Short videos produced to promote archive content, made as part of my role at STV.
On March 12th 2014 the Scottish Parliament passed legislation which allowed same sex couples to marry. For years equality campaigners and religious groups (in particular the Catholic church) went head to head to debate the nature of marriage and the status of homosexual partnership.
On 21st December 1988 Pan Am Flight 103 crashed into the Scottish town of Lockerbie following the detonation of a bomb on-board. As the residents prepared for Christmas, fire and destruction rained down on their quiet town - a sight never to be forgotten
When the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders consortium was forced into receivership by the government in 1971, a group of shop stewards (including Jimmy Reid) earned huge public support in their campaign to save the Clyde shipbuilding industry.
On 6th July 1988 a devastating explosion on the Piper Alpha oil platform killed 167 men. Grampian and Scottish Television were quickly on the scene to record the unfolding disaster; giving a unique perspective on the worst offshore disaster in the history of North Sea oil and gas production.
A curated collection of news footage and documentary clips, illustrating the the changing urban landscape of Scotland. With footage of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cumbernauld, Inverness, Aberdeen, Livingston and Dundee; incorporating high rise construction in the 1960s, the building of New Towns, urban deprivation in the 1980s and the affect of the oil boom on Aberdeen.