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Posted Friday, September 18th, 2015
Posted Wednesday, May 20th, 2015

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.

Posted Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

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.

Posted Friday, January 16th, 2015

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…

Posted Tuesday, November 25th, 2014
Posted Thursday, October 16th, 2014

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…

Posted Tuesday, September 2nd, 2014

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.

Posted Wednesday, July 16th, 2014

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.

Posted Tuesday, April 29th, 2014

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…

Posted Tuesday, February 25th, 2014

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.