This interview is part of a CineD series celebrating women in the film and television industry. Read our last piece, where we caught up with cinematographer Carissa Dorson here. This time around, Katie Kemp, a finishing artist from the United Kingdom, is our guest. The Finish Line’s Katie Kemp has done it all. She’s trained in C++, delivered shoes, and even worked from Mr. Motivator’s Jamaican home. Throughout all this, she’s also finished shows in every genre from Panorama to Geordie Shore, and for everyone from the BBC to Discovery. She’s also experienced the move from tape suites to remote working first-hand. Read on to learn more about Katie Kemp’s impressive career, including what it was like to be starting a career in TV in the late 90s, and where she hopes the post production industry will go for the future. Sample of Katie Kemp’s work Katie Kemp, can you tell us about your start in the industry? Katie Kemp: I went to university to complete a bachelor’s in science. It was more focused on the technical side of filmmaking – we were actually in the engineering department. We learned everything from how to produce various media formats to C++, oscilloscopes, and the mathematics proving the Nyquist theorem. After graduating I moved to London, where I got my first job as a runner at a post-production house called Component in 1997. Being a runner involved all the usual tasks like getting tea, as well as some more unusual ones. Katie...
Published By: CineD - Thursday, 5 August, 2021