Here is an Updated version of my Showreel! Hopefully it will give you an insight into some of the work I have been doing over the past few years.
And Here is a link to a better quality version, Enjoy!
04/05/2010
03/05/2010
Example of a day Shooting
Here I hope to give you an example of what a typical working day filming is for me and my collegues. This is a rough layout of how one of the days filming Let Them Take Arms went.
16th January 2010
Up at around 06:30, wake up the rest of the Crew and Drivers.
Prep all the props, food, equipment and make sure to include breakfast in there at some point, leave the staging point at 08:00
Make sure the Drivers have the right addresses for Sat Navs, First time driving to location so I ride with lead car to make sure others can follow.
Arrive at location at about 09:00, meet with security guards to let us onto premises. Meet main actors at the main gates and then lead them to the location.
Millennium Mills, London Docklands, our location for the 16th.
Around this time the crew will be setting up for the first scene whilst I brief the actors on the actions and performance of the scene.
Around 10:00 we start shooting the first scene, in this case it was a scene between the main character Tadeusz and a woman he meets, Maria.
At 13:00 we break for lunch partly down to the crews hunger and partly due to rain, so we eat whilst waiting for it to stop and finish the scene.
The Feast we had on Set
After Lunch we scout out and set up for the afternoon scenes. Rather than a single large scene this day was designated for many of the little inserts and cut-aways that would go throughout the film. This meant that we split up into smaller groups and I as director had to run between them, this was finished by roughly 15:30.
With it getting Dark at about 16:00 in January I used the last half an hour to establish where I wanted the scenes established for the next day as we were returning to the same location and thereby speeding up filming the next day.
Me and Crew Trekking accross the location
By 17:00 the cars were packed and I had finished the days on-set paperwork so we departed for the pack down location where the kit is kept etc.
That night I readied the shot lists, storyboard, script breakdowns, equipment, food and other logistical elements for the shoot the next day, at the same time as trying to remember to eat!
16th January 2010
Up at around 06:30, wake up the rest of the Crew and Drivers.
Prep all the props, food, equipment and make sure to include breakfast in there at some point, leave the staging point at 08:00
Make sure the Drivers have the right addresses for Sat Navs, First time driving to location so I ride with lead car to make sure others can follow.
Arrive at location at about 09:00, meet with security guards to let us onto premises. Meet main actors at the main gates and then lead them to the location.
Millennium Mills, London Docklands, our location for the 16th.
Around this time the crew will be setting up for the first scene whilst I brief the actors on the actions and performance of the scene.
Around 10:00 we start shooting the first scene, in this case it was a scene between the main character Tadeusz and a woman he meets, Maria.
At 13:00 we break for lunch partly down to the crews hunger and partly due to rain, so we eat whilst waiting for it to stop and finish the scene.
The Feast we had on Set
After Lunch we scout out and set up for the afternoon scenes. Rather than a single large scene this day was designated for many of the little inserts and cut-aways that would go throughout the film. This meant that we split up into smaller groups and I as director had to run between them, this was finished by roughly 15:30.
With it getting Dark at about 16:00 in January I used the last half an hour to establish where I wanted the scenes established for the next day as we were returning to the same location and thereby speeding up filming the next day.
Me and Crew Trekking accross the location
By 17:00 the cars were packed and I had finished the days on-set paperwork so we departed for the pack down location where the kit is kept etc.
That night I readied the shot lists, storyboard, script breakdowns, equipment, food and other logistical elements for the shoot the next day, at the same time as trying to remember to eat!
Previous Works
Here is a summary of some of the Major works I have been involved in, either as Crew or Creative head, for the last Three Years.
2008
Unspoken - 3 Minutes
A Short Film based on the iconic scene in Secrets and Lies, where the two main characters share a scene from a single angle for over 5 minutes. Taking this idea nearly all of the three minutes are shot from a straight on Medium Shot. The story is of two friends, male and female who have drunkenly shared a night together and the film is about the morning after. The static feel of the film serves to heighten the awkwardness the characters feel.
