Elise Sweeney

ELISEMSWEENEY@GMAIL.COM

Skills

  • Highly proficient written and spoken communication skills, including grammar, clarity of phrasing, and spelling

  • Experienced in editing softwares Da Vinci Resolve, Adobe Premiere Pro, as well as Adobe Audition and Audacity

  • Experienced with Outlook, Google suite, Microsoft Office suite

  • Strong understanding of content creation online and algorithm optimisation for social media platforms

Experience

2021-2022

Data Entry, Editor, and Report Template Creation- Speech Pathology Tasmania

  • Adapted certain technical or difficult to understand passages of medical report text into Plain English.

  • Worked with developer to automate integration of patient results into completed official medical reports from Speech Pathologists’ assessments.

2021

Videographer - University of Tasmania Faculty of Education

  • Filmed two primary school drama lessons at Moonah Primary School for demonstration to Education students of what such lessons are like, and how engaged kids can be in primary school drama.

2020

Writer, Researcher, Copy Editor and Playtester - Wreck Seeker game - Roar Film

  • Worked on creating the structure of the game through decision trees, wrote most game text, as well as doing research and copyediting for accuracy. Also playtested and reported bugs and other issues to the programmer.

2020

Archive Research - Looky Looky Here Comes Cooky documentary - Roar Film

  • Researched information on specific locations and their renaming by settlers, also looked at archives for photographs of key historic moments in race relations between white and Indigenous Australians.

2020

Archive Researcher, archival footage collation - Guns That Changed The Game documentary - Roar Film and Wild Bear

  • Found and collated archive footage of specific weapons, ammunition, and historic periods and events, which formed the majority of the video used in the documentary.

2020

Writer, Copy Editor, Researcher, and Playtester - Cook’s Voyages game - Roar Film

  • Wrote text for game, including for fact pop-ups, location introductions, and help section, as well as playtesting, copyediting, and researching topics such as flora and fauna of certain places, various indigenous words, and Cpt. Cook’s voyages.

2019

Internship - Roar Film

  • Wrote and copyedited, as well as doing research, primarily on the Cook’s Voyages educational game and the Wreck Seeker educational game, both commissioned by the Australian National Maritime Museum

2019

Volunteer photographer - National Drama Australia Conference

  • Photographed key workshops and speeches, as well as other events for the conference organisers at DramaTAS.

2018-2019

Videographer and Photographer - Beauty Pageant contestant

  • Produced multiple short videos and photos for contestant’s social media feed as part of her entrance package for the Miss Diamond Australia competition.

2017-2018

Volunteer magazine contributor - Togatus magazine, UTAS

  • Produced multiple short articles and photography to be published in the student magazine.

Education

2017 - 2019

University of Tasmania - Bachelor of Media, majoring in Screen Media and French