Jonathan Young
Documents
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document filejonyoung_CV_2018
Credits
Year | Job Title Project Type |
Project Name Director / Company |
Location |
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2018 |
Video Producer / Editor
Event |
11+ AAA Video Game Releases Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive |
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2005 |
Trailer Video Editor
Television |
Say What? Toy Blue Typewriter Productions |
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2005 |
Video Producer / Editor
Event |
Ad Agency for Medical/Pharmaceutical Clients M2 Communications, Inc. |
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2004 |
Musician, Actor, Video Editor
Video |
Gaijin à Go Go / GO GO #55 Sony Music |
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2003 |
Storyboard Artist, Video Editing, Actor, Musician
Video |
Gaijin à Go Go / Skebe Baby Sony Music |
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2001 |
Creator, Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Film |
WMD, INC. Jonathan Young |
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2000 |
Creator, Producer, Writer, Director, Editor
Film |
Left the Rite Jonathan Young |
Education
Year | Qualification | Where |
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2001 | Master of Fine Arts, Computer Art | School of Visual Arts, Graduate School |
1993 | Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy | Indiana University, Bloomington |
1993 | Bachelor of Arts, Sociology | Indiana University, Bloomington |
Equipment
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About me
TV/internet commercials; news shorts sourced/shot; sports shorts/sizzles: NBA, NFL, golf, racing: auto/bike/criminal; surfing/water, beach pro/leisure; full length documentaries: hurricanes, history, animals, architecture, sports, tourism, real estate, Hollywood behind-the-scenes, US/int’l crime, gangs, LA/NYC street culture; music videos/concerts; medical education; award-winning indie shorts.Beginning as a professional drummer on multiple record labels, pursuing freelance illustrating simultaneously, I soon segued to graphic design. I applied this digital visual knowledge to earning a Master of Fine Arts degree and gained skills in IT support while still performing on records in New York City. Culminating my visual and audio skills, I entered my true calling in video production with love and family — the greatest of hit makers — enhancing the dynamics of this, our epic soundtrack... our band plays on...
Additional information:
[The scene opens during a job interview. The hall-facing wall of the office is the common clear glass panel type with its shutters open. One wall is taken by a ceiling to floor wardrobe. The other two walls each have an inscrutably labeled, closed door.
[Interviewer]
Your background(1) is interesting… significant.
But I’m still not quite sure you’re a right fit.
[Jon]
Well,… I’d like to emphasize my breadth of experience (2) enables me
to be a great fit to nearly every situation I’d be presented,…
Very well fitting to what you’ve described of your position,
and to anything that new that could show up—
[Interviewer]
—This is a perfect time to have a… “fit... closet!”
He quickly walks over to the wardrobe and pulls out what appears to be a full body scuba diving suit. It could interpreted as an SM suit, rubber from head to toe.
[Interviewer]
See if you can fit into this. Oh! I nearly forgot.
I have something for you to sign.
Oh! And, uh,… Yes. I need to close the shutters.
A montage begins of subsequent signings of documents followed by strange wardrobe fittings…
[Interviewer]
(Holding two clothes pins, each featuring the company logo).
The springs on these are… very light.
It also states that on the page you just signed.
The montage continues with wardrobe fittings leading to ever more drastic physical challenges — e.g., fitting on an astronaut’s helmet, then an electroshock therapy mouthpiece — that soon turns the interview to a door, which opens to a swimming pool. The montage ends in the office with Jon still wearing the full body suit, dripping wet with rips and blood-stained wounds.
[Interviewer]
You’re still filling out the suit really well!
You OK?… I’m impressed by your swim in the tank — ahem — with our sharks.
[Jon]
Taking swimming with them kinda literally a—
[sighing, then catching breath…bleeding]—aren’t you?
[Interviewer]
You adjusted to swimming with them really well. Dare I say you “fit in with them.”
Even in size! They’re young White Tips. Much younger than you!
Don’t worry. Their teeth are much smaller than their mouths.
That always surprises everyone. I was impressed by how
you had the wherewithal to post a selfie while swimming in there.
What’s your Instagram ID?
[Jon]
I was calling 9-1-1.
[Interviewer]
I have another document for you to sign.
(1) TV/internet commercials; news shorts sourced/shot; sports shorts/sizzles: NBA, NFL, golf, racing: auto/bike/criminal; surfing/water, beach pro/leisure; full length documentaries: hurricanes, history, animals, architecture, sports, tourism, real estate, Hollywood behind-the-scenes, US/int’l crime, gangs, LA/NYC street culture; music videos/concerts; medical education; award-winning indie shorts.
