Louise Bowling Email & Phone Number

London

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Working on a freelance basis in various roles as a Broadcast Production Assistant (DA), Production Coordinator, Camera and Studio Bookings Coordinator, Studio Floor Manager and Auto-Cue Operator for BBC ‘Look North’ Regional News, Current Affairs and Political Programs. I have extensive experience of working for Independent Productions, News, Live OB’s, Studios, Sport and Entertainment.Responsibilities:- Assisting the News Production Desk with news gathering using ENPS- Taking cues down from journalists out on location.- Forward planning and allocating the days assignments and crew. - Liaising with the media hub for feeds, lines and studio bookings. - Logging all aired program and music details.- Meeting and greeting guests/interviewees and operating the remote camera.- Preparing and distributing the day’s running order.- Preparing presenter scripts.- Working in the gallery alongside the director calculating and timing the live on-air broadcasts for the nightly news bulletins.- Auto Cue in the studio.- Floor Manager in the studio and for Outside Broadcasts.

Perth, Western Australia

Senior Production Coordinator for West Australian Lifestyle, Events and Travel show program 'Destination WA’ and Gardening program ‘The Garden Guru’s’ Responsibilities:- Research and planning of episodes and features.- Booking of all presenters, talent and crew and negotiating rates and contracts.- Coordinating shooting schedules and creation and distribution of producer, presenter and crew call sheets- Carrying out risk assessments for all shoots and obtaining filming permits and permissions- Booking all local and inter-state travel and hotel requirements for presenters and crew.- Coordinating location set ups and strikes, either studio or location based- Creating and managing schedules based on production/postproduction budgets and cost reporting to the Producer.- Budget supervision and assisting with securing sponsorship.- Liaising with the Producer re filming, time lines, edit notes and final edits.- Created and updated program delivery schedules, episode planners, final scripts, travel itineraries, call sheets, production budget sheets, perdiums.- Liaised with post production re delivery schedules/timelines, catalogue codes, and first and second draft edit notes.- Miscellaneous logistical & organisational tasks and maintaining general office systems, procedures and routine administrational tasks.

Perth, Western Australia

Freelance Director’s Assistant contracted to Gearhouse Broadcast working in a multi camera control room on A-League Perth Glory FC Soccer games and NBL Perth Wildcat Basketball games for Channel 7, Network 10 and Nine Network outputs. Responsibilities:- Preparing and building the on-air program rundown- Showing timings to on-air calls - Back timing and program timing- Timing of stings, replays,music, cheerleader dance routines and commercial breaks- Blocking and calling camera shots for the director- Stopwatch techniques to time stories, voice overs and graphic supers- Getting the program off-air, on time.

Bbc North East & Cumbria 'Look North'

Working with the Production team and in the gallery/control room as News Transmission Assistant/DA. Responsible for all timings and calculations of the on-air broadcasts for the nightly live 'Look North' news bulletins. Responsibilities:- Director’s Assistant/News Transmission Assistant for news bulletins.- Providing administrative assistance to the production team using ENPS for news-gathering and preparation of the bulletins. - Creating, allocating and distributing assignment call sheets to crews and journalists. - Carrying out all risk assessments and filming permissions for shoots.- Booking lines, studios and OB trucks for satellite lives and the feeding and receiving of material to and from BBC Network News or other regional stations into the Media Hub.- Documenting, timing and logging all on air programme and transmission music details using Proteus for library and archive purposes.- Assisting the planning desk with forward planning for the week ahead and the next days assignments, highlighting any crewing or resources issues. - Booking freelance crew and all travel and hotel requirements- Auto-script operator.

Bbc Manchester 'North West Tonight'

Newsroom Bookings Coordinator, Camera Desk and Production Assistant rolled into one this position was newly created. Working exceptionally hard I quickly learnt the elements of the position that were new to me, enabling me to full fill the role and its duties to a high standard early on in my employment. I received positive feedback from the TV News Editor, Producers and work colleagues for my way of working and deploying the crews and VJ’s.Responsibilities:- Attending morning and afternoon news meetings.- Planning, scheduling and assigning camera/links/sound crews to the daily news stories. - Highlighting news stories which lend themselves to Video Journalists where crews were not available. - Taking down cues and interviewee details from reporters out on location.- Ensuring assignment sheets and details are up-to-date with the correct health and safety information and risk assessment forms have been completed where necessary. - Coordinating and booking line feeds for the sending and receiving of video tape items from the BBC regions, National News, Media Port and Independent broadcasters, contributing significantly to the television & radio newsroom output. - Point of contact for Network Breakfast/N24 links bookings. - Booking DR's, Taxis, security for OB’s as and when required. - Booking studios via BBC Milbank, BBC Regions, BBC International Unit. - Operation of the remote N24 camera and meet, greet and wire up guests for recorded or live interviews. - Booking of freelance crews and all hotels and transport as required - Support cover to the MA/Scheduler as and when required.

