
Charles Ottaway
Los Angeles, California
About Me
Over 15 years experience in production, post production, editing, graphic design, directing and creating content for film, TV, DVD, web and print delivery.
Skills
• Able to balance multiple tasks and prioritize assignments
• Comfortable in fast-paced, deadline-driven environments
• Willingness to do whatever it takes to deliver the job on time
• Technically-minded and computer savvy, particularly Macs
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Work History
Freelance Editor / Graphic Artist; Los Angeles, CA 3/1990 to present
• Create various forms of media from concept to completion for TV, DVD, print and web
using a variety of production, post production and software program techniques
Producer / Director / Editor @ DECA / Project Lore; Los Angeles, CA 6/2008 to 7/2009
• Produced, directed and edited approximately seven episodes per week of various Project Lore
properties for distribution on www.projectlore.com
• Edited and delivered over 250 shows with an average running time of 12 - 15 min.
• Grew an audience from launch to over two million viewers a month
• Managed a seven-person production crew and a three-person post production crew
• Scheduled all production shoots, talent performances and air dates
• Developed ideas for show content and additional episodic properties
Creative / Specialist @ Apple Inc.; Manhattan Beach, CA 7/2005 to 7/2006
• Individually instructed 40 clients on an hourly basis each week on Apple computers
Editor / Graphic Artist @ Soundscape–Dubscape; Los Angeles, CA 2/2005 to 8/2005
• Edited different projects for DVD and television broadcast using Final Cut Pro and traditional
machine-to-machine edit controls
Editor / Graphic Artist @ V12; Santa Monica, CA 4/2004 to 2/2005
• Completed a variety of creative projects for DVD and television broadcast using Final Cut Pro,
DVD Studio Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator and After Effects
Graphic Artist / Edit Assist. / Flame / Fire @ R!OT; Santa Monica, CA 8/1997 to 8/2001
• Worked with clients to create media for film and television broadcast using Flame, Fire,
Inferno, Smoke and Apple software
Career Awards / Highlights
• The Streamys - Best Host 2008, Project Lore
• Top 25 video podcast of 2008, Project Lore (source: iTunes)
• On-line edited and dirt-fixed the first 3 seasons of The Sopranos
• Taught at Apple corporate headquarters in Cupertino, California
• Instructed diversity and team building training for over three years at MU
• Trained mac users from ages 4 to 86, in groups of 2 to 200+, on various topics
• Directed live TV news for two years with a fifteen person crew at KMIZ, an ABC affiliate
Clients have included:
ABC, Animal Planet, Chiat Day, Country Music Television, Disney, eHarmony, FOX, Harpo Productions, Harvey’s, HBO, JCPenney, MTV, NBA, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Sci-Fi Channel, NBC/Universal, X-Games
Software proficiencies include:
Final Cut Pro, DVD Studio Pro, Motion, Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator,
InDesign, Flame, Fire, Inferno, and many others
Hardware proficiencies include:
Various digital, component and composite HD and SD format tape machines; digital routers; patchbays; TBCs; switchers; waveform monitors; vectorscopes; edit controllers; dub racks;
and various field, studio and still photography cameras
Demo Reel
Available at www.charlesottaway.com
Education
University of Missouri – Columbia, BA in Communications / Television & Radio
References
Available at LinkedIn.com with log in. Additional references available upon request.