Editorial

often with combinations of graphics, VFX,
grading,
audio design, and suping workflow

Editorial

often with combinations of graphics, VFX,
grading, audio design, and suping workflow

Long Form

Konan - Trapped in Trauma: UNTOLD (60". 2023, TX C4, online edit, TOAD) • The Secret World of Boy Racers: UNTOLD (28". 2023, TX C4, an Albert certified sustainable production, online edit - grade, graphics, dub - Zandland) • Meet the Music Makers with Yolanda Brown (60" pilot. 2022, The Forest TV) • SAY IT LOUD with Jackie Adedeji (40" eps 1 - 6. 2020-21, The TV Foundation) • The Variety Outstanding Achievement Award Interview: Jodie Comer (40". 2021, Edinburgh TV Awards) • Ballet Black: Eightfold (45". 2021, TX C4, online edit, Dir. Mark Donne) • RTS Christmas Special: TV’S Most Memorable Political Moments (3 x 1" VTs. 2020, ITN, in celebration of their 65th anniversary) • The Variety Outstanding Achievement Award Interview: David Harewood (60". 2020, Edinburgh TV Awards) • Emilia Clarke in Conversation with Paul Feig (40". 2020, graded at Molinare, prod. AlaskaTV and Little Dot Studios, for the Edinburgh TV Festival ) • The Strangers (90". 2019, online edit, Dir. Bernard Kordieh, at Lucky Cat Post) • Robin Hood Complex: Ukraine (90". 2018, TX Vimeo, online edit, Dir. Emile Ghessen) • A County At War: Life on the Homefront in Hertfordshire The Armistice Edition (60". 2018, Dir. Howard Guard DL MBE) • London Unplugged (89". 2018, Portmanteau by Nick Cohen, at TVCSoho) • How You Look at Me (82". 2016, TX Amazon Prime, Dir. Gabriel Henrique Gonzalez) • Oliver! (2016, Live, for the Factory Playhouse) • West Side Story (2015, Live, for the Factory Playhouse) • Fractured Minds (90". 2015, Dir. Alan Mallyon) • A County At War: Life on the Homefront in Hertfordshire (60". 2014, Dir. Howard Guard DL) • Desert Island Discs with Graeme Kay (15". 2014, for the St Albans International Organ Festival)

Prior to Wooden Post, James learnt the ropes working day-to-day across many films uncredited within Hertfordshire’s film studios - Elstree, Pinewood, and Warners

 

Festival Premieres

Long Beach Indie International Film Festival, Los Angeles (Nominated Best Comedy / Nominated Best Dramatic Comedy) • East End Film Festival, London  TMFF The Monthly Film Festival (Winner Best Director / Winner Best Feature Film) • Los Angeles Cinefest ... and over 50 more

 

Shorts

Water (2021, Dir. Joshua Townson) • Melody (2018, Dir. Bernard Kordieh) • No Country for Old Women (2017, Dir. Jome Joesph) • The Con Game (2016, Dir. Jane Sanger) • Three Taps (2016, Dir. Dean Philips) • Falling for a SongBird (2016, The Forest TV) • Never Forget Your Anniversary (2015, Dir. Emma Nan Hu) • After the Party (2015, Dir. Emma Nan Hu) • Surviving (2015, Dir. Rob Finlay, at Elstree Studios) • Fear in a Handful of Dust (2015, Dir. Rob Finlay, at Elstree Studios) • Lost Heroes (2014, The Forest TV) • A Policeman in Prison (2014, The Forest TV)

 

Festival Premieres

Fort Lauderdale, Florida • MindleFest, Miami • UKScreenOne, Leicestershire • Ouchy Film Awards, Switzerland (Special Mention, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography) • Shorts On Tap, London • Thess, Greece (Semi Finalist) • ROMA Cinema Doc, Italy • Philip K. Dick Sci Fi, New York • Cinefest, Los Angeles • London Independent Beeston International  Idyllwild International, California • WorldFest, Houston (Best International Short) • Sunscreen International, Florida • Laughlin International, Nevada • Chicago Afro Futuristic • Hollywood Shorts (Best Film, Best Director) • Global Shorts, France • Feel the Reel, Glasgow (Nominated Best Editor) • Richard Harris International, Ireland • HollyShorts Awards, Los Angeles (Best Coming Of Age Film) ... and over 400 more

 

Showreel

Stake out the breadth of your on-screen brand
James has cut showreels for actors in Kingsman: The Golden Circle, The Infiltrator, Captain Philips, World War Z, Hustle, Doctors, My HeroCasualty, Tru Detective, Stargate SG-1, Riviera, Deep State, The Capture and The X-Files; presenter Jackie Adedeji and celebrity-PA-turned-standup-comic Donna Coulling

 

Commercial

Through Creative Agencies - including Irresistible Studios, ITV Creative, Kennington Studios, Siegel+Gale, Neverland, Royal Bright Media, VMLY&R, and Elstree Film Design - and so mostly redacted here as per NDAs, James has edited virals, internals announcing major change, and multi-million pound campaigns; for high street banks, three Royal families, influencers with millions of followers, and past and present listed and Forbes Global companies

