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Direction
NFD
Productions is led by a husband and wife team both with very
different backgrounds and skill sets that compliment the
company perfectly. Initially it was Alyson having worked on various
film sets and desperately wanting to make films of her own that
provided the initial catalyst resulting in the purchase of a
Panasonic MS4B SVHS camera way back in 1994. Initially the team was
just Alyson in the Directors role and Richard in the anything else role, camera man, sound man, tea maker etc. We have over the last
fifteen years moved to employing camera,
sound and lighting people as and when we need them. We have also
invested in our own 64 bit, HD and 3D
capability highly
sophisticated
editing suite,
HD/3D camera's, sound and lighting equipment and more recently
our own state of the art studio which has inside out and full
green screen facilities.
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This also doubles as an
impressive cinema with Full HD and 3D facilities projecting onto
a 3 metre screen. We are now looking to
build even more on what we have achieved as well as delivering to our
customers a service "second to none" with real quality and value
for money.
People
Technical Director - Director - Producer - Writer - Cameraman
- Richard Connew MSCE,
PSS, PSE,
After a 17 year career in the British Army specialising in
communications, IT and GPS systems, Richard joined RR Donnelly &
Sons in 1990 where he was involved in business development/sales
work with companies such as MOTOROLA, Sun, Avery and IBM.
2000, he moved to Energis Squared, the technology innovation
centre for the Energis Group to head up their APPLICATION
SOFTWARE PROVISION programme. He was responsible for refocusing
the emphasis of the 7 million pound programme/project to the
development of wireless/mobile phone applications and streaming
video for the BLUE CHIP market. His interest and belief in video
across the internet and to mobile phones led him to leave IT and
setup with his wife "NFD Productions" Richard’s business
development, sales, marketing, technical, and project management
skills from managing multi million pound IT projects made him
the ideal choice to fulfil the producers role in the various
films NFD Productions have created and will do in the future.
Unlike many producers Richard believes in always being on
set. In the early days this was because being such a small team
he had to be the camera or sound man as well; now his knowledge
of the more technical aspects of camera, sound and lighting make
him the idea person to bridge the often found gap between the
director and the crew not seeing the wood for the trees and thus
avoiding many costly mistakes later in the production. For
smaller projects where a producer isn't key or required he
project manages for the customer and does camera and sound
work as he enjoys it so much. Richard also writes many of the
scripts we use for our own films and others.
Creative Director - Director - Alyson Connew LAMG, LGR, SRN,
Originally trained as a nurse, Alyson Connew was lured into the
exciting world of performing arts in 1984. After many years
experience of having worked as the Head of Drama at a school of
performing arts she started her own school (NFD). She initially
starting directing young people in stage productions as early as
1984 and has gone on to direct various stage productions from
the Edinburgh Fringe to more recently a sell out production of
Annie at the carriage works in Leeds October 2007. She directed
her first film “Victim” in 1995.
Alyson has trained young students up to an extremely high level
getting them parts on such well-known television programmes as
Heartbeat, Emmerdale, Darling Buds of May, A Touch of Frost, Fat
Friends and Coronation Street. Alyson has also had a number
adult students appearing in television programmes such as
Emmerdale, Faking it, Pop Stars the Rivals, King Girl, Heart
Beat, Touch of Frost, At Home with the Braithwaite's. Films
include The Darkest Light, Charlie Chaplin, Victim, Past
Memoirs, Tempted to be Accepted and most recently Mrs
Radcliffe's Revolution. Unlike many others Alyson specialises in
training people for Film and TV. Often Alyson would go on set
with young students and thus learned a great deal about how film
sets work along the way. On many occasions Alyson helped out by
performing various on set jobs, unit manager, assistant
director, assisting various directors on a number of sets with
child direction. Alyson due to her extensive experience of
working with children and young actors is always able to get
that really special performance of a life time that so many
other directors fail to when working with young people. Even
adult actors really shine like never before when Alyson breathes
her magic on them.
Alyson first started out directing/making short films way back
in 1995, this initial early film making expanded over the years
to the point that a number of her very first short films were
bought and broadcast by ITV, Meridian and Channel 4 amongst
others finally growing into a business that is today "NFD
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"You work extremely hard for your money"
- "Truly excellent work, should have done this years
ago" - "Far better results than we ever expected"
- "Excellent value for money"
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If you'd like to discuss your video requirements please
call us on
+44 (0)1977 681949
or Email
We
are based in the Leeds area and cover
Yorkshire, Humberside, and North East areas
e video production services we offer.
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