Video Editor Resume Examples

Video Editor Resume Example

Meet Theo Vanderberg, a fictional video editor cutting about 320 videos a year for a digital media channel with 4.2M subscribers. This example shows the core editing role measured on views, retention, and deadline record.

Theo Vanderberg

(629) 555-0174 ◇ Nashville, TN

theo.vanderberg@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/theo-vanderberg ◇ theovanderberg.com

Objective

Video editor with 6 years in a digital media company, cutting about 320 videos a year across a news and lifestyle channel with 4.2M subscribers. Edits long-form features of 10 to 25 minutes and short-form cuts under 90 seconds, holds a 97% on-deadline delivery rate across 3 years, and edited the 4 most-viewed videos on the channel last year with a combined 38M views. Edits for the viewer who might leave in the next 3 seconds, and for the one who stays to the end.

Education

B.A. in Film and Media Production, Cumberland Crown University 2016 – 2020

Coursework in Editing, Cinematography, Sound Design, Documentary Production, and Media Theory.

Adobe Certified Professional, Premiere Pro, Adobe 2022

Also completed a colour grading course in DaVinci Resolve and a motion graphics course in After Effects in 2023.

Skills

Editing

Narrative and documentary editing, short-form and vertical cuts, interview and multicam editing, pacing and structure, story editing from raw footage, retention-driven editing

Post-Production

Colour correction and grading, sound mixing and cleanup, motion graphics and lower thirds, captions and accessibility, delivery specifications, archive and media management

Workflow

Proxy workflows, shared storage and project organisation, producer collaboration, revision management, analytics-informed editing, deadline management

Tools & Platforms

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Audition, Frame.io, Photoshop, YouTube Studio, Airtable

Experience

Video Editor 05/2022 – Present

Cumberland Crown Media Nashville, TN

Edit about 320 videos a year for a channel with 4.2M subscribers, across long-form features and short-form cuts.
Edited the 4 most-viewed videos on the channel last year with a combined 38M views and an average 58% retention at the midpoint.
Hold a 97% on-deadline delivery rate across 3 years and about 950 deliveries.

Junior Video Editor 08/2020 – 04/2022

Music Row Line Studios Nashville, TN

Cut about 200 videos a year for 5 brand and music clients, including 40 music videos and 60 social cuts.
Built a short-form cutdown workflow that produced 3 vertical versions from each long-form edit in under 2 hours.
Raised average client first-cut approval from 55% to 80% by introducing a 2-minute structure preview before the full edit.

Post-Production Intern 01/2020 – 05/2020

Music Row Line Studios Nashville, TN

Logged and organised about 400 hours of footage across 12 projects.
Assembled first cuts for 15 social videos, 9 of which were delivered with minor changes.
Received a full-time offer at the end of the 5-month internship.

Projects

Retention Editing Method. Analysed retention curves on 150 channel videos to find the 3 drop-off patterns in the first 30 seconds, then built an opening structure and pacing rules used on every edit since, which raised average 30-second retention from 61% to 74% across the following 200 videos.

Four-Part Investigative Feature. Edited a 4-part investigative series of 22 minutes per episode from 60 hours of interviews and archive, structuring the story with the producer across 8 weeks, which reached 12M combined views and won a regional digital journalism award.

Short-Form Cutdown Workflow. Built a template-driven workflow at a previous studio that produced 3 vertical versions from each long-form edit with reframing presets and caption styles, cutting turnaround from a day to under 2 hours and adding about 180 social deliverables a year.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Member of a city film and video collective of about 150, attending monthly screenings.
Volunteer editor for a youth media programme, mentoring 6 students a semester.
Judge for a regional student film festival, reviewing about 40 entries a year.

Leadership

Lead editor on the flagship weekly feature, directing 2 assistant editors on assembly and graphics.
Trained 4 junior editors on the retention editing method and channel style guide.
Run the weekly edit review with producers where about 8 cuts are reviewed against analytics.

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Freelance Video Editor Resume Example

Meet Alessia Romano, a freelance editor delivering about 260 projects a year for 18 repeat clients. This example shows how to write freelance work as a business: revenue growth, repeat rate, and a creator channel grown to 1.4M subscribers.

