About Emma
I am an experienced editor and have worked extensively for established production companies and facility houses in Johannesburg and Cape Town. I have delivered programming for broadcasters both locally and internationally.
I am first and foremost a story teller, this is where I get my greatest inspiration. My areas of expertise include educational and corporate videos, inserts, documentaries, music videos and multi camera work. I have a passion for sifting through substantial amounts of footage, identifying the key material and piecing it together to tell a succinct and engaging story. I particularly enjoy manipulating visuals and music in a way that binds the content into a coherent reality with emotive impact.
In the past two years I have used my editing knowledge to move forward into the world of directing. This new role has allowed me to generate my own ideas and follow them through to the edit and final mix stages; a process that gives me great satisfaction.
Work Experience
2010
Di Rosen Productions
Offline/Online Corporate Video United Jewish Fund
Offline/Online Corporate Video Jewish Community Services
56 minute documentary for SABC2 - Baal Te Shuva
- a story about ordinary people becoming extra ordinary in how they express themselves through their religion.
FIFA AV Opening Parade 2010 World Cup
FIFA Fanfest Compilation for City of Cape Town
OB directors assistant at FIFA opening parade
OB directors assistant at Christmas Festival of Lights
Hipshot Films
"Deadly Harvest"
A 26 minute documentary on Abalone poaching in the Western Cape and the connection between this trade and the Chinese Triads, exposing direct links between Triads and the drug problems (specifically Crystal Meth/TIK) amongst the local youth in South Africa.
Carol Bouwer Productions
Motswako - Commissioned to help create a higher standard of post production on an existing 30 minute talk show for SABC1.
Clive Morris Productions
50/50 - environmental and nature inserts by various independent producers
Tswelopele Productions
Top Billing magazine inserts - A popular South African entertainment program on SABC3
Expresso - Directing and editing of short stories for daily breakfast show on SABC3
Wolfgang Schilfi - Munich
"Raised to be Killed"
A 10 minute film on the canned lion hunting industry in South Africa, produced to raise awareness and funding abroad and help bring an end to this horrific sport.
Sun International
On the fly cutting and streaming of EPK footage to the UK and America for the opening of the One&Only hotel at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town.
Bobs for Good Foundation
A 10 minute piece on the work that ex-Springbok rugby player Bobby Skinstad is doing in making sure that as many under privileged South African School children as possible have school shoes.
Magic Mountain Productions
Fashion "mood" films for Swiss Clothing brand MANOR
Super 5 Media
Short news stories for new network
Flying Fish Productions
Journalism/News styled inserts for M-NET Carte Blanche
Offline/Online Carte Blanche Consumer - E Filing
Offline/Online Carte Blanche Medical - Magic Bones
IDASA World Bank Institute
Creating online tutorials for for young African businesses across the content.
AFDA Film School
Guest judge on 3rd year film student projects for aesthetics.
2006 – 2009 Tswelopele Productions
My relationship with the company spans over a decade, but most recently, as a full time employee in the position of senior editor for Top Billing. In the last two years I moved into a subject matter that was closer to my heart and helped establish Top Billings’ sister show - Top Travel.
My role at Top Travel was as director, editor and supervisor of the entire post- production process, delivering a 26 episode series for SABC3 and thereafter re packaging for international distribution.
In July 2009, I spent a month in South America, conceptualizing, directing and producing five 24min episodes for Top Travel Season2 on HD format.
1999 – 2009 Cape Town
Tswelopele Productions
Offline editor - magazine style inserts for Top Billing
Offline & online editor – travel inserts for Top Travel
Director – Top Travel
Di Rosen Productions
Offline & online multi-cam editor – 76 episodes “Comedy Showcase” SABC3
Offline & online multi-cam editor – 26 episodes “Sandy’s Numerology” SABC3
Offline & online editor – inserts and 52 episodes “Tapestries of Faith” SABC1
Offline & online multi-cam editor – Coca Cola Mega Millions for SABC3
Offline & online multi-cam editor – Castle Millions game show for SABC3
Offline & online editor numerous documentaries for Tapestries of Faith
Offline & online 2 part documentary – “The Summit for Sustainable Development”
ESP Africa
Multi-cam editor and backstage Roving Director for the Cape Town International Jazz Festival since it’s inception to date.
Page to Pictures
Offline & online editor – 13 episodes of “McCain’s Chef of the Year” children’s cooking show
Offline editor – “Bling” children’s programme for SABC3
Kisambo Productions
Offline editor Carte Blanche Animal Rights Inserts
Animal Rights Africa Corporate
Otherwise Media
Offline & online editor - multiple award winning documentary “BROWN”
Director: Kali van de Merwe
Dispossessed of their land….. Capetonian singer Ernestine Dean explores her family's history and through her music, reclaims new space for herself and her unborn child.
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MTV London
Multi-cam edit with London based director for Alicia Keys & P Diddy concert Cape Town
MTV Germany
Music Video Joy Denelani
Rhodes University
Conducted editing workshops on how to cut music videos for two years consecutively.
Corporate Clients
CHEVRON
– Core Effluent Plant
– In house safety video presentation SAA
– History of the Cape Town Jazz Festival In-Flight Documentary
SOL KERZNER ENTERPRIZES
– Opening of the One&Only Hotel Cape Town
(Editing HD footage on the fly for same day satellite transmission to London and New York)
PRIME CIRCLE – EPK “Live this Life”
1994 – 2000 Johannesburg
Devereux-Harris & Assc.
Channel O music television from it’s inception
Numerous music videos including Lucky Dube, Yvonne Chaka Chaka, Brenda Fassie, Johnny Clegg, Bayete, Mdu, Arthur Mafokate and many more.
Clive Morris Productions
Front Row inserts
MNET Face of Africa – 4 x 26 min fashion documentaries
Carte Blanche Inserts
Documentary series on Hijacking, The work of the army on the Border & Illegal Immigrants
All Africa Film Awards
Fingerprint Filmmakers
Geraas – Afrikaans music video series
The Wave Factory & Precision Post Production
Training on numerous productions
1993
Training at SABC Henley Studios
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