About me.
Hey 👋🏼 I’m Tom. Content Lead @ Cathedral Studios | Video & Film Producer | Content & Campaign Marketing | Former Studio Owner
I make video and film, and I run the marketing that gets it seen. Fifteen years of both, across games, healthcare, charities and global brands.
Right now I'm Content Lead at Cathedral Studios, where I take trailers from concept to release: capturing in-engine, driving the edit and planning the campaign beats around them across announcements, playtests, festivals and launch. Seven trailers for The Bornless have passed 1.5 million views between them, including a collaboration with Slipknot that was screened at the band's 25th Anniversary Tour.
For nine years before that, I ran Two Cubed Creative, a studio I founded on my own and grew into a full-service production company. At peak, we were producing more than 200 videos a year. Video was the core, but I also ran the work around it: brand and graphic design, websites, client social channels and the campaigns that tied it together. From 2021, I built out a live events strand, starting with virtual and hybrid delivery while in-person events were stopped and carrying it into live production as they returned. I worked as show caller, director and production support for global automotive and beauty brands.
A lot of that work sits under NDA, but plenty doesn't.
- Seven films for the British Science Festival.
- A three-year educational film programme for Show Racism the Red Card.
- Six films for Dementia Adventure.
- An NHS campaign whose social edit passed 60,000 views on Facebook and got picked up by ITV News Anglia.
I closed the studio by choice in 2024, solvent and with client relationships intact.
What I do
Craft and plan
I'm equally happy on the craft and on the plan. I can shoot and cut the thing, and I can run the schedule and budget that gets it delivered. That comes from years of having to do both at once.
- Video and film production, concept through delivery
- Trailer production and editing
- Paid video ads for X, Meta and YouTube, and vertical content for TikTok and YouTube Shorts
- Live event production and show calling
- Directing, shooting and grading
- Key art, branding and art direction
- Unreal Engine 5 for cinematic capture and production environments
- Production management: schedules, budgets, freelance crew
- Campaign planning and delivery across social, store and community channels
- Content strategy and audience timing
- Training and e-learning video
Experience
Where I’ve been
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Jan 2024 – Present
Content Lead
Cathedral Studios
Trailers and campaigns across three titles in the publishing team of an independent game studio, from in-engine capture and edit through to paid, social and community channels.
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Jan 2015 – Jul 2024
Founder & Creative and Operations Director
Two Cubed Creative
Founded solo and grew into a full-service studio across video production, live events and design. Core team of two plus a freelance roster, six-figure turnover, 200+ productions a year at peak.
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Nov 2010 – Jun 2022
Communications Officer
Chelmsford CVS
Websites, e-bulletins, photography and design for a council for voluntary service. Part-time in later years, alongside running Two Cubed.
Toolkit
What I work in
- Premiere Pro
- Final Cut Pro
- After Effects
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- InDesign
- Figma
- Canva
- Unreal Engine 5
- WordPress
- Mailchimp
- Notion
- Monday.com
Education
Trained in film and TV
- BA (Hons) Film and Television Production, 2:1
University of Lincoln, 2011 – 2014 - The Fundamentals of Digital Marketing
Google Digital Garage, 2020
Outside work
Cooking and feeding people, swimming, the gym and National Trust weekends. I took up running last year, and nostalgia pulled me back into the Pokémon TCG a few years ago.
Let’s talk.
Always up for a conversation about production, events or what makes a trailer land. Good coffee never hurts either.