So I wanted to start off this blog with an explanation of who I am and how I managed to get into filmmaking with a brief history of my career and films. I will go into these films individually in later blog posts but for now I'd like to just start by giving a brief history of my career which will hopefully show why my experience will help your branded video shine.
I started life as a computer scientist, studying computing at university, but I ended up making a film for the Japanese government about the grandchildren of Prisoners of War during World War 2 visiting modern Japan. I got the filmmaking bug so travelled to America and made a film about the grass roots movement during the 2004 presidential election, and used that film to get into the National Film and Television School.
The NFTS was an absolutely incredible film school and my graduation film 'Valley of the Goats' was nominated for a Royal Television Society award and was was featured in some of the biggest film festivals around the world. After graduating film school I made a film for Channel 4 called 'The Yorkshire Clamper' which was highly reviewed by all the major press including the Guardian.
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2009/sep/04/last-nights-tv-yorkshire-review
I carried on making films including my BBC1 film 'Fox Wars' which picked up a million more viewers than usual for its time slot, helped by the massive media campaign the BBC did for the film, including having me on all local BBC radio stations and embarrassingly on BBC Breakfast the morning the programme aired.
I then went back to almost where I started, travelling back to America with the presenter Angela Scanlon for BBC current affairs to make a film about Donald Trump's first election campaign against Hillary Clinton. The film was called 'Trumps Unlikely Superfans'
Are then once into bigger scale television working for many years on the Channel 4 show First Dates and edit producing some of the biggest documentaries in the world including Netflix's 'Drive to Survive' which I edit produced three episodes over three years on that program.
I've been incredibly lucky with my television career, making wonderful films with fantastic people and travelling all around the world but during that time I have always enjoyed making branded and corporate video for clients.
Having recently moved to Cambridge I now want to focus 100% of my attention to this end and so I set up Cambridge Vision to use everything I have learned in 15 years of television and high end corporate production to make the greatest branded content possible.
I am going to use this blog to talk about the films I've mentioned above in greater detail as well as what we're up to here at Cambridge Vision. I'm especially interested in talking about the new technologies we are using and use this space to talk a bit more about me and the people that I'll be working with here at Cambridge Vision.