Victor Kirilov

Video Editor and Post-production Artist / Cinematographer / CGI Generalist

Brighton, United Kingdom

Work Experience

BOX TV - The Music Of Bulgaria

Cinematographer / Camera Operator

My tasks included: choose and setup the lighting scheme for an 8-hour gaming tv show called NEXT TV, operate Camera 1 (static on a tripod or movable sometimes).

As a cinematographer: setup lighting and shooting Pop-Top show which included weekly boxoffice ranking presented by a host, as well as 3-4 interviews with music stars from Bulgaria, shot in different locations in a huge 5-storey furniture store.
September 2014 - May 2015 Bulgaria

Student Computer Art Society

Graphic designer / Web developer / Festival coordinator

My responsibilities here covered a broad range of topics - from web design and development - both front and back-end, programming educational student games, graphic design, through server maintenance and other technical details.

I was also the programme coordinator of the annual Computer Space festival - a digital arts forum SCAS organized annually.

My tasks during the 4-5 month organisational period included: organizing the website - redesigning, archiving, uploading and updating the needed information for the competition part of the festival, suggesting and providing topics for the seminar part of the festival, arranging lecturers for the seminars, dealing with sponsors and media partners, etc.

After my work for the Computer Space festival ended, other people around Bulgaria saw what me and my colleagues have done and started their own festivals in other cities.
September 2010 - June 2015 Bulgaria

DSTV

Camera Operator / Cinematographer / Vision Mixer

January 2013 - May 2014 Bulgaria

Pro Group

Senior Video Editor / Compositing Artist

My responsibilities included editing 2-4 art theatre shows per week (coming out with a new story, a short movie, assembled from different shows), as well as 2-4 promos.

June 2015 - March 2016 Bulgaria

CAB Factory

Videographer / CGI Generalist

I was responsible for shooting micro, low and mid budget projects as a cinematographer, and assisting (1st AC) on the high-budget productions of the company.

Editing most of the projects for the company - short ads, promotional series, etc, and providing guidance to the other editors.
Sometimes I did all colour correction and creative grading on certain videos, as well as titles and intro/outro/logo animations.

Modeling, texturing, lighting and rendering objects and scenes for different clients - product shots, vehicle modeling. Helped the graphic design department with 3D models when they were needed for mockups.
I also did some animation and fluid dynamics - liquid, fire and smoke simulations, as well as compositing on a few projects too.

June 2016 - October 2018 Bulgaria

Paxton Access

Visual Content Creator / Video Producer

February 2019 - United Kingdom

Education

New Bulgarian University

Bachelor of Cinema and Television Arts

October 2011 - June 2016 Bulgaria

Languages

Bulgarian (Native),
English (Fluent),
Russian (Beginner),

Awards

Technology School Of Electronic Systems

Best Multimedia Project

2011

Skills

3D Modeling, Adobe Creative Suite, Autodesk 3Ds Max, Cgi, Cinematography, Colour Grading, Compositing, CSS, HTML, Lighting, Photo Manipulation, Realflow, Rendering, V-Ray, Video Editing,