Event Films & Coverage
An event produces more footage than any other kind of shoot and less time to use it. Twelve of the projects behind this site are events — conferences, national occasions, openings — and each arrived as terabytes and left as a film somebody wanted to share.
A videographer in Riyadh can cover the day; the film is what happens afterwards. The work is selection under pressure: the moment that actually happened, found among the eleven cameras that were pointed at it, and cut before the audience has moved on.
Ahmed Gonaim is a video editor and filmmaker in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Event Films & Coverage for government bodies, brands and production agencies across Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.
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- Event Films & Coverage
- BASED
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- EXPERIENCE
- 15+ years
- LANGUAGES
- Arabic · English
- STUDIO
- Direct Group · Riyadh
- Recap and highlight films from multi-camera coverage
- Same-day and next-morning edits while the event is still running
- Speaker and session cuts, subtitled in both languages
- Sponsor and stakeholder versions from the same material
- Screen content and the films that play in the room
Conferences · national events · openings and launches · exhibitions · ceremonies
Can you turn a film around during the event?
Same-day and next-morning edits are a normal part of this work — the constraint is how quickly the footage reaches the room, not the edit.
Do you provide the crew as well?
The work here is post-production. Coverage is usually shot by the client's production company or event crew and finished here, and that split is the common arrangement.
Can we get several versions for different audiences?
That is usually the point. One event reasonably yields a recap, a sponsor cut, session films and a set of reels, all from one pass through the material.