danson
digital.

Video & photography ยท Motion graphics & animation ยท Web development

๐Ÿ‘‹ Hi! I'm Mark โ€” a one-person studio with 20+ years creating things across the full digital spectrum, with a focus on sci/tech communication and user-centred design.

Showreels

A few snippets from recent videography and animation projects, including events coverage (VIP visits, conferences and festivals) fun + effective educational content (for MOOCs and social media), and animation & motion graphics work for video, gaming, exhibition displays, and more.

Selected work

A sample of projects spanning web platforms, science communication, and physical installations.

Scripted, filmed, directed and edited ~20 science education videos and interactive HTML elements for an online virtual laboratory platform, including on-camera direction and graphics.

  • Video
  • Direction
  • Editing
  • Motion

Location-based AR trail combining a custom Map interface & with hand-built QR-code prop installations.

  • Location
  • ARG
  • AR

360ยฐ content creation in a custom VR app made during COVID-19 to enable remote campus visits โ€” labs, data centre and key locations with contextual highlights.

  • Unity
  • C#
  • VR

Strategy, design and development of the Wellcome Trust's flagship genomics public engagement website. Audience research, a new CMS, and extensive user testing took annual traffic from 300k to 5 million users โ€” a 16ร— increase.

  • UCD
  • Drupal
  • Web dev
  • SEO

WordPress platform surveying emotional responses to video content, with a custom survey module for simple, secure data storage and retrieval. Built end-to-end with external collaborators, deployed to AWS.

  • WordPress
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • UX

Body-tracking motion-control game communicating genomics concepts through play, deployed at science festivals.

  • Unity
  • Kinect
  • Game design

Specified, sourced and installed a flexible multimedia environment for a permanent exhibition space, including a 3D dual-touchscreen interactive and a real-time global usage display.

  • Installation
  • Hardware
  • Raspberry Pi

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(It's the law of project-management physics.)

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