Christopher Moriarty CV & Portfolio

Christopher Moriarty [email protected] Writer 0402 062 317


IN BRIEF

Scriptwriter and digital copywriter, with experience in film production and film journalism BA in Film & Creative Writing from UNSW and a Graduate Certificate in Screenwriting from UTS

An almost limitless knowledge of seemingly useless pop-culture trivia EXPERIENCE WRITER / SCRIPTWRITER Freelance FEB 2009 – PRESENT

• Clients include Ogilvy Interactive Worldwide, Holler Sydney, Liquid Logic, HOST, Permission, McCann, Tequila and more • Brands include Warner Home Video, Boag’s Draught/Lion Nathan, Telstra Big Pond Games, RaboDirect,

Ingham Chicken, Virgin Mobile, Bankwest, Depends, Toyota, IAG/NRMA, GlaxoSmithKl ine, Visa, Tourism Tasmania, Nissan

ADVERTISING WRITER / CONCEPTOR Ogilvy Interactive Worldwide JAN 2008 – FEB 2009

• Brands included ARU, Qantas, Purina, Nestlé, Warner Home Video, KFC, Telstra, Foxtel, Amex, RTA, Hyundai, Panadol, Tourism NSW, Nokia and the Schizophrenia Research Institute

• Writing for a range of digital and through-the-line projects across a range of brands and presenting material to clients • Storyboarding and designing concepts for campaigns involving rich media (digital), television, print and outdoor • Writing short and long copy for radio, TVC, web banners and eDM emails

GAG WRITER The Sideshow GNW / ABCTV AUG 2007 – DEC 2007

• Writing gags, sketches and monologues based upon weekly news topics • Attending table-reads and dress rehearsals and helping to adjust gags based on timing and audience reaction

ATTACHMENT Double The Fist Series 2 ABCTV MAY 2007 – AUG 2007

• Assistant Director, Production Assistant, Art Department, Boom Operator, Actor, (You Name It) SKETCH WRITER / PERFORMER Comicide – Death By Comedy 2007

• Writing and performing sketches for a bi-weekly stage comedy show at Sydney’s Roxbury Hotel in Glebe PARTNER IN A CO-OPERATIVE FILM PRODUCTION COMPANY Cowboys & Al iens Productions 2004 – 2007

• Writing, Producing and Directing short films low-budget commercials in partnership with other writers and directors IMPROVISER Impro Austral ia / Theatresports 1997 – PRESENT

• Performing improvised scenes, songs and gags on stage in front of live audiences at venues such as Belvoir, Comedy Store, Harold Park Hotel, Roxbury Hotel, Enmore Theatre and others

ENTERTAINMENT JOURNALIST Freelance 1996 – PRESENT

• Writing film reviews, feature articles, interviews, stories and news column work for various publications including The Drum Media, TV WEEK, Disney Adventures, People Magazine and more

SUB EDITOR & PROOF READER TV WEEK 1995

• Sub-editing articles, photo captioning, proof reading, fact checking and writing program listings

EDUCATION & TRAINING

Screenwriting Observership Program, Home & Away, Channel Seven, Sydney 2010 Graduate Certificate in Screenwriting UTS, Broadway 2009 Bachelor of Arts Degree in Film & Creative Writing UNSW, Kensington 2006

Puppetry for Film & Television Gary Friedman Productions 2008 Screenwriting, Film Making & Directing Course Prolific Productions, NSW Writer's Centre 1998 Introductory, Intermediate & Advanced Improvisation Theatresports & Impro Australia Ltd 1997 Extended Advanced Improvisation & Cranston Cup Preparation Theatresports & Impro Australia Ltd 1997 Acting For The Camera Course - Introductory, Intermediate Antoinette Blaxland & Associates 1996 NSW HSC Holy Cross College, Ryde 1993

MEMBERSHIP

AUSTRALIAN WRITERS GUILD 2007 – PRESENT IMPRO AUSTRALIA 1997 – PRESENT

Writing samples of Christopher Moriarty Page 1 of 11 Private & Confidential

Christopher Moriarty Conceptor / Writer

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Concepts & Copywriting

AMERICAN EXPRESS PLATINUM CHARGE – Concierge Website www.morethanjustacard.com.au/platinum “EMERGENCY CARD REPLACEMENT” filmed for rich media banners and the Amex Platinum website



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QANTAS, DIRECT FLIGHTS TO SOUTH AMERICA “QANTAS IS BRINGING SOUTH AMERICA CLOSER” Toucans (working with designer John ʻMoriʼ Reyes)

ROADS & TRAFFIC AUTHORITY Epping Bus Lanes (working with designer Mike Menzies)



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QANTAS WALLABIES Hong Kong Bledisloe Cup (working with designer Mike Menzies)

MEN OF GOLD BUILT BY RUGBY FORGED IN UNION Qantas Wallabies vs Ireland (working with designer Georgie Spencer)



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TOURISM NSW Port Stephens interactive banner (working with designer Gerard Searchfield)

BOAGʼS DRAUGHT PURE WATERS OF TASMANIA Dunk Filmed in Tasmania for rich media banners driving traffic to the Boagʼs Draught website



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VIRGIN MOBILE Bean Counter (working with designer Michelle Wall)



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VIRGIN MOBILE Broadband Wi-FI Modems (working with designer Chu Yook Liew)



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VIRGIN MOBILE Broadband Wi-FI Modems (working with designer Chu Yook Liew)

VIRGIN MOBILE Rollover Caps (working with designer Chu Yook Liew)



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NESCAFÉ Spill The Beans ʻviralʼ site

www.spillthebeans.com.au

Script – “Cheeky but safe” in tone. Dropdown Menu examples:

How would you describe your friend? Life of the party Hey <name>. Great to see you. I hear you were partying til sunrise recently. Youʼd never know it. <leans in> If I miss five minutes sleep, I look like Yoda.

