Contact details: Kevin Stuart Smith BETACAM SHOWREEL AVAILABLE ON
REQUEST. Television and Photojournalism: 4 Month training
course in TELEVISION OPERATIONS (April 1985) TELEVISION INDUSTRY EXPERIENCE TO DATE : 1985-2000 **FILM: 35 mm and 16 mm (news - documentary – commercials - drama)-Camera assistant -Clapper loader/focus puller, etc -Grips and jib operation, etc -Sound and lighting **VIDEO: Betacam (news – documentary – commercials) -5 years full time employment as Television News Cameraman (SABC -South African Broadcasting Corporation – ATN -Africa Television News and freelance) (Bureau – Johannesburg, South Africa- Apartheid Unrest - Zimbabwe, Malawi, Angola and Mozambique) -Extensive Aerial Experience –chopper and fixed-wing – Video and stills -Digital Editing on Softimage Digital Suite and Avid Media Composer (2 years experience) -Television Programme branding (Video Design - Motion Graphics - Animation) -Television Programme Logo Design Present Employment:Global Access(South Africa) Corporate Communications Specialists and Television Production Position: Production Designer Work Description: -The branding of television programmes using the combination of Graphic Design,Video footage and Animation. -Video Cameraman. -Video Editor. -Set design. -All multimedia responsibilities including website design & programming and Interactive CD-ROM design. Tools: -Betacam -Nikon -Macintosh and PC -SoftImage Digital Suite -Avid Media Composer Graphics software: -Photoshop -Adobe After-Effects -Macromedia Freehand -Adobe Illustrator -3-D Studio Max -Fractal Painter -Kai’s Power -Tools - all multimedia authoring and FTP software. Clients: -Woolworths -BMW -Vodac -Rand Merchant Bank -Associated Banks of South Africa (ABSA) -First National Bank of South Africa -Old Mutual Assurance I am also contracted in on a personal basis as Creative Consultant to Horezontal.com Pty. Ltd. Multimedia/IT and Movie Industry Finance specialists :-see www.horezontal.com Photography and Photojournalism: -4 month full-time photography and darkroom course – Johannesburg Technical College. -Freelance Experience with Afrapix and The Star newspaper, Johannesburg. Animation: Television Branding animation, 2D and 3D. Software: 3D-Studio Max, Specular Infini-D, Adobe After-Effects and Photoshop. Multimedia Website -Adaption of Corporate Identity for the electronic media. -Website design and conceptualisation. -Website illustration. -Website layout. -HTML programming. -Familiar with both Mac and PC Internet & FTP Protocols. WORKED AS FULL-TIME WEBSITE DESIGNER AND INTERNET ART DIRECTOR FOR 2 YEARS, Cape Town, South Africa - Benson Cairns Communications *Complete Online portfolio available at: www.jaywalk.com/kev DTP -Comprehensive Integrated Desktop Publishing -Advanced training on Macintosh: -Design, Illustration and layout -High-end scanning and photo-retouching/colour correction -Bureau, repro and electronic pre-press technique -Typography Numerous advanced training courses attended in all the above categories WORKED AS FULL TIME DTP DESIGNER FOR 3 YEARS Interface design for Interactive CD-ROMExtensive experience working as a designer in conjunction with programmers in Macromedia Director and Authorware. Full-time work experience in the following
media: Interests: Current Affairs, Politics, Communications, Technology, Conflict and Religion, Anthropology, Paleantology, Archaeology, Astronomy, History, Food, Art & Sculpture, Fashion, NASA Programme, the origins of man. Date of Birth: 63-03-19Nationality: South African Telephone: (Mobile) +27 82 962 8316 (home) +27 11 784 0732 (work) +27 11 350 2081 e-mail: kevin@globalaccess.co.za |