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alitle about me....

Mr Tor Webster (BAhons)

Care of:
59 High Street,
Glastonbury,
Somerset BA6 9DS.

Tel: 07813 156784
Email: torwebster@hotmail.com

Career Profile.
A creative experienced online/offline editor specializing on Final Cut and Photoshop with a professional/senior back ground with Avid/DS and Avid Symphony, I have extensive knowledge in all areas of film and video making providing a skilled communication with clients and project managers. I have passion in compositing and graphics with extensive appreciation of contemporary art which will escalates the client’s vision from a good idea into a practical and efficient amazing visual experience.

Systems and software knowledge.
Avid DS, Avid Symphony, Avid Express, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, DVD studio pro, Microsoft Office, Digibeta, dvc pro,

Key skills.
1 A positive and calm personality.
2 Accommodating to flexible work hours.
3 Working to dead lines.
4 Enjoys creative input to projects, but knows when its best to keep opinion quiet.
5 Managing clients needs and interested in their comfort.
6 Quick to learn new skills and keeps creative knowledge up to date.

Career History.

Rainbow Serpent Film Project, Worldwide,
November 2005 – 2009
Personal Documentary Film www.Rainbowserpent.co.uk
Producer/Director/Editor.

Fifth World Productions, London, England.
November 2005
Final Cut Pro
offline/online.

The Engine Room, Bridgewater, Somerset.
2004 - 2005
Avid off line and on-line
Editor of various projects.

10 month round the world trip.
November 2003 – September 2004
Thailand, Bali, New Zealand, Australia, Fiji and USA.

Complete Post, Melbourne, Australia.
2004
Avid/DS Teaching.
Two day Teaching for their existing DS editor.

The Station, D’arblay St, Soho, London.
2003
Avid/DS Freelance On-Line Editor,
A three day Freelance on-line edit, for BBC1 ‘Traffic Cops,’ and
BBC3/BBC1 ‘Parent Game.’

The Engine Room, Bridgewater, Somerset.
2003
Avid Express Tutor / Project Developer And On-Line
Teaching Avid express to mixed abilities and developing the launch
project for people to use the Engine room for their films and on-line editing for professional clients.

CS Media, Dorking, Surrey.
2003
Avid/DS Freelance On-Line Editor
A three day Freelance On-Line edit for a L’Oreal Promotional video.

Pink House Post Production, Bristol.
2002 to Present
Avid/DS Senior On-Line Editor,
Senior On-Line Editor now working in a freelance capacity, working on Avid/DS and Avid/Symphony. I concentrated on building the graphics side of Pink House Post Production; Credits include opening titles for the feature film ‘Living in Hope,’ UK Style TV series ‘A Garden For All Seasons.’ Also Visual Effects for BBC Wildlife programme ‘Killer Ants.’ And Music Videos for ‘Super Toys’ and ‘Brat.’

Orly Production, Christchurch, New Zealand.
2001 to 2002
Avid/DS Digital Artist (sole editor.)
Sole Editor of a boutique production company editing and on-line editor of national and regional commercials, on Avid/DS, clients included, ‘Food Stuffs’ corporation owning many supermarket chains. ‘Postie Plus’ Clothes stores and ‘Hot Spring Spas.’

August Films, Soho, London.
2000 to 2001
Trainee Editor.
Training on Media 100 and Flint Discreet Logic, Editing idents for
Arabian TV programmes and Assisting on a youth football-training series.

Education and Training

Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham, Surrey.
1997 to 2000
2/1 BAhons in Film and Video.

The European Film College, Ebeltoft, Denmark.
1995 to 1996
Diploma in Film and Video Production.

Gloscat, Park Campus, Cheltenham.
1992 to 1995
Distinction in Betec Performing Arts.

Deer Park School, Cirencester, Gloucestershire.
1992 to 1995
Total of five GCSEs, including Maths, English and Expressive Arts.

Professional Training

VET, London.
2005
Avid/DS 201 and 301.

Tyrell, London.
2002
2 Day Avid/Symphony Training one to one.

Surrey Institute of Art and Design, Farnham, Surrey.
2000
Avid/DS 201 and 301.

Awards.

Yeovil Five-Minute Film Award,
2002
Writer/Director
For ‘A Stroke of Good Luck’

South Island Television Advertising Award, New Zealand.
2001
On-line Editor
Food stuffs, ‘Lucky Four Squares’

Personal Information.

Date of Birth: 01.09.1976
Interests: Films, Writing, Meditation and the Arts.
Car Owner/driver with full, clean, European licence.

