The Outside Show for OutsideTV

Producer

Time and time again, I find myself in a skeleton crew, under pressure and spread thin. But it’s these opportunities that allow me to grow my producing experience to include more diversified skillsets. As Producer on Season Two of digital and linear outdoor news and talk show The Outside Show for OutsideTV/Outside Inc., I found myself researching and developing, writing, talent wrangling, directing, technical directing, note taking, gathering b roll, designing motion graphics, post-producing, and production managing. No task was considered too big, or too small, for me to become the point person on.

PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT PROJECTS
Not only was I brought onto the show to elevate the story development and producing, I also was given free rein to redesign and optimize the production workflow, which required an overhaul. Organizationally, I developed a Google Drive navigatable folder structure, redesigned asset organization in Iconik, and developed templates for call sheets, beat sheets, casting trackers, and other production paperwork. I reworked the story tracking pipeline and I created standardized processes for booking guests, taking shoot notes, reviewing edits, and more.

WEEKLY WORK
Each week, my EP and I saw 12 or more individual segments (split between two 45-minute episodes) from development through post-production. We researched and formatted stories, booked guests, wrote talking points and interview questions, and directed our AP in gathering and formatting b roll. We produced in-studio with our hosts and post-produced with our remote editor.

The production days were relentless. I multitasked during our live-to-tape-style shoots, balancing technical directing in calling cameras and live b roll playout, directing our hosts via earpieces, wrangling live and remote guests, reframing cameras, testing audio, timing segments to exact accuracy to accommodate for linear ads, ideating and directing on-the-fly social segments and cold opens, taking timing and editorial notes for the editor, reviewing edited segments as they were delivered from our editor, and answering questions from talent, our AP/TD, my editor, and my EP.

IMPACT
Outside gave me the freedom to produce meaningful environmental and outdoor adventure stories through a lens of inclusivity, in an industry that is plagued by gatekeeping. I developed and produced segments featuring inspiring guests like blind climber Jesse Dufton, Native model and land protector Quannah ChasingHorse, industry leaders and mentors Jimmy Chin and Conrad Anker, pro climber and philanthropist Kai Lightner, environmental scientists, Olympic athletes, and more.