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Playstation- Most Insane Movie Experience

Posted: 3rd December 2011 by admin in Commercials, MK-V AR, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas English, Work
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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. [...]

Toshiba Thrive

Posted: 6th September 2011 by admin in Thomas English
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A day out on super16! Its been a while. A commercial for the American market I operated Steadicam for the champion of DoPs Barry Ackroyd and 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 [...]

Nestle – Get Set Go Free

Posted: 17th August 2011 by admin in Thomas English
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Another little one-shot commercial for Nestle featuring Tom Daley the Olympic diver. This one finished with a step onto a crane. It was a pretty complicated shot with a lot to go wrong so I think we ended up doing about 50 takes. One particular issue was the horse freaking out and turning around.
It [...]

6 Music – Building 6 Music

Posted: 13th April 2011 by admin in Commercials, Equipment, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas English, Work
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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, Work
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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, Work
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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.

Spinning the camera without an AR rig

Posted: 9th March 2011 by admin in Thomas English
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Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 .
I am asked pretty much twice a week if I can spin the camera as I did on the Anti-Smoking commercials a few years ago. I do have techniques but I wouldn’t call it spinning; more rotating. It is also a lot less [...]

Fashionistas

Posted: 1st March 2011 by admin in Thomas English
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Thomas English, UK based Freelance Steadicam Owner/Operator 07970 025 389 .
There are a lot of Fashion Films going about at the moment. Here is one DoP’d by Matt Smith:

And this one by Frank Dow

Solid Steadicam Music Videos

Posted: 5th December 2010 by admin in Blog, Music Videos, Operating, Steadicam, Thomas English, Work
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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 English
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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 [...]

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