Ian Bentley Ridgeway

Bentley Studios is a Manchester-based video and digital media production studio. I handle the full picture - from creative direction and project management through to the technical delivery - which means you're dealing with one person who understands every stage of the process, not a chain of handoffs.

On the creative side: concept development, creative direction, scripting, and storyboarding. On the production side: video production, branded content, social and digital content, Reels, corporate photography, drone (CAA-certified), event video, livestreaming, podcasts, shoppable video, and augmented reality. Post-production, editing, and final delivery included as standard.

Project management runs through everything. Briefing, scheduling, stakeholder management, budget control, timelines - handled. If you've worked with production companies before and found the process more complicated than it needed to be, that's usually a structure problem. I've spent 20 years in senior commercial roles, so I know how projects actually run inside businesses. That experience shapes how I manage them.

Adobe Certified Professional. CMI Fellow. CAA-certified drone operator. The credentials matter because they reflect the standard of work, not just the intention.

I work with SMEs who need proper video without the agency overhead, marketing teams that need a reliable production partner, and fellow freelancers looking for collaboration or overflow capacity.

The output is commercially grounded creative - work that looks right, runs on time, and does what it was supposed to do.

Video and digital assets for social media marketing in addition to livestream broadcasts, video training and podcasts for business clients.

Commercial Director then Managing Director in Healthcare and Training/ Staffing Services Group (confidential due to NDA)