I had the pleasure of working with Hannah Cockrock MBE in her new role as Accessibility Ambassador at the White Rose shopping centre. She’s the current T34 Paralypic world record holder and winner of seven gold medals for Great Britain.
White Rose requested a scripted video showcasing the ease of access around their site and in the stores, as well as VoxPops from the service users and the public.
Hannah has presented many times on live and prerecorded TV, so she was really easy to work with and nothing was too much trouble.
I shot the whole thing in a day, with a few interviews and VoxPops that didn’t make it into my final edit. Mostly filmed on the LS300 with some gimbal mounted G80, and I mounted a GoPro onto her chair for the moving shots.
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For the third year, I’ve worked on the Martin House ‘Strictly get Dancing’ event, creating video assets to promote and launch the event. Filming the event on the night, as well as the videos that play on the big screens during the night. For the first time the event was held at a venue in Leeds, and so I also provided and operated the show lighting, which wasn’t easy as I was operating a camera at the same time! They had a little aftershow party so I left the lights up and kept the mood going.
This year Duncan Lomax from Ravage Productions looked after the event photography, so we took the opportunity to get a photo with Duncan Wood from ITV… The three Duncan’s together for the first time!
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Today was the Pride Glitter event at the Merrion Shopping Centre. As soon as the security grills went up the public rushed in, so I whipped out my phone and captured the first few shots as I hadn’t yet setup the main cameras (long story – the load-in was mind numbingly daft).
The slow motion shots were filmed at 120fps on the LS300 and glitter pieces seems to catch the light well.
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After the success of last year’s life size T-Rex in the Trinity Shopping Centre, Leeds Bid together with a handful of Leeds city shopping centres decided to expand on the concept.
This year a similar sized T-Rex was installed in Trinity Leeds, but there were also smaller installations in four other locations in central Leeds. The installation took place across four nights and I also filmed a few times during the day.
This was during the long summer heatwave. On one really hot evening in the Trinity we witnessed an amazing lightning storm directly above the Trinity Leeds roof. My GoPro captured the show which went viral on Facebook:
Once installation was complete I revisited the sites to film public interaction and I had edited the video by the following day:
Like last year, this job was achieved with a wide range of cameras and techniques. Static and motion timelapse, pole gimbal, tripods and handheld. I think I used every type of camera I own at some point!
The RocknRoller trolley was used by the installation crew to help carry dinosaur parts around the venue, and it also acted as a portable motion timelapse station…
Here’s a recent promo I made for the Martin House Children’s Hospice 2019 charity boat race at Roundhay Park. The day started at 8am, capturing the Martin House and Events teams getting setup. Racing continued into the late afternoon and the winner we announced just before 6pm. I captured 596 shots on the day… no wonder the video ended up over 6 minutes!
It was an opportunity to take the trusty old Sony FS100 out onto the water and shoot at 720p50 for some slow-motion action. I wasn’t going to risk using a newer camera on an unpaid charity job because I knew I’d be jumping in and out of dingies, and hot-footing it around a park all day with my daughter in tow.
The video has had 1700 views on Facebook so far. And I’ve also made a high energy promo for next year’s event!
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I film regularly for Virtual College – an online training company, and occasionally the work is available publicly. Here’s a job that I’ve just filmed featuring the Brownlee Brothers, triathletes who are multiple Olympic gold medal winners for Team GB and local lads too!
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