Owen Innes

I help teams turn complex stories into motion and software people can trust under real deadline pressure.

Over 15 years in Australian broadcast news taught me that clarity is a production skill, not a post-production fix. I edited breaking news at Nine and Seven, coordinated cross-department coverage across sport and politics, and spent five years in the Network Ten parliamentary press gallery filming federal politics nationally and internationally. Election nights at SBS sharpened how I think about pace, accuracy, and audience trust when the stakes are highest.

Today I lead Motion Mavericks in Western Australia — building creative and technical capability where editorial judgment, motion craft, and modern tooling meet. The work spans strategy, production, and the systems that let small teams move like networks used to.

That path taught me something useful outside newsrooms too: most failures in creative work are not missing features. They are unclear briefs, broken handoffs, and asking people to make production decisions they should never have to make alone.

Good work earns trust through hundreds of small calls. Tight edits. Predictable workflows. Thoughtful defaults. Visual language that helps people understand what they are watching — or using — within seconds.