VIDEOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS

Hi, I’m Adam

I’m a multiple promax award-winning TV promotions producer/director, videographer and photographer, with a good thirty years of experience in professional filmmaking. And I’m still learning, because we never stop learning, right? Despite looking like the *“conflicted burnout”* character from a Scottish Detective novel, I’m actually quite a cheerful, generous, good-humoured guy and have a whole heap of information and experience I’d love to pass onto you. There is no withholding, and there are no stupid questions, so let’s talk a little bit about what you need to know about Video.

This Much I Do Know

It is so much easier to learn face to face, one to one and with a bunch of like-minded, supportive people. YouTube is great, but it cannot teach you what you don’t know you don’t know. And it cannot motivate or nurture. As a Producer, Creative Manager and Director for BBC, Sky, Viasat, ITV, Sony Entertainment, MTV and Disney I have spent most of my career getting the best out of people.
So whether you’re a beginner keen to learn how to make the most of your camera, or a seasoned professional simply looking to refresh, up your game and learn a few new tricks there are courses below for every skill level.

THE COURSES

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Apr 14, 2024

VIDEOGRAPHY ESSENTIALS - £200.00

Apr 14, 2024

NEXT DATE: 3rd MAY 2024

The day is a practical workshop aimed at both absolute beginners and seasoned pros. If you’re here, you already know how to use a camera, but the aim is to dispel myths and offer information, inspiration and guidance. It’s all about asking questions.

Apr 14, 2024

Apr 14, 2024

PRACTICAL VIDEOGRAPHY discount price £150.00

Apr 14, 2024

NEXT DATE: 15th NOVEMBER 2024

The day is all about practical and creative, hands-on filmmaking. You will be filming or editing all of the day and should aim to have enough to put together a professional-looking documentary-style 1 minute short film.

Apr 14, 2024

ADVANCED VIDEOGRAPHY - £350.00

Apr 14, 2024

Next Date TBC

In a studio environment, you will get to shoot all the essential material to build your own Testimonial Film. Numbers are limited to five to give you the maximum one-on-one time with tutor and camera.

Apr 14, 2024

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EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW

…about training films and testimonial films, about conference sizzle reels and corporate video and now livestream too. The bulk of our work is video, but you might well have photography questions too.
You have questions, right? You must have questions. How much does a video cost? Why do you need a testimonial video? Will AI destroy the planet? How do you livestream? Is a professional photographer worth the money? What is the meaning of life?
Scroll down past our latest advert and showreel, unless you haven’t spared the two minutes to watch already, to dig out some helpful answers to some of the thorniest questions in the world of media content.

VIDEOGRAPHY TRAINING

I have been mentoring and training people for over twenty years, mainly in my previous role as Senior Producer and Creative Manager, but as a highly experienced Filmmaker and Photographer, I’ve found that a great deal of the knowledge I carry around with me is new stuff for a lot of people.
And it is so much easier to learn face to face, one to one and with a bunch of like-minded, supportive people.
So whether you’re a beginner keen to learn how to make the most of your camera, or a seasoned professional simply looking to refresh, up your game and learn a few new tricks check out my Videography Training Workshop.

YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED

How many cameras can you use to livestream? How long is a headshot session? Can just one person shoot both video and photos for your event? Who are the best photographers in your area? Who are the top ten corporate video production companies? What exactly is Content Creation? Whatever your question, the aim of this page is to help you get some answers.

Mar 21, 2023

HOW MUCH DOES A CORPORATE VIDEO COST?

YOU KNOW WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY AND HOW YOU WANT TO SAY IT, BUT WHAT IS YOUR BUDGET?

How much will my film cost? Is inevitably our first question. The unhelpful answer is of course, how long is a piece of string? You may want a simple one-day, one-man shoot with a quick one-day edit, and you can probably get that for under a grand if you’re not too fussy and it really is just a one-day edit. Or you might want an ambitious creative concept, with lots of pre-production followed by a complex week-long shoot, filming on a RED camera, and lots of complicated compositing and animated graphics. And that could be £20 - £30 000. Or more.

Mar 20, 2023

WHY YOU HIRE A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER

So here’s the cruel irony. Even though I know I possess the kind of staggering youthful good looks that make people catch their breath and drop their falafel when they meet me in real life, on camera I look like a laboratory experiment where the mad scientist has injected the DNA of Brendan Gleason and Charles Manson into a old potato

And being self-conscious - oh my crooked smile, oh my seventy-eight chins - means I forget that my delicious eyes are like limpid emerald pools you could drown in, and I project discomfort - In short, I don’t pose well. Maybe you do. Millions of others dont. And some of them work for you.

Mar 16, 2023

TESTIMONIAL VIDEOS, WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR?

WHY THE BEST WAY TO SELL YOUR PEOPLE IS TO USE YOUR PEOPLE

Back in the mists of time, every corporate video had an ambitious narrative, like a storyboarded long-form commercial, a piece of expensive, styled, authored creative in its own right. These films do still get made and they are great. I make them myself, though more usually I work in short form. Is this always how you want to disseminate your information, your brand, your company? Sometimes yes. Just as sometimes you want to Ronseal it, to say it like it is. But do you want to be that blunt? Again probably not.

WHY SPEND MONEY ON A PROFESSIONAL VIDEOGRAPHER?

WHAT VALUE DOES A PROFESSIONAL VIDEOGRAPHER ACTUALLY BRING TO THE PARTY?

Sure so this is where you get sold all the corporate and advertising cliches about brand identity and adding value to your message and blah blah blah. And you may not be thinking in those terms, but rather about just demonstrating something seemingly quite simple.

CAN ONE PERSON SHOOT PHOTOGRAPHY AND VIDEOGRAPHY AT AN EVENT?

YOU NEED A PHOTOGRAPHER , AND YOU ALSO WANT A CORPORATE VIDEOGRAPHER, BUT YOUR BUDGET PAYS FOR ONLY ONE OF THEM - WHAT DO YOU DO?

The short answer is of course some people can do both. The challenge is finding someone who is genuinely good at both, which is not as easy as it sounds. There are plenty of great photographers out there who can’t really shoot video. There are some good videographers out there, though they are no nearly so easy to find, and some of them are competent photographers too.

Mar 5, 2023

WHY EITHER EVERYONE OR NO ONE NEEDS TO WORRY ABOUT AI

With the announcement that China-based NetDragon Websoft says it is the first company in the world to appoint an AI as its CEO only to see stocks soar, naturally it isn’t just struggling bloggers and graphic designers who are worried about the implication of AI

This is where I’d like to reassure you that climate change ravaging the planet and making the lives of those few who survive the catastrophic flooding, wild fires and raging hurricanes that are predicted absolute hell.

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