With 20 years' experience as a freelance filmmaker, my happy place is behind a camera! Over that time I've had the pleasure of working on a wide variety of projects with all sorts of interesting people and organisations.
This has given me the technical, creative and people skills needed to confidently deliver high quality video. Happy to work with or without a brief, what I most enjoy is collaborating to get to the heart of what they want to say through film.
Working mostly as a solo shooter/editor, if I had to name a specialist skill area, it would be documentary cinematography. The best compliment I get is when people say they forgot I was there! So, I'm quite good at disappearing whilst covering all the angles.

Skills and Experience
• Camera operation - Sony PMW-F5 main camera
• Location lighting and sound recording
• Drone filming - CAA Certified and insured, DJI Air2s
• Video editing and colour grading - Resolve, Premiere
• Motion graphics - After Effects, Fusion, Photoshop
• Stills photography - Lightroom, Photoshop
• Live multi-camera video production and livestreaming
• Voice-over script-writing and recording
Qualifications
• Current Enhanced DBS
• A2 CofC Certificate for drone filming
• BA English Lang & Lit, Oxford University
• MA Textual Studies, Leeds University
• PGCE, Manchester University

Filming in the Yorkshire Dales

Factory shoot

Town centre interview

Outdoor interview

Keeping the camera cool on a very hot day

A science teacher at work

Corporate shoot in a very nice kitchen

Dance competition

Folk band music video shoot

Corporate shoot in an office

Factory shoot

Setting up for a piece to camera

Interior drone flying

Setting up for green screen

Nightclub shoot

Young person checks out the shot

Students watch the playback

Interview setup in a cafe

Factory shoot

Piece to camera in theatre studio

Setting up for an outdoor livestream

Greenscreen, telelprompter, corporate presenter shoot

Set up for a livestreamed school open evening

Performance filming

Livestreaming musical presentation

Dance instructional video shoot

Interview setup in theatre studio

In the wild

Interviewing former mill workers

Interviewing former mill workers

Working with a very young helper!

Devising a short film

Drone filming

Matching colours
"Filmmaker" is a very grand word for my role and what I do. Terence Malick, Kathryn Bigelow, Roger Deakins - they are filmmakers. On the other hand, "videographer" is a bit perfunctory. "Video guy", "bloke with a camera"... one of those will do!