Alessia Romano

(323) 555-0135 ◇ Los Angeles, CA

alessia.romano@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/alessia-romano ◇ alessiaromano.com

Objective

Freelance video editor with 7 years editing for brands, creators, and agencies, delivering about 260 projects a year for a roster of 18 repeat clients. Grew freelance revenue from $38,000 to $142,000 a year in 5 years, holds a 92% client repeat rate, and edited a creator channel from 90,000 to 1.4M subscribers across 2 years of weekly episodes. Runs the editing as a business, with a scope, a schedule, and a delivery standard for every project.

Education

B.F.A. in Film Editing, Los Feliz Crown University 2015 – 2019

Coursework in Narrative Editing, Documentary Editing, Sound Design, Colour, and Post-Production Management.

DaVinci Resolve Certified Colorist, Blackmagic Design 2022

Also holds Adobe Certified Professional in Premiere Pro and completed a small business finance course in 2021.

Skills

Editing

Creator and podcast video editing, brand and commercial spots, social vertical content, event recaps, documentary shorts, story structure from unscripted footage

Post-Production

Colour grading, sound design and mixing, motion graphics and titles, thumbnails and end screens, caption files, multi-format delivery

Freelance Operations

Scoping and quoting, contracts and invoicing, revision rounds, client review workflows, scheduling across concurrent projects, subcontracting overflow work

Tools & Platforms

Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, After Effects, Audition, Frame.io, Notion, QuickBooks, Descript

Experience

Freelance Video Editor 06/2021 – Present

Self-Employed Los Angeles, CA

Deliver about 260 projects a year for 18 repeat clients across creators, brands, and 2 agencies, with revenue of $142,000 last year.
Edited a weekly creator channel from 90,000 to 1.4M subscribers in 2 years, with average view duration rising from 4.1 to 7.8 minutes.
Hold a 92% client repeat rate across 5 years and a 2-round average on revisions against a 3-round contract allowance.

Freelance Video Editor (Part Time) 01/2020 – 05/2021

Self-Employed Los Angeles, CA

Built a client base of 6 creators and 2 small brands while working a staff role, earning $38,000 in the first full year.
Delivered about 90 projects across 17 months with a 100% on-deadline record.
Moved to full-time freelance once monthly revenue exceeded the staff salary for 4 consecutive months.

Assistant Editor 07/2019 – 05/2021

Silver Lake Line Post Los Angeles, CA

Assisted 4 editors on about 60 commercial and branded content projects a year with footage prep, sync, and assembly.
Cut 25 social versions a month from long-form commercial edits with a 95% first-pass approval rate.
Managed media for a 200TB shared storage system with 0 lost footage incidents in 2 years.

Projects

Creator Channel Growth. Took over weekly editing for an interview channel at 90,000 subscribers, restructured episodes around a cold open and 3 chaptered segments, and built a thumbnail and title testing routine with the creator, which grew the channel to 1.4M subscribers and doubled average view duration in 2 years.

Freelance Business System. Built a scoping template with 3 package tiers, a client review workflow with timestamped comments, and a scheduling system that caps concurrent projects at 6, which grew revenue from $38,000 to $142,000 while holding a 100% on-deadline record.

Brand Launch Campaign. Edited a 12-piece launch campaign for a fitness apparel brand across a 90-second hero film, 6 product spots, and 5 vertical cuts from a 2-day shoot, delivered in 10 days, which the brand credited with a 3.2 times return on advertising spend in launch month.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Member of a freelance editors network of about 300 that shares overflow work and rates.
Run a monthly online editing critique session with about 25 regular attendees.
Volunteer editor for a documentary nonprofit, about 1 short film a year.

Leadership

Subcontract overflow work to 3 editors during peak months and quality check every delivery.
Mentor 2 early-career editors a year on freelance pricing and client management.
Lead post-production on agency projects with teams of up to 5 across editing, colour, and sound.

