Joshua Meyerson
ANIMATION TV Pilot, SCI-FI / NOIR Feature & Development Package
Entertainment Attorney. Reference upon request.
Non-Union
Projects (2)
Connections (212)
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Joshua Meyerson
jmeyerson@26thyankee.com
www.26thyankee.com
A versatile communicator with the ability for development and conceptualizing ideas to brand products, storyline structures and leverage budgetary demands for digital films/TV, LIVE News & Sports broadcast, commercial, feature and short film production, print, and industrials to meet an organization’s goals. A honed aptitude for managing sophisticated graphics and complex video elements while having exceptional verbal and written skills (comedic & horror), personable, diligent, intuitive, anticipatory, and assertive with strong organizational and leadership skills. Proactively take responsibility in facilitating pre-/production/post-production processes, maintaining accountability for accuracy, quality, artistic integrity, budget, and schedule. Ensure the successful delivery of a high quality end-product on time and on budget.
EXPERIENCE
PRODUCER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR / EDITOR 2005 – present
26th YANKEE COMPANY, New York, New York
An innovative boutique PR/Marketing firm specializing in using multi-media to advertise and enhance brand awareness: Apple – iPod, Skechers, Heineken, and Brandt Beef.
• Supervise operations, and creatively lead all facets of production from the client’s original direction where their company was and needed to reach. Design a new focus and achievable goals with the inception of their old structure forming a new model.
• Manage story development, permits, insurance, heavy knowledge and experience with selection and working with digital and film stocks, hire production teams: coordinators, designers, animators, editors, shoot crews.
• Act as the main liaison between the client and the production team to make sure that creative goals are achieved throughout the entire process of the project/program.
• Conduct input sessions and client reviews following through on addressing the evolving project’s needs. Generate a workflow for all creative channels to adhere to a sound cost effective process and actualizing the final deliverable project.
• Conceptually craft, produce and distribute $100K projects under budget, supremely finalize the end-product for the In-Users in commercial and industrial formats.
• Utilize incorporated approach and distribution strategy to promote clients to increase sales results, product image awareness, and DVD PR/Marketing conceptual packages.
PRODUCER / OPERATIONS & POST SUPERVISOR 2008 – 2010
GREAT NECK PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Great Neck, New York
Established in 1814, Great Neck Schools are consistently ranked in the top 50 as ‘Gold Medal’ by U.S. News & World Report hosts a unique “gift & talented” TV program for adolescents.
• Produce 180-episodes annually, a live daily news broadcast seen by more than 1,000 viewers that focuses on topical social agendas that impact school district issues. Advise and supervise in-classroom workshops in studio broadcast methods and remote
collaborative productions. Problem-solving, managing story-content, graphics, music.
• Create presentation materials for TV ads and supervise on-location school events using multi-camera truck shoots and pre-recorded programming for cable TV.
• Maintain rigorous production schedule for the school officials.
• NYS Teacher Assistant Certification, 2008. NYS Teacher Certification, 2010 (pending)
AMBLIN FACILITIES ASSISTANT MANAGER 2003 – 2005
DREAMWORKS/AMBLIN, SKG, Universal City, California
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s Universal Studio-based company Amblin Entertainment.
Coordinated a high level of performance output in customer service for more than 750 personnel with 100 exclusively high-profiled executives.
• Fielded and supported PR / Marketing, Legal Affairs and Accounting department’s communication needs while strategically leading sevens assistants to achieve forthcoming tasks in a fastidiously efficient manner.
• Complied urgent customer service & public relation requests, communicated routine internal maintenances by strategically implementing the daily tasks to the facility’s production assistants, created all work orders, followed up all pending work orders, received any arriving vendors per requests.
PRODUCTION MANAGER / OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR 1998 – 2004
AMBUSH ENTERTAINMENT, Los Angeles, California
A $20-million entertainment production company that produced such feature films as: Wonderful World, The Squid and the Whale, Dead and Breakfast, Unearthed, The OH In Ohio.
• Coordinated daily correspondences pertaining to all conceptual creative pr & marketing and communications with elite studio executives.
• Directed office staff to handle: phones, final script revisions and summary notes.
• Produced an (electronic press kit) on feature films and commercial sets, editorial ingesting and editing of dailies for teaser distribution “promo” reel.
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
DIGITAL: RED ONE, XDCAM EX3, EX1, EX30, HD-CAM 900, VariCam 3700, CineAlta, Z1, P2 HVX200A, HDR-AX2000, DVX 100A & 100B, XL-Series, KY27.
FILM: PANAVISION & PANAFLEX Gold & Primo-Lenses, ARRI-CAM 435 & 535, S4 Cooke & Zeiss Super-Speed Primes, ARRI-SR, SRII, SRIII 16mm, Aton 16mm, Beaulieu Super8mm.
TV: EchoLab Switcher, GenPix CG, BlackMagic Desktop, Digital Juicer CamMate Crane.
EDITORIAL: Final Cut Studio 3: FCP 7.0.3 HD, DVD Studio Pro 4, PhotoShop CS 2, ProTools, AVID, AfterEffects, Studio 8.
