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Claire Travers Smith

Series Editor, Senior or Series Edit Producer

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London

Brighton and Hove

About Me

• First class Series / Senior Edit Producer with 22 years broadcast experience, 15 spent exclusively in the edit.
• Highly versatile with 60+ credits across a broad spectrum of genres including light entertainment, obs doc, specialist factual, travelogue, comedy,  features, fact ent, cookery, competitions, gameshows, VTs an... Read More

Claire is the definition of a 'safe pair of hands.' Committed, innovative and completely reliable. I've worked with Claire on many challenging projects. And she always found a way to get sequences working and shows over the line. She doesn't need hand holding, writes like a dream...seriously, not many can and she has a great 'can do' attitude. One of the very best I've worked with who is always first on the team sheet when crewing up a production.

Please don't employ her...as I want to. Thanks!

Stuart Cabb

Claire is without doubt the most talented EP I have ever worked with. Her ability to find the narrative within the rushes, to find the drama and the humour is unparalleled. She is hardworking and collaborative and writes beautifully. The fact she is also the kindest and most generous person you could hope to meet is an added bonus.

Will Daws, MD Plum Pictures

CTS and I have now cut 2 new formats together, and they have been unusually low-stress affairs due to her skill and patience. She is a superb writer with a great sense of pace and timing. She can move a piece effortlessly between humour and pathos, and wrangles the rushes into a sum greater than their parts. She's a pro at battering out format beats, and understands the spirit of a note rather than its literal meaning. No-one does music cues better. In short - She will add huge value to anything you have in the edit.

Gill Wilson

If you are lucky enough to employ Claire then you will quickly find youself ‘breathing out’ & ‘shoulders lowered’. She is however more than a safe pair of hands - she is an extraordinary creative. Excelling in the humourous & quirky, but also naturally adept to doing heartfelt & profound. She brings her all to every project & truly loves what she does - and it shows in her work.

lisa keane

Claire is a joy to work with and is someone I would have on a retainer if I could. She has a flawless editorial eye, her penmanship lends itself to any genre of writing, and she has always delivered a well crafted and importantly, on schedule project(s) for me. She is an asset to any production, and a thoroughly lovely person to boot.

Naveed Chowdhary-Flatt

I worked with Claire on Food Junkies which was a high turnover, fast paced, low budget, high quality TV series. Claire oversaw 6 edits running at one times, whilst writing the scripts for the episodes. She also helped create the format in the edit and was incredibly hard working, creative and talented at her job. We had to complete three shows a week and in total delivered 30 episodes in four months. I could rely Claire 100% on editorial decisions and would work with her again in the future.

Lauren Abery - Series Producer Fresh One Productions

Claire was employed by MTV as an Edit Producer on a 1 hour show about Geordie Shore, to TX at the end of the series. She is an extremely talented and witty writer and her scripts were absolutely on point. Claire's extremely creative and her ideas for strands and themes were fantastic. She was a great person to have on the team and I'd have no hesitation at all in hiring her again.

Executive Producer

I have just finished a project for MTV where I had the pleasure to work with Claire. She was an Edit AP on the same project last year and I was very glad that she could come back again this year. Claire is a hard working, creative, thorough, and universally well liked AP. She helped out on a few things that were not strictly part of her job (such as helping to set up an interview shoot and conducting the interview with a band). She is brilliant at scripting and really cares about all aspects of the job. I hope to work with Claire again in the near future.

Petra Schwimmbeck, Series Producer, MTV Networks Europe

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Other Details
  • Media I Work In:

    Broadcast Television

    Mobile Content

    Music Promos

    Web Creation

    Online Content

    Other

    Live Events

    Commercials

    Corporate Communications

    Video on demand

  • Locations I can work in:

    London

    Brighton and Hove

  • Language:

    English (Fluent)

    French (Conversational)

    German (Conversational)

  • Skills/Permits:

    Driving Licence

    Casting

    Commentary Writing

    Safeguarding Trust

    Script Writing

    Storytelling

    Edit Producing

  • Technical Skills:

    Avid

    Studio Experience

    Adobe Photoshop

    Adobe Premiere

    FORscene

  • Awards:

    2011 NTA for Best Topical Magazine Programme - This Morning

    2024 Broadcast Digital Award for Best Content Partnership or AFP for Bangers: Mad For Cars