Colin Adams
Current Location : Itabashi-ku, Tokyo


Skills/ Code/ Language

• ActionScript (Flash) - menus, pages, buttons, animations for web or video
  
  
• AfterEffects - advanced motion graphics, custom video FX, animated logos for web or video
  
  
• CSS - menus, custom blogs, unique formatting
  
  
• Dreamweaver - manage websites efficiently, implement xhtml, check code for errors
  
  
• DVD Studio Pro - advanced interactive DVD menus , customize remote controller, transitions
  
  
• Final Cut Pro - Mac video editing, transitions, tight edits, sound mixing, sound FX: colibot.com/video.html
  
  
• Illustrator - vector art and drawings, precise line work, artistic painterly effects, character or logo design
  
  
• Japanese - intermediate level speaking and reading, frequently use kanji in blog and studying for JLPT2
  
  
• Photoshop - advanced photoediting, saving for web vs. print, logo design, scanning
  
  
• PHP - able to create email forms for websites and customize existing code
  
  
• Printer - 1 year experience printing large-scale format posters and banners for my highschool
  
  
• Ableton Live - music and sound production, effects or soundtracks for commercial, presentation, or web use
  
  
• Premiere - PC video editing, transitions, tight edits, sound mixing, sound FX: colibot.com/video.html
  
  

Freelance / Previous Job Experience

1.)Video Promotion Producer for a club event called Cadissh in Shibuya

• Created 2 videos to promote club event using mostly Photoshop, After Effects and Premiere.

• Video 1 Video 2

• Duration: 10/10 - 11/10

  
  
  

2.) Children's ESL Worksheet Designer

• Created Worksheets for client from previous ESL job using Illustrator and Photoshop.

• Duties: Provide requested worksheets to be used in Japanese Elementary School classes.

• Worksheet Example 1 Worksheet Example 2 Workheet Example 3 Emotion Flashcard ExampleEmotion Flashcard Example 2

• Duration: 4/10 - 9/10

  
  
  

3.) Funktique 5th Anniversary Party - Commercial Video and original VJ material production

• Used Adobe Premiere, hand-drawn animations in Flash, and After Effects to make videos
  
  

• Duties: Prepared four separate 15 minute original video loops that lasted 1 hour each to be projected
  at a party celebrating the 5th Anniversary of Funktique, a clothing shop in Fukushima, Japan.
  Made a Commercial Video to be distributed via youtube. Periodically met with client to discuss the
  direction of the project and eventually transferred all files to a common server for delivery.
  
  

• Funktique VJ CM

• Funktique Website - http://www.funktique.com / 0246-24-9181 / hijiri@funktique.com

• Duration: 9/09 - 11/09
  
  
  
  
  
  

4.) ISTOK - Blog documentary video production >

• Used Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere, and After Effects to edit youtube videos.

• Duties: Create smooth transitions, slick edits, type placement, sound edits, and motion graphics for a New York City based fashion distribution company’s video blog interviews. Followed detailed instructions of the producer. Documented events with HD camera during fashion week in September 2009.

• Video 1 and Video 2
  

• ISTOK website - http://istokmedia.wordpress.com

• Duration: 8/09 - 11/09
  
  
  
  
  

Education



1.) The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) 2004 - 2009

• Major: Film/Video/New Media
  
  
• Completed Degree: Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA)
  
  
  
  

2.) Kansai Gaidai University Spring 2006 Osaka, Japan

• Exchange Program: Japanese Language and Asian Studies