Annie Grant

Annie founded Atomic Productions in 2009 following many years experience in multimedia production for government and national organisations. Tired of watching educational videos that were little more than visual wallpaper, she wanted to produce resources that were rich in content, where pictures enhanced the messages and where contributors were allowed to ‘speak’ for themselves – whatever their age, whatever their job, however they communicated. Most recently, her work has focused on children with special educational needs and disabilities.

Annie is expert at capturing natural and unforced contributions from participants.This gives her work freshness and allows contributors to show genuine and infectious enthusiasm and good humour, which makes them more credible and persuasive than they might otherwise be. With the team at Atomic, Annie has pioneered the use of audio, alongside video, as a powerful medium for reaching target audiences.

As well as her work at Atomic, Annie works an educational policy adviser/writer for government departments and agencies and has written articles for specialist SEN publications. Her deep knowledge of current educational initiatives helps to strengthen the impact of the resources that Atomic produces.

David Brown

David Brown is an experienced and creative Emmy-nominated lighting cameraman who brings to the team over 20 years of professional expertise in shooting dramatised and observational documentaries all around the world. Like all the team, David is CRB-checked and has many years experience filming in schools and other educational settings. You can see the full range of David’s work at his website http://brownfilms.net

David has worked on every Atomic production since the company was formed in 2009 and includes:

• DfE Complex Needs online training materials (2012) www.education.gov.uk/complexneeds
• Video case studies for nasen, Network for Languages London, Swiss Cottage School, TDA, Becta, RNIB and the Dyslexia SpLD Trust

Ian Kirton

Ian is a talented location sound recordist, dubbing mixer and composer with 20 years’ broadcast experience. He has his own broadcast spec sound recording equipment and Pro Tools HD dubbing suite. Ian also runs Music2License, supplying royalty free music for media production. Like all the team, Ian is DBS-checked and has many years’ experience filming in schools and other educational settings. You can see the full range of his work at his websites www.iankirtonsound.com and www.music2license.com.

Ian has worked on every Atomic production since the company was formed in 2009 and has composed or supplied the music for many of our productions.