SERIES PRODUCER - SHOOTING PD - EDIT PRODUCER with Over Two Decades of Programme-Making Experience, I’Ve Been Involved in Every Stage of the Process
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THOMAS STARK HOLLAND SERIES PRODUCER - SHOOTING PD - EDIT PRODUCER With over two decades of programme-making experience, I’ve been involved in every stage of the process. From dreaming up formats to executing development sizzles; setting the shooting style for a first series to directing multi-camera and fixed-rig location shoots. Whatever the genre, when it comes to the edit, my heart lies in telling entertaining and engaging stories to mainstream audiences. I’m currently participating in the ScreenSkills Series Producer Training Programme, a scheme supported by all UK broadcasters to provide essential editorial management training for senior TV freelancers. Technical Skills: I’m a Self-Shooter and my kit comprises of a Sony PMW F5 camera & Canon CN7 Cine Zoom lens plus a selection of 35mm prime lenses and a sound and lighting kit. I’m also familiar with other cameras like the Fs7, PMW 500, C300 & XF305 and my LED lights are great for interviews and green-screen. I record audio with a set of radio and boom mics and a mixer because clean sync is essential for good storytelling. I cut quickly with Avid, Premiere and FCP and have an office editing kit. Production Experience: Sep 18 - Dec 18 SHOOTING PD: TATTOO FIXERS EXTREME (15 x 1hr) STUDIO LAMBERT/E4 I wrote and shot the backstory VTs for Britain’s bad ink brigade, often the facts were reimagined to highlight the absurd circumstances behind a tragic tattoo and I also shot emotive stories with victims of disaster and terror attacks. Aug 18 - Sep 18 EDIT PRODUCER: CELEBS GO DATING (1hr) LIME PICTURES/E4 I channeled my inner child to write VO for Rob Beckett whilst making up MIVs to help the editors tell celebrity dating stories. Feb 18 - April 18 DIRECTOR: MINISTRY OF JUSTICE (3 X 1hr) MONKEY KINGDOM/C4 Hidden-camera entrapment sketches performed for a satirical series that pokes fun at real criminals. I ran numerous repeatable hits in the street, directed actors via covert earpieces and self-shot with a pram cam and team of shooting APs. Feb 18 SHOOTING PD & EDITOR: (taster tape) CACTUS TV I shot and cut two sizzles. A car show that got commissioned by UKTV and another featuring Gareth Malone for BBC1. Aug 17 - Sept 17 EDIT PRODUCER: CELEBRITY SHOWMANCE (1hr) KESHET/ITV2 I cut episode 1 of a comic reality show featuring celebrities who manipulate social media to create a fake romance story. May 17 - Jul 17 DIRECTOR: SURPRISE OF YOUR LIFE (proof of concept) OMTV/BBC1 A hidden-camera show for Saturday night featuring a gang of celeb hosts aboard a tour bus on a mischievous mission. Mar 17 - Apr 17 EDIT PRODUCER: TATTOO FIXERS (1hr) STUDIO LAMBERT/E4 Cutting stories and stitching shows for the fourth series of formatted factual programming about body artists Jun 16 - Feb 17 SERIES PRODUCER & DIRECTOR: MEET THE HUMANS (5 X 1hr) BBC EARTH PRODUCTIONS Michael Mosely performs psychological experiments on unsuspecting guests at a country house. In pre-production, I worked with BBC Earth to develop fun ways of testing various scientific principles, I managed the many compliance and ed pol issues and team recruitment. On location I controlled a 25 camera fixed-rig, PSC crews, presenter studio, art dept and floor team. Apr 16 - May 16 D IRECTOR: SCI-JINKS (taster tape) OCTOBER FILMS/DISCOVERY SCIENCE CHANNEL A team of super-geek science presenters, hidden-cameras and science-based shenanigans shot in San Francisco. Mar 16 - Apr 16 DIRECTOR: FLASHBACK (taster tape) ZIG ZAG /TBS Nish Kumar quizzed contestants for a hidden-camera game show they’d been playing obliviously for the previous week. Jun 15 - Oct 15 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: OFF THEIR ROCKERS 6 x 30’ (series 4) CPL/ITV1 More pranking of the OAP kind with the chance to exercise my producing skills and muck about with a pair of inflating pants. I also connected with the show’s younger audience when we got busted by hoards of kids on holiday in Margate! May 15- Jun 15 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: HERE’S LOOKING AT ZOO (taster tape) EMPORIUM/BBC2 A comedy/obs-doc mash-up shot that almost resulted in a sense of humour failure when orangutans ate my go-pros! Jan 15 - Feb 15 DIRECTOR: BEST DAY EVER (1hr pilot) LITTLE GEM/BBC1 If Gary Lineker asks you to kick lettuce across a sports hall then it’s likely that Nick Grimshaw and Claudia Winkleman are making your Best Day Ever. Covert capers shot across multiple locations with celebs & actors. Nov 14 - Dec 14 DIRECTOR: TEXT SANTA (hidden-camera VTs) ITV STUDIOS/ITV1 A blissfully unaware mum had Little Mix sing her carols in santa beards whilst Peter Andre gave her a donkey-lap-twerk. Oct 14 - Nov 14 D IRECTOR: ANT AND DEC’S SATURDAY NIGHT TAKEAWAY (hidden-camera vts) ITV