I've been interested
in communications in one form or another for most of my life - from
the folk group I formed when I was 13, to working in radio and record
production, to 20 years of radio news. Along the way, I developed my
interest in photography. I did my first slide show with my wife Gilaine
Mitchell in 1985 after forming Creative Media Services. The client was
the Ministry of Natural Resources. From that point, I was hooked on
communicating visually. After a couple of years of slide shows, I moved
into video production thanks to S-VHS and the Video Toaster - two technologies
that levelled the playing field in the early 1990s.
I have produced
a variety of audiovisual and video presentations - marketing, public
relations, educational and fundraising productions for clients such
as: