Showreeel: 60 Shots in 60 Seconds
Keble College: Welcome To Your Library
Anna's Story
Kathleen
A Portrait of Cambridge
Roche: Meet the pRED Cancer Research Team
AVEVA: Corporate Video
David Youngs: Boulder Burnt
David Youngs: Follow My Footsteps
David Youngs: Sumahita
David Youngs: Technomantra
David Youngs Halo: Glitch 156
Hawstead: A Special Place to Live
ECIS Rome
Contamac: Corporate Video
Polocode
Chlamydia: Treating the Condition and the Risk
Imitating Life
Douglas Adams speaking on artificial life in 1997
Showreeel: 60 Shots in 60 SecondsA one-minute showreel summarising my work as a producer, director, lighting cameraman and editor.I have worked on hundreds of factual and factual/drama productions, both on location and in the studio, on every continent - apart from Antartica!I directed everything on the reel and was lighting cameraman for everything apart from the robbery and sculpture sequences which were photographed by Marcus Birsel and Sam Montague respectively.
Keble College: Welcome To Your LibraryOxford’s Keble College library is at the heart of the college – physically and intellectually. This video gives new students an overview of what the library is for and how to use it.Directed, filmed and edited by Andy Taplin for Peninsula Films using a Canon C300 and 5D MK11.
Anna's StoryAnna's shares her personal account of being diagnosed with breast cancer and experience of treatment. Filmed using the EyeDirect system to achieve eye contact with the subject.
KathleenKathleen, a mother and professional musician, shares her cancer story.
A Portrait of CambridgeWhat is a Canon 5D Mk11's video capable of during afternoon around my home city of Cambridge, UK.Lenses used: Canon 24-70mm f/2.8 L and Nikon 105mm f/2.5 Ai-s.Overall I’m very pleased with the image quality, although there are occasional moire and aliasing artefacts which is only to be expected.
Roche: Meet the pRED Cancer Research TeamInternal communications video introducing the international pRED cancer research team to a wider Roche audience. Filmed at multiple Roche sites across Europe.
AVEVA: Corporate VideoAVEVA, a leading supplier of plant and marine design and management software, was founded 40 years ago in Cambridge (making them the oldest software company in the world). This video provides an overview of the company’s technology and values.Produced by Peninsula FIlms (UK) Ltd for AVEVA.
David Youngs: Boulder BurntI filmed this video for a very talented multi-instrumentalist friend of mine David Youngs. He plays astonishing acoustic guitar using a percussive tapping technique that has to be seen to be believed - hence the video. He also plays drums and percussion to a very high level - he is stupidly talented basically!I used a combination of PMW 350 for the colour shots and Canon 5DMK11 for the B&W. Colour grading was done in Magic Bullet Colorista and MB Looks.For more information about David visit: davidyoungs.net
David Youngs: Follow My FootstepsI filmed this video for a very talented multi-instrumentalist friend of mine David Youngs. He plays astonishing acoustic guitar using a percussive tapping technique that has to be seen to be believed - hence the video. He also plays drums and percussion to a very high level - he is stupidly talented basically!I used a combination of PMW 350 for the colour shots and Canon 5DMK11 for the B&W. Colour grading was done in Magic Bullet Colorista and MB Looks.For more information about David visit: davidyoungs.net
David Youngs: SumahitaI filmed this video for a very talented multi-instrumentalist friend of mine David Youngs. He plays astonishing acoustic guitar using a percussive tapping technique that has to be seen to be believed - hence the video. He also plays drums and percussion to a very high level - he is stupidly talented basically!I used a combination of PMW 350 for the colour shots and Canon 5DMK11 for the B&W. Colour grading was done in Magic Bullet Colorista and MB Looks.For more information about David visit: davidyoungs.net
David Youngs: TechnomantraI filmed this video for a very talented multi-instrumentalist friend of mine David Youngs. He plays astonishing acoustic guitar using a percussive tapping technique that has to be seen to be believed - hence the video. He also plays drums and percussion to a very high level - he is stupidly talented basically!I used a combination of PMW 350 for the colour shots and Canon 5DMK11 for the B&W. Colour grading was done in Magic Bullet Colorista and MB Looks.For more information about David visit: davidyoungs.net
David Youngs Halo: Glitch 156I filmed this video for a very talented multi-instrumentalist friend of mine David Youngs. He plays astonishing acoustic guitar using a percussive tapping technique that has to be seen to be believed - hence the video. He also plays drums and percussion to a very high level - he is stupidly talented basically!I used a combination of PMW 350 for the colour shots and Canon 5DMK11 for the B&W. Colour grading was done in Magic Bullet Colorista and MB Looks.For more information about David visit: davidyoungs.net
Hawstead: A Special Place to LiveAs part of Hawstead's entry to the Suffolk Village of the Year competition we were asked to produce a video to show at the 'semi-final' stage.We were very happy to help. In the little more than a year we have lived in Hawstead we've made many friends and enjoyed being part of a real community. The villagers got behind the project - as they invariably do - and in less than a week we'd produced a film that captures the strong sense of community that exists here.The video was shot with a Canon 5D MK11 for the village shots and a PMW350 for the interviews.
