After Tomorrow and the Cannes film festival

Here's a short film that I had the pleasure of working on with a brilliant crew.

I was a RED Camera Technician as well as a DIT (Digital Imaging Technician), working under Eduard Grau (who went onto to be DOP/Cinematographer on A Single Man, Buried, The Awakening and A Single Shot).

The film went on to be nominated for the Palm d'Or for Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival. www.festival-cannes.com/en/article/56303.html

Won Best Short Film at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.

Won International Youth Jury Prize at Curto Circuito, Santiago de Compostela.

Was nominated for Best Director at Grand OFF, Poland.

Got a Jury Special Mention at Alcine, Madrid.

Winner of Public Prize for Best Film Une Nuit Trop Courte at Grenoble, France.

And was screened at over 40 international film festivals.

And it got me another IMDB listing =)

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4685593/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1

And another BFI credit =)

http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b9c133e7a

Match of the Day and a Van Persie screamer

I had the pleasure of watching this beautiful goal back when I was a camera assistant on Match of the Day with BBC Outside Broadcast.

I was high up in the rafters for it - the camera angle 24 seconds into the clip.

Private Peaceful and another IMDB credit

This was the first time I worked on a feature film in my home town.

I met Richard Griffiths briefly (Harry Potter's uncle), he seemed a genuinely nice guy, if a little eccentric =) and I also talked to Jack O'Connell (from Skins) who also seemed pretty down to earth too.

Got another IMDB credit too http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4685593/

"One Take" videos with Jameson

Ipswich based singer/song-writer Jameson wanted some music videos to accompany his debut album so we came up with these 3 "One Take" videos.

We wanted to record them all in one take to keep the emphasis strictly on Jameson's performance and to distance ourselves from the hyper cross-cutting of a lot of today's music videos and also to keep the budget to a minimum.

To watch these videos in HD, please click on the "cog wheel" icon below (in the bottom right of the Youtube frame, once you've pressed PLAY) and change the quality to either 720p or 1080p. Please ensure your computer is fast enough!



This was recorded in sub-zero temperatures at Echo base, The Hoth System, Anoat Sector, Outer Rim Territories.

It was shot on a Sony PD150 with a wide-angle lens then upscaled to HD.



Shot on a Canon 5D Mark 2 with a Nikon AI 28mm lens.

Jameson: "This song was written for my brother Kieran. It's about our time apart whilst he was being educated away from home at The Royal School for the Deaf. The house in the background is the one we grew up in. Where I am standing is where I used to see him off and welcome him home every week".

Performance written and arranged by Jameson. (British Sign Language).

i's dotted and t's' crossed by Kieran and Rebecca Whiting-Woodhouse.

"Man in window" played by Kieran Woodhouse.

Video concept by Jameson.



Shot on a Canon 5D Mark 2 with a Nikon AI 28mm lens.

Set design by Jameson, 'D', H.J Double'ya and M.Y.

Take 1 of 1.

Recorded live at Woodhouse House.

Video concept by Jameson.

A Trip to Hong Kong, Taipei and Tokyo (2004-2005)

I refound some old photos from a trip to Asia in 2004-2005 so I thought I would make a little video out of them.

They were all taken with my first ever digital camera that I bought whilst I was over there. So I had to figure out the manual settings and how to operate it as I went along as I'd only used basic 35mm film cameras previously.

It was a Canon Power Shot S60 5 Megapixels - not exactly a professional camera by any means but it's still going strong today!

Music: Break - They're Wrong

BBC Music Video Festival 2011

My music video "Kerse da Verse - Voodoo Browne (ft Cosha Don)" was selected for the "Launch Party and Not Safe For Work" category, alongside Chase and Status, at the BBC Music Video Festival 2011 =D

I was well chuffed with this as it's now 2 years on the trot that one of my videos has been chosen for this festival =D

Kerse Da Verse - Voodoo Browne (feat. Cosha Don) (DVCAM) (2011) from M.Y Films on Vimeo.

(see 2nd from bottom entry)
Honoured to be sharing the same space with Chase and Status (whose video for Blind Faith was one of my favourites of the year) and Noisia feat. Foreign Beggars!

(N.B - please ignore my Google search for EPMD lyrics lol).

---

"Blanket of Night - Beeba (ft Jameson)" was selected for the BBC Music Video Festival in 2010

Blanket of Night - Beeba feat. Jameson (DVCAM) (2009) from M.Y Films on Vimeo.

Blanket of Night on Europe's largest digital screen at the BBC.



Me, Beeba and our new mate on our guided tour of the BBC Studio.



Behind the scenes at the BBC with Jameson and Blanket of Night.

Still Life - 4 Stories, Many Drugs (Documentary Trailer)

Still Life (Documentary Trailer) (DVCAM & miniDV) (2005) from M.Y Films on Vimeo.

Here's a trailer for a 40 min documentary that I filmed at HMP Wayland.
I spoke to 4 inmates who recounted their life stories and their experiences with drugs.

The aim of the project was to raise awareness on substance abuse and to give young people a better understanding about addiction through true-life experiences and steering clear of a "Just say no" approach.

To this day, Still Life still remains one of my projects that I'm most proud of.

The full length documentary, background info on the project and an article on the project in The Guardian can be found here: http://m-yfilms.blogspot.com/2010/03/still-life.html