Solent Productions

Solent Productions is the in-house video production service at Southampton Solent Unvieristy. Through the service, I was able to work on amazing jobs whilst studying. These jobs gave me an opportunity to put my skills into practise similarly to a video production company and build my portfolio. One of the best opportunities given from Solent Productions is the music festivals, offering students the opportunity to work at Glastonbury, Boardmasters, Camp Bestival, Victorious, Southampton Pride and more.

Victorious Festival - Portsmouth

During my three years at University, I worked at Victorious Festival all three years, spending my first two years as a camera operator for the documentary team to film footage for social media output of the World Music Village area. The stage is ran by a charity called 'Arms Around the Child' and operates two stages, 'World Music Stage' and 'People's Lounge'. My role was to film both stages and work with the editors to create consistent and high quality video output to promote the area.

Over the three years, my returning involvement came with more responsibility and expectations for myself to improve my work. In 2026, I was given role of editor, an opportunity that allowed me to test my skills under pressure and in a busy and dynamic environment. The team pushed harder this year, with myself wanting to have the challenge to have numerous camera systems all filming in log to colour grade and achieve a new look that pushes the vibrancy of the stage.

The videos were a success with the 'Friday Highlights' video reaching over 12,000 views and being reposted by Victorious' main social media feed. Other videos I edited did well including the 'Sunday Highlights' and the 360 degree video.

Boardmasters Festival - Cornwall

My role for Boardmasters was Data Wrangler, a skill that when everything is running well should be invisible, however, for this weekend it was a role that required orchestration across the large crew of people who depended on me. With a server-less system, I had to individually assign SSD's to editors with relevant footage to edit, whilst also ingesting footage as a master backup, whilst also creating regular backups of the footage, whilst also ingesting footage from the outside broadcasting team and working with artist management.

This was definitely a role that tested systems and my ability to perform under pressure due to the limitations of the system. The hot-swapping drive shuffling was not ideal for a large operation and put the spotlight on the stress at the centre of the data nervous system - my single iMac with not enough USB ports. Regardless of this, the weekend was still smooth sailing with the documentary team making every video planned and additional crew interviews, and all footage was safe. The various teams did appreciate the effort I was putting in to mitigate a slow-down of operations and acknowledged the difficulty in managing the situation.

During the occasional downtime from wrangling data, I also helped to finish edits and do colour passes for output and make a full video. I greatly appreciate the team I was with, the team was amazing, the festival was great and I loved every day of it!

The videos below feature some of my videography and videos I edited: