Three decades cutting trailers, promos and campaign content — for major Hollywood studios and streamers, broadcasters and brands, and the independent shooters who just need their footage to shine. Big budget or small, the craft is the same.
Full samples and links available on request — much of the work is under NDA.
Different clients, different scales. A sense of who I've cut for — with a line on what the job actually was.
A selection — more available on request.
I've spent the better part of three decades in film and video — finding the ninety seconds inside hours of footage that make someone lean in.
Most of that has been marketing work: trailers, TV spots, promos and campaign content for major Hollywood studios and streamers — including time in-house at Disney in Los Angeles — and for broadcasters and production companies here in the UK. The work is the marketing, not the productions themselves — take finished content, and cut the piece that sells it.
But the part I'm proudest of is the range. The same edit bay that handles a studio trailer can take a lone videographer's rough, uneven footage and turn it into something polished and broadcast-ready. Big scale or small, high gloss or raw source material — I make it work, and make it land.
I'm UK-based and take on select freelance projects, remote or hybrid. Fast turnarounds, tight briefs, and a marketer's instinct for what actually works.
Theatrical trailers, TV spots, teasers, sales promos and launch campaigns. My home turf, thirty years in.
Short-form and social-first edits — reels, cutdowns and campaign versions built for where people actually watch.
Handed rough or uneven source material from a smaller shoot? Turning imperfect footage into a finished, professional piece is where I earn my keep.
UK-based, remote or hybrid. Selective about projects, but always open to new ideas and the right people. What I bring is genuine experience — real craft, a depth of knowledge, and the systems and workflows built over three decades. Not AI shortcuts. Large to small. Tell me what you're making — and if we're aligned, I'll make it shine.
ben@oldfriendmedia.com