Adrian Abbott

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About me

My name is Adrian Abbott

I am a multi-disciplinary creative who has a passion for telling stories.

In 2020, Alex Berry and I started GUTTERSPACE - a production company that focuses mostly on charity and social impact content, working with clients such as UNAIDs, Freedom from Torture, The Love Tank, UK Labour Party and many more.

We aim to harness the power of human stories to inspire social change through our films. Stories are what connect us, and we aim to empower people to make a positive impact on others around them, whether it’s in their own communities, workplace or worldwide.

Photography Experience:

As a photographer I have been published in The Independent, BBC, Wales Online, Al-Jazeera, Geographical Magazine and more.

Commercial Advertising:

I started out as a Runner at Marshall Street Editors and the Edit & Sound Store, worked as an Video Editor at The Corner London and served as assistant to the directing duo WE. Clients include Adidas, Cadbury, and EE.

Kit Used: Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Premiere, After Effects, and InDesign). Here, I honed my skills as a filmmaker surrounded by industry experts.

Charity Comms Experience:

As Communications Manager for Choose Love in Northern France from May 2018 - December 2018, the social-media content my team and I created reached tens of thousands of people. Our short-form video work has had thousands of hours of viewing time

I also worked alongside other NGO's such as Refugee Info Bus, Refugee Women's Centre, Utopia 56, Refugee Youth Service and L'Auberge des Migrants to help create bespoke media content for their communication platforms.

I have also assisted with the creation of social media promotional materials and press releases for reports such as "Calais: The Police Harassment of Volunteers" and "Police Violence in Calais: Abusive and Illegal Practices by Law Enforcement Officers".

Due to the difficulties of the situations we found ourselves in, I was constantly experimenting with different cameras of all types from DSLR to small wearable cameras. It was through this experimentation I became aware of the power of Mobile Journalism, both as a necessary story-telling tool but also as a way of empowering people to tell their own stories.

While in controlled situations we would set up production in a very similar way to how we would operate in the commercial sector. However, a lot of our fieldwork was conducted with something most people have access to every single day - our phones.

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Secondary Job Title	Director
Job Titles	Video Editor, Director
Years in industry	3 to 6 years