Steve Flood

Writer, filmmaker, educator. Lifelong passion for the cinema, watching it, making it, and teaching it to others.

Topanga, California, United States

About

Experience

  • Instructor at Santa Monica College
    Aug 2006 - Present · 20 yrs

  • Producer / Director at Instructional Media Production
    Jan 1997 - May 2005 · 8 yrs 5 mos

    Creative and technical oversight of production. Projects included documentaries, instructional video, medical/surgery video, live broadcast and streaming media. Extensive experience in cinema style lighting, subject interview, sensitive restricted environments (surgery, clean lab) Live Performance, and switched, multi-camera feeds. Involved in all phases of production including script, budget, pre-production, principal photography, and post production. Extensive use of production tools including DVC PRO, BetaSP, Mini DV, After Effects, Real Media, Final Cut and AVID digital post production

  • Gaffer/Best Boy at Freelance
    Sep 1982 - Jan 1990 · 7 yrs 5 mos

    Freelance Gaffer/Best Boy on twelve feature films and over 200 music videos to and commercials. Required to work closely with the Director of Photography to solve aesthetic and practical problems of lighting, organize and efficiently run a crew, engineer circuits for substantial electrical load, design lighting set-ups, rig all types of lighting instruments and maintain equipment in the lighting department GINGER ALE AFTERNOON (Yuri Nieman, ASC) CASUAL SEX (Ivan Reitman) RAMPAGE (William Friedkin) VENDETTA (Bruce Logan, ASC) THE BOYS NEXT DOOR (Penelope Spheeris) EL NORTE (Gregory Nava) Music Video (Selected Credits) George Harrison INXS Janet Jackson David Bowie The Motels Phil Collins Jeff Beck Joe Cocker David Lee Roth Patrick Swazie Michael Bolton Jackson Brown The Cars Amy Grant/Peter Ceterra Berlin Great White