Jesse Bettencourt

• Produced original photography and videography content on a weekly basis by working collaboratively with producers, lighting and camera assistants, and make up artists and stylists to facilitate production.
• Set up for shoots according to production schedules, weather, and lighting conditions and available equipment.
• Became proficient at using all modern videography equipment including flagship Canon cameras and DJI Gimbals to produce world-class level images and videos.
• Used Photoshop and Capture One to process and develop RAW photos into highly polished final products
• Used DaVinci Resolve to process, edit, and develop RAW video files into short and effective video clips
• Conserved footage archive by organising, labeling, and tagging with metadata.
• Shot and directed 111 logged shoot days, for a total of 4728 photos and 3820 videos uploaded to our website, peopleimages.com

Slim Films & Keyframe

Clicks Christmas - 2nd Assistant Cameraman

• In October of 2022 I was hired as a 2nd AC on a Clicks commerical shoot for their 2022 Christmas campaign.
• I fulfilled all the duties of a 2nd AC on this job, which required me to manage our camera cart on a day-to-day basis, mark and operate the slate, assist with camera setups and lens changes, and log meticulous camera notes for the eventual editor.

Zanzibar & Tanzania - Production Assistant

• In February of 2023 I was hired to join a small production crew to travel to Zanzibar & Tanzania for a week-long production trip.
• Our client for this job was DPO Pay Merchant, and our brief was to visit 3 different resorts on the island of Zanzibar who were currently users of DPO and to interview them on their experiences, and to shoot their facilities in order to create a travel-experience video that DPO could show potential clients. We also traveled to Tanzania for a fourth client and a shoot at the airport.
• This was a wonderful experience, and owing to our small video crew of 3 people and the run-and-gun nature of the assignment this job required me to work many different roles; from managing our gear on a day-to-day basis, setting up lights for interviews and using lighting modifiers, to boom operating and recording sound for the interviews, and second shooting for the main DP when the situation required it.

Creative Studios

USAID - Videographer

• In March 2022 I was hired as a freelance videographer to cover an international conference hosted by USAID at the Westin Hotel in Cape Town
• The first day of this job involved shooting the conference, both the speakers on stage and the crowd, and also the events surrounding it such as the group gatherings, introductions, meals, etc. There were also some interviews that took place.
• The second day was a travel day, where I joined the group on a bus trip around Cape Town to visit 3 different factories who made use of USAID's services, in order to shoot content for an editor to put together later.

Vitality Prestige Trip - Event Photographer

• In January 2023 I was hired to be the event for the Vitality Prestige Trip Award Ceremony which took place at The Grand Beach Cafe in Cape Town.
• This event was hosted by the British Vitality Head Office, and it was an award ceremony for their top earners, who were flown from the UK to Cape Town for the celebration.
• This job required me to shoot the introduction and pre-award celebration at the venue, and then to shoot shots of the teams on stage receiving the awards, and then group shoots afterwards.