ABOUT ANDREW

ABOUT ANDREW SWARBRICK (BA Hons Film)




I am an experienced Offline and Online Avid Editor and Edit Producer.

My most recent roles have been as Senior Editor and Edit Producer on the children’s TV programme, The Planet Pop Show, editing 31x 26 minute episodes. The show which helps teach children English in a modern and exciting way, through music videos and 1980s aesthetics, was for Japanese broadcaster Tokyo MX. I was also editor on episode 4 of Billionaire Resorts for Rumpus Media/Channel 5. 

As Senior Editor (offline and online) across the 31 episodes of The Planet Pop Show, I was entrusted to be Edit Producer. The smooth delivery to station of the show was my responsibility, from ingestion through to mastering and backing up This role was simultaneously creative , logistical and technical. My role meant working closely with the Senior Producer/Creator of the show to come up with or enhance creative ideas for each episode, as well as ensuring that the English being learnt and visually presented met the current Cambridge English Language curriculum. I created Power Point mood boards for the other editors in my team to help them understand the concept of each episode and ensured that guidelines were met for the learning content of each episode (for example correct punctuation and capitalisation for on-screen graphics). I would also source any relevant stock footage from sites such as Envato to help focus in on the concept. I found this helped the other editors and motion graphic designers achieve a consistent finished programme. I also spent considerable time sourcing audio effects for the post-production team to help them with the sound design for each episode.. Some elements of the show were also from tape archive which was HD tape based and so via a Blackmagic 4K Studio box I was able to ingest both SD and HD tape formats.

Logistically in order to meet broadcast delivery dates in Japan, I created schedules and worked closely with the other editors and motion graphics designers to help guide them through the tight deadlines.The editors in my team were talented but young and required guidance in editing for broadcast TV, including the principals of a consistent layout for each episode, keeping graphics on screen long enough for a young audience to read, being aware of title and action frame safe areas, using audio PPMs and video scopes, and creating stems, AAFs or OMFS for audio dubs or online sessions.As Senior Editor I took the lead in creating the station masters, dealing with clocking and mastering .For consistency I sat in on audio mixes and gave final QC sign off on each episode. All 31 episodes were delivered on time and without issue. Something I am extremely proud of, not just for myself but for the Post Production team, who excelled. 

The Planet Pop Show was also recut into 12 minute programmes for Amazon Direct video. It was my responsibility again to oversee these recuts and ensure that it meet the required internal brief. Based upon the Amazon Direct Video requirements, I created a codec in the software encoder, to output a video `that was acceptable for the Amazon Video platform. Once this deliverable was created I then oversaw the QCing, submitting the file to the Interra Baton cloud software system which Amazon uses to check and approve video submissions for steaming. Again each video was approved for streaming. 

I have a rich past in post-production and one thing I am extremely proud of is designing, installing and running one of the first offline NLE edit suites in a Manchester production company. at The Gate Films. It was here I learnt much about editing as a craft and running an edit suite. The  installation was a success and within a few years it transitioned, via myself, into an online edit suite which was capable of delivering station dubs for transmission.. The Gate still has a highly successful post-production department and I am extremely proud of this legacy. 


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