Hello

My name is Benjamin Foushée I have been working as short form/commercial editor most recently at BeGrizzlee, Work Editorial, Battery and Beats on a variety of projects. I have 15 years experience in post-production on commercials in all areas of the workflow. I am fluent on both Avid MC, and Premiere. Having worked in conjunction with directors, producers and creatives on many campaigns at all the stages production; fleshing out many ideas from infancy through to delivery has given me a keen ear and ability to create open dialogues of ideas. I am always pushing the envelope on how it can be made better, never settling. With a MFA from DePaul University in Acting I come from performance background, which in itself has provided me with skills that apply to many aspects of my work. In pacing, timing, performance evaluation my skills are sharp, fast and decisive. I feel that I could offer you a great creative eye and instinct on moving forward on any number of projects. I have initiative and a strong work ethic, I enjoy learning and working with others to achieve the common goal of the best story telling and delivery of the best product possible.

PS – Foushée rhymes with touché

This idea, project, labor of love has been a long time coming and has always been in my thoughts in one form or another. My wife and I moved west in the pre-oughts. Dial-up was all the rage, and google was just a 1 with a hundred zeros. We drove out with our big dog, big dreams and big student loan, recently graduated from The Theatre School in Chicago we both were armed with the life-long dream to work on the silver screen, we engaged in numerous vocations as we chased our dream and in the free-time I made the first physical iteration of wRiTeR’s bLoCk.

Browsing an antique shop on our trek out west I had come across a version of a cigarette rolling machine that sparked an idea. I tinkered and with some hesitance, I pulled it apart, threaded on some paper and took a look. It was not what I wanted but it was just enough to fuel me.

It was in the garage of our Hollywood apartment armed with a impulse bought Rotozip and well used Milwaukee cordless drill that I began the pursuit of a physical incarnation of the thought in my mind. Multiple visits to the hardware store, and execution of different forms, I finally landed on a design that embodied my desires.

The feeling in the hand, the weight and texture made me smile. I puzzled on an appropriate medium to use as the paper. Pre-amazon trying to source something of this specificity was difficult to say the least. In this first incarnation I finally landed on FAX paper. Using my rotozip i split a roll in two and it sealed the deal as far as a functioning prototype.

I duplicated the form until I had 4 roughly constructed and ready for demonstration.

I fashioned the cards, cut and pasted and then introduced the game to my friends. It was well received and every session always ended in smiles, laughter, surprise and enjoyment.

But these hand made originals, unique to say the least, lacked ease of mass production.

Then life happened, and continue to happen. New vocation, several pets, a home, and a daughter. In 3rd grade our girl introduces me to TinkerCAD. I was impressed with the ease of use of the program and had a thought. Utilizing the application, I was able to redesign the tablet in a simplified viable form that improved upon some of the issues I had with original and elevated function giving it new life. I completed a design as proof of concept and had it 3D printed. It was not functional, but it felt good and possible. I was able to see the potential but 3D printing was not cost effective to produce tablets on a large scale.