Blue Blooded Belling

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Today I filmed and edited a Royal visit by HRH the Duke of Kent to the Glenn Dimplex factory in Merseyside. HRH was presenting Glenn Dimplex with the Queens Award for Export. And it was a double celebration as Belling, who are part of the Glenn Dimplex group, are one hundred years old this year! […]

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Perfect Printing, Pronto

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The phone rings: “Come to Sheffield. We’ll brief you when you arrive” – Sounds like a secret mission. PHD called me in to shoot a promo for their new startup Pr1ntingbynet A few hours filming and a day of editing later…

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The Inn Crowd

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In the far northern reaches of the Yorkshire Dales you’ll find Swaledale and Arkengarthdale. These were to be my filming locations for the next few days, and with beautiful sunshine every day it was a fantastic place to be. I was making promotional videos for two local Inns, the Charles Bathurst Inn and the Punchbowl […]

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On yer Bike

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Today was the first proper job using my new camera – the Sony NEX-FS100 camera. Staff from the Rezidor Hotel Group were part way through a charity bike relay taking in all of the company’s 32 hotels in the UK. And I was asked to shoot and edit the Yorkshire leg. I met up with […]

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X Marks the spot

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It’s my birthday… So I treated myself and bought Apple’s Final Cut Pro X. There’s lots to learn here it seems, yet after a few hours I’m feel I’m getting comfortable with it. The first job is to convert my showreel, edited in Final Cut Pro 6 onto a X project. That’ll keep me busy […]

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