Photography
The bakery that never stops
Independent retail · Long Eaton
Shot at 6am, three coffees in, while the ovens were still warming up.
Nottingham · Derby · East Midlands
Your people.
Front and centre.
I'm Andrew Cooper, founder of Stark Media, an independent video production agency in Nottingham. I make high-impact video and photography for businesses and organisations across the East Midlands, the kind of content that gets your message out there, first time.
• 20+ years behind the camera • Award-winning • Long Eaton based
• Video production Nottingham • Commercial photography • Your story first • Animation • On location • Derby • East Midlands
Andrew Cooper
Founder, camera, the whole lot
01 — Hello
I've spent twenty years making good businesses look brilliant.
I point cameras at people for a living. Big brands, tiny studios, charities, manufacturers, family firms — the lot. Over two decades of it, mostly within a thirty-mile radius of my studio in Long Eaton.
Here's what I've learned: nobody buys a widget. They buy the person behind it. So that's what we shoot — your people, your place, your personality. Properly lit, properly told, and impossible to scroll past.
I'm not a big agency with a reception desk and a six-week approval chain. You'll deal with me. We'll have a proper chat, I'll tell you honestly what'll work, and then we'll go and make something you're proud to put your name on.
“People listen to interesting people — not widgets.”
20+
Years making films
2
Cities, one studio
1
Person you deal with
The showreel
Ninety seconds of what I do.
Filmed across Nottingham, Derby and the East Midlands. Real businesses, real people, no stock footage.
Stark Media — 2024 · Sound on
02 — Two halves, one story
Moving pictures.
Still ones that stop you.
Half of what I do is motion, half is stills — and they’re better together. One shoot, one look, one person to call. No handing your brand between three different agencies and hoping it matches up.
Motion01
Video production
Films that make people stop scrolling and actually listen. Brand films, social cutdowns, interviews, events and training — shot properly, edited with pace.
Explore video production ↗
Stills02
Commercial photography
Your people, looking like the best version of themselves. Team portraits, brand photography, products, events and on-location shoots.
Explore commercial photography ↗
03
Ask about content ↗Animation, motion graphics & content creation
For the stuff a camera can’t point at. 2D, 3D and animated explainers that make a complicated idea land clearly.
03 — Selected work
People first. Always.
A few from recent projects. Bakeries, factories, boardrooms, conference halls — the setting changes, the approach doesn’t. Find the person, tell their story, make it look a million quid.
Photography
Hands that know the job
Manufacturing · Derby
One lamp, one lens, forty minutes before the shift changed.
Video · East Midlands
Mission film
A short film built to put a brand-new mission statement in front of every single team.
Rexel UK
Photography
The people behind the product
Manufacturing · Nottingham
Twelve of them, one lunch break, and nobody blinked.
Photography
Product, properly lit
E-commerce · East Midlands
No light tent, no fuss. One hard light and a lot of patience.
Photography
A room full of energy
Conference · Nottingham
Photographed live, edited on the train home, delivered before breakfast.
Want to see more of a specific kind of project? Ask me — I’ll send the full versions over, no form-filling required.
Ask for the full portfolio ↗A kind word from a client
“I just want to say the video makes me feel bloody proud! Love it — thank you for bringing my campaign to life.”
Claire Willers · Rexel UK
04 — Rooted here
Nottingham. Derby.
The East Midlands.
I’m not a London agency with a Midlands postcode. My studio is in Long Eaton, my clients are on my doorstep, and I’ve been filming this region for two decades. When you work with Stark, you’re backing a business that backs its own patch.
- •Local rates for local businesses
- •On site across the East Midlands within the hour
- •We know the venues, the traffic and the good coffee
- •A real person on the end of the phone
Long Eaton, NG10
Nottingham
Our home. Cameras out across the city, from Sneinton Market to the Park Estate.
Derby
Twenty minutes up the road, with makers, manufacturers and trade stories.
East Midlands
Leicester, Loughborough, Mansfield, Chesterfield and everywhere in between.
05 — How it works
Three steps. No drama.
No lengthy tender documents, no account managers relaying messages. Just a straightforward process that gets you something you’re proud of.
01
A proper chat
Coffee, twenty minutes, no pitch deck. Tell me what you do, who needs to hear it and what’s been getting in the way. I’ll tell you straight what I’d do.
02
The shoot
One day or half a day, planned around your diary. I direct, you relax, your people do what they normally do. That’s where the good stuff lives.
03
Out there
Edited, graded and cut for every channel you need. You get everything, plus a version for the website, the socials and the screen in reception.
Got a rough idea and a rough budget? That’s genuinely all you need to get started.
Let’s have that chat ↗06 — Say hello
Let’s make
a difference.
Tell me what you’re up to. I read every one of these myself — no inbox black hole, no automated reply. If I can help, I’ll say so. If I can’t, I’ll point you at someone who can.
Call or text0115 972 7638Emailenquiries@stark-media.net
The studioStark Studios, 96 Nottingham Road, Long Eaton, Nottingham NG10 2BZ