About me

Award-winning, multilingual creative with 6 years’ experience in rapid-growth startups. Looking for a video editing role, or a startup position that taps into my all-rounder skillset which includes copywriting, video production, graphic design, and branding.

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Projects

• Swamp Motel | Showreel 2020Having worked with Swamp for a couple of years now, I was asked to create a showreel to put forward to potential clients.
• Swamp Motel X Deloitte | life:modeSwamp Motel, working alongside Deloitte, set up a fictional brand, life:mode, and offered a fake product to the public at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. The patch claimed to give you the dopamine kick that we tend to get from our phones, to wean us off using them so much. I was brought in to create a more immersive, impactful video than what they already had.
• Swamp Motel | Plymouth Point TeaserPlymouth Point is an immersive, online detective game that takes you from the comfy confines of the Plymouth Point Residents Watch into the heart of a deeply unsettling conspiracy. Using only stock footage and images from the internet, I created this promo trailer.
• Swamp Motel | The Mermaid's Tongue TeaserUpcoming immersive, online production from Swamp Motel.
• Swamp Motel X Verizon Media | Madame Mesmer's Bizarre BazaarPromo video made to celebrate Verizon's Halloween party 2019. Swamp Motel created Madame Mesmer's Bizarre Bazaar - full of different characters, stories and amusements.
• Swamp Motel | The Mermaid's Tongue | 9:16 IG CutdownPunchy, 15s teaser trailer for Swamp Motel's new online, immersive experience. 15s is not a lot of time, it turns out.

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Work history

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Video EditorFreelance
Aug 2018London, United KingdomFreelance
I left Brainlabs to pursue my interest in videography and video editing. I found I had a knack for creating truly compelling video content that broke the mould; my videos aim to be genuinely different and engaging. I helped immersive experiential events agency, Swamp Motel, publicise their unique offer through engaging, showreels featuring project highlights which could be translated onto social media. Despite being just over a year old, Swamp’s clients already include Cadbury, M&C Saatchi, Dishoom, Capcom and Propercorn, and they picked up a Campaign Event award in 2018. I also was brought in to create an award winning submission for Brainlabs at the Agency of the Year awards in 2019.
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Head of CreativeBrainlabs
Jun 2014 - Jun 2018London, United KingdomFull Time
In 2017, Brainlabs was the 4th fastest-growing business in Europe. Joining a team of eight in June 2014, I eventually owned creative direction of the agency, managing a department of four and executing a marketing strategy that helped the agency grow to over 200 people, with offices in London and Austin, become thought leaders and innovators in the industry, as well as win awards for being an amazing place to work. I was responsible for all aspects of the agency’s creative output, including setting out and cementing our brand positioning and tone of voice, social media presence, co-authored the Brainlabs Handbook, handled the website, newsletter, blog copy, paid advertising campaigns, events, PR, video production (idea generation, writing, directing, editing, promotion [https://vimeo.com/roryajones]), graphic design, creative pitch assets and any audio/visual work as required. I mastered the industry awards process and put together every entry, winning 49 in three years.

Skills

• Copywriting
• Videography
• Content Marketing
• Ad Copywriting
• Video Editing
• Adobe Premiere Pro
• Ideation

Education

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Bachelor of Arts (BA) University of Warwick
Sep 2009United Kingdom
French Studies with Italian (2.1)