Assistant Office

mel hudson

education western michigan university 2012 - 2015

B.A. media communications + minors: imaging + textiles *******.***@*****.*** 248-***-****

experience freelance production: 2015 - present

- Look Studios Freelance Post Producer, August - September 2020

- MAC Cosmetics Art Buyer + Senior Video Producer, 2018

- Pars Unum Photo Producer, Photographer: Andrés Vélez, 2018

- Quirk Creative Production + Casting Assistant, 2018

- Project Peppermint Documentary Production + Camera Assistant, Director: Oriel Pe’er, 2017

- Dazed + Confused Production + Camera Assistant, Photographer: Joshua Woods, 2017

- Chevrolet Trax Campaign Production Coordinator, Agency: McCann Worldwide, 2015

- Serenity Gathering Music + Arts Festival Event Producer, 2015 gloss vfx senior producer: january 2019 - december 2019

- Managed calendar, streamlined workflow, provided quality control on all assets and developed schedules for concurrent projects

- Organized all creative briefs + feedback to coordinate tasks between editors, colorists, flame artists + rotoscoping

- Working knowledge of Final Cut Pro, Premiere Pro, understanding of workflow in Davinci Resolve and Autodesk Flame

- Outsourced and managed communications for AFX, CGI, music research, audio engineers, composers + VO

- Developed budgets, managed project and cost negotiation, reconciled + monitored internal costs throughout jeffrey stark gallery assistant: june 2018 - october 2018

- Greeted guests + cleaned gallery, assisted director with administrative tasks + events art + commerce producer: april 2017 - july 2018

- Managed + coordinated pre-production, on set, post-production, accounting + calendars for 7 artists

- Oversaw small + large scale productions, managed logistics + schedules, liaised production related communications

- Optioned stylists, hair, makeup, manicurist, set designers, DP, film crew, studios, locations + catering

- Created estimates, managed client and vendor negotiations, generated invoices + actualized budgets

- Recorded weekly job inquiries to vet project requests, updated mailing lists and assisted with marketing m.a.p ltd production assistant: january 2016 - april 2017

- Assisted producers with pre-production, logistics, studios, locations, catering, EQ orders and billing

- Managed physical archives for 18 artists, requested magazines, managed digital files and prints

- Managed calendars + interns, completed O-1 and O-2 artist visas, coordinated office events + go sees

- Updated books and portfolios, produced databases with creative research and contacts management artists intern: september 2015 - january 2016

- Assisted producers and agents with production, visas and creative research

- Strategized with agents to create client specific presentations and portfolios

- Collected and archived digital images for artists + maintained physical archives yhs records media + press: december 2013 - september 2015

- Recorded video at live events and took photographs for press and album art

- Strategized campaigns, exclusive releases and features generating over 30 articles

- Developed media lists and wrote press releases for albums, singles and events college fashionista digital editor + contributor: december 2013 - december 2015

- Photographed street style weekly with a DSLR, retouched images to meet site and brand requirements for weekly articles

- Published over 80 articles via WordPress covering style trends and referenced vogue.com

- Copyedited 65 articles per week, provided feedback on grammar, content and photography

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