work on. Show less

Worked for an interactive television station, producing shows, vision mixing, camera work, lighting and rigging / de-rigging different sets.

Whilst working here I was the motion graphics artist. Also I filmed and edited a few promotional videos for the education sector that would be shown online.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

- Working in a busy dynamic environment selling footwear product to customers.- Ensuring a high level of customer service from myself and other members of staff.- Making sure staff are properly trained to serve and sell products to customers.- Helping out with the recruitment process of staff, looking for key attributes that would fit the business.

- Worked within a small team as video editor and motion graphics artist- Creating video for new websites- Creating animation shorts for Bars and Clubs- Editing video footage captured and still images for Showreel- Making animation shorts for Showreel.

-Worked part of team to create new programs as well as update current shows- Worked in the studio as well as well as having direct contact with guests and presenters- Was primarily assistant to graphic designer, but also had to do location filming as well as film within their studio- Vision Mixing and used remote cameras- Tasks which where time sensitive and which had to be met to a deadline

Bsc Hons, Media Production, 2.1

Activities and Societies: Demon TV Society, Street Dance Society, 5 a side football.

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