2003
Various commercials for Aardman Animations
Serta Mattress 'Couch' & 'Image'
2 x 30'
Camera Assistant (35mm)
Six week shoot in Aardman's Bristol studio assisting on two commercials for Serta Mattress. Using Mitchell BNC Cameras modified by Fries Engineering and PVR (Portable Video Recorder) Towers these commercials combined live action backgrounds and stop-motion model animation shot against a green screen.
Other Crew:
Producer: John Wooley
Director: Michael Wright
Production Manager: Mike Giffords
DOP: Peter Sorg
Animator: Darren Thompson
Gaffer: Andy Loran
Rigger: Simon Peeke
Homepride 'Lunch'
1 x 10'
Camera Assistant (Digital Video)
Live-action backgrounds for a CGI commercial using a video camera recording direct onto hard disc.
Other Crew:
Director: Scott Pleydell-Pearce
Production Manager: Luke Youngman
DOP: Chris Maris
Gaffer: Ian Jewels
Art Director: Paul Galloway
Various shoots as Loader with Timeslice Films
Hustle (TV Trail) for BBC Drama
Broadcast: February 2004.
An ident for a BBC Drama that combined multiple plate work shot using the Timeslice camera and live action camera.
BBC Broadcast Crew
Director: Ron Scalpello
DOP: Stuart Graham
Sternstunden Der Medizin (documentary) for Gruppe 5, Germany
Broadcast: In post production.
Four days in Germany shooting a number of Timeslice shots for a documentary on the history of medicine for German television.
Animal Tragic for CH4
Broadcast: CH4, Wednesday 24th December 2003 0110.
Location shoots for a documentary produced by Timeslice.
Time Machine - Flamenco Dancers for BBC Natural History Unit
A studio shoot for a BBC Natural History Unit documentary.
Millions (model unit testing)
Mission Pictures (Millions) Ltd
Camera Assistant (35mm)
A day in Neil Scanlon's model workshop, using a Mitchell BNC Camera and Lunchbox animation recorder to shoot tests for the title sequence.
Other Crew:
Model Unit DOP: Marcus Robinson
Model Maker: Neil Scanlon
Stateside Hombres: Hard Time Stylee (Music Video)
Darrel J Enterprises Ltd for Concept Music Ltd
Camera Assistant* (16mm) *combined focus puller/clapper-loader
A pop promo shot on Super 16 over three days on location in Gloucestershire.
Other Crew
Producer: Pravashanee Reddy
Director: Darrel Butlin
DOP: Hugo Leven
Art Director: Paul Galloway
Gaffer: Ian Jewels
Travels with my Unfit Mother (Documentary)
Lion TV for BBC
Broadcast: 9pm BBC1, 14th March 2004
Camera Assistant (Digi-Beta)
Two weeks filming on the road in the USA following Anne Robinson and daughter,
Emma Wilson touring America in (the real star of the show) a 1976 Cadillac Eldorado
Convertible.
We covered around 2000 miles filming the action on 16:9 Digi-Beta with Sony
DVW 790 and covering the in-car action with Toshiba IK-TU48P mini cams.
Other Crew
Director: Michael Samuels
Cameraman: Chris Openshaw
Sound: Adrian Bell
Assistant Producer: Clare Slessor
Stylist: Shannon Hodgson
Lion TV Production Team
Executive Producer: Hilary Rosen
Production Manager: Charlotte Spencer
Production Coordinator: Zoë Turner
Lost Buildings: Nottingham Castle
Darlow Smithson
Camera Assistant (Digi-Beta)
Other Crew
Series Producer/Director: Ian Leese
Cameraman: Rob Goldie
Sound: Steve Bowden
Viasat Channel Idents
Art and Fine Art TV for Viasat Broadcasting UK Ltd
Camera Assistant (Digi-Beta)
A 3 day studio shoot on Digi-Beta. With Art and Fine Art TV
Other Crew:
Art Director: Suzette Jancyzowski/Howard Moses
DOP: Terry Flaxton
Forever Young
Ignition Films
Focus Puller (High Def)
A day focus pulling on a location drama shoot using Panasonic AJ-HDC27, variable frame-rate progressive scan high-definition camera.
Other Crew:
Producer: Alison Sterling
Director/DOP: Terry Flaxton
1st AD: Alison Sterling
Sound Recordist: John McCombie
Gaffer: Colin Holloway, Eyelights
Grip: Jim Wilkinson
Straw in the Wind
SWScreen
Camera Assistant (Digi-Beta)
A short drama shot on 16:9 Digi-Beta on location in Glastonbury.
Other Crew:
Producer: Mark Parry
Director: James Callow
DOP: Terry Flaxton
The Boy Who Grew too Much
SWScreen
Broadcast/Screenings:
* HTV WEST: Friday 14th November, 23.20
(Part of Digital Shorts Programme)
Camera Assistant (Digi-Beta)
A short drama shot on 16:9 Digi-Beta on location in Bristol.
" A small boy wishes he could be taller. A modern fairytale that follows
a young boys ingenious way of dealing with his 'height', the end result is not
the one he imagined.
This is a 'coming of age' tale in which a young boy finds himself and blossoms
into adult hood."
Other Crew:
Producer: Abigail Davies
Director: Nicola Hatton-Williams
see also The Wrong Flowers
DOP: Terry Flaxton
1st AD: Mhairi Brennan
Sound Recordist: Chris Mayall