Neil Hall Lrps Email & Phone Number

Norwich, England, Gb

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Managing all photography, video production and distribution within our fantastic Marketing and Communications team. I'm also the Armed Forces Advocate for the Foundation, co-organiser of our Armed Forces Day event and other veterans projects, raising awareness of our Armed Forces Community across Norwich and Norfolk.

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Photography and video production to support the amazing work of the Community Sports Foundation at Norwich City FC.

Norfolk, England, United Kingdom

PR and marketing photography of Norfolk's incredible heritage sites.

Wymondham, England, United Kingdom

Digital Communications Officer in the Corporate Communications Team based at the Operational and Command Centre in Wymondham.My responsibilities included:● Photography and videography of police officers, staff, vehicles and equipment for communications, public relations and recruitment purposes across the Norfolk and Suffolk Police Forces.● Photography, video and audio editing using Adobe Creative Cloud● Social media content generation and publication on the Police Forces’ corporate Facebook, Twitter and Instagram accounts.● Graphic design for print and web using Adobe In-Design.● Monitoring social media accounts and assisting members of the public with crime reports, enquiries and feedback, responding directly and flagging when necessary, passing information to senior management and relevant internal teams.● Editing, publishing and creating web pages and content for the Forces’ external website and Intranet using a Content Management System● Granting web editing permissions to other staff

Norwich, United Kingdom

As the Multimedia Editor at one of the UK's top universities, I provided the Communications, Marketing, Outreach, International and Events teams with high quality, on brand photography and video to support their campaigns and messaging across multiple platforms and channels including social media, web and print. This included case studies, portraits, testimonials, events coverage, news material and documentary work across the breadth of the University. I also trained staff and students of the University to capture, edit and deliver engaging video, photography and audio content for promotional work.I am an advanced professional user of Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Premiere Pro editing applications with occasional use of Adobe After Effects. I had experience of airborne, drone, Matterport, VR and AR photography and video while at the university.I was trained in the use of Social Studio to schedule posts to the university's successful social media channels including Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. I was responsible for managing the university's Youtube channel with over 6,000 subscribers including strategy, planning, content generation, community moderation and analytics reporting for senior management. I distributed a monthly dashboard of analytics to show which of our content pieces worked and which didn't along with other insights to inform future strategy and planning.I managed the university's Digital Asset Management system (DAMs) with over 11,000 assets and 4,000 users. It was my responsibility for designing and implementing content ingest workflows, consent management, branding application and video content accessibility, ensuring standards were up to those for the Public Service Bodies requirements.I had line management responsibility for a Multimedia Intern.

London, United Kingdom

I was a successful Public Relations Campaigns Officer at the Directorate of Defence Communications, MOD, London covering military equipment and capability. My responsibilities included:· Working closely with the DDC Communications Strategy & Planning team to help draft and implement long-range, proactive, multichannel/multimedia communications campaigns;· Identifying and exploiting potential communication opportunities with multimedia production, social media engagement, infographic design, writing online articles, working with production companies, media minding, conducting interviews and writing press releases;· Working with internal and external stakeholders to deliver campaign activity across a wide range of owned and earned channels including online, print, television and radio. · Uploading campaign content material to key channels including the intranet and the GOV.UK website;· Working with the Evaluation and Insight cell to evaluate all campaign activity against communication objectives, identifying lessons learnt and feeding this into future campaign activity;· Working with the Digital and Brand cell to ensure MOD brand consistencyIn the past year I have worked on very high profile campaigns such as:· The aircraft carrier construction programme· The UK's procurement of the F-35 stealth jet· The Successor submarine programmeI'm a social media expert, constantly innovating while scanning the tech horizon and an editor of several official defence channels including Facebook (860k page likes), Twitter (160k followers), Youtube, Instagram and Snapchat. I am a member of the Chartered Institute of Public Relations and hold a Chartered Management Institute Level 5 Award in Management and Leadership.

Mod Headquarters, Whitehall, London

Roles included:• Distributing stills, video and press releases to global media clients via the MoD’s official news imagery channel in an editorial based, deadline driven environment• Liaising with over 150 civilian and Armed Forces photographers worldwide• Acquiring, editing, managing and publishing imagery for the MoD’s online stock library• Managing the MoD’s imagery social media presences on Flickr, Facebook and Twitter. I established the MoD’s first dedicated imagery social media channels in March 2010 opening up our photography to over 2 million more views in little over a year. The ‘Defence Images’ social media brand continues to be recognised as a source of high quality imagery.• Producing engaging short form video for Instagram and Vine• Prioritising and dealing with public and media imagery requests• Training personnel to use imagery distribution channels• Producing and evaluating monthly usage statistics• Line management My specialist skills and experience included:• Fully trained photographer with extensive editorial and military experience • Adobe Photoshop on PC and Mac OSX• AVID and Premiere Pro Video Editing Software• Digital Asset Management Software based around the Fotoware suite of products• Taxonomies and Metadata. I authored and implemented the first Defence keyword taxonomy, now used across the Armed Forces • Copyright and Data Protection Law. Whilst the lead for the MoD on the subject of image consent, I authored the first official model release form for Defence. I added to this a guidance document for photographers. • Excellent communicative skills, accurately writing concise and informative copy for often complex imagery subject matter

London, United Kingdom

Full time retained photographer working solely for the Sunday Mirror newspaper with a circulation at the time of 1.6 million copies. Covering London, UK and abroad for five years, working on some of the newspaper's biggest stories involving entertainment, investigation, news and sport. I'm proud of numerous front page splashes and picture exclusives.

Fulltime retained photographer providing editorial imagery to National newspaper titles in the UK and abroad. Clients included Daily Mail, The Sun, Daily Mirror, Express Newspapers, Sunday Mirror and the News of the World.

Providing editorial photography across East Anglia for National titles including The Independent, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, Daily Express and Daily Star.

Fully trained professional photographer providing the Royal Navy with news, PR, technical, intelligence and protocol photography on maritime operations around the world.Served on HM Ships Bristol, Ark Royal, Invincible, Westminster, Southampton & Coventry. Personal photographer to Commander-in-Chief Fleet (CINCFLEET) at NATO Headquarters, Northwood.

Royal Navy EW Operator in the Warfare Department, serving onboard HMS Bristol and HMS Ark Royal.