[email protected] CHRIS PAYNE DEVELOPMENT PRODUCER / PRODUCER SPECIALIST FACTUAL / FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT / ENGINEERING / TECHNOLOGY / SCIENCE / STUNTS

- SENIOR DEVELOPMENT PRODUCER with 7+ years at Producer level across broad specialist factual & popular factual development slates – pitching to commissioners, generating ideas, running brainstorms, writing engaging treatments,

graphically designing premium decks, directing/shooting/self-editing sizzles and working with new talent on taster tapes.

- PRODUCER with academic background, contacts, and passion for spec factual engineering, science, tech production.

- Devise, produce, script and project manage complex unusual set-pieces & builds around the world – E.g. sending minicams to the edge of space, building amphibious taxicabs, engineering a VR gaming simulator, converting a 56 ton crane to be controlled by brainwaves, taking a bomb disposal robot shopping, building the world’s largest game of Tetris, or engineering a robotic version of Stephen Fry…enjoy the challenge of locating and convincing authorities, locations, suppliers, engineers, and specialists to deliver global features and set-pieces on timescales and budgets.

- Self-Edit taster tapes to a high standard on Final Cut Pro X / After Effects / Photoshop.

- Self-Shoot on Sony FS7/FS5, Canon C300/5D.

- Edinburgh International Television Festival ‘One to Watch’.

Development Producer. RDF Television, July 2018 à Present. • Work to the Director of Development to originate, brainstorm, develop and pitch to commissioners a broad slate of timely new specialist, popular factual, and access-based ideas in response to broadcasters’ briefings and industry trends. • Script, self-shoot, direct and self-edit: from found-footage mood tapes, to talent reels, to longer funded developments. • Write and graphically design (Photoshop/PowerPoint) engaging treatments: from attention grabbing one-page posters and toplines, premium SVoD decks, through to in-depth blocked out funded developments and running orders. • Recent development team successes include: 12 Puppies & Us (BBC2), Building Britain’s Most Expensive Home (C4), Lodgers for Codgers (C4), Save the Planet for Less (BBC1), Old School of Rock (BBC2), My New Greek Life (5).

Development Producer. North One Television, January 2015 à July 2018

• Conceived & developed spec factual / fact-ent proposals, to pitch internally & to broadcasters with treatments and tape. • Development team successes included: Our Guy In Japan (C4), Paul Hollywood Eats Japan (C4), Eddie Eats America (Dave), Guy Martin Vs The Robot Car (C4), Gadget Man (C4), Travel Man (C4), Nick Helm’s Eat Your Heart Out (Dave), Paul Hollywood’s Big Continental Road Trip (C4), Really Haunted Hotel (W), Really Haunted Mansion (W), Crash Course: Testing Britain’s Worst Drivers (ITV), Rocket Ronnie’s American Hustle (History), Storage Hunters (Dave).

Development Producer: Red Dwarf – The First Three Million Years. UKTV / Dave North One Television, January 2018 à July 2018.

Development Producer: Guy Martin Vs The Robot Car. North One Television, November 2016 à November 2017

Producer: Strictly Come Dancing: Before They Were Stars. Channel 5 Producer: Grease: Before and After They Were Stars. Channel 5 North One Television, November - December 2017

Producer / Director: Gadget Man’s Guide to Christmas. Channel 4 (1 x 60’) Producer: Gadget Man (Series 4). Channel 4 (4 x 30’) North One Television, August 2014 à December 2014

• Conceived and pitched original episode ideas & treatments at commissioner level before writing shooting scripts. • Directed panel test items, edit produced series reversions. • Negotiated exclusive access to one off prototypes and locations. Managing a team of researchers & AP’s. • Specialist tech background allowed for establishing an effective relationship between production and engineering teams. • Coordinated large-scale set-piece finales both in the office & on location – including managing budget & risk for items including stuntmen, explosives, water-based filming, giant hexapod mechanical spiders and bomb disposal robots.