References.

Please contact : Philip Shepard, Somerset Film and Video, The Engine Room, 52 The High Street, Bridgwater TA636L, Tell: 01278433187


1. I was born on 1st of September, 1976.... the hottest summer for about 10 years at that time. When i was born the heavens opened and a massive storm rolled in... that was the first of many dramatic entrances...

2. When i was seven I was in Jerusalem... I remembered feeling in ore when I visited The Tomb of Yesuha and the Walling Wall... i have always felt that that visit was organized by spirit and my mum as an initiation into my spiritual path of Christ Consciousness (not Christianity.)


3. When I was 10, i asked my Dad (whom i rarely saw as he worked allot..) to take me and a small group of friends on a hike, i realize now, after tuning into the Aboriginal way through my Rainbow Serpent project, that this was my own Walkabout in becoming a man....
me 10 my birthday... i asked my dad to go on walk about.... i wonder where this came from.... Aborigine connections...


4. I lived in a magical house in the middle of the woods of the Cotswolds near Stroud i spent most my time in the woods climbing trees, and playing robin hood... i used to love sitting above the woods pretending to fly over the tree tops. I once fell out of a tree landing on barbed wire, getting perfectly aligned scars down both my legs, i still have one... a long line... but it never put me off... i still climb trees when i can.... especially the old Yew tree in Compton Dundon.


5. we had our own bit of woodland, i built a skateboard halfpipe ramp with my mate, which we had to get a builder to finish it though... i also created an adventure play ground in that wood... with miles of rope that i had been given by my dad for my birthday, bits of wood and 5 inch nails... the flying fox was the best creation, help by my dad and three of his mates and sons... man that was famous... JOY!


6. I loved that fairy tale house, i did have a hard time with the ghosts in my room, my mums friend a medium came in a found out that a baby had died in the small room off my bedroom that was now a large walk-in closet and the parents were looking for the baby that died of diphtheria , this would explain why i couldnt fall asleep without watching the door of that closet.. and why i started having breathing problems, i was moved out of that room... it became my mums office... i still have dreams about it... (problem will tonight now i have thought about it again.)


7. Im dyslexic, and it wasn't recognized until my mums friend a teacher saw it in me and got me tested... it has been said that people who are dyslexic are mostly in their right brain, the creative, spiritual side... not the left, intellect and grounded side... makes sense.. i did get an iq test at this time and seem to remember it was surprisingly high... go figure...

8. I only stayed at a school for about two-three years, as i was asked to move as i was a disruption to the other kids, i was just trying to have fun and not get brain washed.

9. I went to a Rudolph Steiner School when i was nine
Wynstones Rudolph Steiner school Glouster, 1985.
this was a mixed blessing i was liberated and given the space to be a free thinker, but was shocked by the Christian ideas...


10. I remember looking at the sky wondering what it was all about when i was 8.

11. when I was 16 i had been visiting the medium that had excorsized my room and i had been told that an aspect of my higher self was the grand son of Joesph of Arimathea, Amos, this felt spot on for me... a few others that had aspects from the Christ Life where meeting and i felt left out as i knew i was part of it, the year later they asked me to join them, that was when the Arimathean Group was created. I was given an inspired drawing of Amos and this was one of the rare times i was moved to tears.


11. I went through my teens feeling very different and unable to share my spiritual beliefs, i would meditate in the school yard. (I did 11 twice cus its a good number...)

12. when i was 15 i decided i wanted to become a Rave DJ i inherited £600 from my God Mum and i brought some decks and a mixer.... man i was so chuffed... i remember coming down stairs one morning after being on my decks all night and saying and meaning it... "my life is now complete!" my DJ name was DJ Paranoia, i opened a dictionary on that word and that was that, i didnt know what it meant but people seemed to think it fitted i didnt know why? LOL

13. at 16 I played the GWR's (radio Station) under 18s RAVE in Cirencester Town Hall.... man there where about 1500 kids there it was crazy...


14. I didnt do so well at GCSEs but talked my way into A level's drama, design etc... but then dumped it for a Btec in performing arts in Cheltenham, it was a crazy time, I moved to Cheltenham and we had the party house!!! mad drama students and my poor confused dog Queenie... much drinking and vomiting... this was where i really got into film making... but the course didnt offer it as i was told when i applied, but i spent many hours in the Media dept editing...

