01 / VIDEO
Corporate & promotional video
Business profiles, promotional campaigns, commercials, training and online video content.
Media production · Marketing · Visual storytelling
Ideas made clear through powerful visual stories.
MotionVisual brings together video production, documentary filmmaking, editing, photography and communications. Led by Richard Hersley, the work spans corporate and promotional media, documentary projects and stories made to connect with audiences.
What we do
Production from concept to final edit.
From the first idea and script through location production, editing and delivery, MotionVisual helps shape clear, purposeful video and visual communications.
02 / DOCUMENTARY
Documentary filmmaking
Research-led storytelling, interviews, field production and documentary editing.
03 / POST-PRODUCTION
Editing & finishing
Editorial planning, shooting, editing and visual finishing for a coherent final story.
04 / COMMUNICATIONS
Marketing & public relations
Visual content designed to support communications, outreach and marketing objectives.
05 / VISUALS
Photography & image-making
Photography and original visual concepts for editorial, promotional and creative use.
06 / DIGITAL
New media & storytelling
Digital-first content and visual stories adapted for web and contemporary audiences.
Selected portfolio
Video production for business
A selection of business and promotional video work. Choose a video to watch it here.
Business video production
Promotional video
Corporate video
Video communications
Promotional production
Business storytelling
Marketing video
Video production
Documentary
Stories grounded in people and place.
Documentary and factual work from the original portfolio, including projects hosted on Vimeo and YouTube.
Documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary film
Documentary film
Storytelling
Creative stories for different audiences.
Selected storytelling videos from the existing MotionVisual portfolio.
Visual storytelling
Visual storytelling
Visual storytelling
Visual storytelling
Visual storytelling
Visual storytelling
Visual storytelling
Visual storytelling
Creative portfolio
Graphic art, photography and image-making.
The original site includes the following image assets. Keep these files in the site's existing Images folder when publishing this page.
Photoshop & graphic art
Photography
Image-making
Experience & recognition
Experienced production, from field to final cut.
Richard Hersley has more than 30 years of professional television and media production and administration experience, according to the original MotionVisual page.
“It has been great working with you and likely will be working with you again in the future at our next symposium. Many thanks, Linda.”
“Richard is patient, perceptive and enthusiastic in helping me understand the process of translating our reality into the medium of a DVD.” — Rose-Hannah
Selected clients
BC Hydro · Health Canada · Vancouver Coastal Health · City TV · Eureka · ICI Glidden · Global TV · BCTV · Knowledge Network · United Church of Canada
Documentary
Making Treaties in BC — Global TV
Director / Shooter / Editor
On understanding modern treaties.
Whose Land Is This? — Global TV
Director / Shooter / Co-Editor
On the Native land question in British Columbia.
Native Women: Politics — Global
Director / Shooter / Editor
On the changing roles of Native women.
Beat of the Drum — 4 Sight / BCTV
Director / Writer / Shooter / Editor
Profiling Native musicians.
The Medicine Wheel — 4 Sight / BCTV
Director / Editor / Shooter
On Native spirituality and ceremony.
Echoes of the Sisters — Knowledge Network
Director / Shooter / Editor
On breast cancer and Native women.
Circles of Life — SPACE
Producer / Director / Writer · Listed as in production on the original page
On the meaning of ancient stone circles in Canada.
Boundaries — Global
Producer / Director / Writer · Listed as in production on the original page
On Indigenous business in Canada.
Series television
Aboriginal Rights — Global — 3 programs
Director / Shooter / Editor
4 Sight — BCTV — 4 programs
Director / Shooter / Co-Writer
Indigeni — Global — pilot
Director / Shooter / Story Editor
The Artist — CKY — 39 programs
Editor / Writer / Director
Generation — Moffat — 39 programs
Producer / Director / Editor / Shooter
Consumer Advice — Moffat — 52 programs
Producer / Writer / Editor / Shooter
Corporate video, multimedia & commercials
Homeless — First United Church Mission
Writer / Director / Editor
First United Church Mission — five-part series
Writer / Director / Editor
Eureka Vacuums — national commercial
Producer / Director
Commonwealth Enterprises — various videos
Producer / Director / Writer / Editor
Envirocoatings Canada — series and how-to videos
Writer / Director / Editor
United Church of Canada — corporate video
Producer / Director / Editor
Larrea Corp. — corporate videos
Producer / Director / Writer / Editor
Another Sunday Run · Dolphins Resort
Producer / Director / Writer / Editor
Ann Taylor promotional video
Co-Director / Co-Editor
Newsmd.com — 60 short web programs
Writer / Producer / Director
Start a conversation
Have a project in mind?
For video production, editing, documentary, marketing or visual storytelling enquiries, contact Richard Hersley at MotionVisual.