Producer / Development Producer: Testing Britain’s Worst Drivers: Crash Course. ITV (1 x 60’) North One Television, January 2014 à July 2014

• Developed show from initial conception including producing, casting and executing a taster tape pilot. • Produced highly complex large-scale factual event for ITV1 – from conception through to delivery that saw 3 members of the public experience, first-hand, the results of a full speed car crash as a result of distracted driving. • Project managed a team of 15 tech experts over 6 months to devise and create a one of a kind, state-of-the-art simulator that controlled, in real-time, a full-sized remote-controlled car in a closed test track environment. • Produced event on location with 50+ crew members. Directed interview & backstory days. Scripted & Edit Produced VTs. • Casted all experts, sourced all locations, managed the budget & risk assessment. Development Producer: Gadget Man with (Series 3). Channel 4 (6 x 30’) Producer: Gadget Man with Richard Ayoade (Series 2). Channel 4 (6 x 30’) North One Television, June 2013 à December 2013

Producer: ‘Meet the Controllers’. Media Guardian International Television Festival 2012 & 2013, April à August 2012 & 2013,

• Produced interview sessions by Richard Bacon and Matthew Wright from the gallery, interviewing channel controllers.

Assistant Producer: ‘Stephen Fry: Gadget Man’. Channel 4 (6 x 30’) North One Television, July 2012 à December 2012

• Devised & project managed ambitious set pieces that allowed for Stephen to: control a lifelike robot of himself via the internet, play the worlds first ever game of augmented reality pool and even cross the Thames amphibiously in a black cab. • Shot cutaways/pick ups on Canon 5D & sourced archive both past and present for short VT segments. • Contributed at all editorial levels to the production, from initial conception of the format, to working alongside PD’s and directors to turn high concept shoots into engaging scripts that worked both on an editorial and practical level.

Assistant Producer: ‘TGS: World Tour’. Channel 5, S17 (6 x 60’), S18 (10 x 60’) North One Television Birmingham, January 2012 à July 2012 [On location in Japan, Canada, Europe]

• Set up complex logistical foreign shoots from initial development to broadcast and brought them in on budget. Items included organising an underground fighting robot contest in Tokyo, a supercar race on the streets of Switzerland, a downhill ski challenge on the slopes in Canada as well as sending 4 minicams to the edge of space. • Wrote treatments and subsequently helped turn them into engaging hour-long factual entertainment scripts. • Managed a team of researchers and runners both in the production office and on location abroad. • Shot second camera on location with Canon XF305 as well as rigging and media managing GoPro/Sony MC1P minicams. • Edited on location using Final Cut 7/X to create edits.

Assistant Producer: ‘The Gadget Show’. Channel 5, S16 (22 x 60’) North One Television Birmingham, May 2011 à December 2011

• Developed and executed innovative segments on a weekly basis including: building a Kung Fu robot to teach a novice how to fight a black belt, developing lifelike telepresence avatars to allow the show to be hosted by virtual presenters, and constructing a unique immersive gaming simulator that went viral and was hailed as the future of Virtual Reality by experts. • Feasibility tested approved segments, including the casting of contributors, budgets and drafting of scripts and outlines. • Scripted studio links packages & factual based feature items – including directing experience. • Located, devised, pitched and pre-planed all major foreign feature stories for the show. • Creating graphics and animations using software packages including Motion, Keynote, and Google Earth Pro.

Senior Researcher: ‘Stephen Fry’s 100 Greatest Gadgets’. Channel 4, (1 x 180 special’) North One Television London, February 2011 à May 2011

Planning Researcher: ‘The Gadget Show’. Channel Five, S15 (17 x 60’) North One Television Birmingham, December 2010 à February 2011

Development Researcher. North One Television Birmingham, July 2010 à September 2010

Studio Researcher: ‘The Gadget Show’. Channel Five, S11 (13 x 60’), S12 (20 x 60’), S13 (17 x 60’), S14 (21 x 60’) North One Television Birmingham, December 2008 à July 2010, September 2010 à December 2010

Channel 4 - Transmission Operations / Assistant Network Director. Channel 4 Television Corporation, June à August 2007. [4Talent Summer Scheme]

Runner. RDF Media, August 2007, September 2008 à October 2008. Wall-to-Wall, Summer 2006.

Driving Licence Full, Clean.

Edinburgh Festival Schemes Ones to Watch, MGEITF 2011, August 2011 The Network/TVYP, MGEITF 2007, August 2007

Education On request. MEng Electronic Engineering, 1st class masters Inc. IBM Student of the Year Award 2007.

A Levels/AS Levels 3 x A, 5 x A GCSE’s 7 x A*, 2 x A

References On request.