Douglas K. Plante
EXPERIENCE:
ONLINE EDITOR
Limulus Productions, Arlington, MA
Online editing, color correction, compositing and DVD authoring for Aftershock,
a two-hour original program for the History Channel. Edited on Final Cut Pro HD (October 2006 to November 2006).
ONLINE EDITOR
Powderhouse Productions, Somerville, MA
Nitris online and color correction for NOVA: The Deadliest Plane Crash (August 2006).
ONLINE EDITOR
Football Sisters, Inc., New York, NY
Avid online and color correction for Wet Dreams, 70 minute independent
documentary entry in the CineVegas film festival (May 2006).
EDITOR
VPG Integrated Media, Boston, MA
Offline, online, design and video compression for multiple projects on literacy,
student assessment, and foreign language studies. Edited on Final Cut Pro
(April 2006 to present).
EDITOR AND MULTIMEDIA DEVELOPER
Harvard-Smithsonian Science Media Group, Cambridge, MA.
Extensive editing, animation, programming and development work for a wide variety of projects, including broadcast television series, science education materials, museum exhibits and video loops (April 2003 to present).
- Climate Change: Our Global Experiment, a large-format interactive video exhibit for Harvard Museum of Natural History
- Beyond Walden and Origins video loops for Harvard Museum of Natural History
- EssentialVisions: Common Principles DVD for Coalition of Essential Schools
- Essential Science for Teachers television series for the Annenberg Foundation
ONLINE EDITOR
Discovery Communications, Bethesda, MD.
Program editing, conforming, color correction and title design for the
Discovery HD Theater channel (October 2002 to April 2003).
EXTENSIVE KNOWLEDGE OF:
- multiple editing platforms, including Final Cut Pro, Avid, Adrenaline, Nitris
- post-production workflows and hardware, including high definition
- DVD authoring
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe After Effects
OTHER SKILLS:
- strong interpersonal skills
- effective teaching abilities
- narration and voiceover
- PC construction and customization
- programming and scripting experience in WISE, INFORM and LINGO