Jon-Paul Durant

Responsible for creating commercial length to long-form videos for broadcast and YouTube along with various social media channels such as Tic Tok and Instagram. My main tools were Davinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere, Photoshop and After Effects, although DI found Davinci Resolve replaced my need for After Effects beyond templates.

I worked at Victory for over 20 years and it is where I gained the wealth of my experience. I began in production, recording meetings for Microsoft then quickly moved up to manage the crew I worked with that later came to be known as Victory Live. We were responsible for live-streaming events and meetings mainly for Microsoft, but also worked with others like TMobile, Nintendo and Amazon. I found myself deeply entrenched in the corporate culture to the point executive assistants were my clients. The job taught me the importance of managing time, but more importantly people. The happiness and productivity of my crew and making sure I continued to be the person that most put each and every client at ease throughout the process.

In addition to managing Victory Live, one day my boss called me into his office and asked if I knew anything about building a stage. This lead to becoming a producer and supervising editor on Band in Seattle. A half-hour television series focused on the Northwest music scene airing on King5, the Seattle NBC affiliate. I go into more detail in the description for the 'Band in Seattle -Supervising Editor' video in my playlist.

Overall it was a very positive experience and the only reason I left was due to family obligations in Idaho, where I am today.

While I was busy with Victory Live and Band in Seattle, Victory produced a feature length film titled Forbidden Power, which I managed to steer clear of until the editor went back to LA for cigarettes and never came back. While my credit is listed as associate editor, I had to do redo the one scene they started on.

I take a lot of pride in adding this to the list of accomplishments at Victory. Knowing I could handle a feature length project with little to no guidance on top of everything else meant a lot to me. Unfortunately the only proof I have is a movie I could never recommend to anyone. There was a podcast that talks about the movie, which was very entertaining for me. Especially after the movie's director over my shoulder for weeks.

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8551054/?ref_=ttawd_ov

Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiGQvaloSpE&t=3s

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-fcy9O3LQ4

JEDA Productions is where I first learned videos were being edited on computers. At the the time they were using Avid. I was in the middle of college at the time and was just being taught tape to tape. I also learned that Adobe Photoshop existed and started to doubt where my education was guiding me. After showing the owner some work, he brought me on and I quickly took to non-linear editing. Not long after I joined, he dropped the first copy of After Effects, which I embraced. Overall it was a very positive experience, although time management included all-night renders and racing tapes to the airport.

Responsible for the photographic needs of the University of Iowa Student Union, including marketing, events and darkroom upkeep.

Responsible for maintaining the office and tennis courts of the Lewis-Clark State Tennis Center.