About me

Based in London, Mark is a freelance filmmaker and director/producer of online social and branded content. Mark is a self-shooting director, editor and animator of promos, campaigns and advertising across all of BBC's social channels as well as creating content for top international agency Starcom Mediavest Group from it's London headquarters. In New Zealand, Mark was lead animator for seven series of International Emmy Award Nominated children's TV show "Let's Get Inventin'" now aired in over 20 countries worldwide. Clients have included BBC, UNESCO, Twitter, Sony Music, Red Bull, Tetley, Carlsberg, Air New Zealand, Qantas Media Awards, Auckland Council Branding, Bombay Sapphire, Avon, Novartis and Vicks. In 2005 Mark formed Max Volt Productions which created documentaries, countless television show logos, graphic identities and title sequences, TVC and music videos in the UK, Ireland, New Zealand, Japan and Norway.

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• Video Editor/Motion Designer. Have a fulltime role for a junior/mid-weight to join our our leading tech startup working in Augmented Reality

Projects credited in

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  That Peter Crouch PodcastTo mark the return of That Peter Crouch Podcast for Series 3, we helped Peter Crouch to prank his beloved wife, Abbey Clancy, into believing that he had got a tattoo of himself doing his iconic goal celebration – ‘The Robot’… The film sees the footballer sitting in a tattoo parlour as he video calls Abbey, to let her know. Unsurprisingly, she wasn’t best pleased.
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  BBC EastEndersI worked with the BBC from September 2018 - March 2019 as a freelance social media manager to create social media content for the TV show that lived across Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. My name was even in the 2018 Christmas episode credits, which was definitely a career highlight.
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  BBC SoundsSounds is the BBC's biggest product launch since iPlayer over a decade ago. With over 80,000 hours of music, radio and podcasts all in app, we follow a girl as she broadens her audio horizons.

Work history

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DirectorBBC Studios
Dec 2019London, United KingdomFreelance
Freelance self-shooting director of online content.
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DirectorBBC Sounds
Oct 2019 - Dec 2019London, United KingdomFreelance
Self-shooting director for That Peter Crouch Podcast campaign.

Skills

• Digital Content
• Social Campaigns
• Short Film
• Directing
• Animation Directing
• Animation
• Agency Producer
• Camera op
• Editing
• Writing

Education

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Bachelor of Art and DesignAuckland University of Technology
Jan 2000 - Oct 2004Auckland, New Zealand

Awards

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Best DocumentaryEdinburgh international film festival
For my film: The Breakfast of Dreams A story of old age and the distance one man goes for love...and breakfast.