Film office for Edinburgh, East Lothian and the Scottish Borders
Finlay Dexter
Film office for Edinburgh, East Lothian and the Scottish Borders

Finlay Dexter

Person Name
Finlay Dexter
Mobile Phone
07501989523
email
finlaydex@gmail.com

Runner

Floor Runner & KVRX Guest Host
Austin, Texas, USA
August 2022 – April 2023
• Floor runner on various amateur productions during my year on exchange alongside guest hosting a radio talk show on college radio (KVRX).

Young Guns Group – Advert for the Ivy Asia on King’s Road
London, England
Role: Floor Runner July 2021
• Assembled props and equipment for the set.
• Coordinating talent for their call times.
• Attended to the needs of cast and crew during a long shooting schedule, helping to keep morale up.

Nine/Ten Documentary – Dir: Uldduz Sohrabi
London, England
Role: Floor Runner July 2021
• Set up and monitored equipment during interviews.
• Responsible for managing interviewees on set, making sure that their needs were met and that they were prepared for the interview.
• Was given the responsibility to take production stills and portraits of the interviewees and director.

NATO Bombing of Serbia Documentary Belgrade, Republic of Serbia
Role: Production Assistant & Logger August 2019 - November 2019
• Assisted the producer in contacting and booking contributors, researching the period and incidents that the documentary covered.
• Assisting the director of photography set up lighting and cameras for the interviews.
• Logged footage and transcribed interviews for post-production.

BACKGROUND:
• Amateur filmmaking since 2017, conceiving and developing projects on top of fulfilling a variety of roles on set as well as in pre- and post-production (producer, 1st AD, 2nd AC, director, editor). It is a deep passion of mine and allows for the skills required to be honed and improved upon.
• Film photography, my picture submissions have been placed in the final selection in numerous university held competitions.

Languages and IT Skills:
English (native), Spanish (basic), clean UK driver’s licence, competent with Adobe programs (Lightroom, Photoshop, Premier, InDesign), DaVinci Resolve, Microsoft Office, Google Workspace and all social media.