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This showcases some of the films I’ve been lucky enough to be involved with over the years and ranges through documentary, music and even a little drama.  If you’d like to know more about any of them do get in touch.  Please allow a few seconds for videos to load.

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Text Box: Battlefield Detectives: Gettysburg History Channel Digi Doc 10mns of 50mns Dir: James Miller Wanting to make a strong contrast between the dramatic reconstructions and the documentary narrative, we decided to shoot the recons with the highest shutter light would allow (even adding gain in bright sunlight), & then used a really fidgety long lens style. This was then slowed in post as well as having the colour degraded. Director James Miller bravely backed the idea & I think it works pretty well. Text Box: The Secret Family of Jesus Ch4 Hi-def Documentary 10mns of 1110mns Dir: David Batty Filmed in Israel & Syria all available light. Shooting black presenter Robert Beckford in bright sun meant keeping exposure on the dramatic scenery was critical, & going underground with no lighting I was reliant on a couple of gas lamps, and just a candle in one instance. Testament to hi-def that gave great ’atmospheric’ images. Syria gave beautiful shots wherever you pointed the camera! Text Box: James May Inside Killer Sharks Sky Hi-def Documentary 10mns of 50mns Dir: James Miller Overcoming sea-sickness with ‘patches’ (recommended) meant I had a great time filming James doing his shark thing. Although I’m a diver we had a dedicated sub-surface cameraman so I could concentrate on capturing everything on deck. Interesting to see the different feel given with & without tripod on a pitching yacht. Great footage of manta rays & chance to scuba with sharks! Text Box: Sgt.Pepper: It was 40 years ago today: Kaiser Chiefs BBC2 Digibeta Documentary 10mns Dir: Paul Bernays I filmed The Kaiser chiefs recording their version of The Beatles song ‘Getting Better’ for the 40th anniversary of Sgt.Pepper on the original 4-track recording equipment with Beatles engineers Geoff Emmerick. It’s all shot with available light, which was pretty low level in areas of the control room—although the set interviews are lit. There are a couple of inevitable Z1 shots in the mix for you to spot. Text Box: Seconds to Disaster: Miami Everglades Nat Geo Hi-def CGI Doc 10mns of 50mns Dir: Mark Ackerman Good fun working out the plates we needed to shoot for the CGI team to unfold the story in the edit, i.e. visualizing the action through the sequence without any action to shoot! Filming in the aircraft was a nightmare as it was a training plane with no windows in the fuselage so no light could be thrown in from where it should be. In the end I greenscreened the window ports & sent them white in post. Text Box:
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Text Box: Documentary clip selection Documentary 7mns This is a montage of extracts from a few other documentaries I’ve filmed over the years starting with an ocean baptism in Haiti and finishing with a shot from the conning tower of an American nuclear sub (which wouldn’t leave port until they had fixed a vital piece of equipment—the ice-cream making machine!). Look out for the waves breaking backwards by the way. Text Box: Text Box: Loaded Hour: Sin City Homage Sky Digi Milo Motion Control rig CGI promo 45secs Fantastic to play with a motion control rig in a fully greenscreened studio to make a little Sin City spoof for the title sequence of a TV show. You really can think in three dimensions with one of these rigs. Text Box: Text Box: Guilty Secret: Interrogation VH1 DV Drama music 30secs Dir: Paul Wilkinson I usually shoot these little promos on super 16mm film but here we went with DVcam! They’re really short but really good fun I reckon. Text Box: Text Box: Guitly Secret: Customs VH1 DV Drama music 30secs Dir: Paul Wilkinson These Guilty Secrets were all shot in one office location. I had one gaffer, a little Hollywood track & dolly (self-op) and four set-ups to do in a day. Text Box: Text Box: Guilty Secret: I.D. Parade VH1 DV Drama music 30secs Dir: Paul Wilkinson As I recall we only had one suitable wall to shoot all this against so we kept moving everyone and everything and re-dressing the wall for each camera angle to give it a police cell type feel rather than the huge disused office space it actually was. Text Box: Text Box: Guilty Secret: Confessional VH1 DV Drama music 30secs Dir: Paul Wilkinson Although my favourite band is The Black Keys I’d like to confess to having a little corner of my ipod dedicated to All Saints! Text Box: Text Box: Promo clip selection Various 7mns Filmed mostly on S16mm and with the rest on 35mm and digi, this is a whistle-stop tour of other little promos I’ve shot over the last few years—my particular favourite is the MTV Night Doctor right at the very end. Text Box:
Text Box: Sgt.Pepper: It was 40 years ago today: Travis BBC2 Digibeta Documentary 10mns Dir: Paul Bernays I filmed Travis recording their version of The Beatles song ‘Lovely Rita’ for the 40th anniversary of Sgt.Pepper on the original 4-track recording equipment with Beatles engineers Geoff Emmerick. It’s all shot with available light, which was pretty low level in areas of the control room—although the set interviews are lit. There are a couple of inevitable Z1 shots in the mix for you to spot.
Text Box: Campaign clip selection Various 7mns Also filmed mostly on S16mm and some 35mm and digi, this is also features corporate work for Philips, Mistubishi and other clients but also has some promo stuff which is here as a quirk! Text Box:
Text Box: Your Film By: You Coming soon! Text Box: This space is reserved for your film, so get in touch soon and let’s go shoot it! Thanks for dropping by. Text Box: The Siege of Massada Nat Geo Digibeta History Channel 9mns of 50mns Filmed in Israel obviously, in exceedingly hot conditions. However all the dramatic reconstructions were shot in a sand quarry in Essex, fortunately on a sunny day. The night scenes, filmed in the same location were lit purely with pallet bonfires and a couple of orange flame gas flares—I reckon it looks better than if the budget had allowed for a generator, flicker lamps and ‘moonlight’. Text Box:

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Text Box: Text Box: Viral Campaign: Opel Internet viral 45secs Dir: Mike Martin Shot in one day on one lens using a Sony XDCam with some variable shutter and frame rates, this short is the first in a series of viral ads for Opel. Minimal equipment comprised of a monopod, tripod and a couple of space lights found on location.

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