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Experienced TV Writer / Director / Producer I've been creating TV productions since 1981; I am very comfortable in the director's seat. I've logged thousands of hours in TV writing and pre-production, production and post-production. I'm comfortable being the leader, "The Decider." Even when the "burn rate" is thousands of dollar per hour, I am collected and focused, and get my vision on videotape. MY STYLE: I emphasize planning and pre-production, to maximize costly production dollars. I go into editing with a clear vision and extensive tape logs and "paper edits," but I also keep the editor personally invested, because sometimes magical editing ideas can manifest spontaneously, if the director keeps an open mind. MY TEAM: I use the best shooters, editors and animators in the St. Louis market. I don't mind telling you who they are, either. The best shooters in St. Louis are the pros at Tom Petrie's Bad Dog Pictures, in Kirkwood. The best editors and animators in this market are at Jeff Pickett's Pickett Productions, on Laclede's Landing. Tom and Jeff started their companies a long time ago, and I hired both in their first year in business.
My ability to know what to do with the "blank canvas" of a television
screen is partly owed to my experience as a still photographer.
Throughout the past three decades, my photographs have been published in
hundreds of U.S. newspapers, including the front page of the St. Louis
Post-Dispatch.
I am a very good on-camera interviewer, who
quickly puts my subjects at ease and coaxes great sound bites out of
them. I've done "sit-down" on-camera interviews with a diverse
universe of CEOs, inventors and engineers, marketing executives,
book authors, blue-collar workers -- and I've conducted hundreds of
on-camera "man on the street" intercept interviews for broadcast
commercials and corporate videos.
My work meets national network
standards. "B-roll" video of yeast being manufactured, which I
directed in 2004, was used in "Act 1" of a 2008 episode of The
History
At the other end of the standards
spectrum, I am about to produce my first YouTube video for a client. ©2008 Jeffrey Noedel All Rights Reserved The History Channel® is a registered trademark of the A&E Television Networks.
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national and international brands. I
like to stay on top of
on new video arts, and was -- for example -- an "early
adopter" of MPEG
compression for
playback on computers in the mid
'90s. I've produced and directed studio shoots, location shoots (in supermarkets, factories, offices, construction sites, parks, homes, and
from helicopters), voice-over recording sessions, jingle recording
sessions, and high-end video animation by professional animators using SGI workstations.
Channel's
Modern Marvels program, simply titled "Bread."