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Work History
Education
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Personal Interests/Experiences
Personal Information
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Lewis Pacelli

Brighton,BNH

Summary

Creative, personable and multi-skilled Producer and Editor with over 10 years experience in all aspects of video production.

Have worked with major brands and organisations in creating content from pre through to post and genuinely love what I do.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Lead Producer and Editor

Team Whistle/DAZN
02.2021 - Current

- Lead Producer and Editor for one of Team Whistle's main clients in the Premier League.

- Manage a team of 3 editors and a graphic designer to produce content for Premier League's YouTube channel and other social platforms.

- Develop schedules for pre and post production

- Creating concepts from pitch through to delivery

- Client facing in regular meetings and building decks for future content

- Thorough research of analytics and SEO to understand how various strands perform on socials and creating reports

- Editing, writing scripts, recording voiceovers and signing off content from my team

- Have also worked with the DAZN team on a variety of boxing productions for social

- Was a producer and talent manager for a project with YouTube on the ground at the 2022 World Cup in Qatar

Freelance Producer and Editor

Various
01.2015 - Current

Have worked in a freelance capacity for a variety of clients such as -

Copywriter -

- Travel writer for DestGuides and bestplacestay websites

- Golf betting tips and articles for Sun Sport and Sun Bets

- Copywriter for Staffordshire University, writing satirical monthly articles for prospective students and parents as part of the University's push for future sign ups. Printed in the yearly University magazine delivered nationwide


Producer/Editor -

- Producer Editor for social content for the likes of PGA Tour, DP World Tour, Wimbledon tennis, Future PLC, World Rugby, TaylorMade and World Athletics


Lead Editor -

- Worked as a lead offline editor for a project with FootAsylum on a YouTube series called 'LockedIn'

- Assistant Producer/Editor creating highlights packages for social on The Paralympics in 2020

Edit Assistant/Data Wrangler

RBI Visual
01.2020 - 03.2020
  • Assisting on corporate projects and helping to create a more streamlined way of storing content on a company wide server
  • Taking drives from shoots worldwide and uploading footage to servers

Editor and Producer

Livewire
11.2018 - 01.2020
  • Lead editor with clients of Livewire, including The FA, The ECB, Amazon, Formula One, Team GB, Wimbledon Tennis, LTA, The Jockey Club, Ascot and Gunness Six Nations
  • Filmed, produced and edited content for a variety of clients and on site at big events such as Cheltenham, Grand National, Queens, Wimbledon, Formula 1 events and Six Nations.

Creative Lead and Editor

Brave Bison
06.2017 - 09.2018
  • Leading creative and managing small team of 4 with content for a project with the PGA Tour
  • This included researching through the PGA Tour archives and organising all the footage onto servers
  • Creating videos to promote 4 tournaments on the PGA Tour's YouTube and social channels
  • Brainstorming, storyboarding, producing, researching the archive, scripting, scheduling and editing the content
  • Developing and nurturing a new team to produce the content.
  • Editing the weekly Sunday League football show with Youtube influencers called ‘Park Life' for the Slash Football social channel, logging over 30 hours of footage and editing a 10-14 minute episode
  • Co-producing and leading a branded content campaign with Football Manager who sponsored the team for a month
  • Creating graphics and animations as seen in the game to entice a new audience to buy the 2018 edition
  • Creating short form viral content for social channels
  • Occasional shooting, producing and editing work with Brave Bisons social channels including Canvas and Mutha
  • Lead Editor, co-producer and researcher on new campaign with Courtyard Marriott Hotels
  • Researching and scheduling shoots for the 5-part series, assisting the Lead Producer on various ad-hoc duties in pre-production before taking over in post – logging all the rushes and editing both online and offline alongside the director and client to completion.

Assistant Producer

Sunset & Vine
06.2017 - 09.2017
  • Filming, editing and producing content for various clients through Sunset & Vine i.e
  • TieBreakTens Tennis, ECB Cricket but mainly with Aston Villa FC and their digital platforms
  • Co-ordinating and organising shoots in the UK and abroad.

Digital Content Producer

Dream Team & Sun Bets, News UK
10.2015 - 05.2017
  • Managing a growing team that built an audience from 50,000 Facebook likes to 2.2 million in under 4 months, averaging 150,000 views per video, up from 15,000 whilst helping to grow the newly formed Sun Bets to 120,000 from 0
  • Managing weekend output and staff for Dream Team social channels
  • Goal was to increase views by 10% Friday to Monday
  • Across the agreed time period we were averaging 25% increase
  • Scripting satirical football sketches – request approval, film, produce and edit them
  • Both for branded content and in-house social campaigns
  • I.e
  • Doritos hero content for YouTube and Facebook – 700k+ organic views, 12,00 shares
  • Presenting Facebook Lives and various social media threads as one of the football experts
  • Producing, shooting and editing branded content for marketing, social and in-house, i.e
  • Cheltenham Festival
  • Developing and implementing marketing and social campaigns for branded content using video as the strategy
  • Assistant producing the Dream Team podcast and editing the social cutdowns.

