CV

Some of my favourite video and motion work.

Golley Slater - edu-docs, social content and motion graphics for Welsh clients (Transport for Wales, Public Health, Welsh Water, Ty Hafan, Velindre Cancer Center, Careers Wales…).
Cedar - Social content and short edu-doc for Tesco (Black History Month, Pride, Ramadan, Veganuary, How We Celebrate)..
Zone Digital - Wellcome Trust: Unseen Ideas, Guide Dogs UK, GoGo’s, The Glenlivet, Persil, Adidas… Zone is varied and amazing, it never ends!
BBC - Cbeebies, CBBC, Horizon/Topgear/Horrible Histories/Tracy Beaker/ARS Interactive, School of Journalism, BBC Academy.
Global Radio - Capital TV, Capital Radio, Heart FM, Digital Marketing, Jingle Bell/Summertime Ball.
Endemol Shine - Legends of Gaming, Pretty Up Front
(visual dev and original title sequences).
Westminster Council - Olympic Games 2012 documentaries.


A few of my favourite music things.
My albums of course (Andrew R Bird).
Drummer, Percussionist for lovelacelovesyou Rebecca Whitbread (2 Albums). http://www.iamlovelace.com
Remixer/ composer for ‘Floyd' by Maquiss. https://maquis1.bandcamp.com/album/floyd
Remixer/ composer for Jessie Grace (Living Room Legend, Resource, Say Something)
Writer/Producer/Musician for Esther Mitchel
Writer/Producer/Musician for Houseofilla. http://www.hausofila.com
Composer for Endemol Shine title sequences (credits above).
Drummer for Oh Gun Quit.
Composer for film, “Cephalopod” (Lewis Peake).
Composer for film, “The Dry Cleaner” (Chris Carr).
Drummer for 2 Celtic bands, “The Hooley Grail” and “Gael Force” (apologies).
Hammon Organ and Piano for “Form” (Tours in SE.Asia and NZ).

About

This guy spends most of his time creating. Photography, video production, motion graphics, sound design and music composition all mushed together in the edit.

It’s been over 2 wonderful and slightly stressful decades of creating video end to end - freelancing, agency, and for broadcast.

Emotional backstory: After leaving jobs teaching and performing music and ENG CameraOp, I entered the video industry professionally with a first role at the BBC in the 00’s as a broadcast assistant transitioning edit suites from DigiBeta to Final Cut 7, then Premiere and After Effects, training several departments. Sooner after the BBC move to Manchester, freelanced for BBC brands (Horizon, CBBC, Cbeebies, 1Xtra, Radio2, School of Journalism) where I worked on some of the most fun projects with amazing teams. Since then I’ve worked with some beautiful humans: creating education docs, behavioral-change, entertainment and short documentaries: human stories. The rest is history (see below).

Music - I’ve arranged, composed, engineered and am currently loving remixing. I have a habit of never listening to the original until it’s released - and it’s been super fun to see where my brain takes a remix without any reference.

I’m a huge advocate of cross-modal learning, and love mentoring in each agency I work with. Photography, motion principles, music and sound design play a a huge part in influencing my core video production styles and I encourage my mentees to embrace a broad skillset: tools to create emotive and impactful moments.