Rob Finlay
Rob is an award-winning freelance editor and filmmaker through and through, with skills in editing, shooting, directing and producing. Enlisting the support of TV personality Tony Robinson, he produced ‘Recycling Land’, an animated educational film that won the Creative East Awards ‘Best Non-Broadcast Award’ 2007.
Brands Rob has previously worked for include Puma, McDonald’s, ESCADA, Rattling Stick, Wickes, IGN, Dixons Carphone, National Trust, KPMG, Spotlight, NHS, Warner Bros. Studios, BBC Studio Works, Elstree Studios, The Big Shot, and Working Title Films.
In 2011, Rob set up a business offering web, social, and video services to a broad range of clients based out of the world-famous Elstree Studios. He developed a global film and animation competition for children and young people called ‘A Sense Of…’. Partners included Creative England, Spotlight, Warner Bros. Studios Leavesden, Elstree Studios, and Royal Opera House Bridge. The project enabled hundreds of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to get a foot on the film industry ladder. In 2015 the project won a Hertfordshire Business Award, and a Gold trophy at the Marcom Awards.
He loves to take clients on a journey of discovery. Rob is very communicative and always seeks to find out what it is that will resonate with a particular audience. His experience is broad having edited shorts; music videos, conference overviews, promos, and live webcasts.
More work by Rob
Showreel
Gristwood and Toms Recruitment
Home Brewtique
LGA Challenge 3
Runefest – IGN Social Videos
Sister to a Brother
Tresco Island
U.S. International Tax
Showreel
Gristwood and Toms Recruitment
Recruitment video campaign for the UK’s biggest tree surgery company. Gristwood and Toms needed punchy and engaging video content to help them stand out in a tough recruitment market.
The videos are based around intimate talking heads filmed with their staff, cut with high-end camera and drone footage. Deliverables included the main 1920×1080 video for YouTube, six 1080×1080 subtitled social videos, 600 high quality stills for print and web, a WordPress website landing page and a five-week-long social media campaign.
Home Brewtique
Short and snappy edit to convey the simplicity of the process of brewing your own beer with a Home Brewtique brewing kit.
LGA Challenge 3
Runefest – IGN Social Videos
Coverage of Runefest, the annual RuneScape convention featuring presenter Alysia Judge. A convention where fans of the hit computer games meet.
Sister to a Brother
Music video for the track Sister to a Brother. The video has currently over 464,00 views on YouTube.
Tresco Island
Short video featuring aerial footage of Tresco Island, one of the Scilly Isles, to promote the island as a tourist destination.
U.S. International Tax
Short video based around stock footage to promote the U.S. International Tax Certificate Program offered by AICPA & CIMA.