Christopher LaVan
Editor & Colorist
Fifteen years cutting and grading commercials, broadcast, and independent film. Color work since 2013, on commercials since 2015. Available now for remote or hybrid 2–3 days/week in Atlanta.
Reel
Selected work
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H-E-B: Kodi Coolers Regional TV Commercial
Multi-day outdoor shoot across three locations for Kodi, H-E-B's private-label cooler line. Scouted and secured every location, cast and directed talent, and built each scene on site: a staged tailgate with extras around a truck, a hunting and fishing sequence following one character through a field, a lake, and a boat, and an isolated hero shot of the coolers in open country. Directed, cut, and graded. Everything was natural light across changing conditions and three separate days, so matching the grade into one continuous spot was most of the finish.
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WellMed: Broadcast Campaign
A multi-spot campaign for a senior-patient audience, built around Grammy-winning conjunto accordionist Flaco Jiménez. Six locations, each with its own lighting problem: a bedroom shot day-for-night with a character waking to sound outside the window, a garage band scene matched to practical fluorescents and cut to read as night, a hospital interior under overhead clinical light, and three exteriors (a BMX dirt track, a tennis court, and the Jiménez performance). Directed talent and crew across all of it.
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Texas A&M University–San Antonio: Campus Campaign
Recruitment spot combining interview segments, campus coverage, and aerial photography. Directed talking-head setups, operated camera for campus and crowd work, and staged student extras for celebration and banner sequences. Directed the aerial unit; drone operated by a licensed pilot.
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Independent Film & Television, Los Angeles
On-set camera and color across features, shorts, and music videos shooting RED Epic/Scarlet and ARRI Alexa. From 2013, built and applied LUTs to dailies and graded shorts and music videos as a hired colorist. Also cut independent projects during this period.
About
I cut and grade remotely for agencies and direct clients across commercials, brand work, and independent film. Most projects I take end to end, from ingest through edit and grade to delivery, rather than handing work down a chain. Resolve for color, Premiere and After Effects for edit and finish.