Ed Norris Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

Continuing with Quality Control work but also adding the option to do more Creative Operations work when possible.Increasing the amount of DCP and subtitling work. Commissioning and running a screening room. Expanding our remit to work with new departments. Creating and running a Post Production 101 crash course to help demistify the technical language and processes for anyone that is curious.Making sure the department keeps up to deadlines, offers exceptional service and maintaining training, feedback and coaching of staff to develop their career in the department.

London, United Kingdom

Head of the Quality Control team at Universal Pictures London.Quality control of Features and Trailers, metadata analytics, corrective work to fit desired specifications, DCP creation, Subtitling, Transcoding.Making sure the department keeps up to deadlines, offers exceptional service and maintaining training, feedback and coaching of staff to develop their career in the department.

Heading up the new Quality Control department for the London dubroom.

London, United Kingdom

Expert at Windows, Linux and Apple operating systems.Highly skilled at operating Doremi Rapid and DVS Clipster mastering systems, to encode high volumes of content to tight schedules. Frequently multi-tasking between systems at the same time, whilst able to think laterally to solve problems.Experienced at manipulating subtitle files; creating 3D content; SMPTE DCP creation; working with ATMOS and DBOX; using Alchemist for frame-rate conversions and proprietary MPS systems (named Goblin and Gollum) for format and colour conversions; HDCAM tape captures; as well as the basic wrapping, linking and rendering of source material into MXFs.Proficient on Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Final Cut, Audacity and other editing software.Full working knowledge of Digital Cinema terminology, standards and DCI compliance.Due to my QC experience I have become the specialist at 3D depth-spotting subtitles for the company.I am incredibly meticulous at checking my work and that of others. I also frequently help my team members with projection equipment issues.

Melbourne, Australia

Running Keygen and offering global cinema technical support.Working solo for most of my shift while the UK team were asleep.Finding the optimal balance between ensuring content is accessible to clients and maintaining its security.Explaining technical information to clients with minimal knowledge of the systems themselves, frequently through a language barrier.

London, United Kingdom

Co-ordinating the QC team whilst liaising with the Production department to ensure that DCP projects were scheduled, quality checked and delivered to the clients deadlines.Working alongside high profile clients whilst in the QC theatre by fixing any issues that are flagged during their appointment, and keeping them abreast of the status of their project.Developing the system for depth-spotting 3D subtitles, making it an increasingly more efficient and reliable process, and subsequently training others how to use it.Quality checking content in - 2D and 3D; Dubbed or with subtitles; 51, 71, AURO, ATMOS, and other audio configurations; HOH & AD or HI & VI; DBOX and with accompanying phone Applications; Closed Captions on a Captiview screen; Censor edits and graphics inserts. This required long periods of high concentration and attention to detail to spot and amend a wide range of technical issues.Before encoding became a more discrete department I used to identify and fix most audio syncopation issues from the QC theatre and also make all the censor edits on a Rapid.

Master Of Science (Msc), Science Media Production, Merit

Activities and Societies: Weekly amateur radio shows, script writing and comedy improvisation groups.My thesis was a half hour documentary.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Zoology/Animal Biology, 2.1

Activities and Societies: David Attenborough appreciation group, Ten pin bowlingMy thesis was an e-learning module designed to teach.

Biology, General

Activities and Societies: Fly fishing society presidentA levels in Biology (A), Economics (B), Politics (B) and Art (C)