Video Production Specialist, Producer, Consultant and Media Trainer
Dean Arnett is a media production consultant specialising in AI tools and systems for news and media producers. He is also an internationally award winning , former-BBC, documentary Producer. With over 30 years experience in the industry, Dean sill creates films for major global broadcasters, including the BBC, Discovery, Al Jazeera, Alaraby, Amazon prime and others. He also now helps clients optimise their production workflows using new technology, new work processes and AI systems.
Dean Arnett has shot, edited and produced award winning documentaries all over the world, for broadcasters all over the world.
Corporate Producer
Dean Arnett has designed narratives and campaigns, produced, shot and edited corporate video for some of the biggest brands on the planet.
Media Consultant
Dean Arnett provides studio design, live-streaming and video production workflow consultancy support.
Media Trainer
As a former BBC Trainer, Dean Arnett continues to deliver broadcast standard media training for organisations around the world.
Consultant, Media Trainer & Public Speaker
Dean Arnett delivers consultancy support in the implementation of AI tools and systems in news and media production workflows. He also works as a consultant on the design and build of video studios, from small home studios, to larger corporate media studios, through to full blown, multi-camera broadcast style TV studios.
Dean Arnett designs and delivers broadcast standard media training courses for clients around the world. Regularly delivered courses include; TV Studio Design, Build & Production, A.I. in Video Production, Documentary Development & Production, Live-Streaming, Webcasting & Visual Radio, Video Storytelling, FCP X Editing, Adobe Premier Editing, Smartphone Filming & Editing, Camera Training and many more.
With a passion for Video Storytelling and Audience Engagement techniques, skills that underpin all his fimmaling and training courses, he also mentors broadcasters, corporate creators and online video producers in the skills of how narrative structure drives audience reach, engagement, retention and growth.
His passion for filmmaking stretches back to when he first started making films at 8 years of age, spending months shooting stop frame animations on an old Super 8 film camera. Various 16mm animation and live action/animation films followed, some which gained attention in various quarters. It's this passionate mix of storytelling craft, narrative reveal and high film production values that continue to steer all his independent and freelance work today.
Dean Arnett has shot, edited and produced award winning documentaries all over the world, for broadcasters all over the world.
Corporates
Dean Arnett has designed narratives and campaigns, produced, shot and edited corporate video for some of the biggest brands on the planet.
Training
As an ex BBC Trainer, Dean Arnett continues to deliver award winning media training for broadcasters and organisations around the world.
Event Filming
Through the production company, Sparks Fly Media, affordable, fast and efficient event streaming and filming is something we've become known for
What can I help you with?
With nearly 30 years experience producing documentaries and long form films, Norwich based Dean Arnett has worked as a self-shoot producer, working with his own Canon C300 Mk2 with full lighting, lens and sound kit. He also works for producers as a sole camera operator across the UK, when required.
Having edited films on super 8mm, 16mm, 1inch tape, DigiBeta, AVID, Final Cut and Premier he also works for as a freelance video editor or as an edit producer.
He has worked extensively as a Creative Director, freelancing for a number a larger agencies in London and also designing, creating and producing video campaigns for brands such as WHO, NHS, Dropbox, ServiceNow, Oracle, Microsoft, Casio, Orange and many others.
He has designed and delivered award winning media training courses for clients all over the world including Facebook, BBC, ITV, MediaCorp, Press Association, STV, Frontline Club, Al Jazeera, Thomson, Archant, Financial Times and many others.
With over 20 years spent at the BBC as a Camera Man, Picture Editor, Producer/Director and Media Trainer, Dean Arnett is well equipped to both deliver and train in all stages of TV production.
Pre-Production
Starting with designing narratives, treatments and discovering the most engaging story for the target audience for both documentaries and corporate video.
Filming
Years of experience of directing, lighting and shooting high end film. I have all my own kit, including high end cameras, lighting kit and motion rig.
Editing
Award winning editing and 3D animation, all conducted on three high end render machines and edit suites able to deliver a variety of professional CODECs.
Delivery
Re-versioning for larger strategic campaigns on different platforms and social media is absoluely vital these days. Dean Arnett can not only advise and produce re-versioned content to serve campaigns, but also delivers training on the subject.
See for yourself
Dean Arnett showreels