greg shapiro

* Develops episodes of Dora the Explorer and Dora and Friends: Into the City. * Designs storybook from production assets and original artwork. * Arranges and conducts testing for Storybook and Animatic research. * Films research sessions, books travel, interviews kids, collects data. * Meets with executive producers and writers to revise art and script. * Manages interns.

* Fields all phone and email inquiries, compiles expense and revenue reports, supervises interns. * Drafts Invoices and Licenses for screening rights to The Invisible War in community and military settings.

* Insight Strategy Group is a research-driven strategy firm that inspires its clients to build innovative and impactful experiences for consumers. Insight's business savvy team of social scientists melds quantitative muscle with qualitative finesse to meet its client's strategic challenges. Insight gets to the deeper truth of what drives people and their relationships to brands and opens possibilities for growth. Founded in 1998, Insight's services include Thought Leadership Studies * Segmentation/Targeting Strategy * Brand Positioning/Strategy * Brand Tracker Studies * Pilot Testing/Concept Development * and Innovation Workshops. Business categories in which Insight specializes include kids (through Insight Kids) * media * travel & leisure * fashion & retail * consumer products and electronics * and education/social cause. Insight is based in Tribeca, NYC.

* Placement through the International Radio and Television Society Fellowship Program * Authored and edited treatments and show ideas for original content and branded entertainment. * Prepped presentation materials for client pitches and internal development meetings. * Developed, designed, and pitched an original mobile application concept to the CEO and a panel of VPs.

* Performed pre-production research, logged rough cuts and raw footage, organized wrap binders, tape lists, * and location releases, and completed various other post-production tasks for True Life and When I Was 17. * Inaugurated a pitch project which included brainstorming, researching, treatment writing, and presenting an * original True Life episode.

* Placement was through the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Internship Program * Assisted in casting, prototyping of stunts, and production of Solitary 4.0, a competition reality show. * Maintained and organized development pitch log. * Red Carpet Production Assistant for the “Fox Reality Channel Really Awards”

* Created and maintained photo galleries, quizzes, social networking pages, blogs, and other online content. * Authored “Top Model Underdogs” and Bad Girls Club episode recaps.

* Responsible for the content management and technical operations of the Digital Signage, Wayfinding, and iTV systems on board the Brilliance of the Seas * Designs and executes digital marketing initiatives as needed

Completed a Media Studies Thesis | "Imaginary Wholeness : The Viewer’s Experience of the Uninterrupted Television Narrative" Activities and Societies: * Served as on Senior Class Council, Sophomore Representative for the 2012 Class Council and Main House Team, Freshman Representative on the Residential Life Advisory Committee where I collaborated with administrators and fellow students to assess campus policies and plan campus-wide events.