Matthew Morgan

Contact Information
Mobile (719) 440-8158, Email matt@mattmorgan.tv

Writer/Editor

Over twenty years of experience as a writer, director, and editor with strong storytelling focus through a wide-ranging variety of genres. Works on an array of productions including promo, commercial, and documentary formats for both broadcast television and online distribution. Extensive knowledge of video production processes from pre-production through post-production. Seasoned production professional who can manage projects single-handedly or within a collaborative team.

Skills: Strong communication skills, leadership driven, creative, open-minded, collaborative

Software: Avid, Premiere, After Effects, Final Draft, Photoshop

Accomplishments

• Directed and edited the award-winning documentary, Breaking Through: Memories of the Tuskegee Airmen
• Edited and composited motion graphics for cold-opens to HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher
• Directed and edited spots for nation’s longest running 5-star, 5-diamond hotel resort in the United States, The Broadmoor Hotel
• Wrote, filmed, and edited educational and training content for United States Olympic athletes
• Developed media logging and inventory systems for three independent studios as in-house post-production supervisor
• Coordinated thirty-two daily schedules for suites at audio post-production and mixing facility

Work Experience

University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado 08/2011 – Present
Asst Professor
Instructs Digital Video Production and Advanced Cinematography courses each semester. Develops course curriculum covering history, theory, and production standards across filming, editorial, and audio disciplines. Responsible for training students in both lecture and hands-on studio lab production environments.
• Doubled annual number of students entering the advanced levels of the program by implementing a new, introductory curriculum and training production course to introduce and entice students to transfer or add a second major within the digital communication degree track.

United States Anti-Doping Agency, Colorado Springs, CO 07/2018 – Present
Producer/Editor
Responsible for writing, filming, editing, graphic design, and audio mixing for all promotional, educational, and marketing videos for the organization. Manages and trains additional support staff in the department with focus on video production and editorial standards, as well as brand guideline instruction. Writes spec scripts for all current and potential campaigns for each of five departments.
• Reduced cost of primary annual campaign over 75% by taking over majority of production process and hiring sub-contractors to reduce overhead costs rather than hiring outside video production vendors for full production.
• Received organization’s TrueSport Respect Award within first six months of employment by evaluating unmet project goals within each department and developing concepts and timelines to respond to the outstanding needs and concerns of each department leader.

Post Interactive, Colorado Springs, CO 10/2006 – 07/2018
Director/Editor
Directed and edited commercial, marketing, and industrial videos for both broadcast and online for a variety of clientele. Responsible for all stages of production from concept development through post-production and distribution.
• Awarded the Lifetree Film Festival Award by producing the documentary, Breaking Through: Memories of the Tuskegee Airmen, to document and raise awareness of the successes and the struggles faced by several Colorado-based Tuskegee veterans.
• Received Gold Award for Video Production by the Pikes Peak Advertising Federation by producing a comedy commercial series for Pikes Peak Community College’s enrollment campaign.

Idea Asylum Productions/Phase Three Productions, Los Angeles, CA 10/2001 – 07/2006
Post-Production Supervisor/Assistant Editor
Shared editor for multi-studio production facility. Balanced broadcast schedules and deadlines for producers and editors and edited promo and motion graphics for variety of broadcast shows.
• Produced 40-second promos for series HBO First Look by writing scripts and editing interview and b-roll content packages.
• Edited cold-opens to HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher, designing motion graphics and editing live-action content for on-air show intros.
• Developed tape inventory system to streamline editing sessions and archival process by programming new database.

Education

Full Sail University, Winter Park, M.F.A., Creative Writing
University of Texas, Austin, B.S., Radio-Television-Film Production
University of Colorado, Boulder, B.A., Film Studies