Production credits
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On The Road: Sizzler reel
Tencent Media
NOV 2016 – NOV 2016
Director of Photography/Editor for One Tribe TV
Chinese-based adventure show following the adventures of Snake & Echo: a daring husband & wife duo who are hardcore adventure travellers. For Tencent Media, a Chinese media giant, we follow the duo as they learn to fly a jet prop aircraft in the far chilly northern reaches of China. In 2017 they plan to fly around the world and we will be on hand to film the adventure as it unfolds.
Richard Parks’ Big Welsh Adventure
BBC 2 / BBC Wales
JUN 2016 – JUN 2016
Second camera for One Tribe TV
Second cameraman shooting on Canon C300 for an adventure show for BBC 2/BBC Wales following extreme adventure athlete Richard Parks cycling the breadth of Wales. I was primarily involved with setting up and filming of contributors, supporting second angles of main camera, action cam rigging (GoPro’s) and data wrangling the content from eight cameras.
Channel 4 News – Election expenses: Tory PCC candidate under scrutiny
Channel 4
MAY 2016 – MAY 2016
Lighting Cameraperson for ITN Productions
Lighting cameraman for news piece
http://www.channel4.com/news/election-expenses-tory-pcc-candidate-under-scrutiny
Dispatches – Missing Mail
Channel 4
JAN 2016 – JAN 2016
Director Of Photography for Nine Lives Media
Interview contributor based in UK – Sony PXW-FS7 with Sony 28-135mm lens. Single day shooting for story about parcel courier.
Murder in Paradise
Channel 4
DEC 2015 – DEC 2015
Director Of Photography for MAKE Productions
Interview contributor based in UK – Sony PXW-FS7 with Ziess 18mm CinePrime, Canon 24mm CinePrime, Canon 35mm CinePrime and Sony 28-135mm lens.
Britain’s Treasure Islands
BBC Four
JAN 2012 – SEP 2014
Director of Photography for Redfern Natural History, Warehouse 51 & SkyVision
With presenter and naturalist Stewart Mcpherson, I undertook a 70,000 km journey to visit all of the UK Overseas Territories – a series of 14 groups of islands scattered across the Seven Seas, all of which remain under UK sovereignty.
Few know that the Territories exist, yet they are home to a dazzling rainbow of wildlife including some of the greatest wildlife spectacles on Earth. They comprise an area 7 times the size of Britain, have 20 times the biodiversity and include over 1,000 unique plant and animal species. They range from tropical rainforests to coral reefs and volcanic deserts to Antarctic tundra, while amongst them are several of the most remote human communities on Earth.
Britain’s Treasure Islands is a 3 part TV series for BBC 4 that looks at all of the UK Overseas Territories. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b077sxwfs.
Wild Islands
National Geographic
JAN 2012 – SEP 2014
Director of Photography for Redfern Natural History, Warehouse 51 & SkyVision
2 x 60′ series on Britain’s Overseas Territories. Sole cameraman travelling with producer/presenter & natural historian Stewart McPherson to remote places such as Antarctica, Falklands Islands, Ascension, St. Helena and the beautiful Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Roles and responsibilites included senior cameraperson and mixing sound from radio microphone, daily rush ingest and liaising with Stewart on best shot angles to convey narrative.
Read more at http://www.w51p.com/production_house/file/Britains-Treasure.php and https://skyvision.sky.com/Brand/1958/natures-treasure-islands
Natures Treasure Islands
AMC, PBS, Choice TV
JAN 2012 – SEP 2014
Director of Photography for Redfern Natural History, Warehouse 51 & SkyVision
2 x 60′ series on Britain’s Overseas Territories. Sole cameraman travelling with producer/presenter & natural historian Stewart McPherson to remote places such as Antarctica, Falklands Islands, Ascension, St. Helena and the beautiful Chagos Archipelago in the Indian Ocean. Roles and responsibilites included senior cameraperson and mixing sound from radio microphone, daily rush ingest and liaising with Stewart on best shot angles to convey narrative.
Read more at http://www.w51p.com/production_house/file/Britains-Treasure.php and https://skyvision.sky.com/Brand/1958/natures-treasure-islands
Boat Stories
Series of short online films
4 x 5 mins episode / 2014 / PD: Jo Stewart-Smith
Director of Photography & Editor
Boat Stories is a series of ten short documentary films about people whose lives revolve around fishing and working boats in northern Devon.
The stories are told by the people: those who own, skipper, crew or row boats themselves. So no presenter or studio recorded voice over to fill in the gaps – we film out on boats, record out on location and go with what we get.
The result is a lively series of films with an amazing energy as each film takes you on a new adventure. Martin Hesp of Western Morning News wrote of our second film salmon netting “in telling their story, this documentary is as charming, colourful and fascinating a film as any shot in the region for years.”
See the whole series at www.boatstories.co.uk
River Cottage – To The Core
Channel 4
JUL 2013 – SEP 2013
Second camera for KEO West
Second camera on popular cooking television show. Shooting on Sony PMW-200 and Canon XF305