Murphy Sorich (they/them)
Skills and Programs
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Adobe Creative Suite: Premiere Pro, Media Encoder, After Effects, Animate CC
DaVinci Resolve
Avid Media Composer: graduate of Stockade Works’ Avid Assistant Editor Workshop
Cinematography: Experienced with Panasonic GH4 and AF100, and Canon TI cameras
Media and Task Management on Airtable, Monday, Mediashuttle and Frame.io
Media Management software: Hedge, Carbon Copy Cloner
Related Work Experience
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Animation Production Coordinator, (Contract) Blunt Action, remote May 2023 - Oct 2023
- Coordinator for Blunt Action’s NASA 3D billboard Display at the Kennedy Space Center, a looped, 6.5 minute, 3D
animated billboard display.
animated billboard display.
- Built and managed project trackers with day to day tasks on Airtable.
- Identified needed assets, sourced 3D models online, researched and created detailed briefings for custom assets.
- Scheduled and briefed freelancers on tasks. Coordinated tasks and completion of assets with freelancers.
- Built shared folder structures for company projects on Dropbox. Maintained organization of files.
- Continuously updated and optimized work flow.
- Searched for freelance 3D artists (new hires).
Production Coordinator and Video Editor, (Contract) The Biondi School, hybrid March 2023 - June 2023
- Logging and organizing archival media library.
- Organizing crew, gear, and location for shoots.
- Coordinating media transfer between editors, organizing shoot schedules, creating budgets.
Assistant Editor and Media Manager, (Staff Position) Notice Pictures, hybrid Dec. 2021 - Jan 2023
- Created proxies and ProRes of raw footage in DaVinci Resolve. Prepped project Files in Adobe Premiere, synced interviews, pulled selects, and created transcripts. Sent media, srts, and prepped project files to remote editors via MediaShuttle Server. Relinked finished Premiere projects to raw media and made exports for final delivery.
- Offloaded and organized media for all company projects on Jellyfish NFS. Collected additional media from editors and organized wrapped projects on Jellyfish to be archived. Archived projects on LTO cassettes through Logic mTape LTO machine.
- Maintained external hard drive database and backup media for all company projects. Cleared and prepped drives for production. Maintained database/spreadsheets of current projects and footage.
- Edited junior level video projects.
Films and Projects
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Nena Skate, Las Vegas NV + Kingston NY Jun 2019 - Current
- Short documentary about the Las Vegas roller skating scene. Made possible by the 2019 Colorado Doc Grant.
- Lead editor on Adobe Premiere project. Managing assistant editors.
- Videographer using Panasonic GH4. Recording lav audio to a zoom.
Cat Commando, Colorado Springs, CO Jun 2019 - Aug 2018
- Short documentary made in collaboration with Rocky Mountain PBS.
- Worked with client, Rocky Mountain PBS, to make documentary short that fit their TV program In Short. Edited together an episode of short films for Rocky Mountain PBS titled “Found Family.”
- Operated AF100 Camera, edited on Adobe Premiere.
- Aired on Rocky Mountain PBS Fall 2019 and premiered at the ACM Film Festival in 2018.
Education
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Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO Aug. 2015-Apr. 2019
- Achieved a BA in Film and New Media