ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Robert Trim has spent more than 30 years in various parts of the film and video production industry. With his first fascination being the still image, Robert put himself through college doing models portfolios, corporate brochures, annual reports, product photography, and lots of painful weddings and baby portraits.

Then the moving image caught his eye. 16mm film became a passion. The frames whirred, the labs processed and late nights were spent hunched over editing benches with the ever-so-lovely smell of splicing glue. This gave way to the new media…analog video tape. Immediate gratification. Shoot it and see it right away. Albeit black and white, using really bulky gear and not so portable cameras. Never mind. It was cool.

After the undergraduate degree, Robert worked in the industry for 20 years. As creative director for a regional advertising agency serving 400 Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise stores, more auto dealers than one could shake a stick at. And of course the odd clothing store or real-estate development marketing firm. Along the way he garnered several regional and national advertising awards, and added 300 TV and radio commercials to his portfolio.

During his 8 year stint in the broadcast News business, he edited and produced his way to 11 Regional News Emmy awards working for networks and network affiliates.

Robert delved deeply into the corporate and educational media production, producing more than 400 program-hours of educational tele-courses, corporate promotional, and product videos. As well, he has been a DIT and Data Wrangler on commercials, music videos and feature films.

Along the way, he found a few hours to help raise a family and finish a Masters Degree in business administration.

Robert retired as a Associate Professor of Digital Media at Utah Valley University in 2019. Robert is a Fulbright Specialist, teaching at universities around the world. He’s a DaVinci Resolve Certified Instructor, Avid Certified Instructor for Media Composer and Avid Symphony software. He teaches these and asset management in addition to his first love… cinematography.