About Ian
Video Production & Drone Videography | Manchester | Adobe Certified Professional
Not your typical creative: 20 years in senior commercial roles - including Commercial Director - before moving into video and digital production. That background changes how this works. I understand margin, stakeholder buy-in, and what a brief actually needs to do. Not just a creative; someone who connects what's made on screen to what it needs to deliver commercially.
What I do
Full production range:
- video production
- branded content
- social and digital content
- Reels
- podcasts
- livestreams
- talking head and founder videos
- shoppable video for social media
- augmented reality
- corporate photography
- drone videography (CAA-certified)
- event video/photography.
Single deliverables or ongoing content programmes - both handled.
How I work
No handoffs. No account managers. You deal directly with me from brief to delivery. Businesses and agencies that need production handled properly - without large agency overhead, and without hand-holding. Completely 'white glove' where needed.
Who I work with
- SMEs that need proper video without the in-house resource to do it.
- Marketing agencies and production houses looking for a reliable production partner.
- Fellow freelancers needing a trusted collaborator for overflow or specialist work.
Credentials
Adobe Certified Professional - Video Expert | CMI Fellow | CAA-certified drone operator | 20 years of senior commercial experience | 8 years' experience with a camera and editing
Based in Manchester. Working across the North West and beyond.
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Manchester (up to 50km), Preston (up to 50km)
Experience
- Bentley Studios ManchesterDigital Media Producer/Video Director/Drone VideographerFILM AND AVDecember 2018 - Today (7 years and 8 months)Manchester, UKBentley Studios is a Manchester-based video and digital media production studio. I handle the full picture - from creative direction and project management through to the technical delivery - which means you're dealing with one person who understands every stage of the process, not a chain of handoffs.On the creative side: concept development, creative direction, scripting, and storyboarding. On the production side: video production, branded content, social and digital content, Reels, corporate photography, drone (CAA-certified), event video, livestreaming, podcasts, shoppable video, and augmented reality. Post-production, editing, and final delivery included as standard.Project management runs through everything. Briefing, scheduling, stakeholder management, budget control, timelines - handled. If you've worked with production companies before and found the process more complicated than it needed to be, that's usually a structure problem. I've spent 20 years in senior commercial roles, so I know how projects actually run inside businesses. That experience shapes how I manage them.Adobe Certified Professional. CMI Fellow. CAA-certified drone operator. The credentials matter because they reflect the standard of work, not just the intention.I work with SMEs who need proper video without the agency overhead, marketing teams that need a reliable production partner, and fellow freelancers looking for collaboration or overflow capacity.The output is commercially grounded creative - work that looks right, runs on time, and does what it was supposed to do.
- Enigma Media LiveCreative DirectorFILM AND AVDecember 2018 - March 2022 (3 years and 3 months)Manchester, UKVideo and digital assets for social media marketing in addition to livestream broadcasts, video training and podcasts for business clients.Focusing mostly on live and live-recorded formats for agency clients, SME's, influencers and hybrid event production. Shoppable videos (social commerce) for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube Live and Facebook live events. Post-event marketing asset creation including summaries/documentation, shareable clips for social media and website asset creation.Additionally, live and pre-recorded training events, shareholder/investor meeting broadcast with two-way comments and questions features.
- ConfidentialManaging DirectorHEALTH AND WELLNESSSeptember 2009 - September 2019 (10 years)United KingdomCommercial Director then Managing Director in Healthcare and Training/ Staffing Services Group (confidential due to NDA)
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Education
- BA (Hons) Future Media ProductionThe Manchester Metropolitan University2026BA (Hons)
- Certificate in Management, Business Administration and Management, GeneralUniversity of Leicester1999Certificate in Management, Business Administration and Management, General
Certifications
- Adobe Certified Professional in Video DesignAdobe2023