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  Profile:  Harry Connolly
 
Linked under Editors, Assistant in UK - England/Wales.
I am a freelance editor / assistant. I am fully certified on Avid and Final Cut Pro. My most recent clients have included Impossible Pictures, Atlantic Productions, and Pioneer Productions.

Credits: Natural Wonders (DO), Prehistoric Park (DO), Primeval (DR).
Contact: [send email]  [view map]   Tel: 07814702714 / 07814702714
Address: Basement flat, 7a Highgate Avenue, Highgate, London

Is a bright, enthusiastic offline editor/producer with a breadth of experience. An advanced and certified user of both Avid and FCP platforms including Color (Final Touch grading), as well as being support certified in each. He is also Baselight certified and has worked on a number of broadcast grades and assisted on number of feature TK grades. He has wide ranging film and broadcast experience, including features, drama, documentary, factual, music and interactive. He has repeatedly worked with some of the leading firms, dailies houses and studios in the industry.

Equipment
Entire Avid Family including Nitris        Entire FCP family with Kona and Blackmagic
Baselight & Baselight Blackboard        Clipster, Content Agent, MTI, Bones, Spirit 4k, & GPC.

Recent Credits
Documentaries and Factual
2008    Charlotte Uhlenbroek on Primates    Factual/Documentary        Offline
Offline cut of this five part series for Channel Five. I cut the first show based on chimps and following Charlottes journey to follow two warring chimp families in the Ghanaian jungle.  (Avid1*60 Min Factual Doc: C5/Firefly Productions Ltd)

2008    Noah & The Ark: Josh Bernstein        Factual/Documentary        Offline
Finished off this DCI one hour factual doc for Rory Griffin, who also edited the show. CGI, Motion, some online prep also as this show was sent to a Baselight from FCP. (FCP1*60 Min Factual Doc: DCI/DarlowSmithson)

2008     Morgan Freeman’s History of
Blues, Jazz and Soul in HD NTSC        Documentary /Music        Offline
High def doc series presented by Morgan Freeman, based on a three camera setup in Morgan’s  nightclub in Clarkesdale Mississippi, “the home of the blues” (Morgan Freeman). Morgan tells the story of American music to camera inter-cut with some amazing performances from the likes of Miles Davies, BB King, Aretha Franklin and many more all in HD.
Show used to launch Smithsonian HD on Showtime HD’s network in the US. (Avid, 3×60mins, EMP for Showtime Network Smithsonian HD)

2008    Richard & Judy    Final Series        Factual /Daytime            Offline/Online
Final series for channel four of this popular day time lie show. Cutting all non-live segments based usually on the many celebrity guests and lifestyle personalities that frequent the show. (Avid, 25×60mins, Cactus for Channel 4)

2008     Basil Brush Swap Shop        Childrens/Enterainment        Offline/Online
Flag ship children’s entertainment live studio show. High level of family cross over comedy. Cutting all non-live segments and on lining. In all over 50% of the show was none studio. (Avid, 5×60mins, The Foundation for BBC)

2008    Richard & Judy            Factual /Daytime            Offline/Online
Final series for channel four of this popular day time lie show. Cutting all non-live segments based usually on the many celebrity guests and lifestyle personalities that frequent the show. (Avid, 5×60mins, Cactus for Channel 4)

2007    Britain Got Talent        Reality/Entertainment         Offline
ITV’s major talent series based on variety show principals. With average punters competing to wow panel and public with their entertainment talents, semi finals of series one (Avid, 1×60mins, Farm Group for ITV)

2007 Homes Under The Hammer     Factual                Online
DS Nitris conforms and on line of series thirteen at West Digital    (DS Nitirs, 9×30mins, Lion TV for BBC)

2007 Primeval Behind the Scenes         Drama/Factual Doc        Offline/Online
Fly on the wall doc on the process of making ITV’s hit sci/fi drama.  Talent interview, CGI reconstructs and on set actuality. Joint edited and completed the offline (Avid, 1×30mins,Impossible Pictures/ITV)

2006 Natural Wonders HD        Drama/Factual Doc        Offline/Online
Successful teaser pitch to DCI for their now highest budget HD factual/actuality drama series on six of the worlds natural wonders. (FCP, 1×10mins,Impossible Pictures/DCI)

2007    The Launch Sessions         Factual Doc/Pod casts        Offline/Online
Various fly on the wall pod casts on up and coming musicians and bands. Including interviews and live studio performance with three camera setups. (FCP, 12×10mins Audio Zoo/I Tunes


2008 Padern                35MM  Drama Short        Offline/Online
Cannes entry 2008 Harrowing man on a shore story told in reverse. Shot in the Pryrenees Mountains amongst ancient ruins and on location around London. (FCP, 1×10mins London Film School/ Cannes Film Festival 2008)

2007    Oh Brother            35MM Drama Short        Offline/Online
Political drama set on a route-master bus travelling through London post terrorist attacks. Entry Cannes 2007
(Avid, 1×10mins London Film School/ Cannes Film Festival 2007)

Lifestyle
Rachel Allen Bake            5x 30 Factual Cookery        Cactus/UKTV Food

James Martin Feast             1x 30 Factual Cookery        EMP/UKTV Food
Offline & Online

