ZEV RAND
Post Production Workflow Specialist zrander@gmail.com (201) 398-5305 zevrand.com
Seasoned film professional with extensive documentary, feature, and primetime TV success. Innovative focus on post production workflow and technical process improvements. Seeking technical engineer, post producer roles, video editor, and lead assistant editor roles.
EDUCATION The School of Visual Arts, BFA in film with a concentration of film editing PRODUCTIONS
100 Foot Wave: Library Films/HBO – Assistant Editor – Jun ‘22 - Current – NYC
● Managed and completed test online of OCM for 5 episodes in Davinci Resolve
● Ingested 926 hours of footage in 3 months with up to 16 cameras per day
● Suggested and implemented new hardware to facilitate more efficient turnover
● Led and implemented company wide initiative to upgrade from Avid 2018 to 2022
● Wrote tutorials for workflows
● Assisted in delivery of a 6 part series to HBO
SR: Library Films/Netflix – Online Assistant – Jul ‘22 - Aug ‘22 – NYC
● Assisted post team in overcutting archival in resolve
● Delivered feature for Telluride and streaming on Netflix
Penny Lane Film Untitled: Spinning Nancy – Assistant Editor – Nov ‘21 - Feb ‘22 – NYC
● Developed workflow to sync months worth of daily 5 camera shoots
● Coordinated tech support with our mobile NLE system provider FrameOne
Watch Me Drown: Arsonist Films – Assistant Editor – ‘19 - ‘20 – NYC
● Developed workflow to work with both OCM and stop motion animation in Adobe Premiere
The Great Pretender: Factory 25 – Assistant Editor – Jul ‘17 - Mar ‘18 – NYC
● Adopted a project in the early rough cut stages and re-ingested the entire project to avoid relinking problems during turnover
● Developed proxy workflow
● Coordinated turnover to finishing house
Beach Rats: Cinereach – Post Production Assistant – Jul ‘16 - Dec ‘16 – NYC
● Made many temp mixes and had the mix for the carnival scene make the final film
● Synced rushes of 16mm film from post house
FREELANCE
Body Parts: Feature Documentary – Assistant Editor – Mar ‘22 - May ‘22 – NYC/LA
● Designed workflow to get around footage previously being rendered and replace and instituted a proxy workflow for the team
● Coordinated with post producer and second AE on how to best record and conform hundreds of clips of archival footage
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Applications: Avid, DaVinci Resolve, Jump Desktop, Premiere Pro and Premiere Productions, Frame IO, Adobe Media Encoder, Pro Tools, PluralEyes, OBS, Sequence Reporter, Omni Recorder
Cameras: Alexa, Alexa Mini, Sony A7 Line, Canon 5D Line, Sony FS5 & FS7, 16mm, C100/C500 Line, Black Magic Cinema Line, Red Cinema Camera Line, Phantom Camera Line, GOPRO, GH5/4 line, 16MM, DJI Drone Line, FPV Drones