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
2.) Children's ESL Worksheet Designer
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