George Heriot’s School is a Scottish independent primary and secondary school on Lauriston Place in the Old Town of Edinburgh, Scotland. Swift Films produced this film; shot by Richard Nicholls A Cam and Ryan Blackwood B Cam.
The Royal Air Force have landed their first P-8A Poseidon in the UK and we produced the promotional film for Boeing. This is the first of nine aircraft that will be based at RAF Lossiemouth, where they’ve invested £100m together with the Ministry of Defence. We filmed and edited a series of three films for Boeing on the back of a successful campaign with the RAF for the UK Government.
Filmed for the UK Government. Gordon Brown is a one-take wonder!
Bader Najeeb is a Dubai Food maker and social media influencer. This video sees us travel around Birmingham, Warwick and Stratford-upon-Avon.
Together with Digital Ape and Visit Britain we filmed a series of films as a part of a wider campaign promoting Britain to the GCC countries – Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Quatar, Bahrain, Oman and Kuwait.
Last night I was filming a 30-minute interview and some vox pops for MoneyWeek. The interviewer was Merryn Somerset Webb the Editor in chief MoneyWeek, who also writes for the Financial Times and the Sunday Post. I filmed her as she interviewed The Silo Effect: Why putting everything in its place isn’t such a bright idea.
It was a multi-camera set up shooting with a Canon C100 and a Samyang 85mm 1.4 (on Merryn), a Canon 5D mk 3 and a Canon 70-200mm (on Gillian) ands another Canon 5D mk 3 with a Samyang 24mm 1.4 (covering the profile wide). Unusually I used all three F&V 4000 LED Panel Lights, one on each of the contributors and another erring towards Merryn with the director of the windows, I also had a Dedolight behind each of them as a highlight with a half CTB gel for Merryn and a full CTB gel for Gillian.
It’s been a busy week, but it all began with a shoot at Standard Life HQ. Here I have lit for a 2 person interview using a 1k softbox as the main key light with a LED panel covering the other speaker. Behind each person is a dedolight, and in the background I’ve used an Arri 650 with a turquoise gel to bring some depth to the hanging room divider. I shot on a C100 while the B-cam was a C300 (I know, crazy right?) but it was for web and while I’m happy shooting with anything it was juts more convenient this way.
Yesterday I was shooting a film for Solar Access. We travelled to York to film some of the 4,000 solar panels they have installed at the John Smiths Brewery. SolarAccess is an international designer, developer and operator of industrial solar power projects with activities in various European locations. The brewery is operated by Heineken, who hosts the largest solar energy systems of any brewery in Europe.
Ally strike a pose as we test the greenscreen set up in the world’s smallest room at Commonwealth Games HQ, in Glasgow.