Matt Piccolo

Since February 9th of 2001 Matthew Piccolo has been a self employed freelance writer, segment & field producer and director. He works for such companies as MultiVu, Fort Productions, On The Scene Productions, Tane Digital, Medialink and Next Millennium Productions. He is constantly networking and looking to work with more companies within the TV News and Entertainment production world and in June 2007 joined the Producers Guild of America.

One of Matthew’s primary and most frequent type of job is as a producer of Satellite Media Tours. He’s hired to represent many companies in the studio or on location during a live satellite remote. Whether the SMT is with one or two cameras or guests or if it’s an SMT with a cooking, gift or product demonstration; Matthew is one of the most reliable, client friendly, professional and experienced SMT producers available.

But He primarily considers himself a field producer, whether on regular b-roll shoots, video news releases, video highlight packages, MOS interviews, promo videos and commercial shoots. He covers such live events, such as conventions, movie premiers, press conferences, book signings, launch parties and press junkets. During events like these he constantly works with publicists and managers to supervise and interview actors, musicians, authors, fashion and health experts.

But he has also been a segment producer on a variety of shows and is currently working on the home improvement show ‘House Smarts’ which airs nationally and on NBC in New York City. On the show he writes, coordinates and produces a variety of topical segments ranging from ‘Log Home Construction’ and ‘Turbine Power’ to ‘Making Room for Baby’ and ‘Blending Two Households’.

In addition to field producing Matthew’s strengths include crew coordination, interviewing, script writing, client communication, multi camera studio shoots, Radio Media Tours, corporate videos and sales tapes. He has also wrote, produced and directed film and video commercials for Time Warner City Cable.

Matthew started his career as a staff production assistant in the Fox News Channel’s Advertising and Promotions department. They knew right away they had hired someone special; someone who quickly became the best tape organizer and labeler the network has even seen. But whether through his general organization skills, creative promo writing, coordinating, shooting, editing, directing and general producing; what Matthew learned was invaluable and paved his way to his days outside of Fox News Channel.

After 4 years of working the 9 to 5 lifestyle he could no longer work and remain within the confines of the corporate world. The variety of outside possibilities and options that Matthew wanted to seek and experience left him with one tough but inevitable decision. On February 9th 2001 Matthew left Fox News Channel to pursue the life of a self employed or freelance writer producer director.