HI, I'M NICK SOLAN...

I'm a New York City-based former national TV news producer with more than a decade of storytelling experience between TV and Film. I've covered everything from elections and wars to cat fashion shows. Now I produce and edit and create things for fun (and money).

HOW DID I GET HERE?

Obviously because you have good taste? Perhaps you need help on a project.

I grew up listening to my grandfathers stories and looking at the photos he took during WWII. I loved history. I got my first taste of filmmaking when I was in High School in rural eastern Pennsylvania, when a production crew filmed a History Channel special on the 82nd Airborne Division in my neighbor's vineyard. The crew let me hang out all day. It was incredible to watch them work behind the scenes and then see the program on TV months later.

I went to Penn State University and graduated with a bachelors in Broadcast Journalism. TV news made sense to me because it is history. Only, it's happening now.

As for my skills, I'm mainly self-taught. But, I've had a lot of help and people who gave me a chance over the years.

I started out in NYC as an intern at CNN, then got hired at the Graphics Department at Fox News. I scribbled my way through writing scripts in the overnights, became an associate producer, then a line producer for several top-rated programs. Over time, I realized how much I missed the creative side of things. Where telling a story didn't have to just be done in 20 seconds.

So, I found my way into documentaries. On TV you tell the story through the words on the teleprompter, and cover the space with the most interesting images. To me, it's not emotional.

Through documentaries, I learned to tell stories in a new way. Using my experience in graphics, research, writing and editing to evoke emotion with sounds, images, colors and music to tell a compelling narrative in a way I couldn't before. I could also tell it in the time the story needed to be told. Keeping it compelling whether it's a 5-minute short or a feature length biography.

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