Sam Edge

Creative Lead

Skillset

Video Production and Animation

  • Proficient in After Effects, Premiere Pro, and Adobe Rush for crafting engaging video content across social, marketing, and sales platforms.
  • Expertise in creating captivating animations and videos tailored for diverse purposes, ensuring high-quality output that aligns with brand objectives.

3D Modeling and Rendering

  • Expertise in utilizing C4D to produce intricate animations, stills, and videos across various fields such as product, engineering, medical, and architectural domains.
  • Skilled in generating visually stunning 3D models and renderings that effectively communicate complex concepts.

Videography and Production Management

  • Skilled in all aspects of videography, encompassing camera operation, lighting, sound, and efficient management of on-location and in-house video shoots.
  • Capable of overseeing the entire video production process, ensuring smooth operation and visual storytelling.

Graphic Design

  • Versatility in both print and digital design, covering various formats such as documents, social media graphics, internal documentation, slide decks, prints, and exhibition stands.
  • Strong expertise in logo creation and branding, ensuring consistency and impactful visual representation across different mediums.

Editing, Color Grading, and Multimedia Production

  • Professional-level editing and color grading, with a keen focus on design, voice-over integration, and collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Proficient in creating animated graphics and delivering polished multimedia content to meet project specifications.

Brand and Creative Strategy Leadership

  • Leading brand development initiatives, including the expansion and creation of brand guidelines.
  • Managing creative campaigns and devising effective strategies for social and email platforms, aligning creative outputs with overarching business goals.

Software

Projects and portfolio

Theft detection

Leading the brand into the theft detection market – establishing style and approach for video, graphics, animation and social. Work including e-books, documentation, sales decks (powerpoint) animations, video and videography

Theft ebook

Theft socials

Theft detection videos

Work includes storyboarding, script development, 3D graphics and animation, videography, colour grading and editing

Aviation

Leading the brand into the theft detection market – establishing style and approach for video, graphics, animation and social. Work including e-books, documentation, sales decks (powerpoint) animations, video and videography

Product launch campaign

Aviation product launch market entry video – work conducted including storyboarding, 3D product animation and renders, videography, editing and colour grading. Organised and managed a team of marketing and engineer personnel to film on site at Keflavik airport  

Simulation

Working for three years in the brands creative strategy for simulation products, including – videography, animation, story boarding and concept development. Design including documentation, socials, slide decks and exhibition and event stands and marketing

Simulation videos

Work includes storyboarding, script development, 3D graphics and animation, videography, colour grading and editing

Water Industry

Leading the creative and visual approach to the brand entry into the water industry

Installation videos

Work includes storyboarding, script development, 3D graphics and animation, videography, colour grading and editing

More video work

Work includes storyboarding, script development, 3D graphics and animation, videography, colour grading and editing

Misc socials and infographics

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Past projects

Black Box Ecom

Working with Black Box Ecom to provide video, photography and graphic design solutions to their range of clients in the medical sector including ‘The Spire Hospital’, ‘Orthogem’, and a range of medical practitioners and surgeons.

Pwc

Working on contract as part of the new design and documentation team at PwC’s office in Manchester

  • Creation of documentation to support new business development including, video, powerpoint presentations, sales pitch documentation
  • Supporting the development of video and animation skills with the document and design team
  • Working with external clients to create engaging and informative infographics and presentations to drive new areas of business and funding including: the NHS, Dent-su Aegis Network, the Military of Defence and HMRC

Yovid

In 2015 I co-created and developed the concept of Yovid – an online platform enabling users to create personalised videos in a matter of seconds for social media marketing.

  • Conceptualised the entire brand, communication and commercial strategies.
  • Conducted SWOT analysis and market research into competitors and similar services.
  • Created 100+ video templates for clients using After Effects and Photoshop.
  • Created digital designs for the website and mobile app.
  • Created personalised video advertising campaign for Twitter using After Effects and additional web plugins.
  • Worked with external developers and project managed the website mobile app builds.

7 Signals

A prototype app development designed to simplify and gamify credit rating for businesses.

  • Full brand conception and design.
  • UX/Ul design or the website and front-end interrace: using WordPress.
  • Design of social media assets including video, graphics and animation

Bleys

A prototype app development designed to connect likeminded businesses and individuals.

  • Full brand conception and design.
  • UX/UI design of the website and front-end interface; using WordPress.
  • Design of social media assets including video, graphics and animation.
  • Market research, audience analysis, ongoing development.

Eodyysey

Eodyssey was a 3D audio immersive learning environment prototype. I created the branding, logo design and script work for the episodes. I directed, organised and managed the

project including; audition and selection of actors, direction and art direction.

Eodyssey production and product development

SUSO

Developed the brand style and marketing materials for a local charity

  • Developed and designed external print marketing material such as flyers and posters.
  • Conceptualised and produced digital assets to be used as social media content and for the organisation’s website.
  • Restructured and redesigned internal documentation to make forms and other official documents easier to read for the beneficiaries or their carers.
  • Coordinated and led the drama and creative workshops within the drop-in activity sessions.
  • Developed and successfully implemented an ongoing communications plan to attract new beneficiaries to the drop-in sessions and new staff to the organisation.

Wild business radio

Branding and social design for a local business to businesss radio show

Other creative work

Further examples can be provided on request