Freelance Video Production
To start the New Year and to provide an update from my previous version, I’ve produced my latest videography showreel. This new showreel features many of my favourite shots from a wide range of commissions that took place between 2016 and 2018.
I aim to demonstrate the range of skills required as a creative professional with extensive video production experience. Also, to show examples of my own personal and unique visual style and creativity. It’s been a real pleasure to edit together some incredible, enjoyable moments from my own footage into a fast-paced 3-minute video, adding two great music tracks. I’m particularly pleased with the showreel finale, which is great fun to watch.
Skills and services
My new videography showreel showcases many of the beautiful visuals I captured during the filming of projects over the last three years. It also reveals my production skills, services, and ethos, derived from my involvement with so many interesting, talented, and experienced people.
To follow the opening frame, I’ve edited together a ‘visual effects’ sequence revealing multiple live-action images representing the diverse nature of the many films and videos that I have delivered during this time. For each project in this showreel, I’ve edited text captions to identify them, reference what I did for each, and enable prospective clients to follow up on specific shots they may be interested in.
My involvement can be in part or in whole for any project. The skills involved in video production are many and varied, including planning and filming, as well as subsequent editing, grading, sound mixing, visual effects, and titling. As a solo freelancer, this showreel features some of my on-location and studio-based filming, shot with single or multiple cameras. It also includes examples of green-screen and chroma-key filming, illustrations of composite multi-layered visual effects, sound mixing and subtitling.
Videography showreel sections
For this videography showreel, because my work spans such a wide range of projects, I’ve combined examples of my video production and post-production work into three main sections. The vision, skills, and creativity required to produce different types of videos vary widely; e.g., drama, commercials, and music videos are handled differently.
These three sections include clips from projects related to:
1: Marketing and Promotion
2: Documentary and Behind the Scenes
3: Performance and Live Events
To help target individual clients, I’ve edited each section into a separate video. This enables me to share each shorter video either individually or across social media to increase awareness of my video production craft skills. I recommend the same approach to all of my clients as it is a cost-effective way of promoting your product, service or skill.
Section 1: Marketing and Promotion16
This section features the quality and diversity of promotional video projects that I have delivered for various artists, individuals, commercial marketing agencies, businesses and charities. Delivering so many high-quality marketing projects means I understand all the many aspects involved in delivering video content, specifically for marketing and promotion.
Section 2: Documentary and Behind the Scenes
During the last few years, I’ve also worked on many short film productions. Some of these were destined for the film festival circuit, and one in which I was involved is even heading to the Cannes film festival this year. Other media production companies have also commissioned my filming and editing skills to help them deliver their own range of documentaries.
I’ve also worked as a Digital Image Technician (DIT) with extensive experience in post-production and digital media management. Working with other producers and directors, I’ve also managed their film shoots’ digital media files, ensuring a safe, backed-up workflow.
In addition to ‘on location’ filming in various interesting places, I’ve also filmed and edited ‘behind the scenes’ footage for commercial shoots both in studios and on location.
Section 3: Performance and Live Events
One of the highlights of 2018 was filming two separate opera productions for Opera Zuid in the Netherlands, working on my own using multiple cameras and liaising with the production teams during rehearsals. As well as filming these and other operatic and theatrical productions, I’ve also utilised my time on location to film some ‘behind the scenes’ footage for them. This enabled me to edit a series of short videos for each of these companies, which have been shared many times on social media to help support their productions during their season.
To support other creatives and artists involved in these productions, I also filmed and edited a series of short interview-based promos featuring footage of their roles in the main productions. The technical skills required to film these theatrical events with multiple cameras were put to good use again recently, when I also filmed a fast-paced dance production with three cameras in one of the studios at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in London.
Working with other artists and being involved in theatre and performance productions is always tremendously exciting and a real pleasure to observe and capture their creative talents. It’s now a real joy to feature some of these shots in my latest videography showreel.
If you would like any help with your video production, filming or editing, please get in touch. You might be interested in viewing more examples of my work:
