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Solid Steadicam Music Videos
Posted: 5th December 2010 by admin in Blog, Music Videos, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas English, Work0
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Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 .
I’m not sure where it says in the Health and Safety manual that we should go straight onto Steadicam at 6am call time and keep Tommy in the rig until midnight. It happens… very regularly.
Here are a few little recent occurances of [...]
Ringlight control
Posted: 13th November 2010 by admin in Blog, Equipment, News, Steadicam, Thomas EnglishComments Off
When the subject gets too close to a ringlight often they become too hot (bright). We quickly want to start controlling the ringlight power on the move. For a commercial for Liang O’rouk we had a beam of light fly through a building. Time for ringlight control!
I ended up using blue tak to fix [...]
3D Feature Film: Isle of Mann TT
Posted: 15th September 2010 by admin in 3D, Blog, Equipment, Feature Films, News, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas English, WorkNEWS 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. I did a lot of my shots off the rickshaw, which incidentally we broke [...]
Burberry SS10 Campaign_ Accessories Collection
Posted: 19th June 2010 by admin in Blog, Commercials, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas English, WorkNEWS AND BLOG
Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 .
Here is just some of the work I do for Burberry. It is intercut with some stills work by Mario Testino and some “Making off” footage of bags being manufactured and catwalk. All the beauty shots are done by myself on Steadicam for [...]
4321 Feature Film in general cinema release
Posted: 8th June 2010 by admin in Blog, Feature Films, Steadicam, Thomas EnglishNEWS 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”. The DoP was Franco Pezzino and I had worked for him before on music videos including a James Blunt one. It was a [...]
DJ ZINC FT MS DYNAMITE – ‘WILE OUT’ OFFICIAL VIDEO
Posted: 6th June 2010 by admin in Blog, Music Videos, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas English, WorkNEWS AND BLOG
Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 .
Another solid all day Steadicam promo for Dave Miller DoP. A little rest at the end for the body rig. I am frequently asked on Steadicam jobs to make it less “Steady”. They want something smoother than handheld but they don’t want nailed [...]
AR rig- Anti smoking commercial
Posted: 4th June 2010 by admin in Blog, Commercials, Equipment, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas English, WorkI have only just managed to get a copy of this commercial we shot years ago. It actually never aired because of the polonium 235 incident where a Russian dissident was killed with a sprinkling of radioactive sushi. Apparently this spot was too similar to these sushi murdering activities. Anyhow, an awesome commercial directed by [...]
Pendulum “Watercolor” : Lens Baby Operator
Posted: 22nd April 2010 by admin in Blog, Equipment, Handheld, Music Videos, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas EnglishNEWS AND BLOG
Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 .
Pendulum Watercolor from Thomas English on Vimeo.
I camera operated for the world renowned Joe Dyer DoP extraordinaire and my good buddies Barney Steel and Mike Sharpe from The Found Collective. These guys are geniuses at integrating VFX and SFX. They know their [...]
Two RED cameras on a Steadicam 3D rig
Posted: 22nd March 2010 by admin in 3D, Blog, Equipment, News, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas EnglishComments Off
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Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389
3D RED cameras on Steadicam from Thomas English on Vimeo.
Patric at Fava rental has had his P+S Technik Freestyle 3D rig delivered. So I did some Steadicam testing. I could not wait to try it out with two RED cameras in.
OK… It is heavy [...]
P+S Technik Freestyle 3D Mirror Rig for Steadicam and Handheld
Posted: 24th February 2010 by admin in 3D, Blog, Equipment, News, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas EnglishComments Off
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Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389
P+S Technik Freestyle 3D Mirror Rig from Thomas English on Vimeo.
So this is the lightweight 3D mirror rig, enabling 2 cameras for stereoscopic production, from P+S Technik called the “Freestyle 3D Rig” developed by Philippe Bordelais. Its great for Steadicam! It turned up on [...]