AMANDA SMITH MOTION GRAPHIC DESIGNER

 

Excellent communication skills

 

Equally comfortable working alone or in a team, I enjoy sharing ideas with clients and other professionals in office and gallery TV environments. Every day I liaise with Journalists, Editors, and Technical Staff in person, via email and by phone. In a news team I work to very tight deadlines. As a consummate professional with a can-do attitude; I will always tactfully manage expectations and find some way to work around any time constraints or design issues.

 

OrganiSational skills

 

Creating a daily schedule allowing time for on-the-day graphics, anticipating future needs for news stories/ feature edits and planning accordingly, as well as reacting to requests for lost minute breaking news graphics. Previous office employment included coordinating, implementing and supervising maintenance of office records, and also booking venues and the designing and distribution of publicity literature.

 

01/2014 – Present  Graphic Designer at BBC News Languages, Broadcasting House, London

 

Supporting BBC News Languages for News Services and programmes. Crafting titles, stings, information graphics, plasmas, studio sets, keying, compositing, etc. Building or reversion graphics into 12 different languages - in fact anything that is needed to support the mulitple news teams and programmes of BBC Language Service.

 

 

 

 

 

Live gallery experience:

lTV Meridian Tonight, Soccer Night, BBC Question Time, Scottish Premier League Football, lTV Digital Tennis and European Tour Golf.

 

Programme graphics experience:

lTV Meridian Tonight, Soccer Sunday, Losing it, Channel 4 Netball, Moto GP. F1 highlights

 

Other experience:

Designing programme titles, stings and studio sets. Directing shoots, setting up lighting & cameras, operating a camera, editing footage and designing the overall look and graphic content of programmes. Training journalists in the use of in-house templated graphics from Pixel power into iNews. Print design.

 

 

 

2013 – Freelance Graphic Designer at ITV Studios, Daybreak and Lorraine.

 

Contributing motion graphics for news, entertainment feature items, competitions, health, lifestyle and fashion. Working in a department that supports the Journalists and producers 24 hours a day.

 

06/2001 -05/2013  Senior Designer,  Graphic Designer lTV Meridian News, Regional & Network Programmes

 

I started my career at Meridian in the Creative Programme department, and then progressed to working for lTV News and Current Affairs. I was then promoted to Senior Graphic Designer managing a team of 4 designers covering 3 different news programmes across 3 sites. Under my leadership we became an award winning department.

 

01/2004  Freelance Illustrator, ITV Meridian

With the consent and encouragement of Meridian Creative I drew pen and Ink illustrations for lTV's "Telling Tales" which was transmitted in January  2004.

 

11/2000 - 06/2001 Graphic Assistant, Pearson

 

Television Preparing and supplying graphics for recording programmes in the gallery for digital channels.

 

02/1999 - 11I 2000  Graphic Designer, Transworld International, European Tour Productions.

 

On outside broadcasts I was responsible for the overall appearance and quality of the programme, as well as the supervision of a team of three other graphic designers and operators. We supplied multiple feeds around the world with our primary being Sky Sports. At Head Office in London my duties varied from creating the whole identity and look of respective programmes inclusive of logos, typography, information design and titles, to collating graphics for various ETP Golf Programmes, liaising with a wide range of people nationally and internationally, and coordinating the prompt delivery of graphics to broadcasters.

 

05/1998 -11/1998 Jnr Designer & Runner Sky Broadcasting

For Sky Creative and Film shoots for Sky Promos

 

 

2006

lTV News Award Graphics Bronze

 

2010

lTV News Award Graphics Bronze

 

2010

RTS Winner Best Graphics or Animation

 

2011

RTS Nominee Best Graphics or Animation

 

 

 

 

 

2012

EDF Programme Award - Meridian Tonight Titanic 100. I supplied the graphic content

 

2012

RTS Nominee Best Graphics or Animation

 

 

 

QUALIFICATIONS

 

2:1 BA (Hons) Graphic Communication Degree specialising in Information Design and Film Studies. 1995-1998 Falmouth College of Arts.

 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT TRAINING

 

2015 Cinema 4D Intermediate, Symbiosis

2012 3ds Max Advanced, Bournemouth & Poole Art College

2009 Adobe Illustrator Advanced Media Training UK