Credits
BBC, Bravo, Channel 4, GMTV, ITV West, NTV, S4C, Sky, Sony TV, Charity/Community, Corporate, Music Video, Short Film
These credits are sort of alphabetical and not ranked chronologically or in order of importance so please use the above links if you have a particular interest.
'Points West', 'BBC News', 'Inside Out', 'Politics Show' - (BBC Bristol / 2005 to Present)
Camera Operator / Editor / Video Journalist
Ongoing staff contract for the BBC's regional and network news and current affairs.
'Smart Spenders' - (BBC Bristol /2005)
Jib / Camera Assistant
Lifestyle Documentary for BBC One.
Jib/Camera Operator: Matt Norman
'Beast?' - (BBC NHU & Suited & Booted / 2004)
Mentor & DV Camera Operator - DSR 570 / PD 170
A project mentoring 4 young people in making a short docu-drama exploring the representation of truth in wildlife films. The film follows two documentary filmakers investigating reports of a wild big cat and charts their progress from impartial observers into fictional storytellers depending on the footage they acquire. Premiered at the IMAX theatre, Bristol on 12th February 2005.
'To buy or not to buy' - (BBC Pebble Mill / 2003)
DV Camera Operator - PD150
New lifestyle programme. Fly on the wall style shooting of people 'road testing' a new house.
'Match of the Day' - (TSN / 2002)
Camera Operator - Beta SP
Multi camera coverage of 4th round FA cup match.
'Lord of the Rings a Literary Documentary' - (Scripts & Scribes / 2002)
2nd Unit Camera Operator - Beta SP
Tolkinesque landscapes shot on location in the UK.
Everybody - (Freeform Productions / 2005)
Camera Operator - Digi Beta
Pilot for a new show fronted by Carol Vorderman. Involved shooting an obstacle course race contrasting two different models of wheelchairs as part of a three camera as-live OB.
Director: Martin Perrett
Vee TV - (Maverick TV / 2005)
Camera Operator - PD150
Magazine programme for young deaf people. Interview filmed with deaf Tsunami survivor.
Director: Samuel Dore
You Are What You Eat - (Celador / 2005)
Lighting Camera Operator - DSR 570
Lifestyle programme, psc shooting on location in Herefordshire..
Director: Adeline Ramage
Stirling Prize - (TalkbackThames/2004)
Jib Assistant / Focus Puller - Digi Beta
Show based around an architecture competition. Involved assisting Jimmy Jib Operator Matt Norman shooting inside Bexley Business Academy.
Jib Operator: Matt Norman
Director: Peter Sweasey
Kings of Comedy - (Endemol / 2004)
Camera Operator - Digi Beta
New Big Brother style show except with stand up comics.
News- (2000 Television/ 2004-2005)
Camera Operator - Digi Beta
Regular live news feeds and ENG news packages.
'Soccer Night', 'Soccer Sunday' & 'Hit the Net' - (Chatford Films & TSN / 2000-2005)
Camera Operator - Beta SP & DSR 570
Regular contracts in both single and multi camera football coverage in wide, C/U and pitch side positions and covering interviews and live links.
'Various Programmes' - (1999-2000)
Camera Operator/Editor - Beta Sp & DSR 500
I worked for 18 months for this local cable station based in Northampton as chief Camera Operator/Editor working on News, Sport, Lifestyle Programmes & Documentaries. Though low budget and often cheesy we worked to broadcast technical standards.It was a highly multi skilled position often involving research & script writing and nearly always directing the shoot.
'PAAW' (Antena TV / 2003)
Camera Operator - Beta SX
Filming on location at West Midlands Safari Park for a children's wildlife programme. Show presented by Llyer Ifans of Twin Town fame.
'Sky Sports / Sports News / News'
Camera Operator - Digi Beta DVW 700/790 & Beta SP (2000 Television / 2000 - 2005)
Regular contracts shooting sports news stories, live news, single camera sports coverage throughout the UK.
'Various Programmes' - (1999 - 2002)
Camera Operator / Editor - Beta SP, DSR 500 & Canon XL1
I have worked on many programmes for Sony, usually it is event coverage of cultural & religious occasions.
