The Christmas single video I shot for Great Ormond Street and Children in Need is out on the 1st December. Here’s the latest bit of news info and some very unrevealing shots….!! http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/national/article/TV-antiques-experts-cutting-Christmas-charity-single-4f57dfee-8d65-42f8-9703-ce1cf0cd6021-ds
I recently shot a music video in the Green Room at the Backstage Centre in Purfleet. This was a great venue that gave us access to two completely different environments as well as a working space. Lighting was key and working with an experienced music video director – Brad Carter (www.bradcarter.co.uk) – was also a huge benefit as it enabled us to manage the shoot and performers quickly and efficiently. It was pretty much non-stop working from the get go […]
Shooting a music video this week and the shot requires a dolly pull across a long boardroom style table. Lots of ways to do this but with a tight budget I came up with this. Fs7 on a beanbag on a skateboard – here’s a test shot below. It works great where the surface is completely smooth.
A quick “Behind The Scenes” shot from a shoot last week including a green screen shot for a short compositing piece.
Had a recent two hour one-onoone workshop at Pinewood Studios on the new amazing 8K Red Epic-W. Great bit of kit. Might be adding it to the imaging arsenal in the next couple of months…!! Watch this space.
Heres a couple of shots of a great interview with BMX legend John Buultjens (bottom pic taken by Zach Shaw). John has a great life story – so much so thats it’s being turned into a Hollywood movie due for release in 2018.
Here’s a quick shot of a setup in a gym from a couple of weeks ago – Using a Lav mic and a boom with a sound man is great as it really reduces the extra workload of worrying about sound as well as everything else. When you’re shooting with 2 cameras as well this is particularly important. This shoot the whole back wall was covered in Mirrors so as well as light reflections I had to consider reflections of […]
Here’s my latest DoP job and some behind the scenes shots. As a London based director of photography I often end up working all over the world or at the very least navigating the congestion zone, motorways and underground stations of the capital. For this shoot I managed to persuade the client and production team that my back garden was the perfect location for the shoot (helped primarily by the fact we had a huge paddling pool which was a […]
After working with the Sony FS7 for the past couple of years I’ve got a pretty good handle on all it’s intricacies and settings . It really is a beast of a camera in terms of it’s functionality but at the same time it can be stripped down to the bone for a really small footprint run and gun rig. Here are a few Pictures showing the current setup and how I’ve regularly used it on assignments over the past […]
Here’s a quick edit of BMX pro Zach Shaw in the legendary Ro Pool at the 2017 BMX Jam. Shot on the Sony FS7, Graded in Davinci using the custom Rom Boys LUT and compositing in After Effects.