Media Team
Raf Zaini
Media Coordinator Lead
Plans and produces shoots, keeping every project moving from pre-production to post.
About
Raf Zaini runs production at AICREATIVV as Media Coordinator Lead. Her job is to keep every project moving from pre-production to production to post, and to make sure the client, the creative direction and the media team see it the same way. She calls the producer the captain of the ship, and she always has a Plan B and a Plan C.
She started as a freelancer, as Assistant Director on International School Brunei's 60th anniversary video. Since then she has directed and produced the T4 Summer Drinks campaign and led UNN's colocation video as project manager, producer and director. In 2026 she completed a Master's in Management at UBD while working, and led the creative and marketing side of a university forum on responsible AI. Her short film 'Dear Self' was shown at Berkumpul Borneo.
A former fashion illustrator, she still suggests shot ideas inspired by fashion ads and films.
What Raf does
- Pre-production planning: Gathers mood, tone, duration and client expectations before any shoot is planned.
- Producing shoots: Assembles crew, talent and locations, and solves problems calmly on shoot days.
- Client alignment: Keeps clients, creative direction and the media team aligned on every project.
- Scheduling and output: Schedules shoots, organises media and tracks output across projects.
Recent wins
- 2026, Win: Master's in Management at UBD, Completed a one-year Master's while producing for the media team.
- 2026, Win: UNN colocation video, Led the project as manager, producer and director, making technical ideas easy to follow.
- 2026, Win: Responsible AI forum at UBD, Led the creative and marketing direction of a forum on AI in academia and the office.
- 2026, Project: Main Video (2026), Frost Haus
- 2026, Story: Inside Production: Lessons from Raf Zaini, AICREATIVV blog
- 2025, Win: 'Dear Self' at Berkumpul Borneo, Her short film was curated for Brunei's presence at the regional gathering.
- 2025, Project: Summer Drinks, T4
- 2025, Story: Raf Zaini: The Orchestrator Behind the Scenes, AICREATIVV blog
- 2024, Project: Cycle 6, Kontena Park
Projects
- Frost Haus - Main Video (2026) (2026)
- T4 - Summer Drinks (2025)
- Kontena Park - Cycle 6 (2024)
On the blog
- Raf Zaini's Major Side Quest
- Inside Production: Lessons from Raf Zaini
- Raf Zaini: The Orchestrator Behind the Scenes
- On the Other Side of the Camera
- The Thinking Behind It: Making Complexity Understandable
- Rethinking AI, Responsibly
- Across Borders, One Creative Language
In the Spellbook
- Spellbook #73: 2 weeks. 0 yeses.
- Spellbook #72: I don't approve holidays
- Spellbook #71: Never touched a camera. Then Korea.
- Spellbook #70: We broke our own website
- Spellbook #67: Nobody got here alone (Part 3/3)
- Spellbook #65: Nobody clapped (Part 1/3)
- Spellbook #64: Before you break the rules, learn them
- Spellbook #63: 5 minute problem turns into a 5 day issue
- Spellbook #62: You would've seen the red cars
- Spellbook #61: They're looking at nothing
- Spellbook #60: 420 days
- Spellbook #58: The question that changed the whole meeting
- Spellbook #57: When did this become normal?
- Spellbook #54: Ads bring people in. Then what?
- Spellbook #52: 10k followers. 0 Sales.
- Spellbook #51: Great portfolios don’t mean great teams
- Spellbook #50: How not to talk
- Spellbook #49: 3 letters that changed how I approach everything
- Spellbook #48: Have you ever just stopped thinking?
- Spellbook #47: 3 habits that destroys team morale
- Spellbook #46: We had one chance to get this right
- Spellbook #45: Hearing is not listening
- Spellbook #44: We keep starting over without realizing it
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