Official video for JJ Melody’s “Leave You At Home”, directed by Louise Morton Murray, produced by BYOC and shot by me on Freelance Films’ Canon C300 and L series lens kit.
We shot this video a couple of months ago and it dropped in the last week, already building up 100,000 views on youtube. Here is the Vimeo link for those who prefer to automatically watch in HD. Lovely to work with JJ and the beautiful Lauren Carre, model and ex Big Brother 2012 housemate!
I’ve been insanely busy thus far in 2013 (just what we like to hear) with a new year that began like the last with some filming for a Chinese broadcaster, followed by an indie feature and a trip to the Middle East to film a royal wedding.
Missing from all that is time to just unwind, so that’s what I did last night when my fire breathing friend Glen popped over to see our new place. You can’t take the film out of the filmmaker though, so when Glen suggested sparking up for a quick demo of his skills in the garden I thought I’d knock together a little promo for him. This literally took ten minutes to shoot, fifteen to edit and grade and then maybe half an hour to upload to Vimeo. My favorite kind of speed cinema! Enjoy :)
Just before christmas I spent some time filming the new ‘Backstage Pass’ web series that will follow ‘I’m a Celebrity’ fan favourite (and now ‘Dancing on Ice’ judge) Ashley Roberts in her day to day life on tour and behind the scenes of her shoots. Here’s the first video cut from the two days I spent with her. It looks pretty much ungraded and I’m not sure how I feel about that!
In other news I’ve updated the links to the left of my site - new CV for 2013 can be downloaded if you like, plus a slightly updated showreel can be reached via the showreel button. December was a busy month for me - alongside the web series I shot three short films for LAMDA which will hopefully get trailers I can share with you in the coming months. We had some incredible locations up in Norfolk and Whitstable for those shoots and all were shot on C300 courtesy of Freelance Films with a set of L zooms so they should look rather nice!
Just a few days before the Booker Prize was announced I shot this interview with nominee Jeet Thayil about his book “Narcopolis” for publishers Faber & Faber. I operated B cam, shooting writer and journalist Stuart Evers, while A cam was manned by Terry Wilson of Pixel Kisser Productions, who also edited this promo spot. It’s an interesting interview for anyone interested in the book, or indeed in the mysterious world of the opium dens of what was once Bombay. Enjoy!
A quick update on some of the projects I’ve been involved with recently! Firstly above is the teaser for ‘Against The Norm’, a short film by Iqbal Mohammed. The film was produced by Louise Morton Murray of BYOC Films (more on that soon!) and I was Director of Photography. I also edited the above teaser for Iqbal to generate interest in the production while the film is in post with its online editor.
I also recently shot and edited a promotional video for The Mole Clinic in London, again with Louise and also with my longtime collaborator Phil Macdonald of Freelance Films on sound recording duties, and providing his excellent broadcast quality Canon C300 camera for me to operate.
This past Sunday I shot an as yet untitled short film which I am currently editing for a Goldsmiths university student who is applying to film school in New York. It’s quite a touching little piece and I look forward to sharing it with you soon.
Karolina Koziel took these awesome photos on the set of “8 Magical Thinking” that show me with the C300 we used on the shoot. Karolina is an excellent film stills and portrait photographer - check out her work at www.karolinakoziel.com or add her on twitter via http://www.twitter.com/karolinakoziel for more of her fantastic on-set work.
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Just what the hell have I been up to lately? This is an excellent question. It’s been a while since I updated and I’ve been insanely busy shooting all over the place - just got back from pulling on a Red Epic shoot down in Tetbury for steadicam op/DP Rich Cornelius at the end of the week, shot an EPK for Mel C with the ultra talented Director and DP Liam Hall a couple of weeks ago, went up north to work on the next film from the ever prolific makers of Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan and most recently I directed the photography of ‘The Lake’, a short film written and directed by Sukhdeep Krishan and produced by Freelance Films. We shot at a lake in Essex on Phil Macdonald’s C300 with Canon L Series lenses, ably assisted by camera trainee Kizzy Dhaliwal, gaffer Mitch Waite, 1st AD Louise Morton Murray and DIT/Man with a colour grading van Alan Andrade, with some interiors at a lovely suburban home in Surrey (kindly provided by my aunt!). Above is a still from the shoot - hopefully we’ll have a website and teaser trailer up soon. I’ve seen a rough cut already and it’s looking promising so I look forward to sharing more when I can. Do check out the film’s wonderful cast - Ollie Tilney and Louise Williams, both of whom were excellent to work with!
I shot this promo for Next Model Management at the end of July with Phil Macdonald of Freelance Films recording sound; the shoot covered the opening of the ‘Identity’ art exhibition at Soho’s Whisper Gallery, showcasing artists under contract to Next. The artists featured include Tali Lennox (daughter of recording artist Annie Lennox and Israeli film and record producer Uri Fruchtman) and Harry Gilliam (son of filmmaker Terry). The promo was produced by Appleseed Productions.
This trailer for the FREDDY Fall/Winter 2012 collection was shot by oscar long-listed DP Luca Fantini way back in 2011. We shot on 5D MK II and 7D with Canon ‘L’ series lenses in a variety of locations, including the same one used for ‘Arkham Asylum’ in Batman Begins. I worked as 1st AC and occasional operator (when the parkour guys are running from the helicopter, that’s ME they’re jumping over!) and it was a really fun shoot. Looking forward to more videos being released when the F/W campaign hits stores later in the year!
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