This is the page devoted to my editing and writing. All of these trails use previously shot footage from an already existing program or news item. I write scripts, choose music and direct voice over artists to make the program or season look engaging enough for the viewer to watch at the appointed time.
40 second trail for BBC Four featuring Lucy Worsley, Australian Wars and Berlin 1933. The real work was carried out by graphic designer Clive Collier who did all the rotoscoping in Davinci Resolve and then added the parallax move plus various other effects in After Effects. Music by Bring Me the Horizon, their instrumental version of Nihilist Blues kindly provided by Joe Boyd and Chike Ofulue at Sony Music.
More work with graphic designer Clive Collier, this time to promote a season of films based around the work of various writers.
Lyse Doucet: My Breaking News Moment, a heartbreaking story about the siege of Yarmouk. Text animated by Dave Farquason of Red Bee Media Design. This trail was the winner of the 2014 Promax Gold for best News and Current Affairs promo.
Just before the London Olympics of 2012 I got to make a trail for Faster, Higher, Stronger.
Here’s a trail for the series Indian Ocean hosted by Simon Reeve on BBC World News.
A reminder of just how many historic events took place in 2011, month by month, made for BBC News.
A trail for Mishal Husain’s Impact programme on BBC World News
Sometimes it’s easier to let the stars do the talking or screaming as with this trail promoting the Easter line up of movies on UKTV Gold…
Finally a trail for the sporting events that were about to be covered by BBC Sport in 2008.
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