Action Medical Research
'Peru Inca Trail Trek' - (GE Media / 2003-2004)
Director / Camera Operator / Editor - DVX 100 / VX 9000, Final Cut Pro
2 x Hour long travel documentaries of a sponsored trek along the Inca Trail in Peru finishing at Machu Pichu in aid of the charity Action Medical Research. PSC shooting including interviews with the trekkers.
'Egypt Hike Away', 'Moroccan 4167m Mountain Trek', 'China Hike Away', 'The Mount Kilimanjaro 19,340 ft Hike Away', 'India Bike Challenge' & 'Peru - Trek the Inca Trail' - (GE Media / 2003-2004)
Director / Camera Operator / Editor - AG DVX100, XL1,VX 9000, Final Cut Pro
Hour long travel documentaries of a 100km trek across the Sinai desert, a climb to the highest peak in the Moroccan Atlas Mountains, a trek along the great wall of China , a 400 km cycle ride through Rajasthan in India, a truly exhausting and not altogether enjoyable climb to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro and a trek to Machu Picchu in Peru in aid of the charity Scope. PSC shooting including interviews with the trekkers.
'Dings Home Zone Documentary' - (2003/4)
Director / Camera Operator / Editor - AG DVX100
I have been commissioned by Sustrans to produce a 40 minute documentary of the development of a Home Zone in the Dings area of Bristol. The filming will be spread over an 18 month period.
Wildspaces, Bath and North East Somerset L.A.
'Carrs Woodland snapshot film and DVD' - (Suited & Booted Community Video/ Feb - May 2004)
Director / Camera Operator / Editor - XM1
Three short films about the relationship local people have with a woodland which is soon to be designated as a nature reserve. This project involved working with people with special needs.
Words Allowed / National Trust
'Tyntesfield House Video Archive'- (2003)
Camera Operator - PD150 / DVX 100
I shot a pilot for a documentary on WWII evacuees at the new National Trust property, Tyntesfield House and then went on to be commissioned to shoot the video archive for the house including interviews with people associated with the property and footage of the house and grounds. (2003)
'My Crown is Called Content' & 'Alba'- (LSW / 2003)
Camera Operator - PD150
Multi camera coverage of theatrical performances inside HMP Pentonville & HMP Send prisons with inmates and professional actors.
Suited & Booted Community Video
Various - (2002 - 2005)
Camera Operator / Editor - PD170, DVX 100, XM2, Final Cut Pro
Regular and ongoing work on numerous community video projects.
Wildscreen Festival (The International Festival of Moving Images form the Natural World)
Camera Operator - PD150, DVCPro50
Technical team member at the 2002 and 2004 Wildscreen Festivals. Responsible for setting up and maintaining AV equipment throughout the site. Also responsible for shooting the Panda Awards ceremony and the Peter Scott lecture.
I have worked as Camera Operator/Editor on many corporate videos. Some of my clients have included Castle Vale Housing Action Trust, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard, Mercedes Ilmor, 02, Unilever, Valtra and Westminster Health to name but a few.
Clayton Blizzard (2010)
DoP/Operator(HDV)
Music video for Bristol based folk/rappers new single 'New strings on an old guitar'. Currently being edited.
Oblitr8 (2005)
Camera Operator (Digi)
Music video for Bristol based band.
Anemic - (Poke in the Eye Films/ 2005)
Camera Operator/Focus Puller - DSR 570 / Digi Beta
2nd Unit Operator on a music video for local unsigned band.
DoP: Matt Norman
Director: Jemma Atwal
American Hi Fi - 'Break Up Song' (Island/Def Jam Records / 2003)
Camera Operator/location scout - DSR 570
I worked as 2nd unit camera operator on this video as well as hastily arranging some locations whilst the band were passing through Bristol on tour. The warehouse is the Proving House in St Werburghs, thanks to the Better Food Company.
Reef - 'Live at Bristol Academy for concert DVD' (2003)
Jib Assistant - DSR 570
Live concert coverage.
Jib Operator: Matt Norman
Brat - 'Sob Story'- (Poke in the Eye Films / 2003)
2nd Unit Operator & Camera Assistant - Digbeta DVW 700, PD150, Toshiba minicam
A very successful video giving this unsigned Exeter band regular MTV airplay. Experience gained with setting up Jimmy Jib and Focus Pulling.