15. after the course at 19 i got a place at EFC the European Film School in Denmark, man it was surreal... it was a brand new school... i was the youngest there... we got 1mllion dollars given to the school from Jack Joseph Valenti who was a long-time president of the Motion Picture Association of America and Lars Von Trier was subject to our stupid humor for an hour or two while he received an award... but i was struck on film making, but not allot of people understood the spiritual type of film i wanted to make...


16. while i was in Denmark i lived in the most wonderful Summer House, even though it was winter... we had crates of beer stacked on the porch 30p a bottle in DK... we had strange films using it as a set... man i loved that place and those times...

17. I did a BA in Film and video at S.I.A.D which means Surrey Institute of Art and Design, but should mean a A Sorry Insult to Art in Decline... I did get to make a few good films and meet a load of good people.

18. while I was at Surrey... i did some crazy things, like walked in to the Launch party of the new Levis Store on Regent street, saying i was from Heat magazine and invited my mate to join me and went under the fence of Glastonbury Festival one year and over the fence the following year, everyone did, I was caught on camera by the local news and my mum ad sis' who just moved into Glastonbury saw it saying after they knew it was me by the way i ran.... hee hee..

19. when i finished in 2000, i went straight into an assistant TV editors job in Soho, London, and then one month later i was in Christchurch, New Zealand as the only DS editor, then a year on i was a senior editor in Bristol on 45k a year?? i dont have a clue how it happened, i brought a house in Glastonbury and was spending money crazy on stuff like chain saws and art work!! then it all ended as they merged with another edit house and it was last ones in first ones out... so as i planned i went round the world.


20. I started in Thailand for my friend Pistas wedding to a Thai Girl,

then off to Bali, wow that is an amazing place i really want to go back there some day, then Australia, New Zealand north island, Fiji, island hopping and over to the states where my dear friend Tom Joined me and we did a crazy Fear and Loathing style road trip without the drugs.. from Los Vegas, to Seattle then over to New York, after spending a "very Messy" drunken ramble of Chicago ending at 6am walking through the streets calling all the office workers going to work Corporate C**t's very bad... trip of a life time... beat nick'tastic


21. before i left for my world trip my mate Shaun gave me a crystal saying take it to Uluru (Ayers Rock) Australia which is the solar Plexus planetary chakara from Glastonbury the Planetary Heart chakra. I did and there was a whole process building up to doing this and when i throw the crystal in the birthing pool at Uluru I was told by spirit or maybe the Rainbow Serpent that I had to visit all the Planetary chakras in order this sent me on a mission that is still going on today, five years on, and took me on another world trip. This time back to USA, south America including Easter Island that was full on!!! back to Oz, Singapore and Egypt.
I met and filmed many wonderful people including tribal elders, i have now finished the project and on course for finishing the Film, i have just finished turning the narration i have written over last year into poetic form, so once thats done i edit and finished.... next trip is to take the film back around the world to screen it.... that will be later this year...

22. While I was in Egypt filming and working on the Planetary Throat chakra i had a full on spiritual experience, a guide from my higher self, a life i had in Egypt in the time of Ramesses II, by the name of Rama, he told me in my meditation that if a choose i could let him move in to my consciousness to help me with my work. I didnt know this till i got home and listened to the recording, but i guess i agreed cus' i was lying in the granite sarcophagus in the Kings Chamber of the great Pyramid and started doing this deep chant and my light body left my body shifted and came back! It was full on! he moved in... meanwhile back in Glastonbury my house when up in flames, a time of true transformation of letting go of all the old and moving the new consciousness in...


23. The following two years have been a bureaucratic hell.... i didn't get the insurance cus i was down as sole inhibitor and had people staying there... i became bankrupt.... got someone pregnant and she had an abortion... constant finical demands.... the fire was a breeze compared to the hell to follow..... but it seems lots of people had a full on year in 2008 a time to sort all your stuff out before the great spiritual change, 2009 the bridge year, 2010 time to come together, 2011 the gateway year, to the final year before the great shifts 2012....


24. Ive had a bread pretty much since i could grow one, but i shaved it off a few days ago... the last time i shaved it was when i did a gig in New Zealand 8 years ago i was in a band called the Gangsta Pants and the Pick and Mix Posse.. i shaved half my beard off for the show and had to shave the other half off before i when to work the following day...


25. Im not a big writer so im surprised i got so into this... anyway thats my life story mainly.... i left out allot of the freaky spiritual stuff out for a change.. so you'll have to ask me about that... im looking forward to the next chapter of my life after this valentines day Aquarian planetary alignment and as im planning to hit the road go and make community film projects.... peace and love Tor