Archive for the ‘Operating’ Category
Playstation- Most Insane Movie Experience
Posted: 3rd December 2011 by admin in Commercials, MK-V AR, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas English, WorkComments Off
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. [...]
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 [...]
6 Music – Building 6 Music
Posted: 13th April 2011 by admin in Commercials, Equipment, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas English, WorkComments Off
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Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 .
Directed by the now famous Dom Bridges and DoP’d by the renowned Chris Sabogal; This advert for 6 music was a lot of fun to work on. All the faces and very little time. I have to say that the Arri Alexa colour [...]
Adidas – A Sneaker Way of Life
Posted: 21st March 2011 by admin in Commercials, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas English, WorkNEWS AND BLOG
Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 .
Shooting in Brixton we made this Adidas Commercial. Pretty much all Steadicam with a PL mounted 7D and Cooke lenses from Arri. Ben Moulden DoP d this with his characteristic flare for Passion Pictures. Normally Passion specialize in animations and it was fun [...]
Xbox – Outdance Kylie
Posted: 21st March 2011 by admin in Commercials, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas English, WorkComments Off
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Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 .
This is quite a funny little viral we shot for Xbox with the delightful Kylie Minogue. I’ll tell you, it was pretty funny whilst we were shooting it too! Jamie Cairney was the DoP and directed by Becky Martin.
Solid Steadicam Music Videos
Posted: 5th December 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 .
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 [...]
Primo Anamorphics, Tim Westwood and the News of the world
Posted: 18th June 2010 by admin in Commercials, Equipment, News, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas English, WorkNEWS AND BLOG
Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 .
Shooting on some of Dan Bronks’s (DoP) favourite lenses, the Panavision Primo Anamorphics proved to be interesting. The little buggers are so big! Some of them larger than the camera. They are amazing though; opening up to T1.9. The problem is the size [...]