Stéphane Lachance Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Coordinate with actors, agents, and TV show participants to receive signed contracts and releases. Work internally across departments to schedule shoots, ensure proper episode metadata, and submit payments and reimbursements.- Assist in production planning and post-production coordination by requesting props, discussing with audio mixers and graphic artists, confirming image and music rights, and creating call sheets.- Support teams on shoots or in studio in any way possible. This has included ensuring that the cast and crew keep to the schedule, tracking preferred takes, operating the teleprompter, and acting as a puppeteer’s assistant.

Edit various video projects including interviews, event promos, conference sessions, online courses, and a hockey highlight reel. Projects often included motion graphics made in After Effects.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Support the production team by ensuring VFX artists have all the prerequisites they need to complete their daily tasks on a project. Track and update deadlines in Shotgrid/Shotgun. Deliver shots to client for feedback.- Coordinate with Outsource vendors, informing them of necessary prep work. Send vendors all QC notes that need to be addressed and coordinate responses for any inquiries.- Lead daily team meetings with Compositing artists, to ensure they understand today’s tasks. Organize launch meetings with VFX and Compositing leads to define the scope of work on a shot or a sequence.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Support artists and production teams across multiple projects. Balance QC workload among Compositing leads.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Plan and implement online marketing strategies for the organization. Manage the edcan.ca website, including the online Education Canada magazine, as well as EdCan’s social network accounts.- Edit videos, including online courses for a new professional development service.- Identify and foster multiple partnership and membership opportunities, including a successful sponsorship from an international document camera manufacturer.

Toronto, Canada Area

Review video content for TFO’s online and broadcast platforms to ensure compliance with violence and equity codes and with company policies. Define content warnings and ratings for movies and series. Source or write associated metadata and descriptions. Manage one or more employees helping to review content.- Lead monthly status update meetings to ensure content deliveries and approvals are on track. Manage a set of content approval tracking documents followed by colleagues across multiple departments.- Assist with, and later lead, the creation of seasonal schedules for TFO’s TV channel using knowledge of the existing content catalogue to create and organize themed programming blocks.- Coordinate with teams across the organization to streamline content archiving, approval, and programming processes and to ensure corrections to content with mistakes or compliance issues are done quickly.

Toronto, Canada Area

Program video content to TFO’s streaming services, YouTube channels, and VOD platforms. Troubleshoot and follow-up on any issues that might cause videos to not properly appear online.- Conduct a full analysis of video content rights across TFO’s YouTube channels to avoid compliance issues and identify when content would have to be removed in the future.- Select content and create editorial calendars for TFO’s YouTube channels by browsing TFO’s acquired and coproduced content catalogue.

Toronto, Canada Area

Update the website and create promotional emails and newsletters for upcoming exhibitions and events. Prepare content ahead of the transition to the Museum Shop’s new e-commerce site. Assist with social media management and content creation for social media.

Toronto, Canada Area

Publish new videos, games, and contests on the TVOKids.com website. Schedule and plan for upcoming content promotion in consultation with the broadcast team. Program and prepare videos for publishing on YouTube channels.- Select about 800 episodes as the video library for the launch of the new TVOKids.com website in February 2017 and ensure all necessary elements, such as thumbnails, descriptive video, and subtitles, are ready. Supervise a part-time employee capturing video thumbnails.- Test HTML5 web games ahead of their launch on TVOKids.com to identify bugs and grammar mistakes so that our coproduction partners can deliver the best user experience possible.

Coordinate the production of web series. Handle budgets, organize and submit funding requests, write cast and crew contracts, give script notes, organize casting and oversee episode and trailer editing.- Plan and produce the 20-episode shoot of “The Soliloquies of Santiago,” a web series modernizing Shakespeare’s “Othello.” Edit the behind-the-scenes interview videos.- Manage the series development and the production of a trailer for a second web series, “Dorian Gray.” Financed by Cogeco Program Development Fund, the project was delivered within its $10,000 budget.

Compose and publish posts for Twitter and Facebook, highlighting content from TFO Éducation, an education-focused streaming service, as well as tech and education articles from trusted sources.- Coordinate with the Marketing team and other social media managers to cross-promote events and initiatives.

Create and implement a social media strategy to promote the bilingual conference on February 18, 2015. During the period following the implementation of the strategy, registration numbers grew from double digits to over 200 tickets.- Launch a new Twitter account to promote the conference all the while leveraging existing TFO social accounts for promotional efforts.- Lead a team to live tweet the conference in French.

Toronto, Canada Area

Manage and create promotional content for the CEA’s digital platforms, including cea-ace.ca, social media and YouTube.- Plan, edit, and shoot on location a series of promotional videos as part of a pan-Canadian set of workshops.- Research, write and publish monthly email newsletters about research in education.

Toronto, Canada Area

Design and execute a strategic social media plan. Write monthly web and social media progress reports.- Help maintain a WordPress website - Shoot, edit and upload interviews as well as upload archival videos

Master Of Digital Media

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Radio And Television