Steve Wheen is a creative producer, currently working with atp in the google creative lab. Recently he has worked with brands such as Lancia, Universal and Koppaberg to create original content.

Steve started his TV career dressed as a giant cockatoo running around at halftime during Canberra Raiders rugby matches. He quickly realised his future was behind the camera, not in front of it.

Steve originally hails from Down Under and has lived in the UK for the past 8 years working with brands such as Google, YouTube, Sky, Lancia, Universal, Disney, MTV, Audi, Renault, Current TV, Walkers, Toyota, Cbeebies; working for the likes of ATP, Red Bee Media, Publicis Entertainment, Discovery, Bruce Dunlop and Associates, North One Television, Blink Films, Brandwidth, Simply Media, Pace Media, Square Zero, Viasat Broadcasting.

An award winning filmmaker with a background directing television commercials, he's worked across broadcast, online, 3D holograms and branded video content.

He recently completed his Masters in Design at Central Saint Martins (with distinction) specialising in Social Television.

He has a panchant for gardening, recently getting his green fingers dirty with The Duchess of Cornwall, and was commissed to display his work as part of Milan Design Week 2012.

His first book, the little book of little gardens was published late in 2012.

Skills

Devising exciting creative from initial brief to meet deadline and budget

Excellent client liaison and management

over 10 years experience self operating FCP and Avid

Directing live action shoots, green screen, animation CGI and voice overs

Post production supervision including 3D animation and delivery for 3D television and musion hologram

Education

MA Design Studies, Central Saint Martins (2010)

BA Communications (Media Production) Charles Sturt University (2000)

Professional experience

Over 3 years full-time in commercials as a producer/director

Over 6 years freelance creative producing 

1 year full-time producing in design and animation facility for commercials, corporates, titles, 3DTV 

10 years experience editing (fcp and avid) both offline and online

3 years freelance at Red Bee Media as a creative writer

Other achievements

Devised The Pothole Gardener, a blog (and now a book) featured on the BBC, ITV News, The Metro, The Sun, Mumbai Mirror, The Globe And Mail, The Evening Standard and more

Launched HUMTOO in 2008, an online user-generated production music library which now publishes over 6,000 production tracks

The pothole gardener

The Pothole Gardener is a project I began a few years ago, which explores ideas around happiness. The blog has been featured widely in the press (here is a small selection). I've worked with brands such as Lancia, Kopparberg and Universal to create unique viral content with my gardens.

Holes Of Happiness, a short documentary I produced (which is currently doing the festival circuit) has had a great reaction online, with over 200,000 views to date. Dokument Press have recently published The Little Book of Little Gardens which chronicals my gardening antics.

HUMTOO

I co-founded HUMTOO late 2008.

HUMTOO began as music marketplace, where TV producers could post their projects in search of music and musicians could post their tracks for that project.

By mid 2009, HUMTOO had grown into a large community and we launched  a user-generated production music library with over 6,500 quality production music tracks. 

The site boasted a large and rapidly growing community and the library has been broadcast internationally earning money in the form of broadcast royalties. 

The HUMTOO Bicycle Orchestra

Working to promote my site HUMTOO, an online music community, created a series of guerrilla gigs around London at Christmas time to gain exposure for the site and raise money for charity.

My bicycle orchestra was joined by Vocality, a London based choir, to create a series of unique performances on wheels to raise money for the charity Shelter.

The orchestra is conducted by Santa (of course) leading the orchestra and choir of around 35 on a Tuk-Tuk. The tuned bells on the bikes make for a harmonious, tuneful sound!

voodlenation 

voodlenation is a video event I hold in conjunction with live festivals. Voodles are short pieces of video that are shot on whatever medium is available. voodlenation enables audience participation at festivals by allowing audiences to film what their watching and doing at the festival, send it to the voodlenation team (by text or email or by hand) and we broadcast it on the voodlenation screen. 

Recently, voodlenation teamed up with Flip Video and we attended Shoreditch Street Festival, Streetfest. 

Banterbox

Banterbox aims to answer the question: Can watching Television be a social experience?

As part of my major project for my MA Design studies (applied imagination in the creative industries) I’ve explored this question through a series of artefacts.

TV 2.0 is coming. Fast. Banterbox is a social television application that I’m using to test the possibilities for TV 2.0. 

More information about the project is on www.banterbox.tv.