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True Power *** Award News ***
This was my graduation piece at the London Film School; a test commercial for Tom Clancy’s EndWar. Shot on ARRI Alexa, VFX done by myself and the great Jules Bodenstein in Autodesk Maya and Adobe After Effects.
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Past Future Priorities
Short film by the talented Croatian director Daina Oniunas-Pusić. Currently in the edit and just locked the first cut. More info and trailer coming soon.
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MAVERICK MEDIA
I’m happy to say I have been taken on by Maverick Media to join them on a New Talent Programme that they run. Given that my graduation piece, True Power, was a video game commercial, it’s certainly exciting to go to work at London’s premier creative agency specialising in video game trailers and all-round advertising. ...
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Farmhand
In post-production. Coming in Spring 2012, Farmhand is a short film starring Sam Caird and Eva Lily Tausig. A young man’s life has stagnated as he performs his daily monotonous routine working on a cattle farm. With no social interaction he’s isolated in this rural world until one day he finds intimacy in the most ...
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‘True Power’ VFX Breakdown
Quick layer by layer breakdown of the compositing process in Adobe After Effects. Colour grading was done in Assimilate Scratch.
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Showreel 2012
This reel includes 1 minute excerpts from 1 commercial, 3 short films and 1 music video in that order. I chose to include complete scenes instead of short snippets since I feel this allows for editing work to be assessed more effectively, certainly regarding narrative fiction. Thanks for watching.
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Lana Del Rey – Vogue
Short behind the scenes featurette of Lana Del Rey’s cover shoot for Vogue by Mario Testino. Produced by Look Films.
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Diablo Boulevard – Saint of Killers
Featured on THE REEL. Music video for Diablo Boulevard, directed by Matthias Lebeer. Shot on location in Belgium, post production done in the UK. Edited by yours truly and colour graded at The Mill, London.
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Fire
‘Fire’ is Chanya Button’s second short film written by Sian Robins-Grace, following up on ‘Frog/Robot’. It was commissioned by Film London as part of the Charles Dickens Bicentenary, held in the BFI. Next to editing, I took on post-production supervising duties, which was a really rewarding and instructive experience.
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Early Birds
One of many collaborations with Jeroen Bogaert, this time for his London Film School graduation short.
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Natural Cycle
This is a commercial made by fellow LFS graduate Giacomo Boeri as an entry into the Movie&Co Competition in Milan, where it took the third prize. It took five days of meticulous stop-motion shooting on DSLR’s. Stills were conformed into video files in Final Cut Pro and subsequently edited.
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The Dead Are Silent
Short film by Nikolaj Hans Belzer from Eiokay. A modern retelling of Arthur Schnitzler’s short story, updated to contemporary London. Shot in five days in locations in East London and St Albans, it is a dark tale of love and betrayal. Sound editing in Pro Tools 8 over two weeks.
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Frog/Robot
First collaboration with Chanya Button and Sian Robins-Grace. Took a year to get made, quite the adventure. directed by Chanya Button written by Sian Robins-Grace produced by Tim Phillips photography by Carlos De Carvahlo production design by Eleanor Field
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Home
Short film by Benjamin Thomas. Chris has not spoken to his father since his mother’s death, but his fiancée, Alena, insists on meeting her future father-in-law. Chris reluctantly agrees but still refuses to engage. It’s not until he sees Alena in his mother’s room and acknowledges his own pain that he begins to recognise his ...
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Drift
Award-winning, atmospheric short, directed by Ben Caird. In an attempt to find a reattachment to the memory of his childhood, John returns to the London neighbourhood he grew up in. When he meets Aya, a single mother struggling to keep her life moving in the direction she wants with her young child, James, he sees ...
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The Lazarus Home for Girls
This charity/documentary film was made by Benjamin Thomas to support the Lazarus Home for Girls in Bethany, Palestine. It was selected for screening at the London Short Film Festival 2012.
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Flipside
Graduation film from Anshu Poddar. 2010.
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Coconut Skin
Fifth term film at the London Film School, directed by Jeroen Bogaert. Shot on colour 35mm, cut on Avid Media Composer and manually conformed back to film print. A taste of old school during film’s final days.
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The Crossmaker
Fourth term film from the London Film School, directed by David Anderson. Shot on B&W 35mm, cut on Avid Media Composer and conformed back to film print.
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The Birdman of Tamworth
A short film about a mother remembering her son, a British soldier who died in the Iraq war. Winner of British Short Film Competition at the 2010 Leeds International Film Festival
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Disposal
Second short directed while earning MA at the LFS, as Part of Transcriptions: a London Film School – The National Gallery Collaboration.
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Goliath
First short directed while earning MA at the LFS. Shot on B&W 16mm on one location day.