Sarah Staar



Sarah Staar Personal Profile

I am a highly skilled and multi-talented person with extensive knowledge of all elements in the video production process, whether it be for TV, Internet, or at conferences. I know how to do most things !
I am used to working on my own as much as managing a production team of 2 presenters, cameraman, soundman, producer/director and client !
I have also worked as director doing a live mix for immediate broadcast with 3 cameras.
I have a specific strength in knowing the least cost way to organize the production process and the equipment needed, and have done a lot of work within an integrated production process including the shooting, editing, encode, and transmission within a tapeless environment.

Sarah Staar Employment History

1. Technical Director Intervision TV Limited
Intervision is a specialist internet video production company, with a number of clients and runs its own Internet TV station, Holiday TV.

Sarah Staar Key responsibilities are :
- maintaining and up-dating the companies web-sites
- traffic building, search engine optimisation and revenue generation from internet
- developing and managing the end to end production process
- in charge of buying and selling equipment
- acting as cameraperson/director on shoots abroad for holiday tv
- doing multi-camera shoots for live webcasts
- assessing and hiring studios as necessary
- DVD authoring
- designing studio installations for clients
- encoding and upload for the internet and mobile phones
- client management for technical issues
- software design and functionality for internet tv/IPTV applications

2. Sarah Staar Freelance work

2.1 VT OP Teddington studios
Sarah Staar worked in the gallery on a number of live and pre-recorded shows.

Sarah Staar Key responsibilities were :
- Playing in stings and idents from Digi Beta and Hard disc
- Recording the show
- Helping with technical issues that arose in the gallery

2.2 Sarah Staar Head of Production Relax with a book
Relax with a book film author interviews to show on their web site.

Sarah Staar Key responsibilities were
- Filming the interviews with two cameras
- Setting up the lighting
- All video editing and encoding for the website

4. Video Tape Operator Simply Money
Sarah Staar worked in the gallery on the breakfast TV show Simply Money
Sarah Staar Key responsibilities were
- Playing in stings and idents from Digi Beta and Hard disc
- Recording the show
- Helping with technical issues that arose in the gallery
- Video Tape Editing
- Sometimes stand in for the Vision Mixer

5. Video Tape Oprator Dubs
Sarah Staar worked for Dubs as a VT OP making broadcast dubs of tapes.
Sarah Staar Key responsibilities were
- Tape transfers from all broadcast video formats
- Quality control
- Basic tape editing

Sarah Staar Skill Base

· slide, overhead ,multimedia & CRT projectors
· DVD,HD-DVD , Blueray, and all Broadcast video formats
· PA systems ,radio mikes , and sound engineering decks
· Webcasting , setting up internet TV stations
· stills and video cameras, darkroom facilities and image editing suites
· lighting, control rigs and reprographic equipment.
· Multi camera outside broadcast and webcast shooting and set up
· All aspects of corporate video production
· DVD authoring
· Highly experienced at encoding video for the web
· Expert at soldering and making & Repairing cables
· Experienced at TV studio design and instillation
· Building and upgrading Edit and office PC’s

Sarah Staar Software Experience

· Edius Broadcast (Edit system)
· Adobe Premier Pro (Edit Software)
· Avid (Edit Software)
· DVD LAB (DVD authoring software)
· Canopus Procoder (Video encoding software)
· Discreet Cleaner XL (Video encoding software)
· Windows Media Encoder (Video encoding software)
· Adobe Photoshop (image editing software)
· Adobe On Location CS3 ( Video recording software)
· Adobe Ultra CS3 (Virtual set software)
· Macromedia Dreamweaver (Web Design Softwhare)
· Dynamic submission (SEO Suite)

Sarah Staar contact

Contact Sarah Staar
+44 20 8291 1918

sarahstaar@intervision-tv.com

Sarah Staar