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.
I've grown 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 working collaboratively on bespoke films.
I work mostly as a solo shooter-editor and if asked to name a specialist skill area it would be documentary cinematography, moving quickly to cover all the angles without getting in the way. The best compliment is when people forget I'm there!
Skills and Experience
• Camera operation - Sony PMW-F55 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
Ready when you are...
Interview with Bishop and Trust CEO
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
Interview session for Suzanne Lacy
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 shoot
Nightclub scene 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!