Thomas English

Below is my original MK-V AR Revolution Showreel invented by Howard Smith. The MK-V AR allows you to fly the camera completely level anywhere in space from the floor to 9ft in the air. The nature of holding a sled out parallel to the ground also means that the camera can now fly over tables, beds, children and any other suitable cine-furniture doing shots where normally only a techno-crane can go.

This is the second smoking commercial I operated for DoP Barry Ackroyd. The making-off this advert is in my main showreel above.

Below is my friend and amazing AR operator Chris McGuire’s piece that nicely demonstrates the camera head retaining level when boomed from the floor to great height as well as additional control of camera level to spin the camera relative to level-horizon. Chris McGuire is awesome and is available in the Americas as well as Europe.

Below is a load of top-secret testing I did with my friends: Memo Akten, Barney Steele and Robin McNicholas.

My mate Ceri Stokes did the music for this scratch reel.