Steve Baker
Director & Edit Producer
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About Me
Professional Training
Course / Qualification | Training Provider / Institution | Year |
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Code of Conduct and Ethics / 1st Option/ITV Training / 2021 | ||
Code of Conduct and Ethics | 1st Option/ITV Training | 2021 |
Cyber security/ Data Protection (GDPR) / 1st Option/ITV Training / 2021 | ||
Cyber security/ Data Protection (GDPR) | 1st Option/ITV Training | 2021 |
Risk Assessment and Fire Safety. / 1st Option/ITV Training / 2021 | ||
Risk Assessment and Fire Safety. | 1st Option/ITV Training | 2021 |
'You really fashioned pure gold out of very little, and the film was an object lesson on how to handle this kind of subject... Magnificent stuff and I remained rivetted. A great watch' was the email a tv giant, rival and former colleague sent me after he had seen The Nazi Temple of Doom. Of course along with my partner David Edgar I took all the credit, but it was Steve who had so skilfully fashioned the pure gold. With few resources and a tenuous story Steve made a film that was very watchable, with engaging characters, and became the top rating show in Revealed's latest run. Visually stylish and tonally bang on target, the film has also sold internationally to a wide audience. Steve was a delight to work with too, committed, smart and ego-light. I'll be trying to employ him again soon.
Steve has worked with me as an Edit Producer and Director on Drama Doc series 'I Shouldn't Be Alive' (Discovery's Animal Planet) and observational documentary series 'Ladyboys' (SKY Living).
On the former he filmed key interviews that make up the spine of the film - (the testimony is also used to create the drama script for the actors who then dramatise it). These interviews would often be with people who've not told their story before and would be very long and fraught with emotion. But we needed the interviewees to tell their story in minute detail and with enough emotional depth to carry the film. Steve was able to guide them through their stories carefully and sensitively and to get the strong sync that we needed.
On both programmes he worked as an Edit Producer and was extremely capable at taking other people's films and quickly cutting through them to the find the strongest editorial line. He is a good scriptwriter, very collaborative and happy to take direction.
I recommend him highly and will definitely be working with him again.
Media I Work In:
Broadcast Television
Corporate Communications
Locations I can work in:
Europe
London
Midlands
South West
Toronto, Canada
Cape Town, South Africa
Skills/Permits:
Access Negotiation
Archive Clearance
Driving Licence
Commentary Writing
I Visa USA
Script Writing
Edit Producing
CRB Check
Work Permit USA
Heath And Safety Training
Storytelling
Technical Skills:
Canon 5D MKII
Canon XF300
FORscene
Single Camera Directing
Sony DSR-500
Sony PMW-EX3
Sony HVR-Z1
Awards:
Gold Cindy award for documentary, international broadcast, World Fest Houston -Historical Documentary series, , Silver Award Worldfest, Silver Award - US International film festival, Iwo Jima - Lost Evidence - EMMY shortlisted by the History Channel