STUDIOS/ITV1 Prime-time silliness with Ant & Dec including a booby-trapped photobooth; a fake Richard Madeley calendar shoot; Jeremy Kyle recruited bodyguards in a beer garden and Antony Cotton was wound up in a VO booth. [email protected] 07974 678 729 Aug 14 - Sep 14 P D & EDIT PRODUCER: FRIGHTS CAMERA ACTION (taster tape) ATTABOY/COMEDY CENTRAL A used car buyer was scared witless when he discovered the vehicle owner was a werewolf. Jul 14 - Aug 14 SHOOTING PD: ON THE ROAD WITH RICHARD WILSON (1 x 1/2hr) CURVE MEDIA FOR ITV1 The nation’s favourite grumpy old man toured Derbyshire in a vintage Daimler following the 1930s Shell Guides. Mar 14 - May 14 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: TV’S NASTIEST VILLAINS (1 x 3hr) CROOK PRODUCTIONS/CHANNEL 5 Joan Collins’ archive of vexatious villains included sordid soap stars, talent-show torturers and dastardly drama queens. Jan 14 - Feb 14 D IRECTOR: NATIONAL TREASURES (taster tape) STV/CHANNEL 4 Would you put Jason Donovan’s lasagne in your oven or help Bill Oddie lure a stuffed buzzard from a tree? Aug 13 - Nov 13 SHOOTING PD: GIVE ME A BREAK (11 x 10’) PHIL MCINTYRE TV/VIRGIN HOLIDAYS Branded interactive holiday shoots in far-flung destinations with comedians such as Danny Wallace & Shappi Khorsandi. May 13 - July 13 SERIES DIRECTOR/ EDIT PRODUCER: YOU’VE BEEN SERVED 1 x 30’ (pilot) OPTOMEN/ITV1 Presented by Lisa Riley, this hidden camera prank show features dodgy sausages, coffee con-artists and an exploding ice-cream van in a show where the food is always wrong and the customer is never right. Feb 13 - Mar 13 SERIES DIRECTOR: BLOW YOUR MIND 1 x 30’ (pilot) TWOFOUR/NAT-GEO Entertaining experiments shot covertly to explain neuroscience, psychology and human behaviour. Jun 12 - Dec 12 SERIES DIRECTOR: OFF THEIR ROCKERS 6 x 30’ (series 1) CPL/ITV1 Shooting countless sketches with a cast of geriatric rascals was a master-class in mischievousness. I achieved the show’s glossy, sketch-show look by placing C300 cameras in the ultimate street-shooting camouflage - The Pram-Cam. May 12 - June 12 S HOOTING PD: SUPERSTAR ITV STUDIOS/ITV1 Interviews and actuality for Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s casting call for Christ. Jan 11 - Feb 11 D IRECTOR & EDIT PRODUCER: MILITARY TOP TEN WAG TV/DISCOVERY Dramatic reconstructions shot in the Arctic with Scandinavian military kit and personnel starring in a big-bang list show. Oct 10 - Nov 10 DIRECTOR: X-MACHINES WAG TV/DISCOVERY Directing the Polish mega-crane crew as they constructed a wind turbine farm in Poland Jun 08 - Jul 08 S HOOTING PD : REALITY CHECK EYEWORKS/E4 An extreme wake-up call for a teenager who spent a week in a Rwandan hill tribe, without her curling tongs. Jan 08 - Apr 08 P RODUCER/DIRECTOR: TV’S 50 HARDEST MEN (90’) TARGET TV/SKY ONE Meatheads and motormouths talk about TV tough-guys in this interview & archive show presented by Martin Kemp. Jun 07 - Jul 07 SHOOTING PD & EDITOR : SKIP LICKERS (taster tape) TARGET TV/FIVE Obs-doc about Freegans who scavenge food recovered from dumpsters and skips; shot in New York & London. Jan 07 - Mar 07 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR: FONZIE’S TOP TEN HAPPY DAYS (1hr) TARGET TV/FIVE Henry Winkler celebrated his Happy Days with super-fan interviews, archive and Fonz aficionado, Iain Lee. Jun 06 - Aug 06 P RODUCER/DIRECTOR: LOVE ISLAND - AFTERSUN GRANADA/ITV2 Fast-turnaround inserts for the spin off reality entertainment show to the original series that marooned a load of celebs in Fiji. Apr 06 - Jun 06 SERIES PD: MATCH ACADEMY INITIAL/FIVE I stepped up from a PD role on location to manage the post-production and delivery of a kids football show Oct 05 - Nov 05 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: I’M A CELEBRITY GET ME OUT OF HERE NOW! GRANADA/ITV2 Lots of very silly fast-turnaround VTs with Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and Matt Brown Sep 05 - Oct 05 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: – (6 x 1hr) THE MATCH: INITIAL/SKY ONE On location and making VT’s for a show i which a celebrity team trained for a big match against footballing legends Jun 05 - Sep 05 EDIT PRODUCER BIG BROTHER - THE EVICTION SHOW ENDEMOL/C4 Story and character highlights compiled for Davina’s evening of evictions Mar 05 - May 05 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR: HELL’S KITCHEN - EXTRA PORTIONS GRANADA/ITV2 Fast-turnaround and truly bonkers animated and live-action inserts for a reality show spin off show May 03 - Aug 03 PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR – ASK A SILLY QUESTION (30 x 10') PLANET 24/ITV2 I travelled the UK to create funny factual fillers that Victor Lewis Smith described as an 'agreeably quirky' series! June 02 - Mar 03 DIRECTOR - SWAG (6 x 30’) MONKEY KINGDOM/FIVE My first directing job was on the criminally comic prank show that subjected dodgy geezers to humiliation and ridicule.