The room behind the vomit
Visual Vomit is the working name for what I do: take footage and give it a point of view. I'm Chris Shaw, an editor, creative director and colourist who would rather cut one thing that means something than ten that just look fine.
Chris Shaw // Visual VomitHow the name happened
Visual Vomit started as a joke about my own hard drives. Everything I shot, ripped, screen-grabbed and generated ended up in one chaotic pile, and the work was figuring out what mattered in the mess. The name stuck because that is honestly the process. Take in everything, then bring it back up as something with shape.
Most of my work lives in music videos, where the edit has to move with the track and still leave room to breathe. From there it spread into brand films, social systems, colour work and the experimental, half-broken pieces I make to keep my hands sharp. The thread through all of it is rhythm and restraint, knowing what to keep and what to throw back up.
I work source-safe and async-friendly, because good work should not depend on us being in the same room at 2am. You send the footage, I send back a direction, and we cut the signal out of the noise together.
Calm process, loud results
Source-safe
Your footage is organised, logged and backed up from the second it lands. Nothing gets lost, overwritten or mystery-renamed between rounds.
Async-friendly
You should not have to sit on a call to move a project forward. Clear versions, written notes and review links that respect your time zone.
Fast first pass
A first-pass direction within a day, so we agree on the feeling before real time gets spent cutting the wrong thing.
Clear notes
Every handover comes with plain-language notes a whole team can read, so nobody is guessing what changed or why.
Tools, not crutches
Software is just where the decisions get made. These are the rooms I work in most, including the AI tools I keep firmly on a leash.
- 01Premiere Pro
- 02After Effects
- 03DaVinci Resolve
- 04Wideframe
- 05Generative video
- 06Sound design
- 07Motion graphics
- 08Local archive systems
Let's make something with a pulse
Reels, full CV and rate card available on request. Tell me what you're working on and I'll tell you how I'd cut it.