2009
The Perfect Human - 3 Minutes
Based on the Idea of Jorgen Leth's film of the same name my version of the Perfect Human is based on similar themes. The plot revolves around a single character, John and his hang ups and insecurities. These Coelesce when he meets Kim, a girl in his class and spirals down into obsession and self doubt. The film ends with John overcoming his demons and adjusting back to normal life, conveying the idea that the hardest things to overcome are the problems we create ourselves.
The Last Question - 5 Minutes
This film was an adaptation of the Isaac Asimov Short story by the same name. It tells the first section of a story of two Scientists who drunkenly argue about the way the Universe will end, they eventually ask the giant AI recently built on Earth which unfortunatly cannot give them an answer.
The i-Series - Camera Operator
Working as a camera operator for QuadV, a company who specialise in live online streaming, I worked at the i-series multiple times. The i-series are Britains biggest computer games networking party, with over 2000 people attending. There are tournaments on a centre stage where professional teams of Video Gamers compete for large cash prizes, and it is these tournaments that QuadV stream live online. As one of Two Camera Ops I was fully relied upon to work in several different environments, on stage, in crowds and deal with the problems of live TV.
2010
The Gadget Show Live - Camera Operator
Working with QuadV again I was employed to work as a Camera Operator at the Gadget Show Live, the Exposition of the Channel Five program, The Gadget Show, which included a Game Zone where QuadV was filming. The show included Tournaments, Prize Giveaways on stage and Game Related Tech, including cooling a computers processor using Liquid Nitrogen.
Let Them Take Arms - 12 Minutes
Let Them Take Arms is the story of a single man in a world devestated by a short but brutal war between Humans and Occupying Aliens. Tadeusz is left to wander the wastes, trying his best to avoid people and their problems. Evnetually Tadeusz is persuaded to help a new cause, the cause of Revolution by a firey young girl called Emma. The film ends with a breif glimmer of Hope for Humanity and the promise of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity...
2008
Unspoken - 3 Minutes
A Short Film based on the iconic scene in Secrets and Lies, where the two main characters share a scene from a single angle for over 5 minutes. Taking this idea nearly all of the three minutes are shot from a straight on Medium Shot. The story is of two friends, male and female who have drunkenly shared a night together and the film is about the morning after. The static feel of the film serves to heighten the awkwardness the characters feel.
2009
The Perfect Human - 3 Minutes
Based on the Idea of Jorgen Leth's film of the same name my version of the Perfect Human is based on similar themes. The plot revolves around a single character, John and his hang ups and insecurities. These Coelesce when he meets Kim, a girl in his class and spirals down into obsession and self doubt. The film ends with John overcoming his demons and adjusting back to normal life, conveying the idea that the hardest things to overcome are the problems we create ourselves.
The Last Question - 5 Minutes
This film was an adaptation of the Isaac Asimov Short story by the same name. It tells the first section of a story of two Scientists who drunkenly argue about the way the Universe will end, they eventually ask the giant AI recently built on Earth which unfortunatly cannot give them an answer.
The i-Series - Camera Operator
Working as a camera operator for QuadV, a company who specialise in live online streaming, I worked at the i-series multiple times. The i-series are Britains biggest computer games networking party, with over 2000 people attending. There are tournaments on a centre stage where professional teams of Video Gamers compete for large cash prizes, and it is these tournaments that QuadV stream live online. As one of Two Camera Ops I was fully relied upon to work in several different environments, on stage, in crowds and deal with the problems of live TV.
2010
The Gadget Show Live - Camera Operator
Working with QuadV again I was employed to work as a Camera Operator at the Gadget Show Live, the Exposition of the Channel Five program, The Gadget Show, which included a Game Zone where QuadV was filming. The show included Tournaments, Prize Giveaways on stage and Game Related Tech, including cooling a computers processor using Liquid Nitrogen.
Let Them Take Arms - 12 Minutes
Let Them Take Arms is the story of a single man in a world devestated by a short but brutal war between Humans and Occupying Aliens. Tadeusz is left to wander the wastes, trying his best to avoid people and their problems. Evnetually Tadeusz is persuaded to help a new cause, the cause of Revolution by a firey young girl called Emma. The film ends with a breif glimmer of Hope for Humanity and the promise of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity...
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