Work with me - Mingma Hughes

In addition to my theatre work, I am a freelance videographer and branding consultant.

🎭 Click here to return to my theatre work
🎥 Here for Videography
🎨 Here for Branding and Business Planning

🎥Videography

“From humble Zoom recordings Mingma is enabling us to build up a high quality library of talks from our Friends of the museum programme. Her video editing capability is always on time and turns Zoom recordings into professional videos.”
– Jonathan Russell, Chairman

I specialise in filming and editing educational talks and lectures (book launches, informational company videos etc) for digital release.

Services I provide include:

Filming and editing pitches/ auditions etc.
Orchestrating of multi-cam filming of live events (book launches/ lectures etc).
Filming and editing information-based marketing videos
Editing footage of online training, streams and webinars for a more professional release.
Editing longer lectures/ webinars etc down to their key points, or a pre-agreed length.
Interspersing and/or overlaying footage with informational slides and images
Sound mixing/ editing recordings (cleaning up sound for videos, adding background music/ podcasts etc)
Infographic graphic design (helping form a cohesive brand identity and then design in said style for the varying formats of social media, event promotion, lecture slides etc.)
Logo design and image alteration
Click here to view my portfolio

Special Offer

Editing a Zoom Lecture recording for professional release- £100

Specially designed for this new Covid 19 world, this package includes:

Advice on the best methods to record both visuals and sound.
General de-glitching (masking wifi problems, technical difficulties etc).
Book-ending the recording with titles and credits in the style of your choice.
Ensuring a digitally smooth transition between introduction, main body, questions (if kept in) and concluding thoughts.
Audio tidy up (minimising background noise etc)
Adding a watermark to the footage.
Up to 3 revision rounds to ensure you are happy with the final product

Please email mingmahughes@gmail.com to enquire further

Video Portfolio

Live Filming ‘Furniture in Architecture’ Book Launch (September 2020)

Live Event Recording
3 Camera Set Up
Cutting 2/3rds of the talk into a streamlined and cohesive summary.

Zoom Lecture Edit: ‘The Gothic Revival’ (February 2021)

General de-glitching (masking wifi problems, technical hiccups etc)
Adding Titles and Credits
Removing and masking any footage/sound from non speaking participants.

Fundraising Trailer for ‘Lara’s Bakery London’ (March 2021)

I also orchestrated the campaign for this event, which went onto to raise £20,000 in four weeks.

Trailer (voiceover style): ‘Playing the Fool‘ (December 2020)

Compiling footage from the video series, and mixing additional sound, to create a compelling teaser of the content explored.

Trailer (to music): ‘Twelfth Night’ (January 2021)

Editing to original music to create a theatrical trailer for ‘Twelfth Night’, using performance footage filmed live.

Digital Interviews: ‘A Guide to investing for creatives’ (May 2021)

Editing a virtual interview into compelling and visually interesting footage for digital consumption.

Stopmotion Video: ‘We will all go together when we go’ (March 2020)

A little parody of the Tom Lehrer classic, created at the beginning of the pandemic.

🎨 Branding & Business

“I came to Mingma for help turning my bakery from a part time hobby to full fledged business. She is brilliant and defining your goals and dreams, and then breaking them down to manageable steps. She’s designed the logo, done the trailer, created a business plan, set up accounting systems. My recent fundraiser raised £20,000! It would not have been possible without her.”
– Lara Muller, Lara’s Bakery London

Whether it be setting up a successful fundraising campaign, creating a cohesive brand identity for social media, editing marketing text or requiring some outside accountability and advice, sometimes an external input is needed to turn ‘I want to’ to ‘I have done’.

I can help with:

Clarifying goals and setting manageable targets to ensure those goals are achieved.
Designing and orchestrating fundraising campaigns.
Developing business plans, and projected future budgets.
Bookkeeping 101, and accounting software advice.
Website design and package advice.
Newsletter support.
Brand identity, including logo design.
Introductions to SEO and social media algorithms.
Editing marketing text and other stock copy for a variety of digital formats Infographic design (helping develop a cohesive brand identity and then create templates in said design for your use in the varying formats of social media, event promotion, lecture slides etc.)
Advice and tuition on filming and video techniques.