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Bill Dempster    

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Skills

Trainee

Second A.D.
Runner

Credits

Mobile: 0430977619
e-mail: billybakes@hotmail.com


WORK EXPERIENCE

Never Enough Thunder       
Feature Film – (Number8Fencing Wire Production)       
Mini DV – Writer/Producer/Director

Last Stop               
Short Film – (Southgate Productions)               
16mm – Writer/Producer/Director

It Wasn’t Me               
Short Film –(Southgate Productions)               
16mm - Producer/D.O.P/1st AD

Karen                   
Short Film – (Southgate Productions)               
16mm – Producer/1st AD

The Moes Live in Concert        
Live concert DVD – (Number8FencingWire Productions)   
Mini DV – Producer/Director

I, dosser               
Short Film – (Roto Vegas Films)               
Digi Beta – Writer/Producer/Directo

Help                   
TV comedy – (BBC)                       
HD – Boom Operator

In a Day               
Feature Film – (Just Yellow Media)               
35mm – Boom Operator

The Lift               
Short Film – (Dean Craig Prod)               
Mini DV – Boom Operator

Loss of Direction           
Short film – (Student Film)                   
16mm – Boom Operator

Soldiering On               
Short Film – (Burnt Orange Film)               
HD – Sound Recordist

Bowes Road School Promo       
Short Film – (Enfield Council)               
HD – Producer/Director/Editor

I’m Doing it Again           
Music Video – (Enfield Council)               
HD – Producer

EMR                   
Feature Film – (Cottonpolis Films)               
HD – Sound assistant

Rulers Dealers Losers       
Feature Film – (RDL Productions)               
35mm – Sound assistant

Putt                   
Short Film – (Byron Productions)               
S16mm – Set construction/Runner

Hitchcock Short           
Short Film – (Student Prod)                   
35mm – Runner

Thomas Cook           
TVC – (Hot Box Media)                   
HD – Runner

Demm Lott               
Music Video –(Hot Box Media)               
Runner

Dogs Die in Hot Cars       
Music Video                           
Driver

Turkey Travel Video           
Documentary – (Roto Vegas Films)               
HD –DOP/Editor

The Flight               
Documentary – (Number8Fencing Wire Productions)   
HD – Producer/DOP/Editor

Cuts                   
Short Film – (Flynn Productions)               
HD – Boom Operator

Too Much Too Young       
Feature Film – (Pensmith Films)               
HD – Boom Operator

Non People               
Short Film – (Elena Karathanassi Productions)       
S16 - Boom Operator

Dog TV               
Music Video Channel - Massey University           
TV - Presenter

WYD?                
Music Promotion - London UK               
Main Promoter

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS

Southgate College -London UK
16mm film production course

Massey University - New Zealand
Bachelor of Education
Diploma of Teaching

SKILLS
    •    Excellent communication skills with a track record of dealing with a wide variety of people including members of the public, talent and crew
    •    Able to collaborate with a team from start to completion to produce the best results
    •    Highly resourceful in problem in problem soling situations
    •    Good understanding of the filming process and all departments that make up that process
    •    Easy to work with always friendly, polite and easy going
    •    Dependable
    •    Basic Final Cut Pro skills
    •    Basic understanding of Adobe Flash
    •    Confident with Windows based programs and Apple
    •    Full drivers license with own car  


POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY

Producer/Director - organized and coordinated a number of short films and a feature film.  Typical work activities include:
    •    raising funding;
    •    reading, researching and assessing ideas and finished scripts;
    •    building and developing a network of contacts;
    •    liaising and discussing projects with financial backers ;
    •    using computer software packages for screenwriting, budgeting and scheduling;
    •    hiring key staff, including a director and a crew to shoot films;
    •    controlling the budget and allocating resources;
    •    pulling together all the strands of creative and practical talent involved in the project to create a team;
    •    organising shooting schedules;
    •    supervising the progress of the project from production to post production;
    •    holding regular meetings with the director to discuss characters and scenes;
    •    acting as a sounding board for the director;
    •    bringing the finished production in on budget.

INTERESTS

    •    Making, watching and writing films
    •    Touch Rugby, Swimming, Tennis, Watching sports
    •    Playing the Guitar
    •    Live music