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Senior Video Editor Resume Example

Meet Kojo Amponsah, a senior editor leading a post-production team of 9 at a sports network. This example shows senior scope: turnaround cut on same-day packages, documentary series with award nominations, and a multi-platform workflow.

Kojo Amponsah

(678) 555-0181 ◇ Atlanta, GA

kojo.amponsah@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/kojo-amponsah ◇ kojoamponsah.com

Objective

Senior video editor with 12 years in broadcast and streaming, leading a post-production team of 9 editors delivering about 1,100 pieces a year for a regional sports network and its streaming service. Cut average turnaround on same-day highlight packages from 55 minutes to 22, delivered 3 documentary series with 2 regional Emmy nominations, and built the template and archive system that lets the team publish across broadcast, streaming, and social from 1 edit. Runs a room where the deadline is the broadcast and it does not move.

Education

B.A. in Broadcast Journalism, Piedmont Park Crown University 2010 – 2014

Coursework in Video Editing, Broadcast Production, Sports Journalism, and Media Law.

Avid Certified User, Media Composer, Avid 2016

Also holds Adobe Certified Professional in Premiere Pro and completed a post-production leadership course in 2022.

Skills

Editing

Fast-turnaround highlight and news editing, long-form documentary editing, promo and tease editing, multicam, live-to-tape, story structure from game footage and interviews

Post-Production Leadership

Team scheduling across 7-day operations, editorial standards and review, template systems, workflow design, archive and asset management, vendor and freelancer management

Technical

Colour and audio finishing for broadcast, delivery to broadcast and streaming specifications, shared storage, proxy and remote editing, graphics integration, captioning

Tools & Platforms

Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, EVS, Frame.io, Iconik, Vizrt

Experience

Senior Video Editor and Post-Production Lead 02/2020 – Present

Piedmont Park Crown Sports Network Atlanta, GA

Lead a post-production team of 9 editors delivering about 1,100 pieces a year across broadcast, streaming, and social.
Cut same-day highlight package turnaround from 55 minutes to 22 through a template system and a pre-built graphics library.
Edited and supervised 3 documentary series of 4 to 6 episodes, earning 2 regional Emmy nominations and the highest streaming completion rate on the service at 71%.

Video Editor 06/2016 – 01/2020

Peachtree Line Broadcasting Atlanta, GA

Edited about 400 news and feature pieces a year for a local television station across 2 daily newscasts.
Cut 60 long-form features and 12 half-hour specials, including a 4-part series that won a regional journalism award.
Held a 0 missed air-time record across 4 years and about 1,600 deadline deliveries.

Associate Producer and Editor 07/2014 – 05/2016

Peachtree Line Broadcasting Atlanta, GA

Cut about 15 news packages a week and produced a weekly 5-minute sports segment.
Logged and archived about 600 hours of footage a year with a searchable metadata system.
Promoted to full editor after 22 months, the fastest of 6 associate producers hired that year.

Projects

Highlight Template System. Built a template system with 40 pre-built graphics packages, a standard segment structure, and a shared music library, and trained 9 editors on it, which cut same-day highlight turnaround from 55 minutes to 22 and let the team add a streaming-first version of every package.

Documentary Series Programme. Led post-production on 3 documentary series from 400 hours of footage, running a 2-editor structure per series with weekly story reviews, which delivered 14 episodes on schedule, earned 2 regional Emmy nominations, and reached a 71% completion rate on the streaming service.

Multi-Platform Publish Workflow. Designed a workflow that produces broadcast, streaming, and 3 social formats from 1 timeline using reframing presets and format-specific export templates, which added about 2,000 social deliverables a year without adding headcount.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Serve on the board of a regional television academy chapter and judge about 30 entries a year.
Guest lecturer on broadcast editing at a university journalism programme twice a year.
Volunteer editor for a youth sports nonprofit, producing an annual highlight film.

Leadership

Lead a post-production team of 9 editors across a 7-day schedule, with 3 promoted to senior in 5 years.
Manage a pool of 12 freelance editors and a $400,000 annual post-production budget.
Own editorial standards and the weekly review that clears about 25 pieces for broadcast.

