Boy, has it been a while! I haven't posted anything here since June 2014. I'm going to try and keep this as short as possible but here goes:
I boom operated on a film called Age Of Kill, an action film starring Martin Kemp directed by Neil Jones. It was a long shoot and might have contributed to the beginning of my hiatus here.
After the shoot wrapped I took some time off and went home to Portugal to visit my family and friends.
When I got back to London, I did a short job for Dusthouse, documenting the production of Julius Caesar at the Shakespeare's Globe, before heading off to the ArcTanGent festival! This was my highlight of last year (already have my ticket for this year). Check out some videos I shot there:
Nathan Craig hooked me up with ace filmmaker Oliver Kember and I got to work on his slick Bose advert (see below). I then worked back-to-back on a corporate streaming event with Michael Dorgan in Weybridge and a video for EDF with Dom John in Bridgewater.
Now here's the fun bit. After all that, I went up to Newmarket to meet up with the guys from Project Trident to shoot the trailer for Until The Day Breaks, which has a Kickstarter launching on the 26th of February so keep your eyes peeled! We had an absolute blast and I can not wait to show you all what we've accomplished! I just recently saw a render from one of the special effects shots and, well... here's my reaction:
When we finished up the trailer (and cleaning up Carl's flat!) I headed straight down to Brighton to shoot a promo trailer and short film (again through Nathan) for the new book by Jenny Morton Potts, Piano From a 4th Storey Window. Man, I remember... these few weeks were hectic!
I worked a video for the Idea Awards, through Latimer and Alastair Uhlig, then helped out my friend Alex Richardson do some pickups for his upcoming film Don't Stop Running (Check the trailer below).
I was on a little factual video shoot about chess boxing with Samona Olanipekun that was very interesting (see below) then went up near Manchester to do a handful of days on the new Chee Keong Cheung film, Zombie Apocalypse (got to love them zombies!).
I had my first gig as sound mixer on a feature (thanks to producer James Rumsey for bringing me aboard!) and it was a great experience. The film is called My Feral Heart and was directed by Jane Gull (we actually just wrapped some final pickups a week or so ago) and written by Ducan Paveling. I'd talk more about it but I will leave that for a more dedicated post maybe once there is more to show, but another thing that happened was that I also met my favourite boom op ever (besides me, of course), Joss Colin. Hire this dude if you need someone in and around Bristol.
I teamed up with Ben Aston (love the guy!) for another crazy project. This time it's a pilot for a sketch comedy series called Hodgepodge. He was brought in to direct and brought a bunch of his regular crew along so it was a lot of fun
I was on another familiar-faced shoot literally the next day (and I got Joss to come!) for the short film Inside by my friend Carolina Petro. I got to try out some less-conventional recording techniques on this one so I'm excited to see how it turns out.
After that, Joe Giacomet hit me up to shoot another BTS video for his next photoshoot. Somehow I ended up being a replacement model and it was hilarious!
He Took His Skin Off For Me released online and has had OVER A MILLION views, so you should totally watch it now if you haven't yet!
After a bit of a holiday, I worked on the short films Apal by Amelia Hashemi and Help I'm Trapped In A Movie by Riley Madincea. Both were good fun and without stress. What a good way to start the year!
Last week I was helping with some pickups for the upcoming feature A Secret Heart by Cary Sawhney and have been working on some dialogue editing for Alasdair Beckett-King's awesome new pirate adventure game, Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet!
Oh! and just yesterday, I started a new idea to keep myself musically busy and am going to try and record a new track every week to show to all you out there! I'm encouraging suggestions for genres, covers, themes or whatever, to help me have new ideas, so please leave comments on Youtube, Facebook; send me a message here or wherever.
Anyhow, that should be it for now. See ya!