Dee Anthony Allen

Key member of multidisciplinary creative start up with expertise in advertising, technology, design and entertainment.

• Proactive in winning new business with focus on live action opportunities.
• Work closely with east coast reps in developing agency and brand client relationships and sales opportunities.
• Review and assess client creative briefs before presenting to production team.
• Work alongside Executive Creative Directors to build treatments and pitch decks to present to clients.
• Working collaboratively with team to ideate production solutions in response to client creative briefs.
• Lead agency/brand chemistry calls and pitch meetings.
• Provide support to production team, overseeing careful handover of projects from bidding stage to live action production.
• Attend studio and location shoots ensuring complete production overview with primary responsibility being client service and comms.
• Source appropriate edit, post production, design and vfx vendors for project partnerships.
• Primary point of client contact for all creative and budgetary items throughout project up to final delivery.
• Identify new talent for studio roster.
• Showcase rostered artists' work and reels to clients and creative partners for collaboration.

• Mentor and support existing studio directorial talent.

This was a position created by the CEO and COO for my skills sets:

• Primary liaison between CO3 management/leadership team and its global team of artist; encompassing the US, Canada and UK based talent.
• Assist in the cultivation of an environment that ensured artists were engaged and satisfied in their roles, whilst establishing effective communication channels between artists and management across the organization.
• Point of contact for identifying talent profiles across the industry suitable for company roster.
• Key member of Creative Council Leadership Committee comprised of artists HOD's CEO, CCO, Sales and Marketing Directors.
• Work alongside Operations Director to strategize on fluid internal solutions for creative collaboration across projects.
• Determined and solve issues encountered by members of the creative team and facilitate communication with appropriate production/operations teams to resolution.
• Worked alongside creative HOD's to identify and support growth of junior artists.
• Collaborated with sales and marketing teams to identify and execute opportunities for further artist visibility and career growth (speaking opportunities, potential press, awards submissions, etc)
• Served as an ambassador for CO3’s creative team at industry events.

Continuation of previous Group role held in New York alongside specific Mill LA objectives:

• Work alongside Managing Director and Commercial Manager to restructure Color department in LA including: Colorists, Production staff and Assistants.
• Manage personnel engagement with parent company Technicolor across all Mill Color investment initiatives in LA, New York and Chicago studios.
• Lead designated internal task group charged with updating new global workflow. This included artists, engineering team, senior production and management teams across the group.
• Oversaw and signed off on new west coast based remote color partnerships.
• Interview and hire new talent and production staff in LA and Chicago.
• Review and offer input on LA studio's annual color sales objectives.

• Led Group talent development and global acquisition strategy - identifying new talent and retaining companies best artists
• Assume lead role in strategic approach for Color across Mill group.
• Advising and working with CEO/COO to manage company's Color division across all studios.
• Hired new talent and negotiated contracts across all studios.
• Worked with Managing Directors and Commercial Managers to devise annual revenue targets and ensure maximum profitability.
• Oversaw and implemented Color sales objectives and targets in each studio.
• Co-ordinate interaction in areas of Color science/technology/pipeline.
• Leveraged and managed artists and production interaction with parent company Technicolor across DI workflow.
• Led build out of DI solution for independent feature production and episodic content in Mill NY and spearheaded initiative across the group.
• Worked with Marketing teams to strategize on promotional initiatives for Color division.
• Expanded remote footprint by developing key partner relationships and sales plan across the US and Europe.
• Identified and collaborated on opportunities for business growth across VFX disciplines in all studios within the company.

• Managed high-end creative advertising projects ensuring effective delivery to budget and time.
• Planned and set budgets, managed negotiations and quotations with key clients.
• Oversaw project quotations and sales pitches with clients as necessary with junior members of production team.
• Ensured the most effective use of company's technical, creative and personnel resources in order to deliver successful and profitable outcomes on all projects.
• Optimized Mill group resources by liaising with studios across all territory's to identify and implement project work share opportunities.
• Held regular meetings with heads of other Mill departments to share and promote progressive production practices.
• Led weekly Production Sales and by weekly Executive Producers meetings.

In this role I was a key member of start up production and creative team and company shareholder:

• Supervised and led all short form and fast turnaround broadcast and commercial projects.
• Monitored and reviewed all project demands ensuring all were sufficiently supported with technical and operational resources.
• Provided line management during project progress, managing welfare of both creative and production teams.
• Advised clients on post-production techniques and shooting requirements.
• Spearheaded company technical solutions and bespoke workflows for all short form projects with head of engineering.
• Invested in and nurtured key client relationships.
• Oversaw short form production team's sales initiatives and client relationship building.
• Regular written reports to Managing Director and wider production group on short form profitability.

Working across C4, E4, More4 and Film 4 verticals:

• Attended weekly meetings with Channel 4 commissioning editors assessing programming schedules.
• Wrote promo treatments and scripts.
• Pitched promo ideas and creative execution to commissioning team.
• Presented storyboards and shooting scripts for final approval.
• Attended location scouts, recces and studio prep and pre-light days.
• Directed on screen professional and amateur talent.
• Used Avid media composer edit system to cut original footage, archive and show content.
• Oversaw online, grade and sound sessions.

• Account managed on air broadcast client workflow.
• Line produced projects across post production disciplines.
• Offered clients advice regards post production techniques and shooting requirements.
• Quoted for work based on information supplied by clients with reference to operators/artists advice.
• Evaluated time needed to complete projects, liaising with bookings team to schedule time across editorial/online/grade and sound sessions.
• Reconciling and costing of completed projects.

• Assisted online and offline editors through post production process
• Creating Avid offline projects and digitizing offline source material
• Assistant to team of sound engineers.
• Creating offline editorial sound beds, track lays, foley and voice records.
• Copy edits, creating cut down versions.
• Laying off master edits to tape and creating OMFI and EDL Files
• QC'ing, fixing audio and picture glitches.

• Assistant to offline/online editors, colorists and sound engineers in MCR Room.