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 [...]
Archive for Category: "Commercials"
Debenhams Designers
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 [...]
Eristoff – Prowl
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 [...]
ITV Idents – Boxer Ident
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 [...]
Benenden Bubbles
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 [...]
Westfield Christmas TV Commercial
Christmas Time! Advert I Camera Operated every shot for on the Steadicam for good friend and top Director Paul Barulis and top DoP Olivier Cariou . Certainly a tricky shoot with some quite dynamic moves with very fixed marks that had to be hit at speed but worked out well and I am very pleased [...]
I am a Crisis / British Red Cross
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 [...]
Jimmy Choo AW 2012
Small film we shot for Mr Porter for the Jimmy Choo AW12 collection. DoP was Chris Odriscoll and Directed by Chris Vickers at Punderson Gardens. I used the MK-V Superpost for this to get the camera nice and low. This was only a C300 so it was nice and easy but also using the Steadicam [...]
Coca Cola Britains Beat
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 [...]
NHS Scottish Blood Transfusion – MK-V AR used for a subtle head rotation
A commercial to encourage blood donation in Scotland produced by Mallinson Television Productions for the NHS. Director Zak Salim anted to use the MK-V AR to gently rotate the camera and the Steadicam to give an unsettling feel to the piece. DoP’d by the very cool George Cameron Geddes. I wouldn’t have been able to [...]
