Andy Evans
Managing Director,
The Pavement, London

Fresh out of a Masters degree in 1994, Andy began his career investigating the potential of multimedia applications and Virtual Reality simulations for people with special needs at the BT Research Laboratories, UK. Upon joining a London West End post production facility, TVI, in 1996, he focussed on MPEG in multimedia applications including VideoCD and CD-ROM projects in the corporate sector. Within eighteen months, the division had been re-launched under his guidance as a DVD production studio called Stream, authoring some of the first pan-European DVDs for clients including Universal Pictures and MGM.

Andy left Stream in 2000 to form The Pavement (www.the-pavement.com) with partners Kristen O’Sullivan and Lloyd Shaer. The Pavement has quickly become one of Europe’s most creative DVD production facilities, producing a wide variety of DVDs for the music, TV, feature film and corporate sectors. By working at the cutting edge of technical expertise, The Pavement has built a reputation for projects that advance and redefine the possibilities of the DVD format.

In 2003, The Pavement were part of a successful MBO of a post production company, now called Pepper Post Production (www.pepperpost.tv), where Andy is a Director of the London West End based facility. Pepper’s range of services includes HD Editing and Telecine, and is in constant demand for TV drama, feature film, commercials and music.

In April 2005, The Pavement were approached by Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE) to be part of there beta development of the UMD-Video tools and Andy has been pioneering this new technology at The Pavement since. Since taking on the UMD-Video tools, The Pavement has pushed the format to show what it can really achieve beyond DVD, setting up the foundations for the next generation formats in both workflow, skills and approach.