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archivefilm, broadcast and signage · 2021 to 2023

Brand films, drone work, hard news and retail LED.

Everything here was made between 2021 and 2023, running a production studio and editing at CNN International at the same time. Most of it plays on this page. The broadcast work links out to where it was published, and every piece names the people who made it with me.

studioglassblok, director and editor
broadcastCNN International, editor and technical director
alsoexecutive producer at Carbon

01glassblok

Brand films, drone work and campaigns.

glassblok is the production studio I ran alongside the CNN job. Brand films, profiles and FPV drone flying, which is how the ICARE factory got filmed the way it did. Most of these play here rather than on YouTube.

The campaign work I did with Carbon in the same period is further down.

glassblok · drone

FPV drone showreel

A compilation cut from the drone work. Shot and edited.

2:47

glassblok · property

Harbourside HQ

A renovated commercial office tower in Hong Kong, flown and cut. Shot and edited.

2:19

glassblok · hospitality

The Porter

A cafe brand film, built around the making of the coffee rather than the room.

2:26

glassblok · profile

Metrowire

A profile of an artist who builds compositions out of woven line and colour.

3:46

glassblok · healthcare

Central Smile

A dental practice, filmed around the scanning technology and the people using it.

1:01

glassblok · brand

Fitness Playground

A gym film built around the members rather than the equipment.

1:01

glassblok · brand

Lee Yuen Houseware Co.

A Hong Kong houseware maker. Shot and edited.

1:27

hong kong tourism board

Chasing Birds

Egrets following a local fisherman's boat. Shot and edited.

2:26

Frame from GRAIN Gastropub & Brewlab.

glassblok · drone

GRAIN Gastropub & Brewlab

A single FPV interior run through the venue. Pilot and editor.

on YouTube

Frame from Ducati Hong Kong.

glassblok · brand

Ducati Hong Kong

The Panigale, cut short and tight. Shot and edited.

on YouTube

Frame from Star Crossed Tattoo.

glassblok · craft

Star Crossed Tattoo

Close work, shot close. Shot and edited.

on YouTube

02retail signage

Content cut for a wall you walk past.

In-store LED for a health and beauty chain: skincare, cosmetics, vitamins, health and wellness, personal care and hair care, delivered in English and Chinese.

The formats run from 2432 by 256 pixels up to 8960 by 256. That last one is thirty-five to one. A shape like that is its own discipline: the viewer is moving, they see roughly a metre of it at a time, and anything that needs a second line has already lost them. You design the whole ribbon and then check whether any single stretch of it still works alone.

panels6 formats
widest8960 × 256 px
ratioup to 35:1
languagesEnglish and Chinese
audionone, by design

scroll sideways · this one is 35:1

Ribbon · 8960 × 256 source

Ribbon · 7808 × 256 source · 30.5:1

Panel 1, skincare · 2432 × 256 source · 9.5:1

Panel 2, cosmetics · 2432 × 256 source · 9.5:1

03carbon

Campaign work with Carbon.

Separate from glassblok, and a different job. On the first two I was executive producer: bringing creative direction, production management and post together rather than shooting it myself. On the third I flew.

The Peninsula Perspectives films took four gold and six silver awards across art direction, branded content and hospitality.

04the one that won

The Rescue of Parwana

A nine-year-old girl in Afghanistan, sold into marriage by a family who could not feed her. CNN followed the story until she was taken to safety. I was one of two video editors on the two-part feature, with Alex Dicker.

It is the piece I would point at if you only had time for one. Not for the awards: for the fact that a story assembled correctly, at that length, on that deadline, changed what happened to somebody.

Read it on CNN

awardEmmy, Hard News, 2022
awardGracie Award, 2022
awardFCC Human Rights Press Award, Short Video
reporterAnna Coren
producerRebecca Wright
editorsZane Hosgood
Alex Dicker

The Emmy was awarded to the feature. My credit on it is video editor, shared with Alex Dicker.

05cnn international

Features, hard news and long-form, 2021 to 2023.

Half-hour feature shows, documentaries and breaking news, plus directing live broadcasts from the control room. Editing is a credited role in television, which is why every line below names who else was on it.

why it is herewhat a newsroom teaches you about documents

A news package and a board deck have the same problem.

Somebody has to understand a complicated thing, in order, in a fixed amount of time, with one pass and no chance to ask a question.

Television teaches that in a way agency work does not, because the deadline is absolute and the audience leaves the moment they are bored. You learn to find the through-line before you touch a timeline, to cut the shot you love when it does not carry the argument, and to put the answer near the front. All three transfer directly to a document somebody has to read alone, on a screen, with nobody there to explain it.

See the method on a client project

Same discipline, on your document.

Nine questions, about ninety seconds. You get a price range and a date at the end of it.

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