Affordable Art Exhibition at Houldsworth Village

This is a film I have done for an Affordable Art Exhibition taking place at Broadstone Mill. The Mill is also where I am based and is a diverse community of artsists, webdesigners and other creative businesses- as well as factory outlet shops on the ground floor!

Talking about my Youtube channel in Media Guardian.

This is a film for Media Guardian talking about my Youtube channel. I started it back in July 2006 and the experience of creating video content, what works and what doesn't, have helped to establish how you can really benefit from this exciting new age of online video.



Already a few people just graduating have messaged me about this area of work. One concern seems to be affording camera and edit kit to make professional content- the priority right now if you are trying to establish a Youtube channel is identifying an audience- something you care about, and an area nobody else is delivering video content to.

Let the quality grow with time, just start establishing who you are- your audience will enjoy seeing you and your work evolve.

The other point is not feeling the pressure to follow the crowd- follow your instincts but listen to your audience and feedback- look at the 'hotspots' in the Youtube Insight data (this is a timeline showing audience attention in your Youtube films- absolutely fascinating!)

I also feel its worthy of mentioning the job losses in regional tv and local newspapers. Why is it happening? The recession? Technology such as mentioned above? Well I'm not an economist but common sense tells me ultimately its because there is not as much money to be made in either supplying regional content, and demand from consumers and advertisers is low. Why? Its moving online.

But we can't just bury our heads in the sand and think about the good old days. I'd like to see the return of Tiswas, Adam and the Ants but that's not going to happen either!

Technology is changing fast and so is the audience that consumes it.

Manchester Irish Festival Parade 2009

I heard on the 12pm news the Irish Festival parade was happening today, so by 1.30pm I was there filming this on the streets of Manchester.

It was a bit last minute so just filmed the parade and interview with the co-Chairman Kevin Fitzpatrick.

Intergenerational Dance Week with Salford Community Leisure

I filmed this last week for Salford Community Leisure. Its an event where young and old generations are brought together to interact and its in its third successful year.

The footage of over three hours was chopped down to a whistle-stop seven minutes!

Salford Community Leisure (who are responsible for the leisure services in Salford) not only are very good at organising these events, they're forward thinking in always getting events caught on tape.

The Big Green Ad Machine!

This is a film I have done to promote a novel way of advertising. The film plays automatically on the the Big Green Ad Machine website (which is http://www.tbgam.com) and has already resulted in them getting more business from customers seeing the film.

104.9 ImagineFM Wedding Exhibition

This is a fast turnaround film I did for a radio station based in Stockport called 104.9 Imagine FM. The owl story is something I intend to film more of in the future!