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Assistant Video Editor Resume Example

Meet Maisie Thornbury, an assistant editor supporting 4 editors on 2 unscripted series. This example shows how to write assistant work honestly, on footage handled, deadline record, a string-out system, and scenes credited on air.

Maisie Thornbury

(818) 555-0163 ◇ Burbank, CA

maisie.thornbury@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/maisie-thornbury ◇ maisiethornbury.com

Objective

Assistant video editor with 3 years in unscripted television post-production, supporting 4 editors on 2 series with about 1,200 hours of footage a season. Syncs, groups, and organises dailies for about 40 hours of new footage a week, holds a 0 missed dailies deadline record across 3 seasons, and built the string-out system that cut editor time to first assembly by 30%. Seeking to move up to editor, with 6 credited scene cuts already aired.

Education

B.A. in Film and Television Production, San Fernando Crown University 2019 – 2023

Coursework in Editing, Post-Production Workflow, Sound, Producing, and Screenwriting.

Avid Certified User, Media Composer, Avid 2023

Also completed an assistant editor workflow bootcamp and a DaVinci Resolve fundamentals course in 2024.

Skills

Assistant Editing

Dailies ingest and sync, multicam grouping, transcoding and proxies, bin organisation, string-outs and selects, transcript and marker workflows, project maintenance

Editing

Scene assembly, interview cutting, temp sound and music, temp graphics, recuts from notes, story structure basics, pacing

Post Operations

Turnovers to sound and colour, output for network review, media management on shared storage, archive and restore, deliverable specifications, tracking sheets

Tools & Platforms

Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Pro Tools basics, Frame.io, Avid NEXIS, Excel, Slack

Experience

Assistant Editor 06/2024 – Present

San Fernando Crown Television Burbank, CA

Support 4 editors on 2 unscripted series with about 1,200 hours of footage a season, ingesting and grouping about 40 hours of new footage a week.
Built a string-out system by story beat that cut editor time to first assembly by 30% across 24 episodes.
Cut 6 scenes credited on air after editor review, including a 4-minute finale sequence delivered with 2 notes.

Post-Production Assistant 07/2023 – 05/2024

Toluca Lake Line Productions Burbank, CA

Managed media for 3 concurrent shows on a 400TB shared storage system with 0 lost media incidents.
Ran about 30 network review outputs a week with a 100% specification pass rate.
Promoted to assistant editor after 11 months on the recommendation of 2 supervising editors.

Post-Production Intern 01/2023 – 05/2023

Toluca Lake Line Productions Burbank, CA

Synced and logged about 300 hours of footage across 2 shows during a 5-month internship.
Built the transcript marker template adopted by 3 assistant editors.
Hired full time at the end of the internship, 1 of 2 interns of 6 offered a position.

Projects

Story Beat String-Out System. Built a string-out structure that groups selects by story beat and character with colour-coded markers and transcript search, delivered within 24 hours of each shoot day, which cut editor time to first assembly by 30% and became the standard on both series.

Finale Sequence Cut. Cut a 4-minute finale sequence from 9 hours of multicam footage across 3 locations under editor supervision, structured around a single reveal, which was delivered with 2 notes and aired as cut.

Turnover Checklist. Wrote a 30-item turnover checklist for sound and colour handoffs covering reference outputs, media consolidation, and notes, which cut turnover rejections from about 4 per episode to 0 across the most recent 12 episodes.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Member of an assistant editors network of about 400 that runs monthly workflow sessions.
Volunteer editor for a student film festival, cutting the annual highlight reel.
Edit 1 short film a year with a collective of about 10 early-career filmmakers.

Leadership

Lead assistant on 1 of 2 series, coordinating 2 post-production assistants on dailies and outputs.
Trained 3 post-production assistants on the string-out system and turnover checklist.
Represent the assistant team in the weekly post-production schedule meeting with 4 editors and 2 producers.

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Professional Video Editor Resume Example

Meet Emilio Navarrete, a senior editor cutting about 180 corporate and commercial projects a year for enterprise clients. This example shows the corporate specialism: campaigns that ran in 14 markets, compliance record, and multi-language versioning.

