ColinLeet.com is a collection of various creations by Colin Leet.
Colin Leet is currently 19 years old, and has won several awards for his films and animations.

From left to right: professional photo; Colin on the from page of the Michigan Youth Arts Festival; in plays Scapino, Moon Over Buffalo; award for animation.

He can be contacted here.

5/5 - My best work to date
4/5 - A good representation of my current skill level.
3/5 - Techinically may not be the best, but it still currently shows some reflection of my work and style.
2/5 - It has something unique, but it's dull, and old poorly executed work that doesn't accurately display my current developing abilities.
1/5 - Archived work that does not representative of my skill level.

n/a - An excript of larger pieces of work, that can't be put online.

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General Resume - January, 2012

Purpose: I would like to find a internship to become involved in real world film/broadcasting/software production. I would like to find a way to combine hands-on experiences in media with a strong undergraduate education in computer devleopment and production.

Education: I am currently a sophomore at Denison University majoring in computer science.

• Awards:

  • Won Fifth Place in the NeilMed Sinus Rinse Video Contest (2010); video.
    
    
  • Won “Best of Show” four time for four animations in the Michigan Student Film and Video Festival featured at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and Michigan Youth Arts Festival, in 2009 and 2010.
    
    
  • Three time finalist at the Future of Cinema International Student Film Festival: Crabs (2009), Hue (2010), and Community Art at Community High (2010).

• Projects:
  
  
  • Extracurricular Digital Arts Film & Television Student Animation Workshop (2008 & 2009): Four intensive weekend sessions producing animated short films per year. 
    
    
  • Teaching Assistant for a Speech/Video Production course (2007): taught iMovie to students; lighting (gaffing), produced DVDs of school performances.
    
    
  • Produced a DVD for the Dean of my high school for a school-wide presentation on Martin Luther King Day "King to President".
    
    
  • Community Ensemble Theatre (High School Theater): acted in four plays (Scapino, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Moon Over Buffalo, and Pride and Prejudice); was a Techie (set construction and painting, lighting, sound, DVD production) for five productions over four years, part of which was making two hours of video backdrops for "Working" the musical, see an example here.
    
    
  • Built site for a collaborative web comic in 2009 called "Doogie & Reg".
    
    
• Education:
  
  
  • Computer Science Major (Minor Completed) at Denison University
    
    
  • Three communication classes taken at Denison University
    
    
  • One year of acting in 2009-2010.
    
    
  • High school broadcasting class (2 semesters): chief editor for 2008-09 school year, did all studio lighting. Some sample episodes are here, and here.
    
    
  • “Media in Motion” high school graphics course (2007); final video.
    
    
  • "Film I" and "World History in Film" theory based film courses (2009). Produced short videos for other courses (Screenwriting, Spanish II, Science, Physics) (2007-2010).
    
    
  • Took a week-long advanced video making course at the Michigan Theatre (2008).
    
    
• Video/Audio Production Tools:
  
  
  • Video: Two years of Final Cut Pro, Vegas 10 Pro, After Effect CS5, Photoshop CS5, Dreamweaver CS5, Soundbooth CS5, iLife (only if his life depends on it), 3D -- largest project to date is Crabs, some work with Blender.
    
    
  • Audio: Audacity; ACID,  I have only used a few audio suites so far, as much of my sound editing has taken place in video editing software.
    
    
  • I pick up new software quickly, and work through downloaded tutorials as a pass time.
    

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Technical Resume - May, 2012

• Programming:
  
• Computer Science Major (BA) at Denison University
• Six programming courses completed so far, satisfying all requirments for the CS Minor.
  • Math 123 - Calculus
  • CS 110 - Foundations of Computing Through Digital Media
  • CS 173 - Intermediate Computer Science
  • CS 174 - Discrete Mathmatics
  • CS 281 - Computer Systems
  • CS 271 - Data Structures
    
    
• Courses planned for Fall 2012:
• CS 401 - Game Design


• Course Descriptions
  
  
• Proficient in:
  
  • Python
  • C++/C
    
    
• Know Limited: PHP, HTML, CSS, Familiar with IA32 Assembly
  
  
• Creative Software:
  
  • Final Cut Pro
  • Vegas Pro
  • After Effects
  • Photoshop
  • Soundbooth
  • Some Blender
    
    
• Web Site Development:
• Some HTML/CSS, Frames, limited PHP & CSS, embedded multimedia.
• Some Dreamweaver CS5
• This site.
  
  
• Hardware Builds:
  
• Spent three weeks servicing and fixing Dell laptop/desktops for a summer job.
  
• Some laptop repairs.
• Tower
  • RAID Array
  • Have repaired, replaced parts, fixed dozens machines
    
• OS Builds:
• Windows 8, 7, Vista, XP, 2K
• Ubuntu
• OSx
• Various VMs (Virtual Machines)
  
  
• Crashed Disk Recovery
• File recovery off of formatted hard drives

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Showreel 2009

A college admissions real showing off the best of my work in high school.