Altura Learning
Altura have uploaded a few training film promos that I filmed and occasionally also edited:
Xmas Xscape
Xscape Yorkshire asked us to produce their Christmas events videos this year, which included the Santa’s Parade walk and a visit to Santa’s Cabin. Tom filmed the parade using his Sony A7s which works brilliantly in very low light, and I filmed the Cabin using my Speedboosted super fast prime lenses at f1.2. I created the graphics in Motion and edited the videos in FCPX. Feeling festive yet?
A Summer Rose
This summer I’ve completed a couple of projects at the White Rose Shopping Centre in Leeds. They launched their outdoor play area, and hosted a Gromit Unleashed treasure hunt through the summer holiday. Both videos were filmed on the G80 and Zhiyun Crane gimbal.
Roarsome Rex
UMPF asked me to film a Dinosaur build video for the Trinity Shopping Centre in Leeds (that’s me pulling the dinosaur into position above!) However, before the installation they needed a teaser video in the style of Jurassic Park:
The two-night install was supposed to start on the Wednesday, but apparently they had ‘lost’ the dinosaur. So on the Thursday night I installed my trusty a6000 in the roof of the Trinity, and followed the installation team from 8pm until 10am the following day. The finished video has 88 thousands views on Facebook!
Cracking Coral
Here’s something I filmed and edited back in February of 2011.
It showed up on Vimeo recently so I thought I’d share it here:
CORAL PAS24 TESTING from Coral Windows on Vimeo.
This was filmed on the trusty Sony EX1 and edited on Final Cut Pro 6.
Tour de Trinity
https://www.facebook.com/TrinityLeeds/videos/1727227080656198/
Another fun job for UMPF at the Trinity Shopping Centre, involving days of time-lapse and ground based filming too. I was looking for an excuse to use this music track, as it’s such high energy and fun to edit with. And I thought the bike sound at the end would a nice touch.
I built the time-lapse rig using the trusty Sony a6000, powered from a huge V-Lock battery via D-Tap to USB adaptor and a USB to dummy battery cable. It ran for about four days, taking a still every 15 seconds via the trigger from my motion time-lapse slider.
The poor weather meant that the initial 2 days job over ran by four days, so the camera didn’t capture the entire install, but you don’t really notice in the end.
Aerial flying was performed by the team at HexiHeli, and the footage end up being used on the BBC and ITV as part of their wider TDY18 coverage.
Berkeley DeVeer
Over the last two years I’ve created 12 promotional videos for Berkeley DeVeer – a high specification property developer based in Wetherby.
I’ve created the logo animations, maps, graphic transitions, tracking overlays, callouts and edited the videos. Typically each edit is a day and a half from start to finish. Everything is created in Motion and Final Cut Pro. Here’s a few examples:
By George!
Here’s one of a series of videos I filmed at the Methven UK HQ recently.
I also made several short videos specifically for social media sharing like this:
Do you need a reason to purchase our showers? @MrGeorgeClarke shares his thoughts: pic.twitter.com/Oq7wdy4ExC
— Methven UK (@MethvenUK) December 30, 2017
Martin House 2017
It’s been a busy few months.
I’ve been volunteering for Martin House and creating over 30 videos for several fundraising events.
Back in November Martin House had their yearly ‘Strictly get Dancing’ event in Wetherby, however prior to the big night I visited the rehearsal studios a few times to shoot fundraising videos for all the couples. Here’s an example featuring Nicole and Lee, who would go on to win the final event:
After the dance final I sent some trimmed rushes to ITV Calendar who ran this news item on the Monday following the event:
In December I created this little ditty with the help of the music team, staff, volunteers and children of Martin House:
I also suggested a fundraising ‘thank-you’ video which went live soon after:
All of these videos were filmed using my Teleprompter setup, so the people onscreen simply read the text off the iPad screen while looking down the lens.
Social Workers
I filmed a series of interviews for the Children’s Social Work Matters website back in May 2015. While doing some work for them recently I spotted that the videos have been made public.
https://www.childrenssocialworkmatters.org/making-a-difference/videos/
This was one of the first times I filmed in Log using the JVC LS300 which gives the HDR (high dynamic range) low contrast look that these videos have.