Philip Taylor

PHILIP TAYLOR
Film Editor
07968 625 634
www.taylors.tv

Personal Profile
A BBC trained, multi-lingual documentary and drama editor with prior experience as a PD.

Currently screenwriter on 'Hallelujah!', dir. Simon Dinsell

Currently film editor on 'Charlie' dir. Mike Ogden

Equally comfortable on FCP or Avid. My editing has been broadcast on all BBC terrestrial channels and BBC World, Channel4, Nickelodeon, Discovery and Smithsonian Networks.

Recent Highlights

Bang Goes The Theory
BBC Factual BBC1
A programme and shorts for most of series 6, plus shorts in series 5, 4 and 3 (Spring 2012)

Derren Brown, The Experiments: The Guilt Tripâ Objective Productions C4
Lead editor on mammoth hour for C4 (November 2011)

RTS Awards winner 2012, Best Entertainment The jury said this was quite simply water cooler television. Innovative, original, intelligent with a startling level of profundity.

Romeo and Juliet (March 2012) and The Sleeping Beauty (December 2011) Royal Opera House 687 cinemas worldwide Films for before the show and the first interval for the world-wide cinema relays

God's Composer
BBC Classical Music BBC4
Performance-documentary hour to celebrate 400th anniversary of death of Spanish genius of Renaissance music, Thomas Luis de Victoria (October 2011)

Pick of the Week, The Sunday Times. Pick of the Day, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Metro

The Foods That Make Billions: Episode 3: Little Pots of Gold

BBC Factual BBC2
A 70% re-edit, which I performed in 8 days (October 2010)

History
2006-current Freelance film editor
2001-2006 Creative Director, Taylors TV 2000 Head of Production, Myriad Productions 1996-2000 Head of Video, Pantechnicon Creative Services 1994-1996 BBC Film Director/AP, ‘See Hear!’, 1989-1991 BBC Film Sound Trainee 1989-1991

3-year training in film sound and 3-month grounding in all aspects of film

With access to BBC training, taught myself to edit using 3-mce Beta decks

Made 11 films in holidays and shift-days off. 1989 ‘Cashpoint’ – writer, editor 16mm

Started editing on U-matic and 16mm film in 1989

Testimonials
I worked with Philip on God's Composer - a doc about the Spanish Renaissance composer Victoria. I directed the music sequences to accompany Alison Grist's doc sections. Philip is intellectually one of the cleverest editors I have worked with. He is analytically acute, musically responsive, and has a startlingly wide-eyed enthusiasm for, frankly, everything. He's able to balance his fascination for any subject with a rigorous approach to editing. He has a photographer's eye and a musician's timing. He's honest, flexible, straightforward, fully-engaged, fastidious, and hard-working, all to make your film better.

Jonathan Haswell, BBC Classical Music

Phil, I meant to call you after last week and say thanks. Really like the stuff you did, and I know Matt and Tim (film directors Matt Ainsworth and Tim Walker) were very complimentary.

Great work, great style. Impressed. Thanks.

Paul King, SP, 'Bang Goes The Theory', BBC TV, Science

References and Showreel
Simon Dinsell, simondinsell@mac.com for docs and LE Daniel Fagerson, daniel@salt.tv for commercials Shabazz Graham, Director, Malachi, shabazz.graham@mac.com for drama Paul King, Series Producer paul.king@bbc.co.uk for short-form View work at www. taylorstv.com
http://www.taylorstv.com

Selected Credits (by genre)

Film
Malachi dir. Shabazz Graham, 2010
The Inspired Kitty Collins dir. Piramo Vyas, (2nd Unit Director, The

Warrior), 2004
Leaves dir. Philip Taylor, 2003
The Heist, dir. Jonathan Hacker, 1994
Charlie, shooting Autumn 2012
Picnic In Gaza, tba, editor

Science
Bang Goes the Theory’, BBC Factual, BBC 1

Series 6: 30' Dog Intelligence plus short films on Wireless Security, Phone Signal Strength, Crowd Behaviour - Pong, Blood Sugar Levels, Hearing Threshold, Fracking and Human Powered Flight - Glider lesson. With directors Simon Winchcombe, Jacqui Farnham, Alex Freeman, Ben Andersen, Jack Rampling TX 3-5/12
Series 5: All Dr Yan films with director Davina Briscow, plus Helium,

Matt Ainsworth and Robots, Suzie Boyles, TX 8/11 Series 4: Glue, Tim Walker 02/11, Antibiotics, Jennie Hammond 03/11 Series 3: Pykrete Boat dirs. Giles Harrison, Ed Booth 10/10

