This was a commercial for the drinks company Firestone Walker utilising super slow motion shots captured with the Phantom Veo 4K camera on a proprietary robotic rig to add exciting, immersive and kinetic movement to each shot:

This was a film for the leading jewellery brand De Beers, featuring some of their most premium lines of jewellery, including a multimillion pound diamond necklace which came with its own security guard! The final film was displayed on autostereoscopic 3D screens in key store windows in London, Paris, New York and Tokyo. Autostereoscopic screens allow for the display of 3D images without the need for 3D glasses and proved to be enormously eye-catching for passing members of the public:

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This was an ambitious project I both shot and directed to capture the sights and sounds of Manchester United’s Old Trafford stadium and team, using a remote-controlled mobile 360 ̊ camera platform. Working with agency Copa90 we captured 360° footage around Old Trafford to form part of an immersive VR experience held in the Southern Indian city of Bengaluru in 2018. The idea of the 3 day event was to transport fans to Old Trafford using physical and digital interactive means, since as many as 99% of the world’s many Manchester United fans will never get the chance to visit the stadium in person. The 360 footage was projected inside one of Igloo Vision’s interactive domes which presents spectators with an immersive, panoramic 360° view of the stadium, the players tunnel, the pitch and the home dressing room.

360 footage can sometimes be quite restrictive in terms of movement, especially in large spaces, so we decided to utilise the Motion Impossible Mantis, a radio-controlled remote dolly with a gyro-stabilised Kenyon arm to keep the 360 camera level and steady while the platform is moving.

I also performed the post-production stitching of the 360° footage using Mistika VR, as well as carrying out the editing and grading of the footage:

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This was a series of short videos I directed, shot and post-produced for the South Bank Tower luxury property development. Each video showed off a particular unique aspect of the property from the design and amenities to the local attractions and breath-taking views. Aerial cinematography from a helicopter was used at different times of day and night to reveal the buildings sleek design and unique central riverside setting, while day-to-night time- lapses were captured from key apartments to show the stunning views prospective buyers could look forward to from their chosen apartment:

This was a custom-made, bespoke 360 ̊project I devised to capture real-world driving conditions for a hazard perception VR training app developed by the AA.

The brief was for the footage to look like it was from the point-of-view of a driver, driving in real situations on public roads encountering real-life traffic hazards in a variety of driving siuations (high streets, car parks, motorways etc), in order to evaluate and train drivers to recognize these hazards. We could of course have filmed with a 360˚ camera inside a real car with a real driver but that would have presented several problems such as seeing the driver’s hands, body and legs in shot which was not desirable, as well as the closeness of the driver to the camera rig would have presented some rather extreme stitching challenges which would negatively impact the exterior 360 view which was really the focus of the whole project. In addition exposing adequately for the dark car interior compared to the bright outside would have been challenging again impacting the overall look and believability of the end product.

Instead I decided it would give us more freedom to shoot a 360˚ plate of the view from the car windows by positioning a 360˚ camera on the front bonnet of a car, this could then be composited together with a 360˚ plate of the interior of the car, which was essentially a still image with the windows cut out so you could see through them to the separate layer below of the bonnet-mounted 360˚ plate footage. This allowed us to adequately expose separately for the interior and exterior and it made the many hours of driving to capture the real-world footage much simpler than mounting a 360˚ camera to a helmet on the driver (which would’ve been a bit of a squeeze and very uncomfortable and unsafe in the confined space of a car interior!).

A big part of the brief was also the importance of the side mirrors and rear view mirror in hazard perception evaluation and training, so these views had to be created by placing individual GoPro cameras on each side mirror and on the rear of the car to mimic the view of a rearview mirror. This GoPro footage was then synced with the main bonnet-mounted 360˚ capture footage using a clapper board and then composited into position on each relevant mirror in the final footage. The effect was very convincing and useful to the overall believability of the footage. The final cherry-on-the-cake was an animation of the turning of the steering wheel as the car navigated turns. This bespoke approach was first tested out on a proof-of-concept test which allowed us to refine our approach and tweak the techniques we used.

I directed, shot, stitched, edited & graded up to 23 individual 360 videos for this ambitious project:

TIGI / Bedhead are a longtime client of mine, ‘Colour Trip’ was a vibrant brand film to publicise the launch of their Colour Trip hair colour range. A key location for the shoot was a decommissioned tube train which was blacked out and lit with a few secret ingredients to make it look like it was moving!

This was a project I both shot and directed to publicise the release of the new Hyundai i30 N hot hatch in conjunction with Haymarket’s popular motoring website PistonHeads. Footage was captured using a variety of camera/grip rigs, from a jib arm mounted to a 4x4 tracking vehicle for race track coverage, to a Black arm mounted to a 4x4 for public roads, as well as many interior and exterior-mounted DSLR and GoPro cameras. I storyboarded every aspect in detail and closely checked all requirements for health and safety compliance:

Regular series of high-grade internal films for the Swedish minimalist fashion chain COS, showcasing each season’s designs and creative inspirations, captured in key architecturally-inspiring locations around Europe. I also played a key role in successfully pitching our intended approach to the client, winning a long-term contract with them for regular seasonal videos:

This online video featured England footballing legend Frank Lampard as a mystery guest taking penalties against an amateur goalkeeper who used Barclays Smart Business Insights to correctly guess which direction the penalties would be taken. The reveal of Frank as the mystery penalty taker was a genuine surprise for the contestant and they had to be kept apart until the moment of the reveal which was filmed using 3 Alexa Mini cameras:

This was a shoot I had the honour of collaborating with legendary fashion photographer Mario Testino to make use of the newly released Red camera to capture high quality 4K raw footage of Burberry models Rosie Huntingdon- Whitely and Lilly Donaldson, to advertise the newly released Burberry Beauty make-up range: