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!