About Me
Hi there!
I’m Valeria, a Film and TV with Innovation graduate passionate about media production and an aspiring offline editor.
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I have experience working across genres, scripted and unscripted and shooting and editing for commissioned work. I am confident using Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve
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Central to my media production practice is a focus on storytelling and an insight-led creative process. I ensure each creative decision is informed by the vision and objectives of each project, understanding client briefs to create relevant media that resonates with the audience and creates a meaningful impact.
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My trajectory
I have been in awe of the creative possibilities that editing brings to visual media since I first learned as a kid how to edit my photos in VSCO and my videos on iMovie. I would spend hours editing, colour-correcting and colour-grading thinking “I wish this was an actual career, it would be so much fun!”... Ahh, little did I know!
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Turns out this passion continued and grew even stronger, so I decided to study Film and TV. My time at university was immensely valuable in expanding my theoretical knowledge of film practice, through an understanding of film movements, their approaches, references and storytelling principles, which help me critically analyse any work I produce. The practical side of my degree allowed me to familiarise with industry-standard equipment and software, as well as give me freedom to experiment and explore filmmaking and editing through my coursework.
Again, I always found myself gravitating towards the edit suite to play with montage, colour and visual effects. I found that editing was the crucial stage that made sense of everything else done in production - without it everything would just be raw footage. I found editing was not about simply putting videos together and making them look nice, I found editing has the great creative freedom, power (and responsibility!) to arrange the desired final narrative and emotion of any visual piece. I was sold. There was no other option than to dedicate myself fully to it.
MY CV
2020-2024
MARTS IN FILM AND TV WITH INNOVATION
University of Bristol
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Modules studied include: Experimental Filmmaking, Film and TV Comedy, Film History, Digital Filmmaking, Political Film, Design and Systems Thinking for Innovation, and New Creative Ventures.
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Have completed 5 films in a group for my studies (producing, shooting, editing).
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2:1
Education
2018-2020
INTERNATIONAL BACCALAUREATE (IB)
SOCIAL BACCALAUREATE (LOMCE)
Institut Moisès Broggi (Barcelona, Spain)
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Studied LOMCE (Spanish National Curriculum) and IB certificates simultaneously.
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Final score obtained: 9.4/10 (LOMCE), 39/45 (IB)
Oct. 2024 - date
POST PRODUCTION RUNNER
Films @ 59 (Bristol, UK)
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Additional to my office runner duties, I have shadowed the Media Operations department, offline and online editors.
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I have aided as a translator from Spanish to English to timestamp sequences or carry out interviews with Spanish participants
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Face clients from Apple TV, Netflix, BBC, ITV and more.
FREELANCE EDITOR & VIDEOGRAPHER
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Editor for ‘Pregnancy Losses’, an audiovisual research project supported by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and various Hospitals
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Editor for Sprint Valley’s test with new video-based research method (June 2024)
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Edited short film “Still-A-Dancing”, a project between IMPERMANENCE Dance Company and History of Arts Scholars at the University of Bristol, in association with Bristol Old Vic (April 2023)
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Photographer for the University of Bristol's Fashion Show in 2023 and 2024.
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Videography of the University of Bristol’s Brass Band for the “UniBrass Project”, supported by Arts Council England. (May 2022).
work experience
Sept. 2022 – date
Sept. 2022 – June 2023
HEAD EDITOR OF 'UBTV'
University Of Bristol (Student Union Society)
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Head Editor of the University of Bristol's student-led television station, with 6k followers on YouTube.
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Editing content, management of editors, workflow, and deadlines. Supervising, helping, and finalising edits of other society members.
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Led workshops and 1-to-1s to improve members’ editing skills on Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve.
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UBTV won bronze for ‘Broadcaster of the Year’ and silver for ‘Post-production’ at the National Student Television Association’s 2023 Awards. I was awarded with best ‘Video Editor of the Year’ and ‘Department of the Year’ at UBTV’s Awards.
Jan. 2023 –March 2023
MEDIA PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival 2023 (RAIFF'23)
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Creation of trailers for nominated categories at RAI Film Festival '23
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Creation of teasers for festival’s promotion.
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Designated photographer for the 3 days of the in-person event documenting workshops, roundtables, lectures and screenings.
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Welcoming of attendees and convenors to conference
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IT support during online conferences (setting up Zoom, welcoming panellists, and convenors, and resolving IT issues).
February 2023
RUNNER AT FILMS @ 59
Films @59
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1 week as office runner for Films at 59.
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1-to-1 sessions with online editors as work experience where I could learn their approach to refining edits, colour-grading, and montage.
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Preparing and running drinks and lunches, checking in, cleaning and organising communal areas.
May 2022, Aug 2022
RUNNER AT PLIMSOLL PRODUCTIONS
Plimsoll Productions
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3 day work experience shadowing Development, and Hire & Tech Teams (May 2022).
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Helped with sizzle editing for the Development Team, collecting archive footage, and doing a small montage.
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Buying and running lunches for executives, checking-ins, setting and cleaning meeting rooms, setting and delivering communal building lunch, opening and closing of the building (August 2022).
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Given a small research task about mental health spaces in Bristol.
Sept. 2023 - date
WAITRESS AND BARISTA
Poco Tapas
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Placement of orders and payments
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Cocktails and beverages elaboration
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Aperture, cleaning, and closure of restaurant.