Introduction to Making Costume Props / A Crash Course in Dressing for Theatre (2 x 60", 2023, for The Wardrobe Chronicles) The Edinburgh TV Awards 2021 (19 x 2", 2021)  National Conference VTs (2021, for Housing Diversity Network) Kursaal Comeback: The Results (2021, for Concrete Culture) Play Your Part (2020, prod. Rob Finlay, for Hertsmere Council)Queer Street (2020, for Subtletee)TCL 10L Launch Promo (2019, online edit, for Fearlessly Frank) Red Bull, Goodwood Festival of Speed (2019, offline, Dir. Mark McQueen for Irresistible Films)Cognitran Internal Announcement (2019, for Cognitran) It's Just Hair (2019, for Subtletee) Liquid Strings: Solo Cellist, Jazz and Pop Quartet, Bookings FAQ (2019, for Liquid Strings) • Bloody Good Period Promo (2017, for Subtletee) First Care (2016, Dir. Kevin Imajemite) Haemnet Charity Trust Get-to-Know-Us (2016, for Haemnet)Hertsmere Civic Awards (2015-2016, Dir. Robert Finlay, at Elstree Studios)Mirror Care (2016, Dir. Alan Mallyon, for 2025 films)Pincerna (2016, for 2025 films)SEMLEP Local Enterprise Partnership showcase (2015, prod. Rob Finlay, at Elstree Studios)Elstree Studios Canne Showreel (2015, Dir. Robert Finlay, at Elstree Studios) • BMW i3 Launch (2014, for Synter Harold Wood) The Perfectionism Cure (2014, Dir. Jennifer Gresham, EveryDayBright) The Electric Animal Circus Campaign: What is the Electric Animal Circus, Karla's Song, Sedgwick's Fortune, Pickleton's Nemesis, Pozzo's Welcome (2013, Dir. Patrick Gleeson)

 

Music Video

What You See Is What You Get (2021, Dir. Andrew Lancaster, for Magnetic Heads) • Searching for Lambs (2021, for James Delarre) • Jumpin’ Jumpin’ (2019, for CALYCO) • Begin: Begin, Pick on the Wrong Party, Fantasy or Misery, Puppet Queen (2019, for Tom Dibb) • Taste of You (2019, for Mikey Martin) • Tracks (2019, for Tom Dibb) • The Wedding Sessions: Make You Feel My Love, Songbird, Ain't No Mountain High Enough, Lifting Me Higher, All My Life (2019, for CK Gospel Choir) • Ring My Bell (2018, online edit, WayOut Films, Dir. Adriel Leff) • Down Among the Dead Men: Midnight Ranger, Blind Fiddler (2018, TX The Folk Show, for Mawkin) • Hector the Hero (2018, Dir. Josh Lyon, for Catuvellauni) • The Christmas Sessions: Last Christmas (2017, for CK Gospel Choir) • Hit the Road (2017, for Tom Dibb) • Xenos (2017, for Leon of Athens) • Shake That (2016, for Knytro Ft DJ Neptune and Razor B) • Baby You Drive Me Crazy (2016, for Knytro Ft DJ Neptune and Tabeta Cshae) • Pink Noise (2016, for Irini Mando) • The Christmas Sessions: Oh Come All Ye Faithful (2016, for CK Gospel Choir) • The Angel Sessions: Happy, Signed Sealed Delivered, My Soul Says Yes (2016, for CK Gospel Choir) • The Wedding Sessions: Yours, Hallelujah, You Are So Beautiful, All of Me, One Love (2016, for CK Gospel Choir) • Nobody’s Fault But Mine (2015, Dir. Bradley Porter, for Fabian Holland) • Shanghai Brown (2015, for Mawkin) • Jolly Well Drunk (2014, for Mawkin) Dark Matter (2014, Dir. Anthoula Drummond, for Mia and the Moon)

  

Sizzle Reel

TVs are either mini-cinematic experiences, or intimate, homely relationships. Programming has to serve both
James has put together multiple sizzle reels and pilots for shows and features that have gone onto be commissioned, for ALASKATV, BFBS, Ice Blue Media, Mark Wahlberg's Unrealistic Ideas, Soho Studio Entertainment, and Future Studios

 

VFX & Motion Graphics

VFX & Motion Graphics

Short Form

Jumper (2023, Dir. Mike Davies, 16mm film)Walking Fernando (2023, Dir. Max Mir) • NosePicker (2023, Dir. Ian Mantgani, 16mm film)They Don't Leave (2023, Dir. Caz McGovern)Water (2021, Dir. Joshua Townson) • Body Love (2020, Dir. Carissa Thorne) • BLM Group Corporate (2018, Dir. Oskar Kudlacik) • Preachers (2017, Dir. Ivo Consi) • Squares (2016, Dir. Bernard Kordieh) • Infuse In:Session Seasons 1-3 (2013 - 2016, various) • BubbleBuds (2016, for Juice) • It Would Change Everything (2016, Dir. Hayley Buckingham) • When Jordan Cut His Hair (2015, Dir. Timi Ajani) • Unilever Personal Care Academy (2015, for Crooked House Films) • Breach (2014, Dir. Nat Valente) • Bizzy Bits Campaign (2014, TX Cartoon Network and Boomerang, for InVision Advertising) Skyfall Charitable Regional Premiere (2012, in aid of FSID)

Long Form

Run (2023, Dir. Bernard Kordieh) • In a Year (2017, Dir. Nicole Pott) • Rise of the FootSoldier 2 (2015, Dir. Ricci Harnett)

 

Digital

A flavour of the many long-standing and rewarding relationships James enjoys with local groups and organisations: on hand for an array of digital work - from gifs and Photoshopping, to branding

Joy of Design (2023 - ) • Little Gaddesden Village Hall  (2021 - ) • Netherwylde Equestrian (2018 - ) • Emil Dale Performing Arts Academy (2014 - 2016) • Extended Family and their Home Videos (2014 -, a rite of passage for anyone in film and TV?)

 

correct as of August 2023

Escaping since 2013
woodenposthouse@gmail.com

© 2024 The Forest TV Productions Ltd. Hertfordshire, England.
The POST logo is trademarked by The Forest TV Productions ltd.

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Escaping since 2013
woodenposthouse@gmail.com

© 2024 The Forest TV Productions Ltd.
Hertfordshire, England.

The POST logo is trademarked by
The Forest TV Productions ltd.