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Tom Gimlette

Image Researcher

Tom is a creative researcher, treatment designer and mood film creator. He served as a director's assistant to Chris Palmer at Gorgeous before going freelance a year ago. Tom has a strong eye and a deep knowledge of film and photo and is skilled with Adobe Suite, especially Indesign and Premiere Pro. Tom has worked mainly in commercials but also for film and TV, and likes to combine still and moving image to communicate a strong visual narrative.

Selected credits

TV Commercials / Branded Content

Prod Co / Agency Brand / Title Type Director Producer Role

Wieden + Kennedy

Honda / Civic

TVC

Chris Palmer

Rupert Smythe

Treatment Designer / Image Researcher

Gorgeous / NA

Speculative Feature Film

Feature Film

Chris Palmer

Rupert Smythe

Film Researcher/ Mood Film Creator

Gorgeous / NA

Speculative Feature Film

Feature Film

Chris Palmer

Rupert Smythe

Film Researcher/ Mood Film Creator

Gorgeous / NA

Speculative Feature Film

Feature

Chris Palmer

Rupert Smythe

Film Researcher/ Mood Film Creator

Gorgeous / N/A

Mydflower /Fairy

Branded Content

Chris Palmer

Rupert Smythe

PA / Treatment Designer / Mood Film Creator/ Director's Assistant

Gorgeous / Anomaly

Pokerstars/ Epic Downtime

TVC

Chris Palmer

Rupert Smythe

PM / Image and Film Researcher / Treatment Designer / Directors Assistant

Gorgeous /adam&eveDDB

Waitrose / Back From Holiday

TVC

Chris Palmer

Rupert Smythe

PA / Treatment Designer / Image Researcher

Gorgeous / adam&eveDDB

Waitrose / Working Late

TVC

Chris Palmer

Rupert Smythe

PA / Treatment Designer / Image Researcher

Gorgeous/ M & C Saatchi

Gamble Aware / Drunk Betting

TVC

Chris Palmer

Rupert Smythe

PA / Treatment Designer / Image Researcher

Gorgeous / MullenLowe

The Truth Project / The Truth Project

TVC

Chris Palmer

Rupert Smythe

PA / Image Researcher

Gorgeous/ Saatchi and Saatchi

Visa / Christmas

TVC

Chris Palmer

Rupert Smythe

PA / Image Researcher

Gorgeous / Spark 44

Jaguar / Electrical Storm

TVC

Chris Palmer

Ciska Faulkner

PA / Image Researcher

Gorgeous / Atomic

NSPCC / Guardians Wanted

TVC

Chris Palmer

Rupert Smythe

PA / Image Researcher

Directors Worked with

  • Chris Palmer
  • David Blair
  • Matt Lipsey
  • Patrick Daughters
  • Samona Olanipekun

Education

  • Bristol University English and Drama 2.1
  • Berlin Met 6 Month Filmmaking Course

Ad Agencies Worked with

  • Anomaly
  • Spark 44
  • Innocean UK
  • Atomic
  • M & C Saatchi
  • Saatchi and Saatchi
  • MullenLowe
  • adam&eveDDB

Genres Worked in

  • Cars
  • sports
  • family
  • action
  • history
  • thriller
  • sci-fi

Technical Skills

  • Premier Pro - Advanced
  • After Effects - Basic
  • Photoshop - Intermediate
  • InDesign - Advanced
  • Microsoft Excel - Basic Lightroom - Basic Illustrator - Basic