EDUCATION
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, Los Angeles, California
Masters of Fine Arts in Film/TV Production, 2004
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, San Francisco, California
Bachelor of Arts in Cinema, 1999
REFERENCES Available upon request.
jmeyerson@26thyankee.com
www.26thyankee.com
A versatile communicator with the ability for development and conceptualizing ideas to brand products, storyline structures and leverage budgetary demands for digital films/TV, LIVE News & Sports broadcast, commercial, feature and short film production, print, and industrials to meet an organization’s goals. A honed aptitude for managing sophisticated graphics and complex video elements while having exceptional verbal and written skills (comedic & horror), personable, diligent, intuitive, anticipatory, and assertive with strong organizational and leadership skills. Proactively take responsibility in facilitating pre-/production/post-production processes, maintaining accountability for accuracy, quality, artistic integrity, budget, and schedule. Ensure the successful delivery of a high quality end-product on time and on budget.
EXPERIENCE
PRODUCER / CREATIVE DIRECTOR / EDITOR 2005 – present
26th YANKEE COMPANY, New York, New York
An innovative boutique PR/Marketing firm specializing in using multi-media to advertise and enhance brand awareness: Apple – iPod, Skechers, Heineken, and Brandt Beef.
• Supervise operations, and creatively lead all facets of production from the client’s original direction where their company was and needed to reach. Design a new focus and achievable goals with the inception of their old structure forming a new model.
• Manage story development, permits, insurance, heavy knowledge and experience with selection and working with digital and film stocks, hire production teams: coordinators, designers, animators, editors, shoot crews.
• Act as the main liaison between the client and the production team to make sure that creative goals are achieved throughout the entire process of the project/program.
• Conduct input sessions and client reviews following through on addressing the evolving project’s needs. Generate a workflow for all creative channels to adhere to a sound cost effective process and actualizing the final deliverable project.
• Conceptually craft, produce and distribute $100K projects under budget, supremely finalize the end-product for the In-Users in commercial and industrial formats.
• Utilize incorporated approach and distribution strategy to promote clients to increase sales results, product image awareness, and DVD PR/Marketing conceptual packages.
PRODUCER / OPERATIONS & POST SUPERVISOR 2008 – 2010
GREAT NECK PUBLIC SCHOOLS, Great Neck, New York
Established in 1814, Great Neck Schools are consistently ranked in the top 50 as ‘Gold Medal’ by U.S. News & World Report hosts a unique “gift & talented” TV program for adolescents.
• Produce 180-episodes annually, a live daily news broadcast seen by more than 1,000 viewers that focuses on topical social agendas that impact school district issues. Advise and supervise in-classroom workshops in studio broadcast methods and remote
collaborative productions. Problem-solving, managing story-content, graphics, music.
• Create presentation materials for TV ads and supervise on-location school events using multi-camera truck shoots and pre-recorded programming for cable TV.
• Maintain rigorous production schedule for the school officials.
• NYS Teacher Assistant Certification, 2008. NYS Teacher Certification, 2010 (pending)
AMBLIN FACILITIES ASSISTANT MANAGER 2003 – 2005
DREAMWORKS/AMBLIN, SKG, Universal City, California
Filmmaker Steven Spielberg’s Universal Studio-based company Amblin Entertainment.
Coordinated a high level of performance output in customer service for more than 750 personnel with 100 exclusively high-profiled executives.
• Fielded and supported PR / Marketing, Legal Affairs and Accounting department’s communication needs while strategically leading sevens assistants to achieve forthcoming tasks in a fastidiously efficient manner.
• Complied urgent customer service & public relation requests, communicated routine internal maintenances by strategically implementing the daily tasks to the facility’s production assistants, created all work orders, followed up all pending work orders, received any arriving vendors per requests.
PRODUCTION MANAGER / OPERATIONS SUPERVISOR 1998 – 2004
AMBUSH ENTERTAINMENT, Los Angeles, California
A $20-million entertainment production company that produced such feature films as: Wonderful World, The Squid and the Whale, Dead and Breakfast, Unearthed, The OH In Ohio.
• Coordinated daily correspondences pertaining to all conceptual creative pr & marketing and communications with elite studio executives.
• Directed office staff to handle: phones, final script revisions and summary notes.
• Produced an (electronic press kit) on feature films and commercial sets, editorial ingesting and editing of dailies for teaser distribution “promo” reel.
TECHNICAL PROFICIENCY
DIGITAL: RED ONE, XDCAM EX3, EX1, EX30, HD-CAM 900, VariCam 3700, CineAlta, Z1, P2 HVX200A, HDR-AX2000, DVX 100A & 100B, XL-Series, KY27.
FILM: PANAVISION & PANAFLEX Gold & Primo-Lenses, ARRI-CAM 435 & 535, S4 Cooke & Zeiss Super-Speed Primes, ARRI-SR, SRII, SRIII 16mm, Aton 16mm, Beaulieu Super8mm.
TV: EchoLab Switcher, GenPix CG, BlackMagic Desktop, Digital Juicer CamMate Crane.
EDITORIAL: Final Cut Studio 3: FCP 7.0.3 HD, DVD Studio Pro 4, PhotoShop CS 2, ProTools, AVID, AfterEffects, Studio 8.
EDUCATION
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY, Los Angeles, California
Masters of Fine Arts in Film/TV Production, 2004
SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY, San Francisco, California
Bachelor of Arts in Cinema, 1999
REFERENCES Available upon request.