Emilio Navarrete

(773) 555-0129 ◇ Chicago, IL

emilio.navarrete@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/emilio-navarrete ◇ emilionavarrete.com

Objective

Professional video editor with 9 years in corporate and commercial post-production, editing about 180 projects a year for enterprise clients in financial services, healthcare, and manufacturing. Delivers broadcast commercials, executive communications, training series, and event films, holds a 98% on-deadline record across 5 years, and edited a commercial campaign that ran in 14 markets. Works to a brief, a brand standard, and a legal review, and delivers a finished master that needs no further explanation.

Education

B.A. in Communication, Media Production, Lake Shore Crown University 2013 – 2017

Coursework in Video Editing, Corporate Communication, Visual Storytelling, and Audio Production.

Adobe Certified Professional, Premiere Pro and After Effects, Adobe 2020

Also holds a DaVinci Resolve Certified Colorist credential and completed an accessibility captioning course in 2023.

Skills

Editing

Commercial and broadcast spots, executive and internal communications, training and e-learning series, event and conference films, testimonial and case study videos, multi-language versions

Post-Production

Colour grading to brand standards, broadcast-legal audio mixing, motion graphics and animated typography, captioning and accessibility, versioning and localisation, master delivery

Client and Compliance

Brief interpretation, brand guideline adherence, legal and compliance review cycles, stakeholder review management, revision tracking, archive and rights management

Tools & Platforms

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, DaVinci Resolve, Audition, Frame.io, Photoshop, Illustrator, Wrike

Experience

Senior Video Editor 03/2021 – Present

Lake Shore Crown Productions Chicago, IL

Edit about 180 projects a year for 12 enterprise clients across commercials, executive communications, training, and events.
Edited a 6-spot commercial campaign for a regional bank that ran in 14 markets across broadcast and streaming for 9 months.
Hold a 98% on-deadline record across 5 years and a 0 compliance failure record on 60 regulated financial services videos.

Video Editor 08/2017 – 02/2021

Loop Line Corporate Media Chicago, IL

Edited about 150 corporate videos a year across 20 clients, including a 40-module training series for a manufacturer.
Built a versioning workflow that produced 8 language versions of each training module in 2 days instead of 8.
Raised client first-cut approval from 60% to 85% by introducing a storyboard animatic review before the edit.

Junior Editor 06/2017 – 07/2017

Loop Line Corporate Media Chicago, IL

Assembled 20 testimonial videos from interview footage during a 2-month probation period.
Delivered all 20 with 2 or fewer revision rounds against a 3-round allowance.
Promoted to full editor at the end of the probation period, 1 of 3 junior hires retained of 5.

Projects

Regional Bank Campaign. Edited a 6-spot broadcast campaign from a 3-day shoot with a director and agency creative team, delivering 30-second and 15-second versions plus 12 social cutdowns through 3 rounds of compliance review, which ran in 14 markets for 9 months and was renewed for a second flight.

Multi-Language Training Series. Built a versioning workflow for a 40-module manufacturer training series with locked graphics templates, separated dialogue stems, and a caption pipeline, which produced 8 language versions per module in 2 days and delivered 320 finished modules on schedule.

Executive Communications Programme. Edit a monthly executive video for a healthcare client viewed by 30,000 employees, with a 48-hour turnaround from shoot to delivery and a compliance and legal review built into the schedule, delivered 36 consecutive months without a missed date.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Member of a city post-production professionals association with about 300 members, attending 6 events a year.
Volunteer editor for a hospital foundation, producing an annual gala film of 8 minutes.
Guest speaker for a community college video production programme twice a year.

Leadership

Lead editor on a team of 5, assigning about 15 projects a week and reviewing every master before delivery.
Trained 4 editors on brand standards, compliance review cycles, and the versioning workflow.
Own the client relationship on 4 enterprise accounts worth $900,000 a year in post-production work.

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Creative Video Editor Resume Example

Meet Zara Hussain, a creative editor making social-first campaigns at a brand studio. This example shows creative evidence: a launch campaign with 48M views, view-through rate against benchmark, and a brand motion language.

