For over twenty years, I’ve been editing long-form factual programmes for major UK broadcasters and a range of U.S. networks. My work has covered subjects from The History of the Toilet to The Incident at Roswell—and nearly everything in between.
I’m passionate about bringing complex ideas to life and making challenging concepts accessible and engaging for viewers.
I’m fluent in Avid Media Composer, DaVinci Resolve, and the Adobe Creative Suite (including After Effects, Photoshop, and Premiere).
My experience spans editing, motion graphics, colour grading, and sound mixing, allowing me to craft polished, cohesive stories from start to finish.I’d love the chance to bring my storytelling experience and technical skills to Electrify, contributing to your creative, informative, and visually striking productions.
This is what Jim Sayer of Maverick Television / Red Bull had to say about working with me:
“I have worked with James Marshall for over two years and have found his editing to be of the very highest order. His understanding of editorial narrative and how to illustrate it is among the best I have come across. Adept at working on his own, I am always happy for James to cut in my absence if shooting is needed during the edit. In addition to his outstanding editing, James is a pleasure to work with – and seems to soak up pressure without any concern. With so many variables in programme making he is one constant that I would not hesitate to recommend when putting together a production team.”
Producer Holly Dunkley on working with me.
“The greatest danger in employing James is that he will do all the work and finish early. Left alone in the edit for the day he will finish cutting the scenes due for viewing that week and knock together a title sequence while waiting for you to arrive and watch what he’s cut. James is a great editor, fantastically supportive in viewings and a born problem solver. I’ve worked on three long series with James plus various one offs and all I can really recommend is that you employ him!”
And the critics have these thoughts:
Clive James in the Telegraph:“With a script far more attractive than its subject, The Toilet: an Unspoken History (BBC Four) is surely destined to win every prize. ...This was documentary film-making at its most grown up.”
The indy had this to say about my graffiti film“A Brief History of Graffiti, TV review: Wot, no Banksy? This was refreshingly off-the-wall”
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