GARY ROBERTS - Picture Editor – Offline and Online

• Over eleven years experience creatively editing a wide variety of documentaries, lifestyle programmes, sport (including fast turn around highlights), studio programmes, commercials and on - air promotions.
• Excellent project manager who enjoys the challenge of setting a programme style with fresh ideas. Cutting to music is a particular speciality.
• Thoroughly able to cope under pressure and meet tight deadlines.
• Equally happy working as part of a team, or unsupervised.
• Owner of Final Cut Pro and 2 Avid Xpress Pro Edit suites, with SDI Mojo.
• Previously a Senior Engineer: skilled at trouble shooting and first line maintenance.

KEY SKILLS:

Avid Online and Offline - Symphony, Adrenaline, Media Composer, Xpress Pro.
Final Cut Pro
Sapphire, Boris and Magic Bullet effect plug-ins.
Digital Linear Editing.
PC and Mac literate.

CREDITS INCLUDE:

Falklands 25 - A Soldiers Story: Documentary following Soldier turned professional footballer, Phil Stant, as he returns to the Falklands, 25 years after the war.
(ITV 1 and 4 – Frazer Shepherd)

Water World: Award winning lifestyle series about life on Britain’s waterways, past and present.
(ITV/Peak Time – Keith Wootton, Helen Lloyd, John McLeod – Series 1 to 8)

To Buy or Not to Buy: Programme offering hints & tips for house buyers.
(BBC – Sangeeta Sehdev)

Pulling Power: Senior Editor for ITV’s motoring magazine programme for over 8 years.
(ITV/X2 Productions – Mike Burch, Richard Hetherington, John Boam, John McLeod, Nigel Simpkiss, Rob Shaw – Series 3 to 11)

King For A Day: Makeover show helping men achieve a greater quality of life.
(ITV/X2 Productions – Mike Burch, Richard Hetherington – Series 1)

Solution Street: A series showing how the residents of a particular street come
together to help themselves and each other.
(ITV/Hotbed Media – David Leighton, Simon Wood – Series 1)

Auto Trader: Everything you need to know about buying and selling a second hand car.
(Discovery/X2 Productions – Mike Brewer, Mike Burch, Richard Hetherington
Series 1)

Revved Up: Motoring series for a teenage audience.
(ITV – Mike Burch, Richard Hetherington, John Boam – Series 1)

House Race: House building lifestyle series.
(ITV/Discovery – Mike Burch, Richard Hetherington, John Boam – Series 1)

To Catch a Killer: Documentary examining the events leading to the arrest and conviction of serial killer Robert Black (ITV – Rob Jones).

Our House: Lifestyle home magazine series.
(ITV – Angela Davison, Rob Whitehouse, John McLeod – Series 3 to 5)

Dare Devils - Bus Pass Heroes: Documentary following a group of Senior Citizens with a taste for adventurous activities.
(ITV – John Boam)

ITV Sport: Menus, Inserts and highlight packages for On the Ball, The Premiership, Central Soccer Night, Central Sport Special, Soccer Sunday.

Back to Back Lives: A series following the renovation of the only surviving Back to Back houses, and looking at the lives of people who used to live in them.
(ITV – Angela Davison, Rob Shaw – Series 1)

EMPLOYMENT:

ITV Central/Carlton
Senior Supervisory Editor 1998 – 2004
Picture Editor 1996 – 1998
Engineer / Senior Engineer 1988 - 1996

QUALIFICATIONS:

BTEC HND Communications Engineering (Television and Broadcast) - Ravensbourne College of Design and Communication - School of television.