James Braun, CEO, Little Pictures, Inc

Cell: (850) 960-6842
PO Box 28498 Panama City Beach, FL
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www.littlepictures.com

Personal:

Born, January 4, 1962
Dayton, OH

Education:

High school, Graduated 1980
High school diploma
Churchill High School, San Antonio, TX

Junior College, Graduated 1982
Associates of Fine Arts Degree
San Antonio Community College, San Antonio, TX

Trade School, Graduated 1984
Associates Degree in the Applied Science of Advertising Design
Art Institute of Houston, Houston, TX

Seminars:

“Business by Design,” 1986
Annual Seminar featuring luminaries from the Advertising and Graphic Design industry, who share their secrets to a successfully run business, in a creative profession.
Sacramento, CA

”Meet the Pro’s,” 1992
A gathering of award winning and successful practitioners from the field of advertising, for the purpose of providing hands-on training in each of their area’s of expertise.
Clearwater, FL

“Oliveri on Advertising,” 1993
Hands-on instruction from Oliveri Toscani, on the creative process behind the making of the image, for advertising, and the search for the brand-identity within.
Tampa, FL

Workshops:

I believe in on-going education and exposure to my fellow creative professionals for the purpose of continued growth as a creative person, and a businessman. I attend work-shops related to creative concepts, graphic design, software applications, and expert knowledge of industry business principles, on a continuous basis, and they are too numerous to list.

Work History:

1997 - Present

Little Pictures, Inc.

PO Box 28498 Panama City Bch., FL 32411
(850) 960-6842
Owner, CEO, and Exec. Director and Design Principle, Little Pictures, Inc.
As the owner and operator of Little Pictures, Inc., a small production company, specializing in commercial spot production and broadcast design, I have received a wonderful education, and a rewarding opportunity to develop as a commercial director and broadcast designer, and iindependent businessman.

Feb. ‘08 - Sept. ‘08

WBIF-TV, Panama City

RTN Retro Television Network
700 Aberdeen Loop, Suite 2, Lynn Haven, FL
(850) 248-9242
Executive Creative Director.
WBIF is a Must-Carry Television Station, part of a 200-station Network, RTN, the Reto Television Network reaches over 267,000 Households in the North Florida Panhandle area. My responsibilities included managing the flow of work through the production department, including local and
national commercial production, as well as the production of three weekly, locally produced shows for which I provided graphics, animation, and video with live audio, and editing. In addition, I provided strategic marketing development, design of promotional broadcast graphics and production.

1995-1997

Paradigm Communications

Tampa, FL 33607
(No longer in operation)
Creative Director, Creative Group Head.
Responsibilities included direction of several writer/art-director teams and dissemination of strategic marketing directives and liaison between the Creative Department and the other various departments such as Account Service, Media Buying, and Partners in charge of new business. In addition to managing creative personnel, I provided art-direction and design services directly where appropriate on major accounts including, GTE Mobilenet, Continental Airlines, Lightning Hockey, Devil Rays Baseball, Allegheny Health Systems, and United Healthcare.

1993-1995

FKQ Advertising

15351 Roosevelt Blvd., Clearwater, FL 33760
(727) 539-8800
Senior Art-Director.
Responsibilities included direction of several art-directors and dissemination of strategic marketing directives and liaison between the Art Department and the other various departments such as Account Service, Media Buying, and Creative Group Heads. In addition to managing other art-directors, I provided art-direction and design services directly where appropriate on major accounts including, Kash N Karry Food Stores, Dollar Rent-A-Car, Badcock Home Furnishings, McDonalds, Tampa General, United Way, and Hooters.

1991-1993

Paradigm Communications

Tampa, FL 33607
Senior Art-Director.
Prior to returning as a Creative Director, I began my relationship with this agency as an art-director, where I was directly responsible for creative development and design services on various accounts for which I garnered numerous awards and was eventually attracted by a larger agency in the same market.

1989-1991

Winner Koenig & Associates

Tampa, FL 33607
Art-Director.
Responsible for providing design and art-direction in the creation of advertising vehicles for various accounts, primarily destination and real estate developments, as well as ads, brochures and tv spots for Conveen and Coloplast, providers of medical supplies for ostomy and colostomy patients.

1987-1989

The Dick Leonard Group

Clearwater, FL 33760
Art-Director/Designer.
Responsible for providing design and art-direction in the creation of advertising vehicles for various accounts.

1985-1987

Finlaw Advertising

Harrison Ave., Panama City, FL 32406
(No longer in operation)
Art-Director.
Responsible for providing design and art-direction in the creation of advertising vehicles for various accounts

1884-1985

Konig Design Centre

19th St., Panama City, FL 32406
(No longer in operation)
Graphic Designer.
Responsible for providing design service in the creation of advertising vehicles for various accounts, including the creation of a new identity, strategic brand image and new logo for a local radio station, T94 FM Rock-Station.

Awards:

During my time in the Tampa market, I garnered numerous regional and international awards for my work as a designer including “Artist of the Year” in Tampa, several years in a row during the late nineties. I also received a BDA (Broadcast Design Association) International Design Award for a campaign of spots I shot and edited for under $2,500.00!

Video/16mm Productions:

Live Events:

MTV® Spring Break ‘97
LaVela Beach Club
Panama City Beach, FL

Bay Watch® Spring Break Promotion 2000
Ramada Inn SunSpree Resort
Panama City Beach, FL

Jantzen® 2000 Swimwear Event
Ramada Inn SunSpree Resort
Panama City Beach, FL

Music Videos:

Lords of Acid

“Live-Event”
2001
LaVela Beach Resort
Panama City Beach, FL

Trick Pony

“On A Mission”
2002
Spinnaker Beach Resort
Panama City Beach, FL

Panic At The Disco

2008
Foghorn’s Beach Bar
Panama City Beach, FL

Defex

(In-Production)
Various Locations
Panama City Beach, FL

Television Shows:

Bottom Time

WBIF-TV, Panama City
RTN Retro Television Network
Weekly 30-minute talk-show about Diving
with hosts: Capt. Laney T. Reinhardt & Capt. Ron Spriggs

Lymerick’s Lighthouse

WBIF-TV, Panama City
RTN Retro Television Network
Weekly 30-minute Children’s Show
with host: Lymerick The Clown

Do It Yourself, OR NOT!

WBIF-TV, Panama City
RTN Retro Television Network
Weekly 1-hour talk-show about Home Repair
with host: Mike Skinner

Skills:

Software:

Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Photoshop, Illustrator, GoLive, DreamWeaver, InDesign, QuarkXpress, DVD Pro, Stop Motion Studio, ProAnimator, Flash, Joomla 1.5, in addition to on-the-job experience with many editing applications including Avid, SoftImage, EditDV, VideoCube, etc.

Hardware:

Apple/Macintosh, Windows/PC, UNIX.
(With rare exception, all my work is produced on an Apple Platform.)

Camera:

ARRI BL 16mm (Director of Photography)
ARRI SR3 Super 16mm (Asst. Camera)
Ikegami HDK-79E Multi-Standard/Simulcast Broadcasting (AC)
Ikegami HDK-790E HDTV Camera System (AC)
Canon XL1,2 MiniDV
Panasonic DVC Pro MiniDV
Nikon D200 (Still Photography)