Fitness freak Hey <name>. Great to see you. Youʼre looking sporty. I actually did a sit up this morning - <pats his stomach gingerly> Iʼll be feeling it tomorrow.

Fashionista Hey <name>. Great to see you. Is that another new outfit? If I had your sense of style… <pauses to think, speaks slower> then Iʼd probably be a cross-dresser, <contemplates it> ehh nevermind.

Occupation Young professional But I know youʼre a busy woman, … that FaceBook status wonʼt update itself <makes typing motions with fingers>.

Gay and dating So tell me, what else is going on with you? Still with your girlfriend? Youʼre lucky; Iʼve been looking for Mrs. Right for years. But all I seem to find is a lot of Mrs. “Wrong Way Go Back” <holds up hand in the ʻstopʼ motion circles finger in the ʻturn aroundʼ motion>.

Bookworm And are you still… … a bit of a bookworm? Yeah, I read a romance novel, once. <hesitates a little> Well, actually it was a movie. <pauses for thought> Die Hard was kind of a romance wasnʼt it?



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QANTAS, DIRECT FLIGHTS TO SOUTH AMERICA “QANTAS IS BRINGING SOUTH AMERICA CLOSER” MAD FOLD-IN CONCEPT for PRINT (working with designer Ant Larcombe)

QANTAS, DIRECT FLIGHTS TO SOUTH AMERICA “QANTAS IS BRINGING SOUTH AMERICA CLOSER” 30 SECOND RADIO SPOT SFX: Sounds of suburban Australiana on Saturday morning, the Victa mower, sausages and bacon on the grill, kids playing, Aussie birds and dogs. A screen door opens. AUSTRALIAN MAN: “Hold on, Iʼll just check with the neighbours. Back soon Honey.” SFX: Quick sound-montage of Jet Engines and wheels touching down. We hear the sounds of South America, Latin American music, people greeting each other and talking in Spanish, strange birds and so on. SOUTH AMERICAN MAN: “Hola, Bruce, ¿Cómo estás? Back so soon to South America?” AUSTRALIAN MAN: “Yeah, GʼDay Rodriguez, thanks to Qantas, Australia and South America are closer than ever. Now that weʼre practically neighbours, dropping in has NEVER been easier.“ SOUTH AMERICAN MAN: “So what brings you back this time my friend?” AUSTRALIAN MAN: “Ah, we ran out of coffee.” VOICEOVER: “Qantas now fly direct to South America three times a week. And with flights from as low as $XX, itʼs never been more affordable. So you can drop in on your new neighbours any time.”



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SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE A total TTL re-branding based on my concept of “Shining a light on Schizophrenia” (working with designer Dhiraphon ʻOrrʼ Dhiravarangkura)



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THE SIDESHOW (GNW PRODUCTIONS) Scriptwriter

Contributor to Paul McDermottʼs opening monologues (and various asides) based upon the weekʼs news stories.

While he may be outwardly hairless, Peter Garrett’s comments this week reveal

him to be almost entirely hair-brained. Garrett did his best this week to reassure

voters that all similarities between the ALP and the Coalition policies would

disappear after the election, when he jokingly told right-wing Sydney shock jock

Steve Price, whose wife is an advisor to Liberal MP and Workplace Relations Minister

Joe Hockey, that “once we get in we'll just change it all”. Ironically this slip

only served to strengthen the similarities to the party that gave us such “non-core

promises” and flexible truths as a “never ever” G.S.T., “Children Overboard”,

“Weapons Of Mass Destruction”, “No Wheat Bribes To Saddam” and “Fairer Work-Choices”

laws.

The frank admission from Garrett is a refreshingly honest change from the usual

political lies and deception. In this spirit of “me-too” electioneering Prime

Minister John Howard is expected to follow suit and admit that if re-elected to

government, the Coalition would continue their regressive winding back into the past

until every Australian workplace resembled the set of Oliver Twist.

Nicole Kidman has again denied having ever had any plastic surgery done or

ever having used Botox. Confirming once again that she simply lacks the emotional

range necessary to create wrinkles. However, Kidman does admit to having had small

growth removed a few years back. Speaking of Tom Cruise, this week is National

Psychology Week…

Despite using an alias and disappearing amongst a crowd of 39,000 other

runners for 5½ hours in the New York Marathon this week, Katie Holmes still co uldn’t

manage to shake off Xenu-worshipping Tom Cruise and their alien baby Suri who were

both there to recapture her at the finish line.

On Tuesday, one day before his 59th birthday, Prince Charles and Lady Camilla

Parker Bowles opened an exhibition dedicated to the Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamen in

London. Visitors to the exhibition were given a rare, public glimpse at one of

history’s most powerful and Ancient Boy Kings and were able to get up close to his

dried-up, 3000 year-old mummified husk. Some visitors even bothered to turn away

from staring at Charles and Camilla to spend some time with the actual Tutankhamen

exhibit.


REFERENCES

Kayla Gildersleeve Creative Resource Manager Tequila [email protected] Vanessa Hawke Creative Resource Manager Host [email protected] Fady Kassab Studio Manager Liquid Logic [email protected] Jonas Lembke Creative Director (now in Stockholm Sweden) Ogilvy Interactive Worldwide [email protected] Paul Dunne Creative Group Head Ogilvy One Worldwide [email protected] Cathrine McVeigh Production Manager ABC TV

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