DoP’s by the esteemed Barry Ackroyd this awesome advert I was lucky enough to Steadicam and operate a bit of handheld on, which was particularly painful as it was a long low handheld shot in tall grass of a dog a five o’clock in the morning. I am really happy as it is pretty much [...]
Shooting for Coca Colas campaign for the London Olympics we used the MK-V AR rig for the opening shot of the commercial and regular Steadicam to get lots of very intimate crowd. shots. Dan Bronks DoP’d this with great panache for Director Chris Cairns based at Partizan. The initial opening shot, of the torch bearing [...]
The most mental job I’ve ever been involved with. We strapped a Playstation move to a camera, rigged inside the MK-V AR rig, sucked all the camera tracking data out of it to give position, orientation and speed and rendered out the projection mapping in a room to the perspective of where the camera was. [...]
Barry Ackroyd DoP’d a day out on super16 for a commercial! Its been a while. A commercial for the American market I operated Steadicam and it was directed by Ulf Johansso. Artem had provided a giant ticker tape machine that send glittering tickertape all over set on every take. Apart from it all going down my back it [...]
Here is a commercial we shot for Age UK. Directed by Becky Martin and DoP’ed by the infamous Captain Jamie Cairney and off course; Steadicam Operated by myself.. Using the Arri Alexa with a Gekko Ringlight and Panatape on an optimo zoom. All the people in the advert are non-actors and we suspected they would [...]
With 12+ years of experience of operating big rig Steadicams there isn’t a rig, situation or problem I haven’t seen. Certainly there are new challenges and I would dearly love it if you could bring those challenges to me. I work as a cameraman with a specialty as a Steadicam Operator. I started in the [...]
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THE MK-V AR HAS NOW BEEN UPGRADED TO THE OMEGA-REVOLUTION. MUCH HIGHER RESOLUTION AND FAR MORE RELIABLE THAN THE PREVIOUS SENSOR AND BRAIN TECHNOLOGY. Below is my original MK-V AR Revolution Showreel invented by Howard Smith. The MK-V AR allows you to fly the camera completely level anywhere in space from the floor to 9ft [...]
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The Steadicam-Tango is essentially a Jimmy Jib combined with a Steadicam. This means you can fly smoothly lightweight cameras from the floor to the ceiling and track as much as you like. This promo was Directed by Sam Pilling at Pulse Films for Wretch32 “Anniversary” . Currently it can only fly vDSLR s (such as [...]
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I am often asked to do A camera or B camera operating. When not on Steadicam jump on the camera and do whatever is required to make the story. I love operating handheld and I’ve been told I am lucky enough to be just the right height for it. I’m well practised on the wheels [...]
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James McAvoy and Mark Strong in an action thriller Directed by Eran Creevy and lensed by Ed Wild. I got to Steadicam and operate B-Camera handheld in what looks like an awesome film in the making.
For DoP Ole Birkeland; Alf Tremontin and I got to do plenty of Steadicam on this cult series "Utopia" but this shot I got to shoot is truly awesome! The car crash itself was shot with a RED epic in the back of a car and genuinely crashed as you see on camera. I was then tasked with reaching the MK-V AR rig into the middle of the car and matching the crash cams frame for a VFX takeover.
Edgy urban film by Menhaj Huda and DoP'd by Brian Tufano. Lots of Steadicam on the Aaton s35mm camera. Fun times.
4321 Feature Film in general cinema release
NEWS AND BLOG Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 . I was the Steadicam Operator last year on this feature film; 4321. I also did Noel Clarke's previous film "Kidulthood".
3D Feature Film: Isle of Mann TT
NEWS AND BLOG Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 . I worked earlier this year on a 3D feature film using 2 RED cameras on the PS Technik flyer rig. Really proving that it is all possible in anger.
With Robert Pattison from Twighlight, A charming feature directed by Oliver Irving and lenses by Paul Swann. Steadicam was obviously done by myself. Thomas English.
Steadicam isn’t great for the wind so for my favourite of the ITV Idents we shot recently we pulled out every trick in the book. Kenyon Gyros, Antlers, wind-nets and a white knuckle ride against two massive car engines wind machines. Easysily strong enough to knock you over. Directed by Sonja Phillips and DoP’d by [...]
Myself and Dale Rodkin tagged teamed Steadicam on this set of Debenhams commercials for director Paul Barulis and DoP Dan Holland. Dale got to shoot all the lovely wide stuff with pretty girls on various beaches and outdoor locations in South Africa and I got to try and VFX match is shots for cuts for [...]
Music video for the Alpine Directed by Ryan Hope and DoP’d by Tony Miller. This involved a lot of very long tracking shots with the AR rig used extensively to go from high mode to low mode in one shot.
A wolf’s POV running through the streets at night for this commercial we shot in Romania for director Chris Hewitt and DoP Chris Sabogal. It involved a lot of running with a Steadicam, Alexa and Master Primes. The big crowd scenes we did on a Rickshaw or hanging off the front of a speeding car [...]
Vicky Lawton, the creative director at Rankin Films, directed this short for Panasonic to show off their new GH3 camera. A tiny little body that packs a punch way above its weight with respect to sensor quality and data-rate. I was asked to operate the AR (now upgraded and renamed to the Omega-Revolution) and Tony [...]
Epson Corporate we shot on the AR rig with talented Sy Turnbull DoP ing and Rollo Hollins in the directors chair.
I have been shooting a lot of ITV idents recently as part of the big ITV rebrand with DoP’s like Chris Sabogal and Oliver Schofield and Directed by Sonja Phillips and Ray Moody. I did like 20 odd this past week alone. Here is a little taster one I did with Chris Sabogal and Directed by Sonja [...]
For DoP Ole Birkeland; Alf Tremontin and I got to do plenty of Steadicam on this cult series “Utopia” but this shot I got to shoot is truly awesome! The car crash itself was shot with a RED epic in the back of a car and genuinely crashed as you see on camera. I was [...]
Directed by free thinking radical Cosmo Wallace this advert for Benenden challenged everyone. The now famous DoP Mattias Nyberg wisely chose to shoot using myself on the MK-V AR rig and summoned every bit of lighting ingenuity to shoot this commercial in a torrential downpour. You see after the first few shots, which happened in glorious sunshine, the weather [...]
Freeing up the DoP. In promos where lighting setups become more and more complicated and schedules more and more brutal I have found myself offering to DoP’s the option of myself akin to an A-Camera operator role. I am up for doing handheld, Steadicam and Sticks if required or B-camera on Sticks/handheld getting pickups. This [...]
