TALENT AND TIPS EDITOR PROFILE
CHARLIE HAWRYLIW ITN PRODUCTIONS
“I’ve been editing professionally for about five years now,” says Charlie Hawryliw, one of four full time staff editors at ITN Productions. “But I first started when I was around 15 years old when some friends and I from youth theatre applied for a grant to make a film.” During this project, the young – well, younger – Hawryliw (he’s still only 25) taught himself to edit. “I had no idea what I was doing,” he says. “I’d watch and rewatch the same scenes from the limited movies I had over and over again to pick apart how they were edited.” A film course at a local college followed, after which Hawryliw’s
lecturers pointed him in the direction of Ravensbourne. “Going to Ravensbourne really gave me a strong technical standing but also the creative freedom to experiment with various editing and post production techniques, from sound design to motion graphics, offline and online editing and everything in between,” he says. Now at ITN, Hawryliw uses Media Composer, Newscutter,
Adrenaline, Avid DVD and Avid Unity to do a job that changes on a day-to-day basis. “Some days I’ll be working on corporate films which cover a whole range of subject matter,” he explains. “On other days I’ll be doing graphics and design work, or I’ll be editing TV shows – it’s always busy though.” In terms of high-profile work, Hawryliw recently worked alongside two other editors on the Royal Wedding DVD, which ITV commissioned from ITN Productions, but the series Mud Men with Johnny Vaughn, which ITN Productions made for the History Channel, is one of his favourite TV projects so far. Hawryliw was one of four offline editors (the other three were freelancers) on the eight-part series. “Each episode was a TV hour and we’d do two episodes each, which was quite tough as we only had about two weeks to do each episode and get it ready for online,” he says. “That rush of adrenaline when you’re pushing yourself to get a project done is great and it’s that that keeps you going. I also did some of the graphics in two episodes where we were using archive images, so I adapted and animated them to give them more impact than just a static image. We worked on that through Avid Unity, which helped a great deal in terms of managing our edits and footage, sharing the occasional music track or sequence, especially since the edit suites are quite far apart in the building.”
Michael Burns reveals the flourishing career of an ex-Ravensbourne student
Hawryliw’s edits. Clockwise: Mud Men, Game On, The Movie Show, The Breakfast Fix
“That rush of adrenaline when you’re pushing yourself to get a project done is great and it’s that that keeps you going”
CHARLIE HAWRYLIW Staff editor
ITN PRODUCTIONS
CHARLIE HAWRYLIW BIOG Hawryliw did a two year HND in Television operations and produc- tions at Glenrothes College, before starting a BA (Hons) degree course in Post production at Ravensbourne in 2005. He left at the end of his second year to edit a nine-part regional series for ITV, then worked freelance before becoming offline editor at ITN Productions in 2009.
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