Photographer, filmmaker and content creator. 18, based in Leyland, working across Lancashire and Manchester.
Open to apprenticeships, junior roles and freelance shoots
Client films, a short that 44,000 people watched, spec ads and content. Click any image to see it bigger.
A short film for the university's nursing offer-holder days and open days. It sets up a real crash scenario that prospective nursing students talk through afterwards, so it had to hit hard in a few minutes.
I led a small cast and crew, planned the shoot, filmed and edited it. I also made two offer-holder films that the university used as marketing at its events, to show people why they should choose the nursing course.
A girl alone in the kitchen at night, earphones in. Something is behind her, and the film never lets you settle.
I built the tension with composition, a cold blue grade and sound design. It won an award for its cinematography and has been watched over 44,000 times.
A TV-style ad for the Ring Video Doorbell with Alexa+, built around one doorstep and the deliveries that turn up at it.
I planned it, found the location, shot it and edited it to broadcast length, then finished it with end cards in Ring's own style so it sits next to the real thing.
A concept ad for the gym-wear brand. I wanted it to look like their world: black and white, night, street lights and concrete underpasses, with the clothes doing the talking.
An eight-part series for Instagram and TikTok, made for a web-design idea of mine aimed at tradespeople. Each one is under 30 seconds and does one job: a problem, a free tip, or who I am. I wrote the scripts, presented to camera on location, and cut them with animated captions and on-screen graphics. Tap a video for sound.
I was working there collecting glasses when they booked me to photograph a full night instead: the bar, the DJ, the drinks and the guests.
Low, purple light and a packed room. Most of the job was working fast without flash killing the atmosphere.
Photography is where I started, and still life is the bit I keep coming back to: one object, one light, and getting the reflections right.
The colour series builds a whole frame out of food that matches the backdrop. The fragrance shots are about light: rain on glass for Sauvage, a hard rim for Armani Code. The chilli was set on fire for real.
Concept campaigns for made-up brands. For each one I set a brief, found an insight about the audience, built the idea and the key pieces, and set targets to measure it against.
Laid out like a contact sheet and grouped by subject. The circled frames are my picks.
Short films, client films and spec ads. I write, shoot, light, record sound and edit, usually all on the same project.
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Tension built with composition, colour grade and sound design. It won an award for its cinematography.
A hard-hitting crash scenario for nursing offer-holder days. I led a small cast and crew, shot and edited it.
A doorstep, a delivery and a doorbell. Planned, shot and edited as a 43-second TV spot.
Black and white, shot at night in underpasses. Built to feel like the brand rather than describe it.
Grief, an empty house and something that isn't right. Written, shot and edited against a tight deadline.
Two films the university used as marketing at its events, showing people why they should choose the nursing course.
How the University of Lancashire shoot came together.
ASMR-style car detailing videos I filmed and edited. Sound design and pacing practice that found an audience.
Motion graphics, posters, packaging and Photoshop composites. Tap a video for sound. Pieces using real brands are personal concepts, not commissions.
that's me
I'm Leon. I started out making short clips on a GoPro and a digital camera, then taught myself Premiere Pro, After Effects and DaVinci Resolve because I wanted them to look better.
Since then I've made films for a university, photographed a bar's big night, shot spec ads for brands I like and built a few things of my own. I care about the details people don't notice until they're wrong: sound, colour and pacing.
Right now I work full time as a team member at the KFC in a Welcome Break services, and I'm working towards team leader. I'm looking for my next step in content, film, media or marketing: apprenticeships, junior roles and freelance shoots.
More about me is on LinkedIn.
