Editing & Colour
Rhythm in the cut, mood in the grade.
Alex D. is a film editor and colourist for brand films, documentary, and campaign work. Alex finds the rhythm of a piece in the cut and then sets its mood in the grade — two jobs usually done by two people, and better for being done by one.
Alex came to editing from music, which shows: every cut is a decision about time before it is a decision about picture. Twelve years in, still cuts the first assembly with the sound off.
Hollowell — Editing & Colour, 2025
Cut a foundry film to the journey of a single pan through the building, start to finish, in four minutes. The grade was built outward from the orange of the pour — the brightest thing in the place.
Tessel — Editing & Colour, 2025
Edited an all-CGI launch film and its thirty- and six-second versions, then graded the renders — adding the small imperfections of a lens — until they stopped looking rendered.
Independent Work — Feature Documentary, 2024
Editor and colourist on a ninety-minute documentary following one farm through a year. Two hundred hours of footage, cut over seven months. Premiered at a national festival.
Independent Work — Music Video, 2025
Colour grade for a music video shot entirely at night: every frame pushed towards a single deep red without losing the skin tones.
Within the Collective
Alex typically leads post-production on films of every length, and is involved from before the shoot, because the edit is easier to plan than to rescue. Alex works with V. on what a film is for, with the collective's directors on what to shoot for the cut, and with its sound designers, since picture and sound are finished together or not at all.
All project enquiries are handled by Creative Director V. through Influence Design Studio.
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