Special Skills & Experience
David Smith is an award-winning filmmaker, writer, and professor. His work in commercial video production has earned him two corporate top-honor awards from KINKO's and The Bridgestone Group, as well as three Telly Awards for his work with the Tennessee Center for Child Welfare. His most recent narrative short script, The Acolyte, won Best Screenplay at the Southern Horror Film Festival. He is currently the Film Crew Technology Program Director at the Columbia State Community College’s Franklin campus. As a bit of trivia, his first paid film production gig was in 1983 when he was as freshman in college. He was an un-credited local (Nashville) Production Assistant for the film Starman, starring Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen.
Platforms: PC—Windows; Macintosh—OSX.
Hardware: ARRI Alexa Cinema camera and ARRi Ultra Prime lenses; 4K RED RAW Cinema cameras; Blackmagic Design URSA Mini Pro (4K and 12K); Cinema Primes; Blackmagic Design 4K & 6K Pocket Cameras; Grip & Electric hardware; Dollies and sliders; Timecode-based Sound Recording (Sound Device 633, Wingman, etc,); Lighting – field and studio, including DMX control boards; video digitizing/editing systems; the use of backup systems, removable media, SAN systems, scanners, and laser, medium & large-format printers.
Software Proficiencies: Adobe Creative Cloud, DaVinci Resolve (Certified Instructor), Final Draft, Lightwave 3D, StudioBinder.com, Set Hero, Frame.IO, Microsoft Office, Vegas NLE & DVD-Architect, Sound Forge, as well as numerous other graphic and multimedia utilities.
Related Skills & Proficiencies: DVD/Blu-ray authoring/encoding; DIT-tapeless field acquisition; issues related to copyright use and intellectual property rights.