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Director Of Photography, Creative Director 

Creative & Design

Dynamic and invested photographer, videographer, editor, and creative director, with experience in the complete design process from conceptualization to delivery. Skilled with Adobe Premier, Creative Suite including Illustrator, Photoshop, After Effects, and Premiere. Proven leader able to stretch the boundaries of digital story telling to help my clients brands stand out. I am a active and out going person. I love the outdoors and spending my time in the ocean surfing or up in the mountains skiing and filming with friends. Exploring new places and having new experiences is what I strive for in life and when I get to share it with friends/family and capture the moments its truly my happy place. I never leave the house without a camera whether it’s a small point and shoot or my Bolex 16mm, I want to capture moments everyday.  

- Currently facilitating and completing high profile editing projects for our top client, Reishauser
- Have met all critical elements for the customer including Editing style, Cuts, Music Selection, Graphics, Titles, and speedy turn over time.
- Participate and provide professional guidance during weekly team/project meetings with clients. An example is giving them ideas of how to shoot the project in an efficient manner for the editors.
- Met an above expectation and goal of approval on first submissions 97% of the time.
- Management has acknowledged my leadership, meeting and surpassing requirements of all deadlines and attention to detail to all team members.
- Allowed me to become very efficient with Adobe creative cloud applications especially  Premier and After Effects. Also learned to use Frame IO which allowed me to work hand and hand with the client.

TEAM LEAD, CONTENT CREATOR AND EDITOR

- Assisted head photographer Chad Unger for Hollister Co. Summer 2022 look book
- Shot on location in 29 palms
- Responsible for assisting Chad with set up, lighting, Light meters, Film loading, Shooting, capturing 16mm BTS video and directing talent.

PHOTOGRAPHER ASSISTANT, Hollister Co. 

- Freelance work for Bubs Naturals, UNI College, Ethel Rose Flower Shop, K2Skis, Ashbury, Slash Snowboards, 0N3P Skis, Zootspace, Jet and Sierra Nevada College.
- Created serval short social media marketing videos.
- Learned how to plan and execute video projects within a short time period on my own.
-  Learned how to Use all type of film equipment such as (16MM, 8MM, DSLR'S, RED, BLACK MAGIC, VHS) Sound equipment, lighting.
- Designed and created logos on Adobe illustrator for a Zootspace Clothing line.
- Used Affter Effects to create moving graphics for Zootspace marketing campaign.
- Learned how to take ideas from a brand and create an image for them through video content.
- Had to create videos/ graphics that would help with the marketing of the brand and how to reach their target market.

VIDEOGRAPHER, PHOTOGRAPHER  FREELANCE/CONTRACT WORK

- Edited beta version edits for Macys consisting of 50 training videos for employees.
- Organized and logged hours of footage and graphics for several different projects Th3rd Coast was working on.
- Learned how to work with a over whelming amount of footage and log everything neatly and efficiently.
- Learned how to work with a team on set with everyone's individual responsibilities

INTERNSHIP

michael switzer is a Director Of Photography, Creative Director at TH3RD COAST STUDIOS in Brooklyn, New York.

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SIERRA NEVADA COLLEGE

UNIVERSITY OF UTAH