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Sales Associate Video Producer

Location:
Tucson, AZ
Posted:
March 05, 2025

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Bruce Manning

Digital video photography, After Effects editor,

video producer, camera

Phone 530-***-****

Career Summary

Work with smart, creative people in a high-energy setting. Share and learn new techniques in film, and video. Hiring crews,

including cameras, lighting, grips, hair, and makeup. Overseeing the completed project. Extremely creative and mechanical

Working knowledge and proven experience: RED ONE DIGITAL cinema camera and other digital cameras. Digital

Imaging technician responsible for safeguarding and backing up data Experience with digital render compressors and

various codecs for rendering completed shots to Youtube Good with Adobe Photoshop, and After Effects, Green screen compositing with RED ONE DIGITAL, Canon D7, D5 (own) Green screen camera, lighting and shooting expertise, lighting and shooting actors. Lighting and shooting cars and

background plates in or on moving objects.

Worked with the largest studios in Hollywood - Paramount studios, Universal studios universal, Warner Brothers studios.

Some Movies including - IMDB

Bruce A. Manning BIO

After college Bruce A. Manning landed an internship on the very first "Star Trek" the movie. One of the top production companies in the world, then Robert Abels. Bruce A. Manning worked on commercials like AT&T, Levis, Amtrak, Phillips Radios, 7up, to name a few. He moved up the ladder getting into the photographers union, local 600 which resulted in better pay. Bruce moved over to the Walt Disney movie "Tron" He along with many talent artist and creative directors pieced together an eye popping collection of images including the "Tron" poster, and many composite photographs use in "Life" magazine, People magazine, and the "Tron" collectors book. Advancing forward Bruce continued to climb the ladder of success in Hollywood, and landed a position as 2nd assistant cameraman on the movie "Top Gun" working closely to now famous film director Tony Scott (RIP) and Director of Photography Wayne Kimball, Bruce was flown out 300 miles west San Diego to the navy fighter ship "USS Enterprise". Loading 35mm Panavision film magazines and doing the clapper slate helped make the movie with stars including Tom Cruse, Meg Ryan, among others. Bruce landed a nice position on Terminator II, 2nd unit... Terminator II was a big movie, the biggest in Hollywood at the time, Bruce A. Manning learned valuable skills working with cars and camera cars, insert cars and odd camera mounts, attaching 35mm film cameras on assorted vehicles from motorcycles, cars, and trucks. Bruce learned a lot and sharpened his craft quick. Including remote follow focus pulling. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor: Terminator 2: Judgment Day then a cyborg from the future speeds by on his bike and sawed off, nothing could hurt him. The director, award winning James Cameron a very good director expected the best. The responsibilities were great with many crew-members coming and going keeping Bruce on his toes. Soon after he started producing his own productions and also developed a popular stock footage library of 35mm film images that brought in income from royalties for years. Highlighted images in his cache were road images shot in Joshua Tree National Park these special road and car images were shot on 35mm film cameras out the back of his 1992 silver ford mustang using a Ubangie to off-set mount in the trunk of the car putting the camera inches off the road giving a very close look to the road, these images propelled him upward. National car commercials used these images in Ford, Chevy, Toyota cars and trucks.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bruce Manning

Sales Associate

BDS marketing, Irvine California

Jan '13 - Dec '13 (11 Months)

BDS Marketing as Sales Associate ---Canon cameras and Printers- Holiday project -- 2013--2014

Sales and merchandising

Channel Partners- BDS marketing, Irvine California Jan '13 - Aug '13 (7 Months)

Channel Partners---Dr.Beats---Canon cameras, I robot vacuum- merchandising 2013--2014 Bruce Manning

Sales associate for Canon cameras

BDS marketing, Irvine California

Jan '13 - Dec '13 (11 Months)

BDS Marketing as sales associate ---Canon cameras and printers - back to school project -- 2013

BDS Marketing as sales associate

Canon Cameras Powershot

Jan '11 - Dec '12 (1 Year, 11 Months)

BDS Marketing as sales associate --- Canon Cameras Powershot -- 2011- 2012 Assistant Cameraman

Sales and Marketing

Bds marketing, Irvine California

Jan '02 - Jan '05 (3 Years)

Making the Business Grow: Dates - 2002-2018 Creating and marketing a film library of 2k and high-definition footage

clips. Sales and Marketing strategies, cold calling, networking, proposals, building relationships and maintaining

relationships. Internet QuickTime promotional movies made custom for specific sales usage. Advertising campaigns and

promotional packages. Building concepts of business including research on specific sales strategies Building the inventory

(shooting images). Maintaining, selling inventory and services (being in the office or able to be reached), contracts and

agreements Public relationships (making client happy and following up days and weeks later) Internet website

development, strategies, advertising in books, magazines and media Clients include: MTV Networks - Viacom, RoCart,

Saatchi & Saatchi, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros., Fox, Universal Studios, Sprint; Samsung; Ford Motor Cars and Trucks;

Toyota Cars and Trucks.