Dir: Jemma Atwal
DoP: Matt Norman
Rishi Rich - Nahin Jeena/Nahin Tere Jeha Hor Disda (Shrinkwrapped Productions / 2002)
Director of Photography/Operator - XL1
This video was made on a shoestring budget just before Rishi signed to a bigger label and became a household name. He later released Nahin Jeena as a single which made the Top 40 but unfortunately he had another video made. Still this one is not bad considering the limited budget and given that the concept was largely abandonned on the evening of the shoot. Below is a link to a very badly compressed version of the video.
Sugar Bush - Live Performance Video & Documentary (NTV / 2000)
Director of Photography/Operator/Editor - DSR 500
I shot many live bands whilst at NTV as part of feature programmes. This was an extended documentary on a local band featuring live performance and interviews. Broadcast on NTV but also used by the band as a publicity tool.
Tamar - Source to Sound
Director / Camera Operator / Editor
As part of the ICCI 360 Festival in Plymouth I made a film of a sunrise to sunset journey down the River Tamar. From where it rises just a few miles from the North Devon/Cornwall coast to Plymouth Sound. The film was shown in the Igloo Vision dome on 5 HD screens, making it an encapsulating journey. For one night during the festival the film was also accompanied by a live performance from the Voces choir. I shot the film entirely on a Nikon D90. Click on the image below to watch the film.
Director / Camera Operator / Editor
A short film following the course of the River Frome from where it rises at the foot of the Cotswolds to it's mouth in Bristol city centre. It was made as part of a competition called 'Bristol's Best Kept Secret' at the Wildscreen Film Festival 2008. We had 24 hours to shoot it (in terrible weather!) and 4 hours to edit.
Dylan Radclyffe
Doug Tabbard - Human Curler (2007)
Director of Photography / Operator - HDV
This film was Dylans final project of his Creative Writing degree and his first short film. We had great fun making it and as someone commented on you tube it's "too f*****g good".
The Messenger(2006)
Director of Photography / Operator - HDV
Southwest Scriptwriters ran a short film script competition. They produced two films as a result with TAPS and Lottery funding. I worked on one of them for one of a two day shoot.
Director: Stephen Brown
Writer: Adrian Henderson
Suited & Booted Studios (FIRST LIGHT: BIG SCREEN SCIENCE)
The boy who would be good (27th June - 1st July 2005)
Camera Operator - DSR 570
First Light offered secondary school teachers and students the opportunity to explore the moral and ethical issues of science through filmmaking. Six schools won the opportunity to produce their own short film about biomedical science, with expert guidance from scientists and filmmakers alike.
Working with Suited & Booted I recently shot one of these films at Ridgeway school in Plymouth on the subject of ADHD.
Director: Emma Lindley
BBC NHU / Wildscreen / Suited & Booted
Wild Ideas (October - December 2004)
Recent research undertaken by Bristol Natural History Consortium highlighted various short fallings in the current communication of conservation issues, especially to youth audiences. In light of this research an expert steering group furthered investigations into existing communication methods and devised initiatives that specifically address this issue. This initiative will bring together small and emerging community filmmaking companies based in some of the region’s most deprived areas with the most established filmmaking organisation in the region, the BBC. The aim is to increase access to and participation in filmmaking activities for young people living in these areas and at the same time demonstrate a new, experimental application of digital technology in communicating about science and nature to new audiences.
I worked with Suited & Booted Community Video in Bath to mentor 4 young people in making a short docu-drama exploring the representation of truth in wildlife films. The film follows two documentary filmakers investigating reports of a wild big cat and charts their progress from impartial observers into fictional storytellers depending on the footage they acquire. Other community filmakers worked with young people throughout the SW on a range of other imaginative projects.
The Premiere screening was held at the Imax in Bristol on Saturday 12th February 2005, there will be community screenings throughout the South West soon. Neil Nightingale from the NHU also expressed an interest in showing the films on the BBC at some point in the future.