Zara Hussain

(347) 555-0192 ◇ Brooklyn, NY

zara.hussain@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/zara-hussain ◇ zarahussain.com

Objective

Creative video editor with 6 years at a brand studio, editing social-first campaigns for consumer brands with about 240 deliverables a year across 6 accounts. Edited a launch campaign that reached 48M organic views across 3 platforms, holds an average view-through rate 2.1 times the platform benchmark across 2 years of paid social work, and built the studio motion and sound language for 3 brand accounts. Edits to make someone stop scrolling, and then to make the brand the reason they stayed.

Education

B.F.A. in Motion Media Design, Gowanus Line Art Institute 2016 – 2020

Coursework in Editing, Motion Graphics, Typography, Sound Design, and Brand Storytelling.

Adobe Certified Professional, After Effects and Premiere Pro, Adobe 2021

Also completed a Cinema 4D fundamentals course and a sound design for social course in 2023.

Skills

Creative Editing

Social-first and vertical editing, rhythm and sound-led cutting, hook construction, campaign concepting with creatives, brand film editing, user-generated content style editing

Motion and Design

Motion graphics and kinetic typography, animated transitions, template systems for brand consistency, colour treatments, mixed media and collage, 3D element integration

Performance and Craft

Platform specification fluency, creative testing and iteration from performance data, trend adaptation, music licensing and sound design, review and feedback cycles

Tools & Platforms

Adobe Premiere Pro, After Effects, Cinema 4D, DaVinci Resolve, Figma, CapCut, Frame.io, Epidemic Sound

Experience

Senior Creative Video Editor 04/2023 – Present

Gowanus Crown Brand Studio Brooklyn, NY

Edit social-first campaigns for 6 consumer brand accounts, delivering about 240 pieces a year across 3 platforms.
Edited a beverage launch campaign of 30 pieces that reached 48M organic views and 1.2M shares across 3 platforms in 6 weeks.
Hold an average view-through rate 2.1 times the platform benchmark across about 300 paid social edits in 2 years.

Video Editor and Motion Designer 07/2020 – 03/2023

Red Hook Line Creative Brooklyn, NY

Edited and animated about 200 social and brand pieces a year for 8 clients in beauty, food, and fashion.
Built motion template systems for 3 brand accounts that cut turnaround on recurring formats from 2 days to 4 hours.
Ran creative testing across 40 hook variations for a skincare client that found a 3-second opening format with 44% higher completion.

Motion Design Intern 01/2020 – 05/2020

Red Hook Line Creative Brooklyn, NY

Animated 30 social pieces across 4 clients during a 5-month internship.
Built a 25-element animated icon library used across 2 client accounts.
Received a full-time offer at the end of the 5-month internship based on the icon library.

Projects

Beverage Launch Campaign. Edited 30 pieces across 3 platforms from a 2-day shoot and user-generated footage, building each around a 2-second sound-led hook and a recurring visual motif, which reached 48M organic views and 1.2M shares in 6 weeks and was extended into a second flight of 20 pieces.

Brand Motion Language. Designed the motion and sound language for 3 brand accounts, with transition libraries, typography systems, and sound palettes documented in a 40-page guide, which cut recurring format turnaround from 2 days to 4 hours and produced consistent creative across 12 editors and freelancers.

Hook Testing Programme. Built a creative testing routine that cuts 8 to 12 hook variations per campaign and reads performance at 48 hours, which found the 3-second opening format worth 44% higher completion for a skincare client and now runs on every paid social campaign at the studio.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Member of a motion design community of about 500, presenting at a meetup about once a year.
Publish a personal experimental edit series with about 40,000 followers.
Volunteer editor for a youth arts nonprofit, producing 4 recruitment videos a year.

Leadership

Lead creative editing on 6 accounts and direct 3 editors and 4 freelancers against the brand motion guides.
Trained 7 editors and freelancers on the studio motion language and hook testing routine.
Present campaign creative and performance readouts to client brand teams monthly.

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Film and Video Editor Resume Example

Meet Anders Kristiansen, a film editor with 4 features, 3 feature documentaries, and 2 limited series. This example shows film editing evidence: festival selections and acquisitions, series structured from 700 hours, and a recut that changed a test score.

