In the past when I’ve had a two cam shoot, usually a talking head, I either bring in an extra hand or I hire in an A7S2 or FS7 when need be. I have never in the past liked doing this as there have been too many issues to go wrong – specifically focus when the subject moves their chair and your DOF is really narrow the whole shot can be ruined. Now with the FX9 and the new a7sIII […]
Well after 5 years of gimbal ownership from the original Ronin 1 to the Ronin 2 now I’ve just received the Ronin RS2. Despite the excellent Ready Rig system I was just getting tired of lugging around the Ronin 2 – with camera technology coming on leaps and bounds in the past 5 years the visual benefits of mounting an FX9 on a Ronin 2 vs a handheld RS2 and an A7S3 are just so slight now I just couldn’t […]
I’m always on the lookout for a camera bag with my seeming ever expanding kit. The last few years they’ve multiplied and got bigger to handle the arsenal of camera gear – my last bag a ThinkTank Photo Airport Accelerator has been great for lugging on planes, trains and automobiles however the kit has now outgrown it. Also as a backpack alone it’s becoming a handful. So I’ve been hunting down a wheeled backpack that can handle gear that will […]
After a car trip to Paris for Paris Surf and Skate film festival in September with the official premiere on the evening of the 26th I won best feature documentary for Rom Boys on the 27th.
The reviews are coming in. As of today we’re averaging 5 stars on Amazon UK (4.9 average) based on 60 ratings and 50 reviews. 9.6 average on IMDB
This week, after several months and various online meetings, US based 1091media, the ideal company out there for a potential Rom Boys audience signed the film to their catalog.
Amidst this COVID-19 epidemic it’s funny that now there’s now this kind of revelation that we can actually work from home and we don’t really need to get on a train, commute for hours and then come home knackered. When I was around 18 I had my first “proper” job in London which was a 40 minute commute away. I remember the first night after work coming home and some guy in his 40’s was asleep on the train, dribbling […]
In these crazy times we’re currently going through it’s great to get the opportunity to not only do something creative but to do it for a great cause. On Thursday 2nd April the Port of Tilbury workers all had the idea to make a tribute to the NHS using 137 shipping containers. Working with the team at the port we decided to shoot a timelapse and drone footage of the build – This meant I spent around ten hours on […]
After four years in production in the UK and US, shooting around thirty interviews, and an agonising eight months in post, Rom Boys is finished about to start the international film festival circuit. With an original score by NY based film composer Fernando Martinez and sound mix by action and adventure sports master mixer Will Berridge it’s really turned into something quite special. Check out the final trailer recently released in 4K that gives a good overview of the story. There’s never been a UK feature length documentary looking […]