Luke Meates
Portfolio
Here is a selection of what I consider to be some of my best work, ranging from the various videos I've made at Care for the Family, weddings from Tint and Grade, and some content I put together for Christchurch.
Care for the Family
Although I took the lead on producing the video's below, I was assisted by my team mates when shooting them. All of the editing - unless stated otherwise - was done by myself.
Stories 1
Produced, interviewed, shot and edited. This is a part of Care for the Family's appeal. I particularly enjoyed the Stories projects as they made use of my storytelling/interview skills I learned through my Masters in journalism.
Stories 2
Produced, interviewed, shot and edited. This is a part of Care for the Family's appeal.
Father's Day
Produced, shot and edited. This was for Care for the Family's Father's Day 2022 campaigns. I'm the dad in the thumbnail...
The Pre-Marriage Sessions - Embark
Produced, shot and edited. This is the first session in a four part series, with 40 minutes of bonus content. It went on sale earlier this year. I can't take credit for the petal animations; they were put together by my talented colleague, Mike Browne.
Christmas Under Pressure
Produced, shot and edited. This was part of Care for the Family's 2022 Advent campaign.
Behind Every Door
Produced, shot and edited. This video shows what Care for the Family is about. Most of the footage for this was shot during the COVID pandemic.
Life After Burnout - The Dad Cave
Produced, shot and edited. This is a section from the Dad Cave podcast. Here I share some of the lessons I learned from facing burnout.
Messages of Hope
Produced, shot and edited. This is another one of Care for the Family's 2023 Advent campaign videos. I came up with the idea of shooting this one take and relied on the grade to match the tone of the story. It was fun, thought took a lot of takes!
Easter Saturday
Produced, shot and edited. This was part of Care for the Family's 2022 Easter campaign.
Take a Break Holidays
Produced, shot and edited. This is a promo for Care for Family's subsidised holidays for solo-parent family's.
Love Languages
Produced, written, voiced and edited. This is a VT for one of Care for the Family's online events, explaining the difference between the different Love Languages coined by Dr Chapman. I heavily relied on stock footage for this one.
An Evening with Rob Parsons promo
Produced, shot and edited. This is a promo for one of Care for the Family's most popular toured events, An Evening with Rob Parsons.
What is a mum?
Produced, shot and edited. This was for Care for the Family's Mother's Day 2023 campaign. I asked various staff members if they would be happy to recite a poem written for Mother's. Day.
Christchurch
I have been very blessed to be asked by my elders to put together some videos for the church to use as part of their worship, and also as a means to explain to newcomers what our church is about - Jesus. Here are four of my favourite video's I have created for Christchurch.
Sunday's coming
My friends in church asked me to film them recording a version of Phil Wickham's song for this year's Good Friday service. This is perhaps my favourite video I've ever put together.
Jesus:Love
This is what will greet people when this visit Christchurch's website. It explains what we're about; the Gospel of Jesus Christ and sharing it in our city of Newport.
Who would have dreamed?
Like many churches during the pandemic, we were forced to move our services online. This is one of the videos we put together for our online Carol Service back in 2020. We had limited kit, but I still think this video is something special.
How deep the Father's love - This is our God
This is another throwback to the pandemic days. This song was part of our online Easter service in 2021 as we were still in lockdown in Wales
