Curiosity
Started seriously exploring filmmaking and editing — first cuts, a lot of tutorials and a lot of late nights. Still studying engineering.
Salman Rajesh — Filmmaker, Editor, Cinematographer and Colourist
“It all started for fun. Now, it's something I truly love.”
Selected work
2021 → 2026
Selectedwork
Porsche
There is no substitute.
FIH Qualifiers
Ninety seconds that decide four years.
IslandDAO
A residency of builders, told in their own words.
Startup Village
A room full of builders, and what they're building.
Adidas
You're fighting you.
Jeep
Dust, torque and the sound of terrain.
NVIDIA
Making the invisible feel physical.
Vizhinjam
Silent boats, steady hands, and the promise of the day.
The films
Thefilms
Reels
Thereels
The
journey
Six years, six reels. From first edits in Kerala to film school in Norwich.
Practice
Expanded into editing, cinematography and creative work. Learning to see light before learning to control it.
Work
Commercial and event filmmaking. Deadlines, clients, live moments that don't repeat — and the discipline that comes with them.
Range
Branded content, sports, automotive and events. Editing, colour and sound for names like Porsche and Jeep Middle East.
Scale
Expanded international production experience — bigger sets, larger teams, cinema cameras, tighter pipelines.
Norwich
Moved to the UK. MA Film at Norwich University of the Arts — the start of a new chapter.
Thejourney
Curiosity
Started seriously exploring filmmaking and editing — first cuts, a lot of tutorials and a lot of late nights. Still studying engineering.
Practice
Expanded into editing, cinematography and creative work. Learning to see light before learning to control it.
Work
Commercial and event filmmaking. Deadlines, clients, live moments that don't repeat — and the discipline that comes with them.
Range
Branded content, sports, automotive and events. Editing, colour and sound for names like Porsche and Jeep Middle East.
Scale
Expanded international production experience — bigger sets, larger teams, cinema cameras, tighter pipelines.
Norwich
Moved to the UK. MA Film at Norwich University of the Arts — the start of a new chapter.
Who is Salman?
Who isSalman?
24-year-old filmmaker and editor from Kerala, India, currently based in the UK and pursuing an MA Film at Norwich University of the Arts.
An engineer-turned-filmmaker, convinced that life makes the most sense when viewed through a lens. It started out of curiosity — and became five years of shooting, cutting, grading and designing sound.
The work moves between raw, real-world documentary and sleek, high-gloss commercial — the truth and the theatre of storytelling. Fascinated by colour, composition, and the small details most people walk past.
If something I create makes you pause, feel, or say “play that again,” then I know I’ve done my job.
- Editing/
- Cinematography/
- Colour/
- Sound/
- Commercial/
- Documentary/
- Sports/
- Automotive/
- Events
Engineering
- TechnologyStoryTechnology becomes Story
- PrecisionEmotionPrecision becomes Emotion
- SystemsVisualsSystems becomes Visuals
- Problem solvingSoundProblem solving becomes Sound
An engineering degree taught me systems, signal and precision. Filmmaking taught me what to do with them. Every timeline is a circuit — every cut, a decision about where the current flows.
Field notes — a filmmaker's journal
Fieldnotes
Behind the scenes, tests, frames I liked and things I noticed. Pulled from the notebook, mostly as written.
Behind the scenesSc. 12 / Day 3 Studio day, Porsche
White cyc, one very serious off-road build, and a crew that needed coffee by 9am.
light the car, then the people
Colour testGrade v07 Skin first. Always skin first.
- —Lift −0.02
- —Gamma warm, a touch
- —Sat 0.92 — less is louder
- —Protect the reds
v07 > v12
Frames I likedVizhinjam, 06:10 One boat, one rope, no wind
the whole film in one frame
Edit bayDraft V Sequence 04. Still smiling.
Nested sequences, nine audio tracks and a very long night.
the timeline always wins
Camera experimentTest roll Slow shutter on the sideline
messy. keep it.
Films that stayed with meWatchlist Things I keep going back to
- —Kumbalangi Nights
- —In the Mood for Love
- —Jallikattu
- —Sicario
- —Drive
edit this list, it changes weekly
LocationNorfolk Flat land, huge sky
Coming from the hills and backwaters, the horizon here feels like a different aspect ratio.
2.39:1 country
Random observationTuesday Nobody notices a good cut.
That's the job.
Chapter
06
Norwich University
of the Arts
MA Film
2026 →
Rolling
From Kerala to the UK — new light, new weather, new collaborators. Five years of commercial work, now in service of stories I want to tell.
Showreel
2026
What collaborators say
Thereviews
Working with Salman was a great experience. His expertise in colour grading, sound design, and editing elevated our Porsche Middle East films while staying true to the brand's identity. His professionalism and attention to detail delivered outstanding results, and we look forward to future collaborations.