All things video: Confidence, influencing, space, listening, creativity & comfort in making mistakes

Today we chatted with Jack Leigh. Jack has been working in the video production industry for 12 years, involved in a variety of projects, from high-end film and TV productions like 'Fast and Furious 6', 'Peaky Blinders', and 'Last Tango in Halifax', to directing documentaries around the world in Africa, the US, and even the Arctic. For the last seven years, Jack has been leading a production company called Eight Engines, which produces commercial and marketing films, as well as broadcast and arts work.

One of the specialities of EIght engines is working with interviewees, especially those who have experienced intense trauma, to help them appear relaxed and authentic on camera. Since speaking on camera can be very challenging for our interviewees, Eight Engines devote significant time to coaching them, ensuring their authenticity throughout the process.

What you’ll hear about:

• Learnings from having worked in a blame culture
• The challenges of freelance working
• Knowing what environments allow your authenticity to shine
• Empathy versus detachment
• Creating impactful stories
• Giving people the space to talk and you just listen
• Growing confidence on video
• Get good at editing
• Tips to showing authenticity on screen
• Focus on having a conversation versus reading a script
• Don’t worry about the quality, concentrate on the content
• Give yourself the chance to make mistakes and don’t panic
• Finding an engaging and creative way for any topic
• Understanding what you client and their customers want
• How to influence 

Weekly Challenge : Book an hour long call to record some content and see how many one minute videos you can make from it 

Power of Music : American Pie by Don Maclean

Links:

Website: https://www.eightengines.com/

Jack’s linkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jackleigh/

Rich is the Life: https://vimeo.com/270342907?share=copy

PolyPipe: https://www.eightengines.com/case-studies/polypipe-a-question-of-regs

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