Anders Kristiansen

(424) 555-0117 ◇ Los Angeles, CA

anders.kristiansen@example.com ◇ linkedin.com/in/anders-kristiansen ◇ anderskristiansen.com

Objective

Film and video editor with 11 years in narrative and documentary post-production, with 4 feature films, 3 feature documentaries, and 2 limited series as editor. Cut a documentary feature selected for 12 festivals and acquired by a streaming service, delivered every feature within the contracted post schedule, and structured a 6-episode series from 700 hours of verite footage. Edits for story first, and has the schedule discipline to finish it.

Education

M.F.A. in Film Editing, Westside Crown Film School 2013 – 2015

Thesis film selected for 3 student festivals; coursework in Narrative Editing, Documentary Editing, Sound, and Directing.

B.A. in Film Studies, Westside Crown University 2009 – 2013

Member of a professional editors guild since 2019; Avid Certified User since 2015.

Skills

Editing

Narrative feature editing, documentary feature and series editing, story structure and restructuring, performance and scene editing, verite and archive integration, screening and test audience response

Post-Production

Post schedule planning, assistant editor direction, temp sound and score, turnovers to sound, colour, and visual effects, conforming, festival and distribution deliverables

Collaboration

Director and producer collaboration, notes management from financiers and networks, composer and sound designer coordination, test screening analysis, remote editing workflows

Tools & Platforms

Avid Media Composer, Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Pro Tools basics, Frame.io, Avid NEXIS, ScriptSync, Evercast

Experience

Editor, Feature Films and Documentaries 01/2019 – Present

Freelance, represented by Westside Crown Talent Agency Los Angeles, CA

Edited 3 narrative features, 2 feature documentaries, and 2 limited series across 7 years, each delivered within the contracted post schedule.
Cut a feature documentary from 400 hours of footage that was selected for 12 festivals and acquired by a streaming service in a 5-territory deal.
Structured a 6-episode verite series from 700 hours of footage, with the network approving the episode structure on the first presentation.

Editor and Additional Editor 06/2016 – 12/2018

Culver Line Pictures Los Angeles, CA

Edited 1 narrative feature and 1 feature documentary, and served as additional editor on 3 features under 2 senior editors.
Recut the third act of a feature after a test screening, raising the audience score from 61 to 78 on the second screening.
Built the string-out and selects system used on 5 productions for assistant editors to feed the cutting room.

Assistant Editor 07/2015 – 05/2016

Culver Line Pictures Los Angeles, CA

Assisted on 2 narrative features, managing about 150 hours of dailies per film and all turnovers.
Cut 4 scenes on the second feature that were kept in the final film.
Promoted to editor after 11 months on the recommendation of the senior editor.

Projects

Feature Documentary. Edited a 96-minute documentary from 400 hours of verite and archive footage across 14 months, restructuring from a chronological cut to a 3-character braided structure after the first assembly, which was selected for 12 festivals, won 2 audience awards, and was acquired by a streaming service.

Six-Episode Verite Series. Led a cutting room of 2 editors and 3 assistants structuring 700 hours of footage into 6 episodes of 45 minutes, building the season arc in a 40-page paper edit before cutting, which the network approved on the first structure presentation and delivered on the 9-month schedule.

Third Act Recut. Recut the third act of a narrative feature after a test screening scored 61, removing 2 subplots, reordering 3 sequences, and cutting 11 minutes, which raised the second screening score to 78 and became the release cut.

Extra-Curricular Activities

Member of a professional editors guild and serve on its documentary committee, meeting 6 times a year.
Teach a 6-week documentary editing workshop at a film school once a year to about 15 students.
Volunteer editor for a nonprofit documentary fund, mentoring 2 first-time feature editors a year.

Leadership

Lead cutting rooms of up to 2 editors and 3 assistants, setting the post schedule and story reviews.
Developed 4 assistant editors into editors across 9 years, 2 of whom now cut features.
Present cuts and manage notes from directors, producers, financiers, and networks across each project.

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