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MADE BY WOODSMOKE

Ideas you can feel.

Made By Woodsmoke helps businesses bring their ideas to life through visual storytelling.

✔ Creative direction

✔ End-to-end production across film, photography, CGI and websites

✔ Helping your audience to understand, feel and choose your product or service over others.

Ways I can support your business:

A Different Approach

A business may have something distinctive, but if people can’t yet understand it, imagine it, or feel compelled to choose it, people may not know how to value it.

My approach closes that gap, turning hidden quality into visual proof.

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1. Start with the business, the idea and the story

We clarify what the business believes, makes or wants people to experience—and what this project needs to achieve.

Outcome: a shared understanding of the idea, audience and project goal.

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2. Find its character

We explore the people, place, process, ambition or atmosphere that gives the business its particular character.

Outcome: a clear sense of what the work should feel like, and what would feel generic or off-target.

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3. Decide what the audience should experience

We agree what people should be able to see, feel, imagine or do after encountering the work.

Outcome: a shared measure of success, such as clearer understanding, greater confidence, stronger enquiries or being able to picture something.

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4. Choose the form and bring it to life

We choose the right form—website, film, CGI or a combination—then develop the creative direction, make the work and refine it against the agreed goal.

Outcome: finished work shaped around the idea and the audience’s experience.

Dark sectional model showing rooms and platforms inside a tall theatre structure.

Work with a RIBA award winner

I won the Royal Institute of British Architects Serjeant award for my visual storytelling, atmospheric artwork and my ability to bring a complex world into a seamless coherent thread.

I won the Royal Institute of British Architects Serjeant award.

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Ideas you can feel

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