Claire Travers Smith
Series Editor, Senior or Series Edit Producer
Pro
About Me
• 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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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