Bbc North East & Cumbria 'News - English Regions'

Reported to the News Editor, providing administrative support to the Operations Business Unit. Devised and implemented procedures for the control and monitoring of internal and external business activity. Ensured the timely processing of staff information allowing the efficient and effective deployment of staff and resources to meet deadlines through informed decision making. Predominately working unsupervised I headed a small team in the absence of the News Editor. Responsibilities:- Updating BBC Staff and Resources databases from staff logs - Running daily and end of week reports ensuring all duties are allocated and staffing requirements are met for the Newcastle regional output- Providing all administrative requirements for the Operations News Editor- Maintaining the Newcastle fleet vehicles; Leases, MOT's, and servicing- Providing costs for chargeable jobs from other internal BBC departments and external clients- Providing SAP details for jobs and completed sales order forms to English Regions Sales- Point of contact for the department to deal with all staff and telephone queries - Provided the Salaries and HR departments with shift allowances, additional payments, salary advances, A/L and overtime for all departmental staff. - Raising purchase orders, logging invoice’s, maintaining filing systems

Bbc Look North, Bbc North East And Cumbria

Bookings Coordinator/Scheduler for News and Current Affairs within BBC Newcastle. Responsibilities:- First point of contact for all internal and external bookings.- Co-ordination of work amongst the News, Current Affairs and Politics departments and the scheduling of the creative and technical personnel responsible for completing it. - Organise and Schedule all jobs in progress to control and manage the workflow- Providing day to day bookings and administrative support of Post Production personnel and clients.- Contributing to the management of all the resources inside the broadcast operations facility.- Coordinating of work schedules and scheduling of staff.- Maintaining annual leave, sickness and changes in staff.- Recording and inputting accurate staffing and costing information into SAP. - Liaising with external clients, assisting with quoting and costing jobs.- Responsible for providing administrative support to Broadcast Operations, with costings and budget reports.

Bbc North East & Cumbria 'Bbc Online - Tyne'

Worked as part of a small team contributing to the research, design and content of the regional where you live site ‘BBC Tyne’ working towards the website’s launch and through the early stages of it going live. Completed training in Bristol learning software packages such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Cool Edit and Real Producer, amongst other web related skills. Combined with my extensive design experience, I had the confidence, ability and enthusiasm to put this acquired knowledge into practice developing successful interactive web pages for BBC Online.

Bbc North East & Cumbria 'Look North'

Provided a high quality operational service over the whole of the stations regional output, principally for ‘Look North’ news bulletins and local current affairs programmes ‘Inside Out’ and ‘The Politics Show’. Working on a rotational shift system within a team of Station Assistants in the positions of Graphic Designer, Graphics Operator and Studio/OB Floor Manager. Responsibilities…- Creation of graphic sequences using Quantel Paintbox, Aston Ethos and Mac applications to illustrate the content of journalists news reports in a creative capacity.- Heading a small team of skilled station assistants delegating design tasks to meet the day’s news stories and deadlines. - Working to tight deadlines in on-air or breaking news conditions.- Operation of Aston Ethos, Quantel Picturebox and Mac based software.- Creation of accurate graphic captions across a variety of live productions and OB events.- Creation of full screen graphics, charts and graphs, depicting statistics about a sport, team, or news event.- Inserting supers, scores, facts, or subject lines on-air or for recordings. - Making sure sets, props and technical equipment are safe, ready to use and in the right position prior to filming or going on air.- Briefing and controlling the studio during rehearsals, recording or on-air.- Managing the guests and/or audience explaining safety requirements, timings, filming and programme being aired.- Relaying instructions between the control room, studio floor, director and producer using talkback.- Giving cues and time counts to presenters, actors or guests to ensure timings are met and the broadcast goes smoothly.- Organising runners to make the best use of studio time.- Rehearsing takes or live shows.- Liaising with public relations staff on OB's regarding interviewees and timings.- Adhering to health and safety regulations, e.g. keeping 'safe areas' and fire exits clear of equipment.

Manchester, United Kingdom

Worked in a creative team on a broad spectrum of design briefs Clients included: Manchester Airport; The Halle Orchestra; Greenalls Brewery and Manchester Metropolitan University.Responsibilities:- Attending meetings and taking design briefs from a wide range of clients- Responsible for creating design solutions for corporate identities, publicity material, annual reports, university prospectuses and packaging. - Using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator to generate images, text, layouts and impositions for print and other visual media displays- Producing concepts in the form of rough visuals and mock-ups- Providing clients with costings, competitive quotations and applying budgetary control.- Responsible for the final colour-seperated artwork for all my own projects- Responsible for meeting deadlines and co-ordinating deliveries.- Commissioning and liaising with printers, illustrators, photographers and the press for commercial publications.- Operating graphic cameras and other photographic equipment to reproduce camera-ready copy onto films and digital output devices- Operating computer screen-based equipment for scanning, colour separation, colour correction, masking, creative design, combining, imposing, retouching, and other processes used to transfer copy to film and produce film for plate and digital output.- Carrying out digital and chemical proofing from digital systems, and negative and positive films.- Evaluating printed proofs, checking and correcting them for quality.

Btec Hnc Business (Marketing), Business, Management, Marketing, And Related Support Services, Ongoing - 1 Distinction, 5 Merits

3 A-Level Certificates, Communication Studies With Advertising & Marketing, Graphic Design And Art

High School, 11 Gcse'S, 11 Grade A-C