Mentoring
I am thrilled to now offer one-to-one mentoring sessions!
From assistant editing to sound design, avid media composer to paperwork, career pathways to freelancing, you can explore the full list of session topics below. If you would like guaranteed time with an industry professional to receive feedback, advice and industry training tailored to you, this is for you!
Your first session lasts for 15 minutes and allows you to find out more about the mentoring sessions, how they are structured, detailed topics we can cover and to ask any questions you may have.
My focus is on supporting new entrants and runners into the industry and so I'm pleased to offer sliding scale pricing based on your job role and income to make it more affordable and accessible to upcoming professionals.
Book Your Spot
Classes
Choose Your Topic
Avid Media Composer
Navigating the interface
Managing your user settings
Personalising your user settings
Creating a project
Managing a project
Organising the NEXIS
Avid MediaFiles
Managing the NEXIS
Dailies
Preparing the dailies
Organising the dailies
Ingesting the dailies
Maintaining metadata
Syncing the dailies
Troubleshooting out-of-sync clips
Troubleshooting unboarded clips
Troubleshooting clips without paperwork
Grouping clips
Respeeding clips
Creating scene bins
ScriptSync
Creating dailies playouts/selects
Distributing the dailies
Managing distribution lists
Turnovers
Understanding turnover specs
Picture turnovers
Sound turnovers
ADR turnover
Music turnover
Online/opticals lists
Music cue lists
Source music lists
Stock footage/clearance lists
Paperwork
Call Sheets
Cast grids
Continuity breakdowns
Shooting schedules
Scripts
Story orders
Unit list
From the Script Supervisor
Continuity including Daily progress reports, Editor’s logs, Facing pages and Lined scripts
Sound reports
Camera reports
Lab/DIT reports
Scene Cards
Cut continuity
Creating the Assembly timings
Avid Media Composer
Sound design
Choosing SFX
Importing SFX
Laying SFX
Avid Audio Effects
The Audio Mixer
Freelancing
Career insight
Career pathways
Networking
Sending cold emails
CV tips and tricks
Negotiating your rate
Planning as a freelancer
Visual effects comps
Avid Effects Palette
Avid Effect Editor
Avid Motion Effect Editor
Your Session Will Include
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Answering a short questionnaire upon booking to tell me what topics you would like to focus on
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I will use your questionnaire to prepare materials for your session
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A 1-hour one-to-one training session over Zoom
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A pack of session notes, guides and resources on the topics we discussed
About Me
I built my career from the ground up with no guidance, connections, or formal schooling after completing an extensive amount of research on the industry, networking and learning how to break into it. I have now been working within the industry for over six years on a variety of feature films and episodic series including Snow White, Slow Horses and The Buccaneers for Disney, Apple TV+ and HBO.
I now enjoy using this knowledge to develop training materials for Assistant Editors and Editorial Trainees such as the Assistant Editor's Toolkit and have guest lectured at Cambridge and Solent University. I am honoured to represent members and advocate for creating a healthier, fairer and more accessible industry in my role as Secretary of The Rough Assembly.