The Digital Bolex

Film maker Joe Rubinstein in collaboration with Elle Schneider have created the Digital Bolex, 

The worlds first 2K prosumer camera. The great thing about this camera is it can be purchased with optional mounts meaning you can use old Bolex lenses, C mount or PL mount. 

Head over to digitalbolex.com for more info

Click to view a PDF spec sheet. 

They were brothers

Jeffrey Yes and Harry Taco are english Luchadores. Born as brothers, now they are sworn enemies.
The characters come from the minds of Johnny Griffith and Rob McDaid who also star in the web mini series which is currently in production. Stay tuned for more info and keep an eye out as they may appear in a town near you soon!
Johnny is currently finishing production on his short film Quickly Going Nowhere starring Thomas Boord James aka Brotherman.

Jeffrey Yes and Harry Taco

Jeffrey Yes

Harry Taco

Luchadores and Film Makers

Morning all. I've been busy these past two weeks working on some new projects. Here are a few shots to show you what i've been working on. I'll put more detailed posts up once i've sorted through all the pictures.

Stars in their eyes

Meet Sydney Criggley and Colin Butters, two old fashioned romantics with a deeply concerning passion for the world of celebrity.
I met up with Sydney and Colin on the last leg of their lecturing tour where they were telling stories of their celebrity encounters and selling off Eddie Izzards boots.

The show forms a three minute comedy short that we have entered into the 2 days laughter festival in Margate.
The film will be uploaded on here soon, so keep checking back.

For more information on Syd and Colin see their facebook page

fuckyeahdioramas

Attention model makers, set dressers and dinosaur fans
fuckyeahdioramas is a blog curated by Joey Joseph for the sole purpose of showing you some of the amazing work from the world of dioramas. This is a great site for inspiration for both backdrops and photo shoots. Check it out here

Nothing In The Offing

New song Adamantine by Patrick Balfe posted this morning.
You can hear it plus others on his soundcloud page Nothing In The Offing

Police mugshots circa 1910-1930

Just found these great pictures of female criminals from Australia on the dail mail website.

See the full story here

Jane Mason portraits

Some portraits I shot of Jane during the making of the film.

Virtuous Bread

My friend Pete Thompson of Shedlight Productions has taken home a much coveted Royal Television Society award for best non-broadcast film showcasing the company Virtuous Bread.
Virtuous Bread is owned and run by the lovely Jane Mason who teaches people to make bread and uses this to bring people and communities closer together.

Working as part of the team I shot the stop motion cutaways of the writing, time lapse of the bread rising  and the second unit close up details in and around the kitchen. The film was shot on a Canon 7d and lit with various light sources including a Kino Flo Diva Light. When you are working in a great location with someone who is clearly comfortable in front of a camera and passionate about what they do everything seems to fall into place.
The team who worked on the film include Pete Thompson (Director/Camera), Kevin Harper (Sound),
Paul Hodgkinson (Concept/Producer) and myself.

We hope you enjoy the film and be sure to check out both the Virtuous Bread site and the Shedlight Productions site. 

And here's the film, 

Enjoy

Virtuous Bread from Shedlight on Vimeo.

Lord Lav

My friend Lav freestyle rapping on set. Lav came up to appear as a background zombie twice, the first time as part of the zombie horde and the second time to appear in one of the final shots of the film.
Check out his website for loads of great lessons on how to rap and how to create a song from start to finish.

My mediocre beat boxing can be heard in the background during the second part.

Enjoy