Barry Ackroyd DoP’d a day out on super16 for a commercial! Its been a while. A commercial for the American market I operated Steadicam and it was 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 it [...]
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Nestle – Get Set Go Free
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 [...]
Age UK Commercial
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
NEWS AND BLOG 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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
