Resume

Amanda Willoughby

8201 Everwood Cove, Germantown, TN 38138   (901) 334-8787       abwilloughby90@gmail.com

I am interested in securing a full-time media driven position, in a challenging environment, that focuses on the execution of quality digital video production.

Education

Memphis College of Art - August 2008 - present

Candidate for Bachelor of Fine Arts with a Digital Media Concentration, December 2012

3.1 GPA

Artistic/Technical Skills

Software Knowledge

Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Logic Pro, FL Studio, After Effects, Compressor, DVD Studio Pro, Adobe Encore, Isadora, Microsoft Office

Artistic Skills

Script writing, 3 act story structure, 3 Point Lighting, Cinematography, Character Development, Character Design, Storyboarding

Other Skills

Organizational Skills, Soundboard Operation, Presentations and Public Speaking, Professional Email and Phone Etiquette

Experience

Neighborhood Christian Centers Inc. - Paid Internship

September 2010 – present

Assist Multi-Media Director in all pre and post production of children’s program Junior TRUTH Seekers

Duties: Script writing, research, storyboarding, filming, studio lighting, manage production equipment, editing, animate titles, apply special effects, DVD authoring

New Life Holiness COGIC

August 2011 – November 2011

Film sessions of Build-a-Wall Program and edit footage for Saturday morning broadcasts.

Concord Academy – Work Study

August 2008 – December 2008

Design creative and stimulating art lessons and projects for a biweekly special-needs class

Instruct and assist class with art projects

Featured Work

2012 – Interactive Installation featured at The Annual Music Video Showcase: Powerhouse. Memphis, TN

Hours logged

Saturday Oct 13
5 hours filming
we spent half the day recording the outside scenes. Things took much longer than i expected. There are at least 5-10 takes of each shot. At times, I got a very worried. My actors are good, but taking direction wasn't their strong suit at times.  I am pretty sure, with all that I have, that I will  be able to have a decent product. I have actors who are good sports and don't mind the work so that helps me tremendously.

I did have some scheduling issues with my actors however. We did not finish all of the script due to time restraints (the ending is not done). But we are scheduled to record this saturday to complete and reshoot anything I need.

Sunday Oct 14
4 hours
Logging and transferring footage took FOREVER. I spent my morning organizing what I shot on saturday.
I was initially scheduled to shoot this day but I couldn't get the girls together.

Monday Oct 15
Editing
5 hours

Tuesday Oct 16
4.5 hours filming
I went through hell to make it happen, but we filmed tuesday evening. We didn't get started until about 5 and again, these scenes took a long time to get through. I wish we would have gotten more, but I had to be patient with my actors (especially the younger one b/c she didn't seem to understand all of my direction.

Wednesday Oct 17
ALL DAY LONG-
Editing

*my biggest issue with the scheduling is that I have to pick my actors up from 2 different sides of the city (cramming them both + my dog and myself into my 2-seater... fun) and their personal schedules took away from filming time.

Hours logged

Saturday October 4
I spent this past weekend doing drills with lines. We attempted to shoot an outside scene and ended up doing about 5-10 takes per line. My younger actress did great in delivery of her lines, but fell a little short hitting her marks consistently (she's 11 so i'm not expecting a super long attention span). I found my mojo in directing though! I find it's easiest for my older actor, Cara, when I completely act out the scene for her so she can imitate what I want. We had to take it line-by-line but I'm glad we did. I feel much better about her delivering in this part.
4 hours filming

Sunday October 5
I took Max out again to film some more. We tried several different areas. Now i'm working on trying to pick out what I want most. The scenes with the girls are pretty short, but the scenes with Max are turning out to be quite long. I don't want the dogs to steal the show, so I'm doing some more edits and really hoping for a great shoot this weekend.
2 hours fiming

Monday
Pulled an all-nighter getting footage sorted, organzed, and roughly edited.
7 hours in Mini-lab

Hours logged

Thursday - Editing
4 hours

Saturday - Filming
1 hr prep rehearsal
4 hours

Monday -  Editing
9 hours