DAVID REEVE

WELCOME TO MY PORTFOLIO

I am an experienced video editor and filmmaker with a proven track record of creating impactful content. I am skilled in crafting everything from cinematic trailers and award-winning documentaries to motion graphics, music videos, and social media verticals. This page focuses on my film and television work and if you’d like to see my wider portfolio check this page. Email: davidreeve44@gmail.com

films

Y/our Music, documentary, 82min.

This film immerses itself in the world of Thai music, from traditional music to labour songs and classical pop to urban indie music, spanning different locales and generations. As nine musicians each display their music, the rural or urban environments that influenced their sound are explored. Won best feature at Indie Lisboa and was nominated Best Documentary for the Thailand National Film Association Awards (the Thai equivalent of an Oscar). Rated 8.2 on IMDB.

Minute Bodies, documentary, 60mins.

This meditative, immersive film  is a tribute to the astonishing work and achievements of naturalist, inventor and pioneering British filmmaker F. Percy Smith (1880-1945). The film premiered at the London Film Festival, was part of the instillation Jardin Infini at the Centre Pompidou-Metz and toured five countries with live music accompaniment. Released by BFI in the UK and Icarus Films in the US.

Larry and Janet Move Out, documentary, 32mins.

This film follows Larry and Janet who are forced out of the family home they occupied for over 30 years on the Heygate Estate in Elephant and Castle, London, to make way for the local authority’s redevelopment plans. The Guardian described the film as: “a moving account of one couple’s plight, a social commentary for our times.”

TRAILERS, SIZZLES and PROMOS

I’ve edited original promos, trailers and sizzle reels for renowned clients such as BFI, Revolver Entertainment, Soda Pictures, Arrow Films, Lionsgate, Warner Bros Television, Tinopolis, BBC, C4 and ITV. These trailers are the official UK theatrical release trailers and I’ve loved cutting every single one of them. For me a trailer is a new composition, a new work – a dance. It’s the interplay of music, sound, dialogue and visual elements to excite, tease and leave someone wanting more.

I’ve also reversioned trailers for social media, YouTube and TV spots. These are some of the ones that I did for Lionsgate UK:

motion GRAPHICS and animation

The King Who Invented Ballet, documentary, 94mins, TX BBC4 04/09/2015. I was commissioned to create a range of motion graphics, in the style of a book of illustrations from the period of Louis XIV. 

I was commissioned by Channel 4 to edit this promo highlighting their 2012 Stand Up To Cancer programming.