About
Who are we? We’re just two creatives that have a passion to produce top quality videos for our clients.
TDP Video Productions is short for That’ll Do Pig Video Productions and was created out of Creatability LLC. As the video side of the business developed and the videos became more advanced, both artistically and technically, it became obvious that it should stand on its own. So the 2 founders, Paul Wakefield and Jermel Wells formed TDP Video Productions as a joint venture.
Paul Wakefield
With over 25 years in sales marketing, Paul was a freelance photographer in the UK. At the same time working towards a degree in Electrical/Electronic Engineering. After graduating and working as design engineer he entered the commercial world selling high-tech products. Later, he moved to Marketing, again for high-tech products and all the while stifling his creativity.
He started Creatability in 2005 and TDP Video in 2010.
Jermel Wells
Since graduating from Savannah College of Art & Design with a degree in 3D Computer Animation, Jermel has held several positions including 3D graphics designer for Redsquare Studios, assisting in creating TV Commercials and other video projects.
Jermel joined forces with Paul Wakefield in 2009 providing design and graphics for Creatability and then in the TDP Video joint venture.
That’ll Do Pig Video Productions – why the name?
We are often asked where the name came from – well here’s the answer.
During a period in 2008 Jermel and I were working as contractors for small start up. Jermel was creating 3D graphics and editing video; I was doing the online marketing and producing videos for clients. With imaginations running riot it was easy to keep working on a 3D model or video, endlessly tweaking them, however, that’s no way to be productive. At some point you have to determine that a project is complete. One day, at that point in a project, I said to Jermel “That’ll do pig!” – the famous line from the movie Babe. It stuck and it became the term we always used to say when a project reached that ‘certain point’.
Jermel and I moved on after the contract work finished and started working together – and the term moved with us. We still use it to this day. So when we were looking for a business name it seemed a natural choice.
We passed it by a few of our clients and associates and everyone loved it, so we went with it!
So now you know.