James Lovage

Producer for the ITV Creative social media team within the Marketing Dept. Working across the @ITV, @ITV2, @ITVBe, @ITV4 and @ITVDrama channels.

Working in production at ITV Creative since January 2013. I started as a Production Assistant and then gained a promotion to Team Producer. I joined as a freelancer working on the end of the ITV Rebrand campaign and then went full time in April 2013. I have worked on day to day promo production across all the ITV genres and channels (Sport, Drama, Ents, Factual, Film and Comedy). This covers simple clipbased promos all the way to 360 campaigns including, on-air, print, digital, radio and social deliverables. I have experience delivering campaigns to cinema and commercial airtime. My responsibilities mainly focused on the clipbased promos that form the bulk of the work, but would also produce small shoot based campaigns, for on-air, print and digital. Some of the shoot based campaigns I produced include ITV2 Halloween 2014, The Job Lot S2 and Tricked S2. I also had to manage the upcoming workload and ensure that projects were distributed evenly amongst team members and that creatives were not overloaded and on schedule. This requires constant communication between the CD, Marketing Dept and traffic management to ensure all requests are being responded to and either completed or reallocated. I have also worked on several large shoot based conceptual projects as part of the production team at ITV including: Broadchurch, "Where Drama Lives", ITV Rebrand, I'm a Celebrity Get me Out of Here, Saturday Night Takeaway, ITV Encore launch, Coronation Street and Emmerdale. These projects have been 360 campaigns including print (press, DOOH and OOH) digital/online and on air.

At DFID I worked as part of the Online Content Team, our remit was to produce content for the DFID website and push our AV material to partners and news broadcasters, while managing the content sections of the DFID website. My role was to improve the quality and frequency of video content and improve gathering and handling of AV material within the department. My various duties while at DFID included the following: - Editing short AV pieces on Final Cut Pro from video, audio and photos. These were cut into short films to be published on the internet, examples here: http://vimeo.com/12051512 & www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LO-UavKZms - Filming of speeches, conferences and announcements by senior politicians, world leaders and development figures. - Creative development and planning of future AV campaigns. - Liaise with partners and broadcasters to increase resource utilisation and arrange publishing. - Provide training in basic filming and editing to various staff members within DFID, so that they could gather and create AV material while in the field. - Design and implement the physical and electronic filing system for all the AV resources that were received by our team. - Carry out basic web page editing using a content management system.

I worked at Channel 4 part-time while I was in university and then full time once I had finished. I worked for the in house creative department 4Creative. They are responsible for the creative and production of all Channel 4's advertising in all formats. 4Creative also works with external clients to create and produce advertising campaigns. www.4creative.co.uk & www.youtube.com/user/4creative I had no previous experience working in production before joining Channel 4. I worked up from being a runner to production assistant. My duties were wide and varied, I was helping to produce large scale advertising campaigns for on-air, print and digital. Including pre-production, shoot days and post-production. I was also responsible for smaller scale marketing and advertising tapes. I working with clients, directors and editors to plan, manage and produce specified deliverables. Within my role flexibility and creativity in helping solve problems was extremely important. I had to work with people from all parts of the department and channel and got involved in all aspects of a creative advertising/production company. My working experience was very varied and included the day to day duties and the project based production tasks.