Writing for Television            4x 60 Interactive            BBC
Offline & Online
 People and Power HD            2 x 20 Current Affairs/Political    Al Jazeera

Market Kitchen                4x 60 Factual Cookery        Optomen/UKTV Food
Offline & Online

Arrange Me A Marriage            1 x 10’ Pitch Teaser Successful    Betty TV/BBC2
Offline & Online

Girl 23                     1 x 15’ 35MM Drama Short    Tumble Weed/ Cannes Film Festival
Offline & Online

My Weird Family            2 x 30’ Factual Drama        Betty TV/Discovery
Offline & Online

Bloc Party/Patrick Wolf/The Cribs    18 x 10’ Factual/Music        ICast/Polydor Records/ITunes podcast
Digital Media Awarded for Best Podcast

FEATURE FILM CREDITS AVID/TK DAILIES ASSISTANT:

Robin Hood (2009)            Feature Film              Technicolor/Universal

Nowhere Boy                Feature Film            Weinstein Company

Creation                 Feature Film            Warner Bros

Sherlock Holmes (2009)            Feature Film              Deluxe/Warner Bros

Cheri                    Feature Film              Bill Kenwright Films/Pathe

Shanghai (TK assistant)            Feature Film              Warner Bros

Made of Honour                Feature Film              Technicolor/Columbia Pictures

My Zinc Bed                Feature Film              Technicolor/HBO

Harry Potter (order of..)            Feature Film              Technicolor/Warner Bros

JUNIOR EDITOR CREDITS AVID

NASA’S Greatest Missions        5x 60 Factual Doc        DangerousFilms/DCI

The Row                3 x 60’ Factual              Bellwether Media /BBC2&4

Dispatches (2007)            3 x 60’ Factual              Quicksilver Media /Ch4

Unreported World Series 7        13 x 30’ Factual              Quicksilver Media /Ch4

F**k It Generation            6 x 60’ Factual/Music        September Films/ITV

NME Awards 2007            1 x 100’ Factual/Music        Remedy Productions/Ch4

Freshly Squeezed/Fresh/Nothing But    3 x 30’ Factual/Music        Remedy Productions/Ch4

Homes Under The Hammer (Series 12)    9 x 30’ Factual            Lion TV/BBC

The Fame Game                1 x 60’ Factual            One Ten /C4

Mind Masters                1 x 60’ Factual            One Ten /C4

Bullshit Detectives            1 x 60’ Factual            One Ten /C4

Britain’s Next Top Model         6 x 60’ Docudrama        Thumbs Up/Living TV

Primeval Behind the Scenes        1 x 60’ Drama/Factual Doc    Impossible Pictures/ITV3

The Hindenburg: Titanic of the Skies    1 x 100’ Docudrama        Smithsonian/Ch4

Primeval (Series one)             6 x 60’ Drama            ITV

HD Atlas- Italy                2 x 60’ Documentary        Atlantic Productions/Discovery

Lost World                12 x 60’ Docudrama        Atlantic Productions/History Channel   
Ocean Odyssey                 2 x 60’ Factual Drama        Impossible Pictures/BBC


JUNIOR EDITOR CREDITS FCP:
Natural Wonders            6 x 60’ Factual Drama        Impossible Pictures/Discovery

Prehistoric Park                6 x 60’ Docudrama        ITV

The Clothes Show 2007            12 x 30’ Factual            Shine/ Living TV



RECENT AVID ASSISTANT CREDITS:
Walking With Monsters            3 x 60’ Docudrama        Impossible Pictures/BBC

The Story of One            1 x 60’ Documentary        Impossible Pictures/BBC

T-Rex: A Dinosaur In Hollywood        1 x 60’ Factual Entertainment    Impossible Pictures/BBC

       
INDUSTRY TRAINING
Baselight Colourist Training at Filmlight London 2008
VET Avid 101 Editing on Media Composer Adrenaline Mac / PC HD.
VET Avid 110 Avid Effects Editing HD
VET Avid 201 Advanced Techniques for Avid Editing HD
VET Avid 400 Avid Mac / PC System Support
VET Working in Film, TV and Multi Media
SOHO EDITORS Broadcast meets HD
VET HD Overview
BBC Final Cut Pro  Advanced Conversion course for craft editors
BBC Final Cut Pro Maintenance
LFA Advanced Photoshop





KEY SKILLS
Avid Media Composer (plus Adrenaline & XpressPro) MAC/PC– Digitising, EDL Manager, export of OMFI with embedded audio.
DS Nitris Conforming, Avid Symphony Conforming and grading
Final Cut pro Colour Correction and general on-lining. Strong Motion Skills.
Strong Avid/FCP technical support skills including Unity, RAID, AccelWARE, and MetaLAN shared storage bundles.
Machine Control Room/VT operations – striping tapes with timecode, dubbing into all tape formats – HDCAM, DVCproHD, HDV, DigiBeta, Beta-SP, Betacam-SX, DVCAM, DVCPRO, D3, J3 & U-matic.
Excellent DVD Studio Pro, Soundtrack Pro, Shake and Premier knowledge.
Support level Mac and Windows system knowledge.



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