FOUND AT SEA | Senior Production Intelligence. Client-Side.
I'm Dan Trotter. For over two decades I've produced, directed and overseen major campaigns for some of Australia's most recognised brands. Now I work exclusively on the client side — protecting budgets, aligning creative and making sure production delivers what it promises.

 

Creative campaigns for innovative brands across every channel.
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Achieve targeted audience engagement with professional video content.
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Using the digital world to enhance communication in the real world.
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Expertise and excellence in delivering food and beverage content.
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We go above and beyond to tell your story in your way.
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Connect more intimately with your audience with television-style content.
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Most production problems aren't production problems. They're communication problems — between what a brand needs, what an agency promises, and what actually gets delivered.

I sit on your side of that equation.

With more than 20 years producing high-end campaigns across TVCs, brand content, documentary and corporate communications, I know exactly where budgets inflate, where creative loses its way, and where the gap between brief and delivery quietly widens.

Whether you're managing a $500K campaign or a multi-phase content programme, bringing an independent senior production eye to your project means less risk, more clarity and better outcomes.

Want to see the body of work I produced check out the WORK in the links.

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What I do

Large-scale video production is expensive, complex and politically charged. Agencies have their own interests. Production companies have their own margins. And internal teams — however talented — often lack the production fluency to know when something is going wrong until it already has.

I work directly with Marketing Directors, Brand Leads and Communications teams as an independent production advisor. My role is simple: to make sure your investment performs.

That means shaping the brief before it goes to market, stress-testing budgets before they're signed off, keeping creative aligned to strategy throughout production, and giving you the clarity to make confident decisions at every stage.

I don't run crew. I don't have a production company behind me. I have no financial interest in any vendor or agency outcome. That independence is the point.

WHO THIS IS FOR

This kind of engagement works best for organisations that:

  • Spend between $100K–$500K annually on video and campaign content
  • Work with agencies or production companies but lack senior in-house production experience
  • Have had projects run over budget, over schedule, or under-deliver on creative
  • Are planning a significant campaign and want an experienced independent oversight layer
  • Are bringing production in-house and need strategic guidance during the transition

If your team is capable but exposed — this is the role that protects them.

Why FOUND AT SEA

Found At Sea was built on a simple belief: clients deserve the same quality of thinking that agencies apply to their own business.

Over 10+ years, we delivered premium content for brands including [insert 3–4 key client names]. The campaigns are documented here. The thinking behind them — and the lessons learned on both sides of the table — is what I now bring directly to client teams.

This isn't production for hire. It's production intelligence, applied where it's needed most.

HOW TO ENGAGE

I work on a day rate basis or as a short-term embedded advisor across project lifecycles.

Engagements typically run from a single budget review session through to full campaign oversight across pre-production, production and delivery.

If you have a project coming up and want a conversation before anything is committed, that's exactly the right time to reach out

Contact Me

Need senior production intelligence on your team. I would love to hear from you.

Send me a message by filling out the contact form to the right.

Old-fashioned phone calls and emails work too .


T: +61 405 308 496
E: dan@foundatsea.co