Beginning as a professional drummer on multiple record labels, pursuing freelance illustrating simultaneously, I soon segued to graphic design. I applied this digital visual knowledge to earning a Master of Fine Arts degree and gained skills in IT support while still performing on records in New York City. Culminating my visual and audio skills, I entered my true calling in video production with love and family — the greatest of hit makers — enhancing the dynamics of this, our epic soundtrack... our band plays on...
(2) As a Video Editor and Producer at Rockstar Games, along with TV ad work, I have created via its Research Department volumes of video pieces intended specifically to capture the eyes and interests of the ever shortening attention spans of its perpetually changing roster of developers. While these pieces have been produced mainly using the written and visual language of journalism and documentary, much has been created as entertainment, although retaining the underlying intention to inform. I specifically have had to wear many hats to deliver this visual content, collaborating with my colleagues who specialize in written journalism, to publish their articles along with my video projects. We have utilized as much of what modern technology and efficient production technique allows a 4-person team to deliver timely, compelling real world content to 1000+ employees, driving the creation of all its AAA releases.
I have been an originator in delivering to Rockstar Games’s many internal creatives, entertaining and informative journalistic short form and documentary feature length video. Rockstar’s modest research department consists wholly of producers who perpetually must multi-task to publish via its internal web sites more than 14 journalistic weekly stories, “more than” meaning a certain amount are updates of evolving real world news in addition to self-contained articles. Additionally, location shooting has been part of this reportage, presented as mimicking travelogues contained in magazine cultural pages, or depending on the story, this live footage may buttress other news. This internal reporting has required of us producers/researchers the editing prowess to use multiple news agencies and various internet sources to create relevance between their real world newsworthiness and the near world reality which is Rockstar Games’ main raison d’etre. I developed and applied this editorial modus operandi to video creation e.g. solely producing video pieces using real world filmed sources from Los Angeles, edited to create the realism of the virtual in-game LA produced by Rockstar: Los Santos.
This sort of unique journalism may resemble what is needed to create “based-on-a-true-story” entertainment, however our reportage was very much comprised by actual events, people (and other living things), consisting of directly sourced imagery, journalism and other internet writing, cited and edited in often investigative style, with original video shot to support the factual reporting. Creating these works has also included researching social media, vlog, blog, and podcasts for information and video sources, visual memes, and other innovative forms. I am thus very comfortable with social media and web best practices, hand-in-hand with what constitutes attractive, clickable content. Our modest department of 4 researchers could be considered a news house, documentary and entertainment internet publisher in microcosm, with my skills as the one-man video department creating pieces with my co-producers, all of us accepting the multiple roles necessary to publish content for its exclusive audience — the high and low brow culture-informed audience of Rockstar head creatives and their teams of developers — to Rockstar Games internal web sites.
I understand the process of and have engaged in all aspects of scripting, storyboarding, video shoot planning, improvising on-location and final delivery. My visual and professional career in New York has been filled with creative pursuits. Earning a Master's Degree in video art and self-producing festival-screening, award-winning work along with my background in technical video support give me great confidence in the ability to provide solutions to problems media projects always present. My online portfolio reflects my experience in delivering a wide range of creative products not only from video production, but also web-based media, music promotions and even audio-only recording industry releases. Visual media will only become richer, presenting new challenges accompanying new technologies. My ease learning the extreme details of 360 VR filmmaking emerging over the past few years exemplifies my adaptive nature to grasping artistic tools. My comfort using new technologies and the ability to present them using conventional narrative will benefit your work, short and the long term with artistic integrity.
I am always eager to collaborate with creative people striving to further capture viewer attention while seeking refreshing techniques to deliver information. In this respect, I have luckily benefitted from being able to train and mentor co-workers all along the video and marketing production pipelines. Aside from sharing my crafting skills, these professional relationships have reciprocally enhanced my own skill set and broadened my problem solving approaches, learning from their diverse perspectives. My membership in the Asian American Journalists Association exemplifies this experience — and the benefits — from professional diversity: although perhaps a niche population in the US, as are video journalists among professionals, the AAJA’s lineage represents at least 20% of the world’s population, an audience of over 1.5 billion. The implications of and diversity borne from a small number can be great. This is a wonderful trait of New York’s population, professional and otherwise.
I am excited to discuss further how my experience can enrich the already healthy creativity of a group working to contribute to the enrichment of culture, information and the enjoyment of compelling storytelling.
License & Passport
Driver's License: | Yes |
Skills
Secondary Job Title | Motion Graphic Designer |
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Job Titles | Camera Operator, Post Production Assistant, Marketing / PR, Sound Assistant, Sound Designer, Sound Editor, DIT / Data Wrangler, Retoucher, Videographer, Video Editor, Researcher, Production Support, Director, Storyboard Artist, Illustrator, Motion Graphic Designer, Graphics Artist / Graphic Designer, Compositor |
Years in industry | 6+ years |