ABOUT

Graduated:

• National Youth Theatre - Epic Stages

• Birmingham City University - Foundation degree in English and Drama

• Brunel University London - First Class BA in Theatre and Film Production

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I was an actor at 12, and at 15 I began doing stand-up, improv and sketch comedy. I invented a method of sketch writing where I would write a sketch for every letter in the alphabet. My youth theatre teacher noticed my dedication to writing and hired me to co-write our ensemble’s final show before we went to university. Every night I stood in the wings noting where the audiences laughed, where they grew tense and what alleviated the tension. 

 

At university I developed my storytelling skills further, I gathered friends to read scripts I wrote, I developed films outside of my studies to practise genres I was unfamiliar with and read as many writing textbooks as I could. In my first year, my film group in class developed a mockumentary; we worked in collaboration without a sole director on a script I penned and we achieved the best fiction film award of that year in the university film festival. At the end of university, two more films I worked on in a storytelling capacity achieved notice from the BFI Future Film Festival and the Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner.

 

As an undergraduate I applied for an internship for a manufacturing company. The job required a one man film production. I was the camera operator, audio engineer, location scout, database technician, video editor and producer of the YouTube channel. I took this job intensely seriously and in my first year of doing it created a great deal of marketing content that showed factory production and detailed graduate schemes. 

 

However after completing this work, I felt producing video content showing different cool stuff in the factories was not going to be enough for long-term channel success. I studied LinkedIn lectures on relevant marketing strategies and the consistent advice I heard was edutainment keeps viewers returning to the channel. I was familiar with edutainment, I previously helped my brother package stories about neuroscience concepts into videos he produced during his PhD - so I seized the opportunity to transfer those skills to engineering concepts. 

 

After a conversation with the company’s CEO, I understood our chief export was VSAT technology. I arranged a meeting with the CTO to get an understanding of the concept. After some market research I determined there was not much in terms of animated short form content answering the question ‘what is VSAT’?

I wrote, animated and produced a video answering that question. It was our biggest hit on the YouTube channel and if one searches ‘What is VSAT?’ the video I made will come at the top of the search results. I produced more engineering edutainment content whilst I was there but I felt it was time to move on and work for myself as a freelance creative.

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I also like to learn about combat sports, play chess and doodle.