Chet Patterson

Current

• Faculty Member & Directed Study Advisor at Academy of Art University
• Television Editor - Avid Media Composer at Acme Spots
• Director at Starving Fish Productions (Self-employed)

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Past

• Technical Director at Popfly Pictures, Inc.
• Freelance Multimedia Consultant at Multiple Companies (On24, Pixelworks, HMG)
• Web-Based Training Director at General Physics, Inc.

• Consultant at Soft Access, Inc.

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Education

• SF School of Digital Filmmaking
• New Zealand Film & TV Training School
• University of New Hampshire

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Recommended

5 people have recommended Chet

Connections

51 connections

Industry

Broadcast Media

Websites

• My Portfolio
• My Website
• My IMDB Page

Chet Patterson’s Summary

New media producer and filmmaker. Video production; directing and editing TV spots, corporate pieces, documentaries and narratives using NLEs; DVD and CD authoring; video encoding for DVD, Beta SP, CD and web delivery; graphic and web design; project management and producer; and finally, in the past: information management using structured methodologies.

Chet Patterson’s Specialties:

HD videography, editing using Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premiere.

Chet Patterson’s Experience

• Faculty Member & Directed Study Advisor

  Academy of Art University

  (Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Higher Education industry)

  September 2008 — Present (11 months)

  Working with Motion Picture and Television Program graduate student Ole Goethe Roesstad to edit and offer industry advice on the production of his upcoming film "For A Song."

• Television Editor - Avid Media Composer

  Acme Spots

  (Broadcast Media industry)

  December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  Acme Spots is a production company making nationally-syndicated Direct Reponse TV commercials (DRTV) for Fortune 500 companies. My position at Acme: Editing for clients, editing dubs (with slates, bars & tone, NDF timecode, Teletrax watermarking and closed captioning) on an Avid Media Composer Mojo system, closed captioning spots and DVDs, authoring DVDs, designing and updating various video-centric websites, and encoding video for the web. Video layoff formats include DigiBeta, BetaSP, DVD and VHS (for view tapes).

• Director

  Starving Fish Productions (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

  November 2002 — Present (6 years 9 months)

  Responsible for directing (on-location, in-studio and voiceover sessions), editing, scriptwriting and encoding high-end video for corporate clients; and designing, site layout, graphics and marketing for corporate web sites.

• Technical Director

  Popfly Pictures, Inc.

  (Broadcast Media industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years)

  Responsible for directing, editing, scriptwriting and encoding high-end video for corporate clients, and responsible for authoring interactive CDs & DVDs.

• Freelance Multimedia Consultant

  Multiple Companies (On24, Pixelworks, HMG)

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; Media Production industry)

  1999 — 2000 (1 year)

  Responsible for authoring interactive CDs and creating SMIL (Structured Multimedia Integration Language) presentations.

• Web-Based Training Director

  General Physics, Inc.

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; GPX; Internet industry)

  1998 — 1999 (1 year)

  Responsible for all aspects (including video production, webcasting, content and presentation) of the corporation's web-based interactive training program.

• Consultant

  Soft Access, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Services industry)

  1995 — 1997 (2 years)

  Responsible for authoring interactive CDs and promoting multimedia delivery systems to government agencies, and for all aspects of video production of multimedia materials.

Chet Patterson’s Education

• SF School of Digital Filmmaking

  Certificate , Documentary Filmmaking , 2007 — 2007

• New Zealand Film & TV Training School

  Certificate of Completion , Film and television production , 1994 — 1994

• University of New Hampshire

  Bachelor of Arts , English, Film, Computer Science , 1979 — 1984

  Activities and Societies:

  The New Hampshire, The Commuter Advocate, The Yearbook, Aegis

Additional Information

Chet Patterson’s Websites:

• My Portfolio
• My Website
• My IMDB Page

Chet Patterson’s Interests:

politics, tennis, wine

Chet Patterson’s Groups:

Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC), SFindieclub and SFcutters.

•    Link Silicon Valley, LLC
•    The Media Group - Production, Exhibition, Broadcast and 3D
•    Hollywood Greenlight Group
•    Alumnis of San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking
•    UNH Alumni Association
•    Film Financing Forum (3,000+)
•    Academy of Art University network

Chet Patterson’s Honors:

"Best of Festival" Award (for 'lanesplitting'), 2007 Berkeley Video & Film Festival, Berkeley, CA.

Official Selection (for 'lanesplitting'), 2007 Davis Film Festival, Davis, CA.

Official Selection (for 'lanesplitting'), October 2007 Wildsound Film Festival, Toronto, Canada.

Official Selection (for 'lanesplitting'), 2007 Veneration Film Festival, Newport News, VA.

'lanesplitting' selected for Continuous Screening at the new America On Wheels Museum, Allentown, PA.

Chet Patterson’s Contact Settings

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