Businesses of Sussex

I've spent the last year filming around East Sussex, talking to businesses about why they have based themselves in this beautiful county. The breadth and depth of businesses operating out of the area was a revelation...who knew that the world's fastest camera - used to capture atomic level explosions - was developed by Photek in Hastings!

It's been a sizeable job - 18 businesses covered, 25 days of filming, 522 emails exchanged, 932 miles travelled, weeks of editing and motion graphics….but its all been very rewarding.

All the district and borough films can be seen here

Lockdown and the Crick Report

Lockdown has been both a challenging and interesting time.

The majority of our commercial and content work dried up by the first week of March. In fact, work was being cancelled at the beginning of February - regular client BCG had commissioned some films at the huge MWC conference in Barcelona which got pulled. This was the first sign that things could get pretty bad.

By late February things weren’t looking too great but a relationship struck up with Michael Crick whilst making a film about Brexit led to filming and editing his weekly news show, the Crick Report, for Mail Plus.

Over the course of five weeks we covered a number of stories including Amazon’s growing stranglehold on the UK consumer, whether Boris’s Johnsons government could deliver on its manifesto commitments given emergency corona-virus spending, and the difficulties charities faced raising money during lockdown. Michael was great to work with - an incredibly experienced journalist, he can turn out a cogent and engaging story in hours - and the opportunity to travel in and around London as lockdown deepened was southing else and a visual experience I will never forget. The picture below shows Whitehall and the Cenotaph all but deserted…the centre of one of the worlds great global cities about as busy as a village green on a weekday!