A LITTLE ABOUT ME

Tosin Ajayi of Toes In Video Production

As far back as I can remember, I've loved film. I would say it was the first thing I ever really understood. Growing up in Nigeria, rushing home from school at the age of 7 to watch what I somehow understood were actors tell a story that I knew someone (let's call them a director) had told them how to tell.

From there my love affair with stories started, I would lock myself in the toilet for hours with a book (was a busy household), whenever  there was a stage nearby I would want to get on it and I dreamt of the day when I would get to make something that could be shown on a TV.

Eventually at the age of 25, I had enough money to buy a computer capable of video editing, a Powerbook G4, beautiful machine. I started putting videos together, got better and one day someone says 'We'd like to make a video, we'll pay you?'. 'YOU CAN GET PAID DOING THIS?' was my incredulous reply, Then YouTube happened, and it didn't take long before the immense marketing power of that became obvious Which led us to the world we have now where it is the second biggest search engine in the world (second only to Google, who own YouTube anyway).

SOME RECENT WORK

In the midst of this I went back to Imperial College London (after my first degree in Chemical Engineering) and did a Masters in Science Media production, Training in making Documentaries and radio shows about Science. All helping to make my love of story more effective.

From the Science Communication degree, I bring the same attention to detail and ability to make complex ideas understandable to bear when making videos for small businesses. My values in business are

1. To Help - when a client gets back in touch and says that they have gotten business off the back of a video I made for them, I light up. I've helped.
2. To build - I love projects where the client and I are building something, being part of something bigger
3. To Connect - video helps people find what they are looking for, I love to be part of that.

So get in touch, you have a story, your business has a story and I cannot wait to help you tell it through film.

Tosin Ajayi filming a fashion shoot