Finally I am back online.  Took much longer than anticipated, embarrassing really, dropped off the map of Google, my interplanetary friends stopped visiting and most importantly a few upcoming young Dp’s emails questions were replaced by reminders  of how long my “Temp Holding Page”  was up for and seemed to become more permanent. This year […]

A reinterpretation of Shakespeare’s Othello An exploration of Shakespeare’s intentions when writing Othello, exploring the play’s racial themes in a historical and contemporary setting and drawing wider parallels between immigration and blackness in the UK today. Released on The Guardian Website theguardian.com/stage/video/2016/oct/07/love-hate-relationship-with-othello-ashley-thomas-bashy-phoebe-boswell-video Working with Shola has been amazing, he had clear ideas of what emotions […]

NEON is the story of ELIAS – an enigmatic, disfigured man – and MARY, the woman he’s in love with.Their relationship exists only online and via telephone conversations, because ELIAS is forbidden – for reasons unclear to MARY – from experiencing love.So while he’s stalked through the city by two mysterious men, ELIAS makes the […]

Director/writer Mark Blackman had created this incredible concept For this music promo which is just genius.  Sidebar – interestingly after having shot this music promo based on the Legendary Stanley Kubrick,  I would then go on to shoot Kubrick By Candle Light Short film directed by David O Reiley, the projected are not connected in […]

Sweetheart Short film directed by Jack Taylor Cox, | coming of age. A dystopian drama about a girl who has to choose between family loyalty and her heart’s desire on the occasion of her sixteenth birthday. A showcase of the latest short films produced by Creative England’s iShorts scheme. iShorts is Creative England’s entry level […]

Director : Guy Davies Producer: Matt Brawley Having worked with Guy Davies quite a few times, I believe this was one of the reasons why & how we were able to shoot 56 setups in 8 and 1/2 hrs.  We had so much to cover in such a short space of time, but we were […]

Went to the Scottish Highlands to short my last Short film – Sick To My Bones.Write up coming soon.More info can be found here at the official website http://www.sicktomybones.com/              

Director : Sameer PatelThis is my third video with Director Sameer. I notice the more we work together, the less we speak, just having an understanding of each other really helps – being on the same webpage, frequency, train… Shot on the Canon C300 with Canon zooms and 1 prime – 85mm  for a final […]

At the begining  of the year I had shot a little teaser for the short film titled Emily  directed by Guy Davies. Emily is a film about the progression of emotions and the development of a relationship between an intelligent girl and her kidnappers. I Jumped on the train from London to Bristol first thing […]

Gone Too Far, Shot on Arri Alexa with Cooke S2 Glass to Pro Res 4×4 with a projected aspect ratio of 1.85 is a coming of age comedy following estranged brothers who meet for the first time over the course of one day on a Peckham Estate. Adapted from the award-winning play by Bola Agbaje, […]

  Director : Keri Collins Producer : Ray Panthaki Production Co : Urbanway Productions It was great to see and hear the motorised curtains slowly slide open from both sides to reveal the full 2.40 aspect ratio cinema screen at Raindance film festival 2013 for the world première of Convenience. It was a full house […]

Director : Guy Davies Southern skies music promo was scheduled as   a 2 day shoot, so spent the weekend down in Bristol. Down In Bristol , I left a day earlier so myself and Guy can discuss the look and feel of the video, also how to fully execute the backgrounds changing consistently behind the […]

Director: Neil Neenan For beautiful Ugly music promo we found ourselves on the lovely pebbly shores of Brighton beach. Shot on Arri Alexa with K35s for an aspect ratio of Flat 2.40 recording to prores 4×4, Log C. Walking backwards on the stones of Brighton with an Alexa on your shoulder is not an easy […]

Preacher.
Directed by Sameer Patel.
This was our first project working together and it was absolutely fantastic.  We had met up quite a few times to discuss the look and feel of the project using references to communicate our ideas over breakfast , lunch and dinner.After speaking with Sameer, the one thing he wanted to communicate in […]

We’re Different, directed by Peter Mallett, a short concept film entered into Straight8  premiered at Cannes 2012 and then finally screened at the ICA London. For those who may be unfamiliar with Straight8 , it is essentially a short film competition where you the film maker has  been given 1 roll of super8 to make […]

Maxsta “Pop Off” directed by Luke Biggins. I remember given very little notice to shoot this promo, it was within the region of 2 hours. Just had enough time to grab my light meter and viewing glass to get down to the studio for 18:30 hrs, since I had a free afternoon I said why […]

Had to keep this  under wraps for a while prior to Pioneer’s global launch of their new controller  the – DDJ-WeGO , a virtual twin turntable mixer combo for aspiring and  DJs alike.  Didn’t have time to take it for a spin – excuse the pun – but I hope to some day. Directed by Ben Peters he as […]

A love triangle that takes place between an East London rock-roll manager and two of his clients – a girl singer on the verge mainstream success and the young, front-man from a local punk-band who’s starting to crash and burn. As the star-crossed lovers tear each other apart, a showcase gig in Shoreditch turns bad, […]

An over-ambitious beaver goes too far when he gets the chance to realise his ultimate dream. Some dreams are just too big. This is the first time I have worked on an animated film. Absolutely great fun. A question that gets raised quite often is – “What does a cinematographer do on a hand drawn animated […]