A new client is High Street TV, based not far from me in Harrogate. They broadcast four channels on the Sky TV platforms. In the Sink Skin Commercial I shot replacement footage of in-sink, low levels shots using the Sony a6000 which got very wet!. For the Pressure King Pro I filmed the 1st, 3rd and 4th and 6th testimonials. And more recently I filmed most of the testimonials and cookery for the Quadrapan.
Wharf Media asked me to shoot a series of testimonial commercials for their client – EvoDental. We overnighted in Heathrow so we could start shooting first thing at their clinic nearby.
The finished commercials came out really well…
I filmed all the interviews and their related cutaways for this recent corporate video, including a starring role from my assistant Tom who was roped in to act as the car thief!
The Aged Care Channel have uploaded another programme promotion:
The programme is a update to an original that I filmed on the FS100 back in 2014. The update includes a raft of new scenes filmed on my LS300 which now include home care workers.
This is the third corporate video I’ve produced for Whitby-based Pulsar Instruments. This new product needed a slightly different approach from previous videos, so I wrote the script and used my iPad teleprompter system to relay it to the presenter.
This is my 4th year producing the videos for this ever-growing awards ceremony. I filmed the judging at BBC Broadcasting House in London in October. And again in November, when Tom joined me for the ceremony.
As usual, I edited two short video that were played at the ceremony, and then I made the final film encompassing the entire 2015 awards process.
I’ve taken delivery of a new JVC LS300 cinema camera.
While shooting in HD, UHD or 4k it offers the unique ability to fine tune the sensor scan to any available lens system. It uses a large native APC sensor, but the camera can adapt to other lens systems that cover less area on the sensor while still maintaining 4k resolution.
The wide range of codecs on offer produce high quality chroma sampling for superb quality chroma key and colour correction capabilities.
I’ve added 3 additional high capacity batteries, a set of native Panasonic MFT 12-35 f2.8 and 35-100 f2.8 lenses offering a field of view equivalent to 24-70 and 70-200. I can still shoot on all my existing glass, but the Panasonic lenses offer image stabilisation under manual or automatic control in a very lightweight package. You can never have too many lenses I reckon.
The result so far are superb. the colour rendition is amazing and the resolution when shooting scaled down to HD is way beyond anything I’ve used before.
Recently I spent a day filming in Manchester and Sheffield for the US/UK video production company WebsEdge. Here’s the finished film:
Together with Tom on second camera we filmed at various Medical Labs and an interview in Manchester, as well as additional interviews in Sheffield. The Sony A7s matched very nicely with the JVC LS300. Both cameras filmed at 30fps for US distribution and the end results look great.
A long term project for Northern Gas Networks has finally been published online.
Commemorating our gas holders from Northern Gas Networks on Vimeo.
Over 18 months of production and over a dozen site visits, resulted in the finished 15 minute film.
The response has been amazing. Thanks to everyone involved!
Another year, another record breaking Toolbank ‘Real Deals for You’ campaign: The Christmas Collection.
This year’s design included present boxes wrapped in shiny foil, which I built as 3D models in Cinema 4D.
Then creating various coloured versions as looping quicktime files, converting them into particle effects in Motion and making them fly towards camera. Also I built custom box transitions in Motion with full rigging into Final Cut Pro X. This meant I could change the direction and colour of the box wipe transition using just a simple pull down inside FCPX.
After three days of workshop filming back in April, I started putting the main campaign video together, which at over 30 minutes long is versioned in two currencies – Sterling and Euros.
We also filmed over 60 Social Media product demos which are presented ‘to camera’ by Andy or Nigel from Toolbank. These get embedding in the product pages on the Real Deals website
Then, in August I filmed the TV commercial at Prime Studios in Leeds. This time filmed as a chromakey.
Using my new JVC LS300 I fed an SDI picture to my 23 inch location monitor, and also streamed a Wi-Fi video feed to a laptop for timecode logging. Our great pal Vic McCullagh was on hand to light the set and provide his unique perspective on proceedings.
Love that guy!