Archive for Category: "Thomas English"

Adidas – A Sneaker Way of Life

Adidas – A Sneaker Way of Life

NEWS 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 [...]

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Xbox – Outdance Kylie

Xbox – Outdance Kylie

NEWS AND BLOG 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.

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Spinning the camera without an AR rig

NEWS AND BLOG 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 [...]

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Fashionistas

NEWS AND BLOG 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

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Solid Steadicam Music Videos

NEWS 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 [...]

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Ringlight control

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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3D Feature Film: Isle of Mann TT

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. I did a lot of my shots off the rickshaw, which incidentally [...]

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Burberry SS10 Campaign_ Accessories Collection

NEWS 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 [...]

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Primo Anamorphics, Tim Westwood and the News of the world

NEWS 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 [...]

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4321 Feature Film in general cinema release

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”. The DoP was Franco Pezzino and I had worked for him before on music videos including a James Blunt one. It [...]

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