Will it snow?

Autumn has been around for a while and I'm off to Australia with my wife to visit her family for a month in December. So it is unlikely to snow there but will it snow here? Maybe. Its been a busy few months with various edit jobs; some directing and some filming. The highlights being in August I was asked to film 5 documentaries with the director Caswell Coggins who I have known for a while. He's a music video and commercials director and has just made the recent BBC Radio App commercial. Anyway we made 5 10 minute films for a company called Dance United (http://www.dance-united.com/) They basically use dance to help young people from varied backgrounds to help develop themselves. The one film I have put below follows Junaid and Addisu from Ethiopia. I shot it on the C300 using Zeiss primes and all natural light.




Also mentioned in my last post was the film we made for Random Acts called Scat. and I've now posted it to vimeo. I made it with Katy Hall and incredibly talented crew. All lit by nautral light with Marc Covington on camera and Steadicam. Thomas Lee on Focus pulling. Sound recorded and mixed by Nikos Nikolalaios. Produced by Matt Cummins for Red Lion Films. Camera (Red Scarlet) and lenses supplied by Ben Scott.



Also the 3 Pronged Attack (myself and Mr Andy Hui) have been busy. The Rifles video has been finished which can be seen below. Also we were commissioned to make a video for a new band called Major involving a blow up male sex doll. Thats in the final stages of post as we speak and has turned out pretty well. Will put up in the next post.



This month I have been working on a short film for Vicky Garner from the group The Birth I Want (http://www.thebirthiwant.org.uk/). We interviewed 9 Mums about their births ranging from great births to the down right horrific. The film is going to help awareness about the many different standards across the hospital wards; how this should be addressed and how Mums should expect the birth they want. 

Also this week I have been working with Emily who has invented a new bike torch which projects the image of a bike 10m in front of the cyclist warning lorry drivers e.t.c. of the bikes presence. http://www.blazecomponents.com/ We've made a 3 minute promotional film and from this I'm trying to create 3x 30sec edits as well. Will post films up in January. Have a great Christmas and New Year!!

Random Acts

Well the summer is nearly over. Its been a busy four months since I last wrote here. I have had my first child and have been working on various projects. We did a film for the University of East Anglia which went down well online and they decided to use it for a cinema ad around the country. Here's the cinema version. The audio got mixed in Dolby 5.1



We have shot a music video or two. We are currently working on the edit of a Rifles video which is coming along nicely. Its for their track Long Walk Back and the actors Vicky McClure and Jonny Owen. I'll put it up here when we're finished.

Also worked as 2nd Unit and editor on a recent Kallo commercial and edited a recent Harveys TV commercial. A few viral films for Go On UK a campaign group pushing for the whole of the UK population to be online by 2020. Also made two viral films for Forevermark Diamonds with the designers Stephen Webster and Shaun Leane.



I also edited 84 films for We Are Social for Adidas. The footage was shot on a variety of cameras and different formats which made it a difficult. However they were pleased with the final films.

Also I collaborated with Katy Hall at Channel 4 to create a random act film. It stars the Jazz artists Liane Carrol and Ian Shaw.  Its going to be broadcast next week at 11pm on Tuesday 11th September. So please watch it!! We are also working on another as we speak.

Over August I have been working on 5 short contemproary Dance films to be screened at The Place in London for Dance United. The films show how through dance young people who have troubled backgrounds have overcome some of their difficulties.

Here are some photos I took recently that I like.

Long time...

Well its been a very long time since I put anything up here. I made a small internet 'viral' campaign video for a group of yorkshire colleges in January. We travelled around yorkshire for two weeks filming various colleges singing live a pre-written track as part of a Capital FM campaign. It was difficult becuase we had to include every college giving them equal time and some colleges were a lot better than others.





February was cold from what I remember, various shoots with Adjust Your Set and others for Liz Earle and Marks & Spencer. I did some photos as well which are posted below.

March we (Andy Hui & myself aka 3PA) pitched for a small internet commercial for University of East Anglia which we got. We spent a few days up there filming the campus to produce a hip hop montage. Its lots of clips edited together using the sounds to create a rhythm. Thats just been approved so its not up yet but when it is I shall post up here.

April has been busy had a quick trip Istanbul for Absolut  with Suzy from Create. It was a whirlwind tour, filming the launch of new bottle called Istanbul. The film turned out well.

Currently I'm pitching with Andy for various jobs; editing on some Adidas work and trying to raise some money for a short experimental film exploring the tides at the Minquiere reef near Jersey.