Stock Footage Producer

Scott Dietrich action sports, Malibu California

Jan '00 - Present (22 Years, 9 Months)

Current Job Title: Stock footage supplier/ Producer 2000-2018 Represented by ---Scott Dittrich

****@************************.*** Sales Is The Key. Without Sales, You Can't Stay In Business..! Recent! October

2018 Three-month photography and video trip to Italy - Fantastic! Three-month photography and video trip to Alaska,

incredible

First assistant cameraman technician focus puller

Sliver IMDB, Los Angeles California

Jan '93 - Jul '93 (6 Months)

Sliver IMDB credits Director: Phillip Noyce (1993) first assistant cameraman technician focus puller

Director IMDB

Alien

Jan '92 - Dec '92 (11 Months)

Alien Director IMDB credits David Fincher (1992) Top Gun 2nd ac camera Director Tony Scott

(rip)--- and many more !

Tron

Bruce Manning

Terminator to judgment day First assistant camera technician focus puller Calico, Los Angeles California

Jan '91 - Aug '91 (7 Months)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day Entire 2nd unit camera --IMDB credits Director James Cameron

(1991)

first assistant cameraman technician focus puller (imdb credit) First AC cameraman technician

Turner & Hooch IMDB, Los Angeles California

Jan '89 - May '99 (10 Years, 4 Months)

Turner & Hooch IMDB credits Director: Roger Spottiswoode (1989) Campground host Grand Tetons National Park -lizard Creek Aramark Signal Mountain Lodge Forever Resorts, Moron Wyoming May '17 - Oct '17 (6 Months)

Love camping -was the host at lizard Creek lots of bears really enjoyed this job Grand Tetons National Park Lizard Creek campground Campground host Grand Tetons national park Wyoming at lizard Creek Armmark - Forever resorts Signal Mountain Lodge, Moron Wyoming Mar '20 - Oct '20 (8 Months)

Campground host in one of the most beautiful campgrounds The Grand Teton national Park Aliens III The movie cameraman camera operator technician Richard Edland’s Boss film, Marina Del Ray

Mar '01 - Dec '01 (10 Months)

The movie - Aliens III cameramen technician (imdb credit) Eve's Bayou Movie Director of photography visual effects Trimark Pictures, Los Angeles California

Jul '97 - Oct '97 (4 Months)

Eve's Bayou was the fun project shot down in the swamps of Louisiana got nice credit international movie database as a visual effects cameraman

“Tron” The Movie - Yes the first one!

Disney studios - Robert Abel studios, Burbank California Mar '90 - Mar '91 (1 Year)

At Robert Ables Visual effects studios we were the first company to use computer graphics in a movie Tron I did the

poster many magazines and photos (Life magazine)

Bruce Manning

“I Carly” Director of photography second unit

MTV, Burbank California

I Carly" - TV show by MTV. it's about a teenage girl filmed for the young teenage crowd very popular TV show

“I Carly” MTV - Director of photography second union MTV Nickelodeon, Burbank California

Mar '07 - Sep '11 (4 Years, 6 Months)

ICarly episodic TV by MTV - a show for young teenagers, was a very popular TV show Top gun the movie - second assistant cameraman

Paramount Pictures, Los Angeles California

Jan '91 - Nov '91 (10 Months)

"Top gun" - I was a second assistant cameraman on the ship USS enterprise filming f14s taking off from the flight deck -

very exciting

Education

Associate Degree '79 Photography, Art history

Art Institute of Atlanta, Atlanta Georgia

Mar '76 - Mar '79

Skills

Video and film Camera expert

(Expert) 8 to 9 Years

Have expertise with many popular digital cameras Have a great creative eye and good with lighting actors. Green screen

camera and lighting I have performed.

Adobe after effects expert

(Advanced) 8 to 9 Years

2d Adobe after effects compositor, good with color and image manipulation. Photoshop expert using technique called

paths to cut out images with vector lines and then exporting them back into after effects Sales expert

(Advanced) 7 to 8 Years

Several years of sales and marketing experience. Dyson, I - Robot, Dr Beats and Canon Cameras and printers. Including

work with a Fortune 555 company BDS Irvine .



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