Global Graphics help German printer Ellerhold to overcome a serious print quality issue.
ECIS RomeHighlights video from The Educational Collaborative of International Schools conference in Rome 2016. Delegates comment on the conference and what it means to their professional development.
Contamac: Corporate VideoShort introduction to Contamac the world's largest manufacturer of contact lens materials.I produced, photographed and edited the video for Contamac through my production company Peninsula Films.
PolocodePolocode, a new satnav app developed by a commercial airline pilot, aims to solve the last few hundred meters problem that postcode-based satnavs can suffer from where it can be difficult to find an exact location.
Chlamydia: Treating the Condition and the RiskOpening sequence, shot on 8mm film, of an educational video for teenagers about the treatment of chlamydia, and how lifestyle contributes to the risk of infection. Voiced-over by actress Tara Fitzgerald.Directed, filmed and edited by Andy Taplin.Written and produced by Amethyst Television for Trinity Pharmaceuticals.
Imitating LifeShot on 16mm film, this opening sequence shows how an elegant visual analogy was used to introduce the principles behind testosterone replacement therapy.Directed and edited by Andy Taplin.Lighting cameraman: Sam Montague.Written and produced by Amethyst Television Ltd for GlaxoSmithKline Beecham.
Douglas Adams speaking on artificial life in 1997This interview with the late Douglas Adams was filmed in November 1997 at his home in London, on Betacam SP in 4×3 – state of the art at the time!I was making a video for CyberLife about the artificial-life (AL) technology being used in their Creatures series of computer games. Douglas was impressed with the evolutionary, bottom-up approach that CyberLife had used to evolve life-like digital entities that could learn and pass on characteristics from generation to generation. Douglas was a true geek, fascinated by evolutionary biology and computer science, and one of the first people in the UK to own an Apple Mac. Douglas’s ability to ‘riff’ on subjects that interested him was exceptional and in this interview he talks about the potential for AL, as it seemed at the time. CyberLife’s unique approach to developing artificial-life seemed then to have huge potential outside of Creatures, for example in industrial applications that could fundamentally change the way we interact with computers and software.Thirteen years later and we’re still waiting for the AL revolution to happen. Perhaps the world was not (and still isn’t) ready to hand over control to digital life forms, or perhaps the difficulties in applying AL to the real world were insurmountable. I’m not sure, but either way the company CyberLife no longer exists. However, Creatures continue to survive and thrive with many devoted fans breeding digital communities. Steve Grand, the chief architect of CyberLife’s technology, is still working on AL and may yet unleash his creations on an unsuspecting world.The two things I remember most about interviewing Douglas Adams, as well as how engaging he was, were that he was very tall (at least 6’ 5”), and the furniture in his house was correspondingly huge. So although he looks perfectly in proportion sitting on his vast sofa, I felt rather small in comparison. And secondly he insisted on sitting next to a life-sized sculpture of a naked human figure which looks innocent enough in the wide shot but I had to try and frame it out in the close-ups as the thing’s groin appeared next to Douglas’s head and was extremely distracting!
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