A designer who learned to edit.
Motion designer, animator and film editor. Edinburgh born and London trained, with twenty years across film, broadcast television, advertising and live events.
From a runner’s job to the edit suite.
I grew up in Edinburgh in a family of graphic designers, which is where the visual side of all this starts. In 2007 I moved to London for a runner’s job at a production company and worked my way up into editing and motion design.
Freelance came next, and with it a client base that has included ENVY Post Production, Saatchi & Saatchi, The Conran Design Group and WAG Entertainment. Twenty years on, the work spans film and television, advertising, corporate video and live events.
The design background never left. I still come at every project as a designer first, which usually means working out what a piece is meant to make someone feel before working out how to cut it.
Before any of that came a year at the New York Film Academy. Read about film school.
Three that say the most.
Broadcast series, a global product launch and a feature documentary of my own. Different disciplines, same job: make the story land.
How Do Animals Do That?
Lead motion graphic designer on WAG Entertainment’s forty-episode nature documentary series for Animal Planet.
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ENVY Post Production · 2018
Fitbit Versa global launch
Versioned hundreds of commercials in After Effects for a worldwide campaign, including the theatrical cut for cinema.
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Written, produced & directed
The Boxer From Somewhere Else
A feature documentary of my own: the Ken Buchanan story, from first draft through to the cinema screen.
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On the credits.
Feature and short film work as editor, motion designer and, more recently, director.
Studios and clients
- ENVY Post Production
- Saatchi & Saatchi
- The Conran Design Group
- WAG Entertainment
- Leventia Media
- Involve
- MerchantCantos
- VCCP / Girl & Bear
- Stone Dogs
- Casual Films
- Hogarth
- World Television
- Pretzel Films
- Plastic Pictures
Flayr FX, in Edinburgh and London.
I also run Flayr FX, a film and post-production studio. If your project needs a crew, a production team or a whole post house rather than one editor, start there.
Tell me what you’re making.
Whether it is a campaign, a brand film or something you have not worked out yet. Send me the problem and I will tell you what I think it needs.
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