Well, what more can I say. Paul McCartney, Roman Coppola. His studio, a new single, 44 CCTV cameras, live monitoring from the states. A crazy shoot, & a fun video.
Ed Sheeran – Radio 1 Big Weekend
DIT
Worked with BBC Studios to record this performance in Snape Maltings. Efficiency is key on days like these. So Magliner was pre rigged with all required readers for multiple Amiras, A7SIII & Inspire 2 drone, and wheeled out of my van ready to go with no set up. An EDL of the director’s cut was delivered to post production alongside comprehensive data management, camera set up and QC.
Top Gear
DIT
After a small role in series 29. I was asked back for a few more days omn series 30. Particularly the Midlife Crisis film. Very happy to be working with old friends and new alike. Rigged inside a van, meant we always had an office wherever we travelled.
BAIT
DCP Author
Bait is a Bafta winning & wonderfully hand processed and post dubbed film about a marginalised community in Cornwall. I was responsible for creating the Digital Cinema package for Mark Jenkin’s film. Given the film’s non standard aspect ratio, I sympathetically scaled the delivered file, allowing it to fit into DCI standards, whilst maintaining proportions, framing, and the beautiful nuances created in the acquisition and processing stage. From here, the DCP file was created and verified. I created the linux formatted drive that would house the file and ensure compatibility with cinema projectors. I have tested this workflow thoroughly to ensure DCPs look great and work flawlessly.
The Tape
DIT Supervisor
Due to availability, I wasn’t able to DIT the whole of this film. So I was brought in to set up the workflow, and train somebody to manage the data, log and some basic QC checks. Very sweet film
James Martin – Cirio
DIT & Colourist
Suzuki Surprises
DIT
DIT support for a series of Suzuki adverts featuring Take That. Managing a large amount of data, captured using multiple Arri cameras for exteriors, and rigged aboard camera and sound set ups, over multiple vehicles. Spot checking, reporting, file distribution, HDD calculation and recommendation.
Fisherman’s Friends
DIT (Daily Cover)
Was lovely to tag in for a bit of cover for fellow DIT Alix Milan for a couple of days for feature film Fishermans Friends. And a couple of days in Port Isaac, I can think of way worse offices.
Cornish Orchards
Colourist
Caring for the Recently Deceased
DIT/Editor/Colourist
My first long form DIT, Edit & Grade. Wonderfully tongue in cheek and dark film. I owe a lot of gratitude to Henry Davies, Leigh Hickin and Morgan Lowndes for this first step into the land of cinema.
Love Pulses
Editor
Working with Dogbite Film Crew. I edited this and a couple other instructional videos
Working with Dogbite Film Crew. I edited this and a couple other instructional videos
Clarkson’s Farm S2
DIT Cover
Drambuie
DIT & Colourist
Brilliant opportunity to work with Blue Marlin from pre production, on location DIT support, & colour grade in my own grading suite. Due to limited space on set, the DIT van was parked right next to the set, as well as data, colour and image management, a brief cut of the AD was produced on the fly to show the client a coloured and relatively polished edit before the left at the end of the day. Colour grading was complete in my grading suite in Cornwall, and delivered to Radiant for the online.
All That Glitters
DIT
Was great working with old friends at TwentyTwenty and Film Store on this lovely Multicam shoot. Using the Sony Z750 was pretty uncharted territory, but we were able to create a HLG for SDR pipeline, to maximise the cameras performance whilst shooting HD. The triple chip set up on the camera gave great colour, clean images and wonderful zoom range which was the major key for shooting the small jewellery quickly.
Complaints Welcome
DIT
I was lucky enough to be a part of this irreverent campaign. I DIT’d for one day for the Jon Snow, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Cathy Newman & the ever charismatic Big Narstie sections. Studio based shoot in London, using Arri Alexa with Codex system. Data management, QC and transcodes for quick turnaround editing.
Brown Willy
Colourist
Brown Willy is a charming coming of (middle) age film. Shot on Bodmin Moor in 10 days. I had the pleasure of working directly with Director Brett Harvey & DOP Adam Laity to colour grade this uplifting, silly and beautiful film. Using Davinci Resolve, I poured over this filmed and created the DCP deliverables
Tesco Changing Places
DIT
DIT support for the Devon/Cornwall leg of the shoot. Arri Alexa, data management on the road, transcodes and mobile proxy upload to FTP via 4G for editorial. It was an extremely lovely shoot to be part of.
Turn to Starboard
Colourist
You Know Where to Find Me
Colourist
Brett Harvey shot this ‘oner’ music video on the early version of the DJI Osmo. The camera was compact and great for stabilisation, but limited in it’s codec and had a crispy video aesthetic. It took a lot of effort to mitigate the less appealing characteristics, whilst smoothly keyframing grades as the lighting and frames slowly changes throughout the whole video.
Sea Sanctuary
Camera/Editor
A very humbling experience, being on board Sea Sanctuary’s boat, and talking to their wonderful client sailors.
Spitfire
DIT
Spitfire is a fitting tribute the to marvel of which the film is named after. A beautifully moving feature documentary made by Elliptical Wing. Supporting the large multi-camera shoots. Advising on camera settings, quality control, playback and managing large amount of ground to air, and air to air cameras. Working with the best professionals in their field, we were able create some of the most beautiful aerial footage of the Spitfire ever filmed. A real badge of honour working on this gem of a film.
Top Gear
DIT
I was lucky enough, just before lockdown, to work on one of my 2 ultimate dream jobs. That’s right. TopGear. Specifically, providing DIT support for EP1 of series 29’s Tour of Bolton film. I worked through the night in the freezing cold Bolton stadium, all the while in disbelief that the stars were really sleeping in their cars. Hopefully there will be more TopGear in my future.
Changing Rooms
Colourist
Goodbye Cool
Colourist
Shot, Directed & edited by Brett Harvey. I colour graded this post apocalyptic dreamy music video for ‘Goodbye Cool’ a single for Black Books. Graded using DaVinci Resolve, after receiving a delivery of the edit from Brett.
The Great Travel Hack
DIT
DIT support for the second half of an Eco-Roadtrip from London to Istanbul. Huge amount in car, aerial, tracking and static cameras recording. Data management on the road using SSDs, with daily offloads to large raid hard drives.
Eden Sessions – Paolo Nutini
DIT/Editor/Colourist
I had great fun working with Director & Producer Morgan Lowndes and Anna Mannear and the rest of the wonderful Eden Sessions team. As the DIT on the night, the challenge in the edit was to faithfully recreate the mood created by his wonderful vocals and the enchanted audience.
Jing Boran – Engineered Arts
Camera/Editor/Colourist
When working as Engineered Arts Creative Content Producer, this was one of my favourite videos to shoot and edit.
Poldark 2 – Daily
B-UNIT DIT
A week well spent in the bottle yard Bristol with lead DIT Matt Pugh.
CHALK – BFI Academy
Online Editor/Colourist
It was exciting to help this BFI Academy film over the finish line. Final tweaks to the edit and a complete grade was undertaken to help the student’s work shine.