Tim Slessor
Tim is a highly versatile editor, with a wealth of other creative skills and passion for storytelling. Also a writer, director, colourist and occasional animator, Tim can take a project through from creative inception to final completion, or join the process at any stage, rapidly integrating himself.
Tim is equally at home working on branded content, commercials, documentary, factual entertainment, comedy, drama, social content, promos and trailers… throw something at him and he’ll run with it! Recent clients include the BBC, CNN Create, Bloomberg, CNBC and ITV Studios.
As happy on set as he is in the edit suite, Tim has worked on shoots around the world, in countries including Japan, Brazil, Lebanon, the USA and many more. Tim has written and edited award winning branded content campaigns for Cathay Pacific and Incredible India.
He has supervised post-production teams on many occasions, directing the work of other editors, animators and composers. Adobe Premiere, Tim also edits on FCP X, is Avid Trained, uses Adobe After Effects on most projects and recently completed a colour grading course with DaVinci Resolve.
Outside of work Tim is an enthusiastic stills photographer, musician and experimental filmmaker.
Work by Tim
Vodafone X Porsche
Showreel
Nissan: Design in Motion – Behind the Scenes
Top Gear: Clean Team
Top Gear – Speed Dating with The Stig
Strictly Car Dancing
Thrive in Abu Dhabi – Starzplay
Strictly Car Dancing: Behind the Scenes (excerpt)
BBC Travel Show – Rafting in Japan
Dassai: Brand Film
Vodafone X Porsche
A short film for Vodafone exploring their cutting-edge technical relationship with Porsche.
Showreel
Nissan: Design in Motion – Behind the Scenes
A short ‘behind the scenes’ film made for ‘CNN Create’, detailing the complex production of Nissan’s innovative ‘Design in Motion’ advertising campaign.
Top Gear: Clean Team
A hugely successful and popular online Top Gear spinoff. Master detailers Jack and Joe
present each episode of this factual entertainment series, they have only eight hours to bring a neglected vehicle back to its best. Tim was Lead Series Editor.
Top Gear – Speed Dating with The Stig
Dating with a difference! In this factual entertainment series, a pair of strangers who are looking for love ask each other a set of questions – whilst being thrown around the Top Gear test track at high speed, by the Stig! Tim was Lead Series Editor. Shown on You Tube.
Strictly Car Dancing
A film made for ITV’s coverage of the ‘Goodwood Festival of Speed’, this saw ballroom dancing meet precision driving. Featuring two dancers from the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.
Thrive in Abu Dhabi – Starzplay
One of three films that Tim edited for for ‘CNN Create’, pushing Abu Dhabi as a premier destination for innovative business start-ups. Tim took these films from raw interviews to the final edit, sculpting the story from scratch.
Strictly Car Dancing: Behind the Scenes (excerpt)
Excerpt from the behind the scenes mini-documentary of ‘Strictly Car Dancing’. Edited from scratch and finished (including grade and mix) in two days. Tim also edited the ‘Strictly Car Dancing’ full film.
BBC Travel Show – Rafting in Japan
An excerpt from one of dozens of packages, that Tim has edited for the BBC’s Travel Show.
Dassai: Brand Film
Short brand film produced for premium Japanese sake brand Dassai. Tim wrote, directed and edited this project.