Thomas Opferman Email & Phone Number

I’ve traveled across the globe shooting, producing, directing, and editing high-end video for broadcast, corporate, and educational clients. I’m comfortable working with and interviewing a wide spectrum of people: corporate executives, celebrities, politicians, small business operators, factory workers, and artists. I’ve also been a freelancer, an independent filmmaker, and a staff employee. Working for network affiliates in small markets, I learned to make the most of small budgets. With major production houses in Chicago, I learned best practices. Through it all, I’ve developed an expertise for generating the right message for the right audience via the right platform.Skills:• Talented videographer and lighting director, comfortable in slick studio productions as well as wild location shooting• At ease shooting in wide variety of environments: manufacturing, healthcare facilities, executive offices, sports venues, retail operations, conventions and trade shows• Skilled editor with sensitivity to content and keen sense of timing• Expert at motion graphic creation tailored to purpose and consistent with client branding• Proficient at mastering/encoding/compressing finished video for television, web, disc, tablet, smartphone, PowerPoint, Keynote, and other digital formats• Adept at learning new software as needed for specific projects, e.g., creating a video library, 3-D animation, Blu-Ray production, closed captioning• Developer of large network of loyal freelance talent: on-camera and voiceover performers, skilled gaffers, grips, sound engineers, makeup artists, teleprompter operators • Experienced global producer—locating/communicating with foreign crew and gear, handling equipment through customs, and dealing with various power and video standards

Listed skills include Video, Program Management, Broadcast, Film Production, and 12 others.

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  Bradley University

  Mass Communication, Graphic Design, Art