S7E16521 July 2023

S7E165: Projects in Post Production with Rob Farris

S7E165

S7E165: Projects in Post Production with Rob Farris

0:000:00

100%

Listen on Spotify Listen on Apple Podcasts

In this episode, Dale and Val talk to Rob about the hidden methods, approaches and systems of a post-production world. Whilst it's not our normal 'bread and butter' the amazing world of production is opened up and the synergies between our world and theirs.

Rob started his career in Media, like so many others, as a Runner. He moved into project managing the Post Production of films after a few years, his first feature film credit was on the Bond film "Quantum of Solace". Over the subsequent 15 years, he has amassed over 200 film and TV show credits including OSCAR and BAFTA-winning titles such as Belfast and The Banshees of Inshrine. As Director of Post Production, he oversees a world-renowned Post Facility in Soho, London which offers high-end picture and sound services to the industry's biggest studios and streamers.

Thanks to our sponsor InEight.com

Guest

Rob Farris

Director of Post Production at Goldcrest Films

Rob started his career in Media, like so many others, as a Runner. He moved into project managing the Post Production of films after a few years, his first feature film credit was on the Bond film "Quantum of Solace". Over the subsequent 15 years he has amassed over 200 film and TV show credits including OSCAR and BAFTA winning titles such as Belfast and The Banshees of Inisherin. As Director of Post Production he oversees a world renowned Post Facility in Soho, London which offers high end picture and sound services to the industries biggest studios and streamers. He lives in Surrey with his wife and two daughters.

Connect

Share This Episode

Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn

Related Episodes

S6E139: The Post-Pandemic Job Market in Projects with Chirag Shah

In this week’s pod, we welcomed Chirag Shah to discuss the post-pandemic Project Controls job market.Chirag is a passionate Project Controls Recruitment Expert. His mission is to deliver clients the best quality Project Controls and PMO professionals, who are trusted to bring projects in on time and within budget.Chirag does this by digging that little bit deeper, to understand the client's story and what they are trying to achieve. He has more than 17 year's recruitment experience, having built an extensive network and is a trusted advisor.Most recently, Chirag has been moving the project community forward through LinkedIn and by bringing people together through networking events. He is the London Ambassador for the Project Connect Group and is promoting other leading industry events such as Project Controls Expo Many youngsters are choosing to move abroad to take advantage of major infrastructure investment in Australia and the Middle East The shift towards hybrid working has made it harder for early careers staff to gain softer skills such as resilience, influencing and networking The UK Project Controls job market is buoyant. People should not worry about whether they can leave a “safe job” There has been a greater diversity of experience in the project controls market Don’t be a “quiet quitter” – be passionate about what you’re doing! Recruiters try to look for examples of resilience in candidates based on the type of experience during their career Many recruiters advocate references and testimonials into CV’s to stand out from the crowd UK Project Controls salaries have increased by c.10-15% since the start of the pandemic Join us next week when we speak to Susan Rooney-Harding to discuss the inability to evaluate complex and multiple truths as one of the greatest threats For more information, blogs or to support our charities visit www.projectchatterpodcast.comIf you'd like to sponsor the podcast get in touch via our website.You can also leave us a voice message via our anchor page and let us know if there's something or someone specific that you would like on the podcast.Proudly sponsored by: https://www.justdo.com/ https://ineight.com/Stay safe, be disruptive and have fun doing it!

