Gun Salutes for the Queens Jubilee
I had two jobs filming for Reuters yesterday, the first of which was to take me to Hyde Park in Central London to film a 41 gun salute that took place to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Crowds gathered in the snow covered Royal Park to see 6 Royal Artillery horse drawn guns thundered into [...]
UK Premier – War Horse
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge attended the UK Premier of Steven Speilberg’s latest Hollywood blockbuster War Horse. Exclusively shot in Great Britain the motion picture follows that World War 1 story of a farm hand who enlists in the British Army after his work horse is sold to the Cavilary. The London Premier of [...]
Chimney test for Santa
Monday the 19th December was a very cold and very wet day… Not one to be filming outside that’s for sure but some stories go ahead no matter what the weather, and Monday was no exception. Father Christmas is coming in less than a week and in true xmas story style Reuters couldn’t resist the [...]
Filming at the Dubai Air Show for the FT
Last week was a super busy one with an 8 day trip to the Middle East to cover the Dubai Air Show for the Financial Times. It all sounds very exotic but the truth was that we were so busy we only saw the Airport or the Holiday Inn Express the whole week apart from [...]
London Riots Footage
I have just been trawling the Reuters website looking for an interview that I filmed with Rock Legend Alice Cooper at the BFI on Friday night last week, and I came across this footage of the London Riots back in August this year… The following clips were all filmed by me on the night that [...]
George Michael kicks off his world tour
Singer Songwriter George Michael launched his world tour this week with a capacity crowd event at the Royal Albert Hall in central London. I covered the event for Reuters with Producer Kathi Urban and we managed to get the above footage from the evening’s program.
FT.com Special Reports – Readers Digest
Financial Times Special Reports Commissioning editor Rob Orr has just published a short film on the FT’s website that I shot last week about the fall and rise of one of the nations highest circulating magazines. Readers Digest had a circulation per week that was larger than most of the UK’s national Newspapers. Considering that [...]
Abduction – UK Premier
American movie star Taylor Lautner was mobbed by screaming fans out side the BFI Imax in London when he arrived for the premier of his first major film since appearing in the Twighlight series. Again shooting for Reuters Showbiz with Kathi Urban we filmed and produced rushes from the event and this is the resulting [...]
London Fashion Week 2011
London Fashion Week 2011, was a hectic one… Not only was it my first ever fashion week on Video I had never had the pleasure of doing one on stills either, so the learning curve was steep. I had Basmah with me though as producer and we had an really good time rushing from show [...]
Real Steel’s UK Premier
Hollywood superstar Hugh Jackman was in London the other week for the UK Premier of his latest film Real Steel… I filmed the event for Reuters accompanied by Freelance Producer Kathi Urban. Above is the edit from the Reuters.com website.
Supermodel Kate Moss – Rimmel Party
It’s been a busy week working for Reuters so far with lots of posts to come. With fashion week in full swing and all of the pre-amble that goes with it there’s a lot to cover and the days before the models saunter down the catwalks were no exception. Supermodel Kate Moss got the PR [...]
Final Cut X – A Review
Final Cut X has been out for a short while now and before I dive in and buy the last version of Apples premier editing software I have been searching the web for the reviews and rants to guide me before I invest my well earned cash. Colleagues at Trusted Media productions company Techsec Media [...]
2011 Mercury Award Nominations
Reuters Producer Doug MacLaurin and I attended the 2011 Mercury Prize Nominations ceremony in Central London, and here is the resulting edit from the Reuters Website.
FT Video – Lessons From Lehman Brothers
Published on the FT.com is a Video I shot last week whilst working with the FT’s Special Reports producer Adam Jezzard all about the lessons learnt throughout the financial crisis after the collapse of the Lehman Brothers company. During the filming we interviewed 3 experts on the subject and shot several pieces to camera with [...]
Londons biggest Comic Convention
London’s Earls Court played host to the UK’s bigest Comic convention, and biggest one this side of the United States. Fans from all over the world showed up throughout the three day event. Reuters Producer Doug MacLaurin and I went down on Friday night for the opening to see what all the fuss was about.
Potter fans wait for the final Premier
Last Thursday was the Harry Potter extravaganza premier day in Trafalgar and Leicester Square, central London which saw me on task at 0500 in the morning to film the hardened potter fans brave enough to wait through torrential summer rain, in order to get the merest glimpse of their favourite movie stars walking down the [...]
Potter fans duel for premier tickets
As the final instalment of the Harry Potter films approaches its world premier in London later this week, the press are biting into the potter fever attending every opportunity to record the build up to the most anticipated film so far this year. And Saturday was no exception to this, with an event at the [...]
Daily Telegraph goes Pottermore
I have just seen the Reuters Pottermore footage re-edited for the Daily Telegraph’s Video website. Its good to know that not only is your footage getting out to the wider world of foreign clients but here in the UK they feel the footage is good enough to make a package for their website too. Click [...]
J K Rowling’s Pottermore Announcement
Harry Potter novellist J K Rowling announced her latest Potter creation at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London today. Pottermore, which has been in the making for the past two years, is an interactive online website which will immerse fans even further into the world of wizards and wands. Conveniently just ahead of next [...]
Film Premier – Larry Crowne
The World premier of Tom Hanks new movie took place at London’s largest shopping centre last night with hundreds of fans clambering towards the barriers to catch a chance glimpse of one of Holywood’s biggest movie stars. Larry Crowne is the name of the his latest venture where he not only takes the leading role [...]
Interview – Vanity Fair Royal Writer
Working for Reuters often gives you the opportunity to meet experts in all kinds of fields and this week I was given the task of filming an interview with a writer who is an expert in the newly wedded Royal Couple William and Catherine. Vanity Fair writer Katie Nichols has written an article about the [...]
No Cuff too Tough – A fastball interview
On the same day as the Hamley’s job Cindy Martin and I were tasked to attend a practice session with Toronto-based electronic group Azari & III. The dance music band were recording in a Hackney studio just a short distance from Old Gate in East London. I arrived in anticipation of getting a great little [...]
Princess Catherine – A Royal Barbie is Born
Royal wedding fever is running away with all sorts of companies and entrepreneurs cashing in on this unique, once in a short lifetime event, by bringing out products that will sell to royal wedding hungry consumers and collectors. One such product was launched on Thursday with some fan-fair at London’s most prestigious toy shop, Hamley’s, [...]