Showreel - Projects 2020

Documentary (Dec 2018 - March 2019) Roles: Camera Key Change is a documentary about the developmental benefits of music on young minds. The documentary is currently in post-production and is officially backed by Documentary Australia Foundation, Opera Australia and the Sydney Opera House.

Gallery showcasing music photography. Commercial work included: Splendour in the Grass (2016-18) Walk with Kings Music Video (2019) Sydney Fringe Festival (2019) Supergroup (2019-2020)

TV Show (2020) Client: ABC TV Roles: Producer, Director and Writer Between March and April 2020 I wrote and produced a number of segments for Good Game Spawn Point. This included two studio tours, a number of reviews and some comedic sketches.

Social Marketing Campaign (2019-2020) Client: ReedPOP Role: Director, Producer, Camera, Editor In this project, myself and the team at Those Wizards devised a social media marketing strategy that incorporated documentary-style story telling as a way for convention attendees, and those who missed out, an additional avenue to engage with and explore Australia's biggest gaming convention. The project, encompassing over 21 individual videos most of which were created on-site, generated tens-of-thousands of engagements across the PAXAus social media channels, and remains one of my proudest achievements to date.

Video (Dec 2018) A quick look at some video projects worked on by Tobias Venus in 2018.

TV Show (2016) Client: ABC TV Roles: Producer, Director, B Camera, Editor In its final year, I was employed as a field producer at ABC's TV show about video games - Good Game. During this time I produced their first story on a non-digital game and multiple stories on under-represented people working in the Australian gaming scene. In July of 2016 I was asked to series produce the spin-off series focused on competitive gaming - Well Played.

YouTube Channel (2018) Client: AFL Kids Role: Director, Camera, Editor In mid 2018 Sydney based production company Marquee Studios approached me to head a re-brand of the AFL kids YouTube channel. The initiative targeted 6-12 year old YouTube viewers in Australia and the US, connecting them with their favourite AFL stars who would appear in fun situations often seen on YouTube but never before in AFL related spaces . Overall the re-brand was a great success with both of the three month targets achieved in under two months: reaching over 1 million total views and doubling subscribers from just over 2 thousand to 4.

Social Advertisements (2020) Client: ReedPOP Role: Director, Producer, Camera, Editor In 2020 PAXAus as a live convention was cancelled and merged with its international counterparts to create a digital gaming convention named PAX Online. While these conventions were a global effort, I was tasked with creating an advertising campaign purely for the Australian fans of the show. These ads riff off the original pre-pandemic ad we created for this year's event which repeated the tagline - "PAXAus welcome home."

YouTube and TikTok Channel (Jan 2021 - present) Client: Finder Roles: Everything! Designed as part of a venture to expand Finder's reach into social video platforms, "Tech Finder" is Finder's take on the tech-review YouTube channel. Tech Finder is hosted and produced entirely by me in my Melbourne home studio. Below is one of my personal favourite videos from the channel but I encourage you to check out more and subscribe on YouTube.

Commercial work included: Little Stars Theatre School (2015) Nelune Foundation (2017) Throwdown Esports (2017) St Ives Medieval Festival (2017) Pole Athletica (2018) AFL Kids (2018) Perth Fringe Festival (2020)