making video accessible for all

Web Content ACCESSIBILITY Guidelines (2.2) AA COMPLIANT MULTIMEDIA PRODUCTION AND TRAINING

The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, often abbreviated to WCAG, are a series of internationally recognised and adopted standards for making web video content accessible to everyone. All online video produced by the public sector, government or education, needs to adhere to these standards.

At Warm Films, we believe that no one should be left behind. All films should be accessible and useable to everyone.

All our films comes WCAG compliant as standard and we can train and advise you how to create WCAG compliant films too.

WARM FILMS PROMO : AUDIO Introduction text

This one minute promotional video for Warm Films showcases some of their social media content for companies in the broadcast, private, charity and government sectors, such as the Royal Academy of Arts, the NHS and Heritage Fund.

It includes a variety of filmed examples of their work, documenting the breadth of their experience, filming a wide range of different people in different scenarios, from artists and athletes to people on the street and a pregnant mum in hospital.

You can listen to the audio described version by clicking on the settings cog to the bottom right of the video player. In this version, the male voice reads the script and the female voice audio describes the pictures.

You can turn the captions on by pressing the CC button on the player above.

about

I’m Nick Watson, Director of Warm Films, a white cis man, in my late 40s. I’m tall, with dark, receding hair. My pronouns are he / him.

Nick Watson, Director, Warm Films

Nick has been directing, shooting and editing films for over 20 years. He’s edited a wide variety of documentaries for all the terrestrial broadcasters, alongside producing digital content for Royal Academy of Arts, Comic Relief, Wellcome Collection, ad agencies, charities, government bodies and corporations. He is an experienced trainer and co-creator of award-winning interactive documentary The Boy In The Book.

If you are interested in booking him as an editor for long form documentaries, you can view and download Nick’s CV here. 

WEB CONTENT ACCESSIBILITY GUIDELINES (WCAG) COMPLIANT Video Production

Since the inception of Warm Films in 2010, we have directed, filmed, edited and produced video content for a whole host of clients.

We can take your project from concept to completion - be it a character led documentary, a promotional video, or simply an interview, we have the skills and experience to deliver beautiful and emotive content for all online platforms.

We believe that the content we produce should be accessible to all, so our films now come Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2 AA) compliant as standard.

Below are some of my older films that I have adapted to be WCAG 2.2 compliant. More to follow soon.

almuth tebbenhoff - sunset : AUDIO introduction text

Sunset is a five minute documentary about Sunset Holland Park, a 2014 steel structure installed in Holland Park, West London. The piece was constructed by Almuth Tebbenhoff, a London based, German born, contemporary visual artist, who is a cisgender woman in her mid sixties at the time of installation.

The structure consists of a hollow cube placed on top of a hollow cuboid. The bottom cuboid is taller than it is wide, big enough to step into. Two of the four uprights are straight, the other two are distorted, making it look like the structure has been partially crumpled. The top cube is the same width as the one below, but has four crumpled uprights. The horizontal sides are crumpled too.

Both are painted grey on the outside and vibrant pink on the inside.

You can read more about Almuth and her work at www.tebbenhoff.org

Clients Warm Films has worked with : Dept Culture Media and Sport, BBC, BNP Paribas, Winsor & Newton, Comic Relief, National Deaf Children's Society, Achieving for Children, CDUK and Barnardo's
Clients Warm Films has worked with : Heritage Fund, Wellcome Collection, NHS, ing., Royal Academy of Arts and Save the Children
“Nick is a brilliant filmmaker – I’ve worked with him regularly over the past seven years on Royal Academy projects, and would highly recommend him to anyone seeking either film work or training. He’s worked with us on film projects for some of our biggest exhibitions – concepts, shoots and interviews, editing and all aspects of post-production – as well as on training with our teams, to build multimedia skills in-house. The films he makes are always beautiful, considered and right on-brief – and he is without fail extremely reliable, professional and great to work with. I’ve felt very lucky to collaborate with him.”
— Louise Cohen, Head of Content Strategy, Royal Academy of Arts

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliant Short Form VIDEO TRAINING

Nick Watson, Director of Warm Films, Filming on a beach in Rhyl, Wales, during a sunset.

  • Do you want to shoot and edit your own short form content? Or take your skills to the next level? Our training courses will show you how to shoot professional looking material on iPhones or professional cameras, followed by editing the film together in Final Cut Pro or Premiere and then publishing it online.

  • We will teach you everything you need to know and do to make your own Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.2 AA) compliant short form video content, from concept to completion. Our approach is built around the idea that your content is not finished until it’s accessible to everyone so we build this in as a standard part of good video production.

  • Suitable for beginners, or those looking to build on their filming and editing skills.

  • Over the two day course, you will shoot, edit and upload your own short form film.

  • All courses are completely bespoke and tailored to your institution's exact filmmaking needs and can be held at your workplace.

Warm Films Short Form Filming and Editing Course Outline - click to view/download

Bespoke Training Courses

For more information about the training please download this course example or get in touch with Nick for a more detailed chat.