Thomas R Murphy
Los Angeles, CA
tom@spookyfilms.com


STYLE Creative, strong technical skills.
Problem solver. Good sense of humor, focused, sociable.

SPECIALTY Inception to completion of content-driven projects and events. Able to deliver digital audio, graphics and video in a time crunch and on budget.


MUSIC & LIVE EVENTS Multimedia Director
House Of Blues
L.A. Nightclub Audio/Video systems, video productions. Music programming and graphic design for House of Blues multimedia. CDJ Pro Gefen system. Event audio/video and daily programming of 16 hours audio experience for multi-event facility.

Music Journalist / Interviewer
Conduct interviews for award-winning House Of Blues Radio Hour, Disney, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and various record labels.

Audio, Sound FX / Pre-production coordinator
Jordans Furniture
Theme Park Multimedia Installation
Recorded & edited voices for animatronic puppets, ambient audio, sound FX


TV & VIDEO 2nd Unit Director / Interviewer
NHK/Michael Murphy Productions/HOB
New Orleans Jazz Fest Documentary

Audio
Warner Brothers, GlobalVision
Jim Garrison's Last Interview
The Making Of JFK & JFK Assassination Conspiracy

HOB Productions (New Orleans)
MoJazz

NHK/Murphy Productions
New Orleans Jazz Fest. 3 years.
2-3 weeks music productions. Variety of venues.

NBC/ESPN/NHK/Global/AMG/Murphy Productions
Olympic Trials Global Broadcast

NHK/Murphy Productions
HDTV Mardi Gras - Wild track

Audio work listed included numerous ENG segments for:                                     
E!TV, MTV, ABC, CBS, BET


Producer, Director
Durand Communications Inc. CommunityWare.
Promotional video. Journalistic EPK. DV segments, scripted for CD-ROM.

GRAPHIC DESIGN           Action
Fox TV Comedy Series
Posters, Digital compositing. Original graphics.

Wife & Kids
Disney TV Pilot
Logo for lead's (Damon Wayans) company - Kyle Express

HollyWeird
Wes Craven/Fox TV Pilot
Video, digital compositing.
Original graphics representing lead character's art.

Waste Land
CBS TV Series
On-set artwork, posters

THEATER Composer & Sound Design
CRISUS performance group
Dublin Theatre Festival and
Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans
                                                            



INTERNET



Producer
Spike Radio

Creative Director
House of Blues New Media
Responsibilities included digital graphics for web site, retail, club and restaurant, corporate reports. HTML, content development, event-driven Internet broadcasts— Audio and graphics for Live From The House of Blues TV show.

Graphic Artist
ReporterTV

Web Designer / Graphic Artist
LoadTV

Web Designer
Carlos Barbosa, Production Designer & Architect

Web Designer
Ellen Brill, Set Decorator for Film & TV

Web Designer
Photography by Marta

Web Designer
Woodstock.com
Photo gallery, prototype design for video, audio & chat page


CONTINUING
EDUCATION

Feature Film Development Program
Los Angeles Film School
Paul Verhoeven Scholarship

Multimedia Authoring Certificate
Integrated Media Systems Center
School of Engineering
University of Southern California

Digital Animation Workshop
Stan Jymanski, V.P Visual Effects
Sony Pictures Imageworks
BreakAway Technologies, Los Angeles

Interactive Writing Workshop
Leonard Washington V.P.
Paramount Digital Entertainment
Breakaway Technologies, Los Angeles


COLLEGE University of New Orleans
Fine Arts, Anthropology