A video to open a building society conference and an animation for the end of the two-day event, about changes that are taking place in financial planning.
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Confessions
Two accidents with buses, each one candidly described by actors playing three of the bus company staff involved, as part of safety training for bus drivers.
Fatigue and stress at sea
I recently finished writing a trainer’s guide that complemented a film on the silent hazards of fatigue and stress on board ship – how to recognise the symptoms and what can be done to address the problems.
Six characters in search of an author
For an energy company, I’ve been writing scripts for films introducing six fictional characters who feature in a training programme for new Team Leaders and are about to work together as a team for the first time. To bring them to life, I had to differentiate each person’s speech style from the others and decide…
Team Motivation
I’ve been editing an organisational change company’s website copy which has now gone live.
Return to work interviews
How do you manage a return to work interview with someone who keeps going off sick? For these energy company training films I wrote a ‘how to’ scenario showing the wise manager digging deeper in the conversation until they’d arrived at the real reason for the sickies, and a ‘how not to’ scenario with a…
How our eyes age
I’ve written three training film modules for opticians about how they can adapt their usual routine for, and behaviour towards, elderly patients, both when they come into practice and when visiting them at home or in a nursing home.
Finance made simple
A building society needed a series of 30-45″ films that business managers could show customers. The purpose: to provide short, succinct explanations about products and to make sure they were in compliance with financial regulations. I wrote 14 scripts for these simple animated graphics films.
Changing clusters
There are times when a CEO just has to speak directly to their employees. An imminent radical change to business clusters in order to increase competitiveness was one such topic to be included in an international packaging company’s quarterly news programme. The tone of the script – delivered partly on autocue and partly in voiceover…
Down the plughole
A series of animations on what happens to waste water when it leaves our house, and a short history of a sanitation. The clips formed part of a presentation for a water company.