Creative Event Photography
Here's a selected portfolio featuring some personal highlights from my recent work.
Photography
I am a passionate and experienced photographer and love the way that a strong image can still speak volumes in the busy online world, especially an exclusive shot.
I particularly enjoy photographing visual artists and their work and this has been an important part of my production activity at Southbank Centre and Hayward Gallery for the past 7 years, creating images for both online (social and web) and press use.
I particularly enjoy photographing visual artists and their work and this has been an important part of my production activity at Southbank Centre and Hayward Gallery for the past 7 years, creating images for both online (social and web) and press use.
Social Media Production at Southbank Centre
LIVE EVENT CAPTURE, FAST EDIT, PUBLICATION
Southbank Centre hosts around 7,000 events a year and capturing them has often required a speedy use of whatever seems most appropriate for the task at hand. This event saw the installation of a number of giant sonic 'bells' which I captured in action using a GoPro, then footage was edited on a laptop quickly, published and shared via social shortly afterwards. SPOTTING OPPORTUNITY AND PRODUCING IT
When Southbank Centre's press team highlighted that we had an opportunity to work with The Guardian to promote the Centre's Being A Man Festival I suggested a Facebook Live event. I then worked with Southbank Centre's in-house production team, and The Guardian's digital staff to stream the opening talk of the festival directly to The Guardian newspaper's Facebook page. To achieve this I rehearsed the live set up with the team directing a sound engineer and single camera operator making sure that they could provide me with a live camera and sound feed that would be broadcast in the highest possible quality. While the talk itself only had an audience of about 30 in the room, the talk reached over 830 thousand people in its streamed form. WORKING WITH PRODUCTION TEAMS
Covering Southbank Centre's many festivals has often involved working with video production teams working to shooting schedules and briefed, sometimes by me, on the primary messages of the festivals and the type of short, edited content that I have required for publication on the Centre's social media channels. This example was captured and edited and delivered to me for publication. Feature Film Production |
FILMING, EDITING AND PUBLISHING (ABOVE)
As publicity for the BIANCO Circus residency at Southbank Centre, I liaised with site staff and the circus themselves to create this time-lapse video of their big top being constructed, filming this process over 2 days and 1 night. I ensured that the camera was mains powered throughout and edited the completed film for publication on a number of platforms including this faster edit for Instagram. I added music provided by the Circus themselves. SLIDE SHOWS AS VIDEOS
Some events required speedy and economical storytelling and content creation. This slideshow video was created from high quality photographs that I took to show visitors that a pop-up print studio was on site and what the free printing process on offer actually involved. |
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FEATURE FILM SOUNDTRACK COMPOSITION TO PICTURE
In 2003 I co-composed the soundtrack to the hit comedy Shaun of the Dead. Working with Edgar Wright, the film's director, my creative partner and I composed a suite of themes and incidental cues that were edited to the picture. This process was both highly collaborative and often challenging, requiring the ability to follow creative instruction and the ability to compromise. I was particularly pleased with the combination of our music and the visuals in this sequence. |
FEATURE FILM SOUNDTRACK COMPOSITION TO PICTURE
Here's another cue from our original score for Shaun of the Dead written to have spoken word passages from the script recited over it. |
FILM TITLE SEQUENCE ANIMATION CREATION
In 2003 I assisted a sequence director in the creation of a stop motion animated sequence that became the titles for Danny Boyle's film 'Millions'. The sequence involved filming large, articulated models and replicated elements of the building process designed to suggest the construction of a house. All filming was done using 35mm analogue film and all camera movements were manual and had to be caIculated mathematically. I managed the crew creating moving the models ensuring that the production adhered to a detailed shot count and shot list (this needed to be completely accurate) and devised the method of previewing the analogue footage that had been shot that you see here. When the sequence director fell ill, I was required to direct two of the sequences you see here to completion. I am a fanatical photographer and my work at Hayward Gallery has allowed me access to great exhibitions, visual art and the artists who create the work.
Live shows and portraitsI really enjoy taking artist portraits and capturing live shows.
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FILM TITLE SEQUENCE ANIMATION CREATION
The stop frame animation was filmed against green screens and used to depict the imagination of the two principle characters as they imagined new houses being built on the construction site near their home. Here's how our animation was integrated into what became the title sequence of Danny Boyle's completed film. |