Jake Wynne

On the 13th October my class was given the chance to meet Jake Wynne who is a Director and Editor who works in London. He has worked on commercials and music videos for many years. He was inspired by media work he had worked on when he was in secondary school and he edited horror movies and made them here. He then went on to study at Staffordshire University, taking a degree in Film, TV and Radio studies. (This was the first year the course was around). After leaving University he began as a runner at Rushes Post Production House and learned how to cut on non-linear editing systems. This is where he began to try his work out and began to edit award winning commercials and promos for the likes of Robbie Williams and the Spice Girls. He then joined up with a close frind Jim Canty and they became a team. Throughtout the years they worked together and and won the Best New Director Award for 1999 at the Music Week Creative & Design Awards. They continued to direct videos through 2001 for artists including Stereophonics, Catatonia, Feeder, Paul Weller, Spiritualized and their first foray into pop with two videos for Geri Halliwell including ‘It’s Raining Men’. In August 2001 they began to work on commercials, directing spots for Mother, BBH, TBWA and McCann-Ericson. Commercials have included Observer Sport Monthly, Nescafe, PlayStation, BMW, Nike Footlocker, Abbey National, Strongbow, Kelloggs and a worldwide campaign for Vigorsol/Mentos.In December 2006 the two went there seperate ways and split from the team with Jake joining Blue Post Production as Director and senior Avid offline editor.



As a group we were given the chance to work with Jake and was able to make a music video for Robbie Williams 'Let me entertain you'. The experience with him really made me and my class realise how much work is needed in just the music video that we attempted. We were all given different chances to have different roles which included, camera's and acting on the big stage which gave us experience in how a video can be made.