Janet Chute
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TV Producer
TV Casting Producer
Brand: Channel 4 & HM Government
Title: How To Be My Ally
Production company: TOAD
Director: Janet Chute
Producer: Janet Chute
My Role: Producer/Director/Casting Producer
Additional Information: This is a link to the episode 1 hero film - IBD: Crohn's & Colitis. The footage was cut down into short social assets.
Brand: Channel 4 & HM Government
Title: How To Be My Ally
Production company: TOAD
Director: Janet Chute
Producer: Janet Chute
My Role: Producer/Director/Casting Producer
Additional Information: IBD: Crohn's & Colitis short social asset
Title: On My Terms
Production company: The Ideas Factory
Agency: Anthem PR
Director: Brendan Miller & Janet Chute
Producer: Janet Chute
My Role: Producer/Director
Title: iPad Air 2 'Change' commercial
Production company: Rogue Productions
My Role: Casting Producer
Additional Information: This is an Apple campaign for which I found and cast all the non-American people featured, including the band Drenge.
Brand: Bliss - premature baby charity
Title: 'Give a Hug' World Prematurity Day campaign
Production company: Endemol UK
Director: Janet Chute
Producer: Janet Chute
My Role: Producer/Director (self-shooting)
Additional Information: This is a video I produced, directed, shot, and edit produced for Bliss' Give a Hug campaign. It was shared on their socials on World Prematurity Day.
Brand: Chilled in a Field (festival)
Title: Addictive TV (DJs) socials video
Production company: N/A
Director: Janet Chute
Producer: Janet Chute
My Role: Producer/Director (self-shooting)
Additional Information: I directed, produced, shot, and edited social videos for Chilled in a Field (festival). The films were shared on their socials after the event to promote ticket sales for the following year's festival.
Brand: Chilled in a Field (festival)
Title: Motorcycle Display Team (band) - socials video
Production company: N/A
Director: Janet Chute
Producer: Janet Chute
My Role: Producer/Director (self-shooting)
Additional Information: I directed, produced, shot, and edited social videos for Chilled in a Field (festival). The films were shared on their socials after the event to promote ticket sales for the following year's festival.
Brand: More4 & Smithsonian Channel
Title: Charlie Hebdo: 3 Days That Shook Paris
Production company: Films of Record
Director: Ursula Macfarlane
My Role: Senior Development Producer
Additional Information: I recruited and managed the team in Paris, secured the commission with world exclusive access, and ran the production until the director took over for the shooting and edit phase.
Title: The Billion Pound Flower Market
Production company: Films of Record
Producer: Janet Chute
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: The Billion Pound Flower Market, Channel 4
I produced this prime-time 60-minute documentary, that I created and got commissioned, exploring the UK’s £2.25bn flower industry both here and in the world's flower trading centre, the Netherlands. I gained access to the largest flower organisation in the world - FloraHolland, Covent Garden Flower Market (we were the first documentary crew allowed to shoot in Covent Garden Flower Market), Flower Council of Holland, ASDA's flower department, top florists, flower growers, and other major floral organisations. I cast big characters in Holland and Britain, conducted all the interviews, self-shot, directed, researched, story produced, conducted recces, and produced all the shoots.
Key Achievement: Gaining access to the of whole flower industry in the Netherlands and the UK.
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-billion-pound-flower-market
Title: Accused: Guilty or Innocent?
Production company: Brinkworth Productions
My Role: Story Producer
Additional Information: I worked up the stories the Casting Researchers found and turned them into case files to be sent to the network for approval. The main part of my role was writing up the cases, helping the execs and commissioners understand the accused’s point of view, flagging any welfare or legal concerns, looking for holes and inconsistences in the stories, research, working with the Researchers to get additional information from the attorneys, making sure the cases worked for the series, and staff development and training.
Key achievement: Turning around case files extremely quickly for cases with imminent trial dates.
Title: The Kardashians
Production company: Fulwell 73
My Role: Field Producer
Additional Information: I was a Field Producer on The Kardashians organising a shoot at Harrods where Kylie Jenner and her daughter Stormi visited her cosmetics concession and had afternoon tea with friends. My role included securing filming permits, doing recces, gaining access to Harrods, hiring a PA, planning the logistics with Harrods and for our crew, organising transport, producing the second unit, and being the liaison for the location on the shoot.
Key achievement: Conducting a successful recce with Harrods so they agreed that we could film while the store was open.