Listen Now

S10E22412 Sept 2026

S10E224: Why We Forgive Bad Behaviour At Work with Lisa Martello

We spend a fortune on governance, tooling and RACIs, then lose our best people to one person who nobody will have a difficult conversation with. Lisa Martello has spent her career in rail, from a Transport for London graduate scheme to programme and director roles at HS2 and beyond, with detours into utilities and construction. By night she runs Catching Bees, a 20,000 strong following built on holding a sarcastic mirror up to workplace behaviour: the exec petting zoo, the strategic seagull, talent stretching, the one way flex. In this episode she makes an argument most organisations quietly avoid. We are far too forgiving to the people behaving badly, and far too demanding of the people on the receiving end. The victim gets a list of actions: gather examples, prepare, call it out in the moment, call it out afterwards, book the meeting. The culprit gets the benefit of the doubt. We also get into: Writing bids and then wishing you could deliver them, and what changes when you become the client Why the fun is seeping out of projects at exactly the point teams need it most The five step slide from benefit of the doubt to resignation, and where leaders usually intervene too late How "below the line behaviour" gets weaponised to shut down anyone who says the project is in trouble Code switching, unprofessional hair, and the role model who arrived at exactly the right moment Skanska's two word intervention, "not cool", and why sitting in the discomfort works better than a meeting Three steps out of dickhead territory, including the "is it me" moment that stopped Lisa from performance managing someone out of a job she has since excelled in Imposter syndrome as a preparation engine, and a healthy disregard for authority A serious conversation with a lot of laughing in it. FIND LISA AND CATCHING BEESCatching Bees on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/catching_bees/Catching Bees on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/catching-bees/Lisa Martello on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-martello-2b65463b/ FIND USWebsite: https://projectchatter.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/projectchatterpodcast/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ProjectChatterPodcast The Project Chatter Podcast has been running since 2018 and is free to access, always. If this episode was useful, share it with one person who needs to hear it.

Listen Now

S10E22322 Aug 2026

S10E223: Robots on Site - Why Humanoids Won't Build Your Project with Eliot Dixon

Every robotics demo looks the same: a humanoid doing kung fu, a humanoid dancing, a humanoid folding laundry. Eliot Dixon has spent his career in the parts of robotics that never make the showreel, and his view is blunt. The humanoid form factor exists because human environments are a compromise, not because it is the best way to get work done. Eliot's route into robotics started on a farm and a deep dislike of tractors. Physics, then a robotics degree, then years at Dstl working on sensing and UAVs, then Tata Motors building an autonomous vehicle for UK roads that was ultimately headed for the chaos of Indian ones. From there into ag tech, leading robotics and AI at Agri-EPI Centre, and now into infrastructure and construction. That path gives him an uncomfortable message for our sector. Agriculture has already run the experiment. Brilliantly engineered robotic systems, well funded, technically successful, and commercially dead, because they demanded that the entire farm change around them. As Eliot puts it, you are not designing a robot. You are designing a farm. Swap in construction and the warning lands the same way. So what actually works on a site today? Inspection and monitoring. Quadrupeds running nightly LIDAR scans, compared against the BIM, feeding tomorrow's work plan instead of a six-monthly architect's report. And the economics are shifting fast: platforms that cost well over £100,000 are now available at a few thousand for smaller sites. We also get into why drones are effectively grounded by UK airspace rules, why robotics almost never reduces headcount but changes the job mix instead, where the real return on investment hides, what data poisoning and teleoperated "autonomous" systems mean for trust, and why a dynamic construction site is a genuinely harder problem than a road in Delhi. In this episode: Why the humanoid is a compromise, not an endpoint The agricultural robotics failures construction is about to repeat Inspection and monitoring: the only mature site use case right now Nightly LIDAR against BIM, and the decision loop it creates The collapse in quadruped pricing and what it unlocks Why UK airspace, not technology, is the drone blocker Where robotics ROI actually comes from when nobody loses a job Autonomy 2.0, visual models, and the behaviour problem Strawberries, dexterity, and why touch feedback is so hard Eliot's closing advice for anyone briefing a roboticist Guest: Eliot Dixon, Roboverse Reply UK Hosts: Dale Foong and Val Matthews The Project Chatter Podcast is free to access and always will be. If you get value from it, pay it forward and share this episode with someone who needs it. Connect: Eliot Dixon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliot-dixon/ Project Chatter: https://www.linkedin.com/company/projectchatterpodcast/?viewAsMember=trueWebsite: https://projectchatter.com/

Listen Now

Enjoyed this episode?

Subscribe to never miss a conversation with project experts

Subscribe on Spotify Subscribe on Apple Podcasts