Assistant Producer and Preditor

Golfing World, IMG
03.2015 - 10.2015
  • Producing, filming and editing content for Golfing World's digital platforms
  • Cataloguing and archiving footage from years of golf to a digital server having all been on tape before
  • Pre-Production - brainstorming, evaluating, researching and scripting
  • Production – travelling solo or with a colleague to professional, amateur and business tournaments including Sweden, Portugal, Switzerland and across the UK
  • Filming likes of player profiles, course reviews and tournament overviews
  • Post-Production – Compiling rushes and logging them into the library
  • Editing each feature and sending them to the relevant shows head producer
  • Scripting voice over and sending to v/o artist.

Freelance Editor

The Sun Online, News UK
10.2014 - 03.2015
  • Casual night shifts, editing quickfire news social content for the Sun+ Online, mobile and tablet
  • Reacting to breaking news and important footage before editing and posting online.

Freelance Journalist

StaffsLive
09.2012 - 05.2014
  • Attending and covering Press Conferences at Stoke City, Port Vale and County Council meetings
  • Writing local news articles for the website
  • Presenting, filming and editing news packages for the StaffsLive website.

Post-Production Producer

Sport Authority
- 07.2013
  • Organising all the shoots and in-studio productions and uploading to a company server
  • Creating timelines for the editors and producing the various shows.

Assistant Producer

Sports Tonight Live
- 09.2012
  • Editorial assistant for preview/review shows during 2012 Euros
  • Editing content on breaking news throughout the tournament
  • Producer for general football, golf, athletics and boxing programmes
  • Researching and co-ordinating with the producer to create shows, invite guests and design studio sets.

Education

1st Class BA (Hons) BJTC-accredited - Broadcast Journalism

Staffordshire University
01.2014

Chichester College
01.2009

Skills

  • Producer: Have worked as a producer on a variety of projects for worldwide brands and organisations
  • Editing Software: Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro (7 X), Audacity, Adobe Audition and Burli, After Effects, Photoshop
  • Content Development: Creating briefs and pitches for clients Developing the creative from idea to conception
  • Budgeting: Creating budgets and understanding how to keep within agreed price frames for clients
  • Organisation: Have created long-term strategies and production schedules in my role at TeamWhistle
  • Leadership: Management duties in a variety of roles – leading a team of editors, producers and Graphic designers
  • Social Media Skills/SEO/Content: YouTube, TikTok, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and Wordpress eg Dream Teams video content
  • Operating: Sony FS100, FS700 Sony FS5 FS7, Canon EOS C100 C300 Sony NX70, NX50 NX30, most DSLR Cameras especially Canon 5D Mark II III Sony A7S
  • Research skills: extensive background in researching for pitches and various content
  • Data Wrangling: Used to organising mass footage and as an editor, know how to folder everything systematically At IMG, RBI Visual and Brave Bison, a huge part of my roles were organising hundreds of GB of footage at any on time
  • Writing: written for print and online (eg The Sun, The Sun Sport, Golf Monthly, StaffsLive) and experience in copywriting and scriptwriting
  • Personable: Love working with people and experience in client-facing roles

Personal Interests/Experiences

Travelling – Taught drama, P.E and music at International school of Brunei, before travelling through south east Asia. Lived in Australia for 2 months and trekked through New Zealand and Fiji. Worked in Norway for 5 months before volunteer work in Uganda – coaching football, teaching and giving HIV talks. Traveled western and southern parts of Africa. Love sport, cooking, creating short documentaries, filming and writing music. Studied music performance National Diploma, can play guitar, piano, ukulele, harmonica and received voice coaching for several years

Personal Information

Date of Birth: 11/26/90

References

Available upon request.

Timeline

Lead Producer and Editor

Team Whistle/DAZN
02.2021 - Current

Edit Assistant/Data Wrangler

RBI Visual
01.2020 - 03.2020

Editor and Producer

Livewire
11.2018 - 01.2020

Creative Lead and Editor

Brave Bison
06.2017 - 09.2018

Assistant Producer

Sunset & Vine
06.2017 - 09.2017

Digital Content Producer

Dream Team & Sun Bets, News UK
10.2015 - 05.2017

Assistant Producer and Preditor

Golfing World, IMG
03.2015 - 10.2015

Freelance Producer and Editor

Various
01.2015 - Current

Freelance Editor

The Sun Online, News UK
10.2014 - 03.2015

Freelance Journalist

StaffsLive
09.2012 - 05.2014

Post-Production Producer

Sport Authority
- 07.2013

Assistant Producer

Sports Tonight Live
- 09.2012

1st Class BA (Hons) BJTC-accredited - Broadcast Journalism

Staffordshire University

Chichester College
Lewis Pacelli