Title: Catfish UK
Production company: Viacom Studios International UK
My Role: Series Casting Producer
Additional Information: I was the Series Casting Producer on the second series of the UK version of MTV’s hit reality-based documentary series Catfish. My role included managing the casting team and overseeing their stories, legal and compliance, story submissions to our exec, creating content for our casting call, outreach, conducting phone applications, recording and cutting Zoom casting tapes, writing one pagers, supporting potential contributors through the application process, running background checks, psychological assessments and contributor welfare, conducting face-to-face meetings with cast, persuading catfish to come onboard, working with the story producers to create the best episodes possible, casting supporting roles, producing the contributors on shoots, supporting the cast through post production, assisting the edit, and recruiting and training new staff.
Key achievement: It was my idea to bring Catfish to my homeland of Ireland for the very first time.
Brand: Discovery International
Title: Body Bizarre
Production company: Barcroft Productions
Producer: Janet Chute
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: I recruited and ran the team finding people with extremely rare medical conditions, organising complex international shoots in developing countries, and gaining access to some of the world's most renowned hospitals.
Title: The House That £100k Built
Production company: Endemol UK
My Role: Casting Producer
Additional Information: Cast the co-presenter and self-builders for this new BBC Two primetime property series. This was very challenging as each house’s final budget – materials through to labour – could cost no more than £100,000 and the home had to be completed by the end of Spring 2013.
Key Achievement: Finding the last 3 self-builds to feature on the 6 part series.
Title: Your Child In Their Hands: Kids' Hospital
Production company: Films of Record
My Role: Senior Development Producer
Additional Information: I developed this series while heading up the development team at Films of Record.
Title: When Luxury Holidays Go Horribly Wrong
Production company: Crackit Productions
Producer: Janet Chute
My Role: Producer
Additional Information: I also produced When All-Inclusive Holidays Go Horribly Wrong.
I headed up the casting and shooting teams for this one-off primetime documentary – working with an AP I recruited to find stories – newspapers, online and outreach, pitched them to our exec, tracked-down contributors via social media, their employers and other means, conducted phone interviews, wrote one-pagers and biographies, got stories signed-off with our exec and commissioner, scripted, produced and conducted green screen interviews on location shot by a camera op, collated UGC, found and negotiated additional archive and UGC, ran background checks, and supported the edit.
Key achievement: Finding a last-minute original story on the road via a Facebook post to replace a dropout.
Title: Rich Holiday, Poor Holiday
Production company: Emporium Productions
My Role: Series Casting Producer
Additional Information: I led the team – a Casting Producer, 2 APs and 2 Researchers – casting the contributors and finding the destinations for the holiday version of Rich House, Poor House. The role included recruiting my own team, coming up with various casting strategies – targeted street, events, online and mailing lists, casting at events, conducting phone interviews, recording Skypes, shooting taster tapes, writing biographies, going to commissioner meetings, hosting team meetings, selecting suitable destinations, finding accommodation and activities, liaising with schools and councils over child licences, and conducting recce visits to potential contributors and locations.
Key achievement: Finding a wealthy family who allowed us to use their luxury private villa with staff as the holiday destination for the low-income family in the same episode.
Title: The 12 Year Old Shopaholic
Production company: Red House Television
My Role: Casting Producer
Additional Information: Ran a team of two researchers finding the children/teenagers and their families to feature on this 60-minute observational documentary exploring the spending habits of young people in Britain. We conducted and edited Skype interviews with the kids and their families and arranged psychological assessments.
Key Achievement: Finding engaging suitable young people available immediately.
Title: How to Be a Young Billionaire
Production company: The Connected Set
My Role: Casting Producer
Additional Information: A documentary on the US tech industry. I cast, conducted and shot interviews, brainstormed, and wrote scripts.
Title: King of the Nerds
Production company: Objective Productions
My Role: Casting Producer
Additional Information: Running the team finding some of Britain’s top minds for a fun new reality series where geeks compete for a life-changing prize. Also coming up with fun but intelligent tasks, presenter suggestions and other format points for this exciting show that celebrates the fact that the 21st century is the era of the geek.
Key Achievement: Setting-up and running an open audition casting stand at Comic Con that resulted in 300 applications.
Title: Passport to Love
Production company: October Films
My Role: Casting Producer
Additional Information: Running the casting team finding contributors for Passport to Love – outreach including using personal contacts, mass emails and casting calls on social media, conducting phone and Skype interviews, paper edits, edit producing talent tasters, writing top sheets and liaising with cast, fixers and crew.
Brand: The Memepunks (band)
Title: Magic Safety Dance - music video
Production company: N/A
Director: Janet Chute
Producer: Janet Chute
My Role: Producer/Director/DoP
Additional Information: This is a music video I produced, directed, shot, and edit produced on a shoestring budget for the band The Memepunks. The song is a mashup of Men Without Hats' 'Safety Dance' and David Bowie's 'Magic Dance' from Labyrinth. The 'Safety Dance' section was filmed at the location of the original music video.