Art
‘Romeo and Juliet’, Royal Opera House, 687 cinemas world-wide, 22/3/12

Sir Kenneth MacMillan, 11' film about the acclaimed choreographer who

transformed ballet with his 1965 ground-breaking choreography of ballet set to music by Prokofiev. Sharp Points and Pirouettes, 5' film about the sword-fighting scenes

The Sleeping Beauty, Royal Opera House, 680 cinemas world-wide, 17/12/11

Partnerships, 10' film about the creative dancing partnership of

Lauren Cuthbertson and Sergei Polunin, youngest ever male principal at the Royal Ballet

The Culture Show, BBC Arts, BBC2

Kenneth Branagh, A Culture Show Special, 40' chat dir. Amanda Lyon,

BBC2, 12/07
‘Angelina Jolie, A Culture Show Special’ 29’, dir. Amanda Lyon, 12/08 ‘The Culture Show’ 8x, dirs. Amanda Lyon, Alison Grist, James Moreton-

Haworth, Clayton Smith, Kath Pick, Linda Smith, David Shulman ‘06-‘08

‘God’s Composer’, BBC Classical Music, BBC4

59’ performance documentary to celebrate 400th anniversary of death of

Spanish genius of Renaissance music, Thomas Luis de Victoria. Doc director, Alison Grist, performance director Jonathan Haswell. TX 4/10/11

‘Pick of the Week’, The Sunday Times. ‘Pick of the Day’, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Metro

Entertainment
‘Derren Brown: The Experiments – The Guilt Trip’, with Simon Dinsell,

Objective Productions for C4, TX 4/11/11 ‘World's Finest Cars’ dir. Patrick Mark, MSP for Smithsonian, USA (entered

for Emmy Award, “Best Editing” by broadcaster, 12/06

Business
‘The Foods that Make Billions: Little Pots of Gold’, 60’, additional edit

with Hamo Forsyth, 10/10
‘Life Without Work’, 60’, final edit prog 1, with Guy Smith, BBC TV, 06/10 ‘Credit Crisis: Easy Money’ 29’ dir. Dan Trelford, Money Programme BBC2,

09/08
‘Gold Fever!’ 29’ dir. Ben Limberg Money Programme BBC2, 06/08) ‘Email Is Ruining My Life’ dir. Penny Palmer, MP BBC2, 04/08 ‘Northern Crock!’ dir. Terry Messenger, MP BBC2, 11/07 ‘The Chewing Gum Wars’ dir. Charles Miller, MP BBC2, 05/07 ‘DIYTV: Coming To Your Screen’ dir. Steve Crabtree, MP BBC2, 02/07

Current Affairs
‘The Survivor’s Guide To Work – Times of Crisis: The Philippines Fights

Back’ dir. Terry Messenger, 11/09 ‘The Survivor’s Guide To Work – The Migrant’s Story’ dir. Jane Bennet-

Powell, Rockhopper TV for BBC World News, 10/09 ‘Drug Money’ dir. Terry Messenger, Rockhopper for BBC World News, 06/09 ‘First Steps, Moldova’ dir. Amanda Burrell, BBC World News, 07/08 ‘Land Wars’ dir. Fiona Lloyd-Davies, BBC World News, 06/08 ‘Property Watch’ dirs. Jeremy Monblat, Jenny Culshaw, Glenn Barton, 04/09

Self-shoot/edit
‘Acton Community Forum Launch Video’ dir. Philip Taylor, 05/01 ‘A Living Experience’ dir. Philip Taylor for VSO, 04/94 ‘Bags of Money’ dir. Philip Taylor for ActionAid, 10/92 ‘Kale Nyabo’ dir. Philip Taylor for ActionAid, 10/91

Consumer
‘Rogue Traders Special’ dir. Graham Cooper, BBC2, 05/08 ‘Rogue Traders’ 2010, ‘Midlands Turf’, ‘Roofers’ with Jon Hunt and

‘Makowski Locksmith’, ‘Washing Machine’and ‘Small Car Company’ with Ashley Morris 07-09/10
‘Rogue Traders’, 2009, ‘Gas Fitters’ & ‘Mobile Mechanics’ dir. Jeff

Wilkinson plus 2nd unit ‘Perfect Pictures’, Matt Day, 09/09 ‘The One Show’, 20x, dirs. Georgina Leslie, Ed Hart, Rajan Malhotra, Ben

Sanderson, Sarah Sarkhel, Emma Jay, Alison Grist, Amanda Lyon, Zoe Heron, Lisa McHale, Mags Dooley, 2007-2009