Production Experience
As a Producer, Director and Writer working in corporate communications Jonathan has amassed substantial experience co-ordinating and leading all kinds of projects for Government and Blue Chip clients...
View ArticleTips on how best to deliver a presentation – with or without bells and whistles
Fig.1. Sample production screen-grabs from Jonathan Vernon’s show-reel (that’s him on the far left) Develop the craft skills of a storyteller. Use a creative brief from the outset to nail down the...
View ArticleHow is memory manifested in an analogue and a digital world?
Fig. 1 Nadja Swarovski at the Design Museum An extraordinary exploration of how we create memories and the important role exhibitions and museums have to play in reminding us that the physical world...
View ArticleTaken … the comedy version
Fig. 1. Liam Neeson takes revenge in ‘Taken’ Of course our 14 year old son shouldn’t have been watching the moview ‘Taken’, but for the benefit of his 16 year old sister on the long drive home this...
View ArticleMight understanding what primes us to behave in a certain way have impacts on...
Fig.1. Eyes & Ears - A public awareness film produced featuring the Emergency Services and members of the cast of Byker Grove. Broadcast on regional TV channels: BBC Look North and Tyne Tees...
View ArticleWhere does corporate video production fit in our digital world?
Fig.1. Where does corporate video fit in a digital world? I’ve had ample time to reflect on this. If you’d like me to talk it through just. I’ve used this to present a couple of times now. There are...
View ArticleMarching on Bonfire Night, Lewes, East Sussex
Procession of the martyrs crosses, as part of Lewes’ Bonfire Night celebrations (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Moving to Lewes with young children in 2000 we were immediately invited to join one of the...
View ArticleWhat can we learn from the movies? What do we gain by going off and doing...
Cover via Amazon Fig. 1. Twister From time to time I give this a flick – usually when I should be concentrating on an assignment (I am). I just desire to take my head somewhere else for some light...
View Article#50Auction D&AD 50th
Fig. 1 The D & AD Auction 50 creatives – designers, art directors, illustrators, photographers, film makers and typographers offered 50 pieces of art for a special edition D&AD book. (What is...
View ArticleHappy as Larry
Fig.1. Directing a ‘Listening In’ – Super 16mm film – the real McCoy Happy as Larry. Leading a creative of builders, helpers and doers – we all get something from the experience. ‘Listening in’ did...
View ArticleWhen in Rome
Watching a drama series has become like reading a book – in the case of ‘Rome’ it is something of an epic. Though produced in 2005 it has the qualities that make a series for the era of Netflix. It is...
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