Highlights include many presentations for Motorola corporate meetings, including a 6-screen extravaganza that opened their 2006 Financial Analyst meeting; videos for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Dream Out Loud educational initiative; a recent documentary about the US First robotic competition sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories; a series of stroke-awareness commercials for Harvard's Massachusetts General Hospital featuring NFL star Tedi Bruschi; backstage documentaries on Britney Spears for AOL; and promotional videos for many companies and organizations in the foodservice industry including Compass Group, Levy Restaurants, the National Restaurant Association and the International Food Manufacturers Association.
I have been certified by Apple to teach beginning, intermediate and advanced training courses for their Final Cut Pro editing software.
I also provide off-site services as a post-production director and Avid/Final Cut editor for commercial and corporate video producers, most notably David Axelrod's companies for whom I edited Barack Obama presidential campaign commercials in 2008 as well as spots that helped win back the U.S. House and Senate for the Democrats in 2006.
Another prominent client for almost twenty years has been Freeman Pictures, a nationally-known producer of award-winning corporate films and commercials whose larger projects have included a continuing series of dramatic programs about security issues produced for the U.S. Air Force, an eight-part series on world history and another series devoted to the topic of media literacy aimed at high school students, both produced for McDougal Littell (a publishing division of Houghton Mifflin) as well as many shows for Fortune 500 clients, from IBM and USG to McDonald’s and Sara Lee, supervising all aspects of the post-production process from stock-music selection to creation of graphics and animations.Other off-site clients have included The Oprah Winfrey Show, Allstate, Exclaim! (whose clients include Abbott Labs plus Northwestern, DeVry and National-Louis Universities), Williams/Gerard, Videology, Greenview Creative Group, Kurtis Productions and Media Process Group.
Freelance Work - November 1984 to 1993. Videotape editor of television commercials and corporate productions operating Grass Valley, CMX, Abekas, Avid and most offline systems.
My clients included McDonald’s and Sears corporate video departments, The Jack Morton Company (Kraft, Baxter) and producers such as Sedgwick Productions, Freese & Friends, Frame One and Bestlight Productions.
I was a film editor for projects including the educational feature film The Mind’s Treasure Chest for Learn TV, plus television commercials and corporate films (including United Airlines, Bristol-Meyers and Eli Lilly).
I served as assistant editor for Clio Award-winning television commercials produced by Sedelmaier Productions (creator of the famous Where’s the Beef? TV commercial) and for feature films including Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Jimmy Reardon andVice Versa.
In addition to editing, I have composed and performed music for Montgomery Wards, Commonwealth Edison, and Leo Burnett USA. I have also collaborated on award-winning music videos by the rock group The Cleaning Ladys as a composer, performer, co-producer and scriptwriter. Videos include She Won’t French Kiss (Winner of International Monitor Award and Chicago Music Video Award) and Infatuation (Winner of MTV’s Basement Tapes Award).
Editor’s Choice, Chicago - September 1983 to October 1984. I was an editor of television commercials. Their clients included McDonald’s, Oldsmobile, United Airlines, General Mills, Sentry Insurance, Del Monte and Coor’s Beer.
Swell Pictures, Chicago - April 1981 to August 1983. I was a videotape editor, assistant film editor and tape room operator. My editing included television commercials for Amoco, Prestone, Toro and U.S. Savings Bonds.
Education
Master of Fine Arts, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL - August 1979. I pursued a Master of Fine Arts in Film on a teaching assistantship and produced over a dozen 16mm films at Northwestern. My responsibilities included direction, script writing, cinematography, editing and music scoring.References
John Hagstrom, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 220 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago, IL 60604-2559 (312) 343-9524
Barbara Freeman, Freeman Pictures, 935 W. Chestnut, #303, Chicago, IL 60642-5444 (312) 829-9090
David Guzik, Videology, 536 Fair Oaks Ave., Oak Park, IL 60302-2244 (708) 386-7776
