I'm a PD (with SP credits) and a background in factual entertainment, factual, actuality, current affairs, and news.I love telling stories, I love meeting people from all walks of life, and I love my job. I'd like to think I can bring you energy, enthusiasm, hard work, and a passion for the craft of television.My key credits range from Piers M... Read More

I'm a PD (with SP credits) and a background in factual entertainment, factual, actuality, current affairs, and news.I love telling stories, I love meeting people from all walks of life, and I love my job. I'd like to think I can bring you energy, enthusiasm, hard work, and a passion for the craft of television.My key credits range from Piers Morgan's Life Stories and Pride of Britain; to The One Show, Watchdog, and Rip Off Britain; to Come Dine With Me, Four In A Bed, and Celebrity Antiques Roadtrip.I have extensive experience in: celebrity biography, documentary VTs, archive, consumer programmes, human interest stories, competitive reality formats, popular journalism, and long-form interviews. I've been a PD and edit producer for ten years, and was previously an AP for a further five years, but one of my most recent credits was as SP. I also work as a broadcast journalist, and began my career as a radio producer.My particular skills include:- Working with contributors drawn from members of the public. - Producing celebrities/talent/professional contributors. - Can shoot on FS9/7, Canon C300 , XF305 and Sony PMW 500. - Directing actuality. - Interviewing. - Working with archive material. - Working with subjects and styles ranging from the humorous, to the journalistic, to the emotive and deeply sensitive. - Storytelling. - Celebrity biographies. - Managing a production team, and the edit, and overseeing casting. - Writing VO with humour, precision, elegance, and factual accuracy. - Confidence, resourcefulness, and flexibility, in the edit. - Working to challenging deadlines, on tight turnarounds, and on limited budgets. - High journalistic standards and extensive experience of compliance, copyright, and broadcast law.Some of my other credits include:- Our Cilla - ITV 1. - True Gold: Spandau Ballet - ITV 1. - Unbelievable Moments Caught On Camera - ITV 1. - Good Morning Britain.Thanks for reading my profile, and please do get in touch for any further information. My number is 07885 937108 and my e-mail address is maxie@maxieallen.comThanks again,Maxie. Read Less