Daniel Mercer

Education

Equipment

My Equipment/Kit: Avid Pro Tools, Final Cut Pro / X, Mac Book Pro

I can use: Final Cut Pro / X, Avid Pro Tools, Mac Book Pro

About me

My name is Daniel Mercer and I am an experience Freelance Post Production editor.

Having spent three years working for a degree in History and Archaeology I’ve come to realise that I much prefer sifting though hours of film footage to reveal a story than unearthing relics from the past. I’ve spent the last few years gaining experience in many of London’s top post-production houses and have also worked on a variety of film, corporate and TV productions.

Post Production Experience
Wee Blog
This is a short comedy series produced for the Utube Channel, The 6 episode comedy series centres around the lives of 6 individual characters (based on real people) represented by a fangirl, a cynic, a geek, a Oversharer, a hipster and a feminist. The series is about the events in their lives and how this effects what they tweet about.
It is filmed and directed by up and coming writer Melissa Parry. I and another editor for trending productions edited it.

Undefeated
This film was directed and produced by the HIV charity Body and Soul and was indorsed by celebratities including Kate Moss. It is a short Feature film about a schoolgirl who is HIV positive and centres around the misconception produced when the whole school find out about this truth.
I worked as a 2nd assistant syncing the clips from the A, B & C Camera with the sound on Avid Media Composer.

Till Sunset
This is a short Horror film directed by up and coming director David Woods, It is about three strangers who find themselves in a mysterious woods and about their increase paranoia when they find an open grave and find out that one of them must be sacrificed.
I worked as 2nd Assistant editor syncing the A, B & C Camera’s together with the sound and working with the offline editor on the edit.


Exhibition
I worked in collaboration with a Photoshop artist to produce a promotional video for the solo exhibition of an up and coming graphic illustrations artist called Joseph P Kelly. Using a combination of giffs produced by the Photoshop artist, and special effects using Final Cut Pro we produced the film together.

Hoxton Hall
This film was a collaboration of the head of the Youth arts department at Hoxton Hall, a Photoshop artist and Me. It was designed to promote the brilliant work done by the children of the youth arts department and their end of year exhibition. It was also put up on the website, to promote what the Youth arts department and to secure future funding from Hackney Council. It was produced using a number of Gifs as well as special effects using Final Cut Pro.

Turn it up
Turn it up is a song produced by the up and coming local rap collaboration. I worked as a VFX editor on both the offline and online edit, collaborating with the director to produce a time-lapse music video promoting the song.

- Planet Earth into Pashto in 2010. I worked in the Translation suite using Pro Tools and Shadowing the Editor Ross Chapman and Translator Ali Atrai.

- Open Doors, The Warren Youth Centre Project, Music Video’s for Freedom Road. I worked as part of the media team on FCP for CVS (Council for Volunteer Services), Director; Jakki feetom

- Translation of the Rock Awards, May 2013, I worked as a runner for the translation department.
-Technician for the BBC Archives, Re:fine, 2013. Fixing and spotting timecodes and logging clips
- Whole Lotta Sole, 1 Day Work Experience in a Post Production Room, Feature length Comedy staring Brendan Frasier. I learnt about Avid, Transcoding, A, B, C Cam in an editing suite. 1st Assistant Editor; George Adams

Production Work
- Freelance Studio Cameraman, Chelsea TV and Input Media, 2012 to the present. We worked in the studio filming live sports shows for Chelsea TV using different cameras including crane shots, presenter camera and guest camera roles.
- The Cloud, Sky’s Wifi Service, Utmost Media, 2011. We were shooting in a chroma key studio for a corporate video. On the shoot, I learnt a lot from the gaffer regarding correctly lighting a green screen.

- Captain America; The First Avenger, 2011. Directed by Joe Johnston. Running on set of a Hollywood film was a fantastic experience. There was so much amazing green screen technical wizardry on set.

Running Experience
- Soho Runners, Freelance Runner at Glass Works, The Station, Input Media, Chelsea TV, Rapid Pictures, Premier PR, The Edit Store, The Unit, Suite TV, Directors Cut, Halo, Prime Focus and The Motion Picture Company gaining experience undertaking media ingestion, camera operating, assisting editors not to mention making countless cups of tea always served with a smile on my face.

Please find a link to my show reel; https://www.youtube.com/user/ggggggggggg571/videos
Thanks for your time.











Additional information:
Education
- FCP Course at Hackney Space Studio,
- BTEC, Media, TV and Editing,
- BA History and Archaeology Degree at the University of Wales, Bangor (2008)
- Competent with Mac and PC, FCP, I Works and Microsoft Word.
- Used Avid and Pro Tools,
-Conversational French
- Mac Book Pro and FCP
- Steve Huffish Avid Media Composer Training Tutorials, Larry Jordan Final Cut Pro Training Tutorial
- ‘The Film Editors Handbook; How to tame the chaos of the editing room’ by Norman Hollyn, ‘In the Blink of an Eye; A Perspective on Film Editing by Walter Murch and ‘The Conversation; Walter Murch and the art of Editing Film’ by Michael Ondaatje.

Skills

Secondary Job Title	Editor (Final Cut Pro)
Job Titles	Video Editor, Production Assistant (PA), Production Support, Boom Operator
Years in industry	1 to 3 years