LOS ANGELES • (C) ORYSIA 862-***-**** KUCHER • (E) *************@*****.***
VIDEO PRODUCER, DIRECTOR, EDITOR
ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS AND ATTENTION TO DETAIL
EXCELS AT QUICK TURNAROUNDS, MEETS DEADLINES
CAPABLE OF INDEPENDENT TASKS AND TEAM PROJECTS
PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE: CAMERA, LIGHTING, SOUND
EFFICIENT EDITING WITH SUPERIOR STORYTELLING ABILITY ADVANCED KNOWLEDGE OF TIMING AND CONTINUITY
MEDIA MANAGEMENT TROUBLESHOOTING AND TECH SUPPORT
DIRECTING AND LEADING PRODUCTION CREWS
WORK EXPERIENCE
Producer, Director, Editor Sinclair/Tennis Channel May 2022 – present Directed and produced original content with Hugo Boss, Sabalenka, Zverev, Petkovic, Hantuchova, and Amritraj. Created original series Tennis like a Rockstar for youtube and broadcast. Cross platform content for audience growth including Tik Tok channel launch. Editor
Hearst/Delish/House Beautiful
January 2019 – May 2021
Edit Food, Lifestyle, and Doc related content for website, Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, IGTV and Tik Tok. Short and long form. Post Production Engineer USTV/ Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee September 2017 – present Set up Avid on 5 machines with remote capabilities, troubleshooting, 4K footage transcode, sync, dailies, string outs, and deliveries. Junior News Editor ABC News January 2017 – freelance Edit news package and special content from script. Cut in broll and VO, scratch tracks, multigroup and sync footage. Editor TEDx June 2018 – January 2019
Multicam edit Tedx talks/presentations, graphics and slides, color correction, and sound mix. Group and sync media, output. Producer and Editor The Rachael Ray Show: CBS Interactive December 2016 – June 2017 Edit on-air footage for web and social. Pitch, produce, light, shoot, and edit original food/lifestyle content, BTS, FB live. Audience growth strategy and syndication.
Assistant Editor A&E Television Network May 2016 – February 2017 Final promo asset delivery to network. QC, tape layoff, conversions, compressions, ingest, patching, routing, troubleshooting Assistant Film Editor Trouble, Theresa Rebeck (MPEG Feature Film) May 2016 – July 2016 Project set up, organization by scene, manual two camera with audio sync. Edit initial assemblies of scenes for the Director. Editor/Assistant Editor The Charlie Rose Show: Bloomberg May 2014 – February 2016 Edit show segments, field packages, promos and news packages for on air broadcast with same day turn around. Lead teams transition to Interplay and managed media assets on Isis.
Assistant Editor/ Media Manager
The Rachael Ray Show: CBS
August 2013 – June 2014
Multicam grouping, editing of shows, teases, field pieces, and 30 sec tips. Media Management: Interplay, Isis, restore offline media, upres media, and load tapes into Spectra. Capture from tape: digibeta, hdvc pro, hdv; xd cam, transcode and file delivery in various formats. Owner, Editor, Producer, Camera Operator One Step Up Productions August 2011 – January 2017 Project development, scripting, budgeting, scheduling, crewing, team leadership, live show production, and set management. Produced live show “Comedy Spillage” at BB Kings in Times Square. Produced SAG Ultra low short film “Goddess of Time”. Producer, Editor, Camera Operator Doc Reels July 2010 – September 2013 Video production and narrative editing of short form documentaries, doctor commercials and interviews. EDUCATION B.A. Media and Communication Studies – Pace University - (GPA 3.7) September 2007- May 2010 TECHNICAL SKILLS
Editing: Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere, After Effects, MOGRTs, transcoding video codecs, decks, tape and tapeless, media management: Interplay, Isis, Access, Spectra, Airspeed, Avid Media Tool, Terrablock. Operation of various cameras. Studio, set, and location lighting and sound. Newsgathering: ENPS, Radioman. Movie Magic Budgeting and Scheduling. Windows, Mac OS, MS Word, Excel, Powerpoint. Photoshop, Illustrator. Java and HTML. LANGUAGES
UNION
English, Ukrainian, Russian, Spanish, German.
Member of Motion Picture Editors Guild (Local 700)