'Not from where I'm standing' - (March - May 2004)
Writer / Director / Camera Operator - Super 8mm
Not From Where I'm Standing is a short film made in collaboration with a local deaf filmaker Samuel Dore. The film began life as part of the Joy of 8 mm challenge, to shoot a film on one roll of Super 8mm film, shot sequentially and edited in-camera. The film exploits the silent nature of Super 8 to turn the tables on the usual nature of interpretation. All the dialogue on screen is in sign language and during the screening we used a live, speaking interpreter. When the interpreter appears in the film though, caught on camera kerb crawling, he faces a dilema of whether to interpret the dialogue accurately or not...and will he get caught out?
In order to extend the life of the film we re-created the screening and filmed the interpreters parts so that the film can be seen as a screen only entity.
Screenings:
Joy of 8mm premiere, Watershed Bristol- May 2004
Future Shorts, Il Bordello, Bristol
Vision Sign Networking Event, Watershed, Bristol
Bluescreen, The Cube, Bristol
DOV Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden - November 2004
BDA's 9th Sign Language Film & TV Festival, The Lighthouse, Wolverhampton - November 2004
Wellywood Shorts @ the Screenroom in Nottingham, 1st -7th April 2005
Birmingham Short Film Festival, The Electric Cinema, Birmingham - 8 May 2005
Clin D'Oeil Film Festival, Reims, France - 1-3rd July 2005
Showcomotion Young People's Film Festival, Sheffield - 3 July 2005
Deaf Focus Film Festival, Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Deaf Awareness Week, The Community Channel
Hands On, Deaf Magazine Programme on Irish TV, 2007
Rochester Deaf Film Festival, New York, 2007
Awards:
Shortlisted for Best European Deaf Short Film Competition in the Clin D'Oeil Film Festival
Received a 'Special Mention' in the Unicef UK Award, Films 4 Lives Competition for films on the theme of Human Rights.
Reviews:
"This four minute film looking at the role of interpreters was a real hit with the viewers, including myself. I could see many people in the audience nudging each other laughing.......... I thought this film was very relevant to the issues deaf or hearing people could face with interpreters and it set off a series of discussions afterwards regarding the role of interpreters." Laura Goldberg, Signmatters January 2005 (Review of 9th Sign Language Film & TV Festival)
"I'm an interpreter and I especially liked the film with the interpreter (Not From Where I'm Standing)" Lisa Richardson.
"My Favourite film was the Sam Dore film." Tammy Broskom
Vox Pops from the 9th Sign Language Film & TV Festival, Signmatters January 2005.
'As if by Magik' - (March - May 2004)
Director of Photography / Operator - Super 8mm
As part of the 2nd round of the Joy of 8mm short film competition organised by Harvest Films. Again this film was shot sequentially and edited in-camera on one film cartridge. Due to be screened at the Watershed in Bristol on the 7th or 8th May 2004.
Director: Caspar Walsh
Text & The City - (October/December 2003)
Director of Photography / Operator - Super 8mm
As part of the Joy of 8mm short film competition organised by Harvest Films. 'Text & The City' is a short film shot sequentially and edited in-camera on one film cartridge. The first time any of the crews saw their films was at the Watershed in Bristol on the 7th December in front of a large audience.
Director: Caspar Walsh
Yam (Amazon Films / 2003)
Lighting Camera Operator - XL1 & PD100
Actually a feature film but my part in it was short as I only provided additional photography to a largely finished project. Included filming at St Pauls Carnival to cut in with an existing sequence. Find out more about the films at Amazons website.
Director: Angel Garden
Romantic Projections (2003)
Director of Photography/ Operator - PD150
An experimental short film made as a final year project by students at IFSW. The final screening involved multi screen projections with empty scenes on a central screen and all the characters appearing on mannequins to the side. I made a camera harness like the one made famous in Mean Streets to film the actors.
Directors: J.Driskell & C.Brylla
'The S Bends' - (Hi8us Projects / 2000)
Camera Assistant - Digi Beta
This short film involved working with young people with experience of homelessness. Roles included grip work using track and suitcase dolly.
Dir: Francois Gandolfi
DoP: Jerry Kelly
Two into One (1998)
2nd Assistant Director
A short film made in Birmingham and shortlisted for the BBC drama awards.
Dir: Bridget Kelly