Film & Editing Blog - Behind the Scenes

I normally hide behind the camera but this latest movie has me in it! Cringe! well when you watch it you'll understand why I'm not destined to be a Hollywood actor. But I do know what I'm doing behind the camera and in post production.

This video has a pretty funky intro with music from our musical consultant Baz. Enjoy!

Normally I'm behind the HD Cameras doing the filming. But today saw me acting as the talent for a short promotional movie to promote some Photography DSLR training courses that I'm going to be running this year.

In this image you can see myself surrounded by the equipment needed to do a proper job. There's shotgun mics, proper lighting, HD cameras and my assistant Franka who's doing a great job! I'll post the video on here once I've finished the post production and it's uploaded to youtube.

This video demonstrates a number of different filming techniques. Brought together with careful colour grading and fantastic music from our in-house musician Baz. It follows the artist Carol Arter from Arterworks.co.uk as she creates a papier mache sculpture of an angel.

Our good friend and client Nick Kemp, an international business trainer and coach, popped by our new Offices in Leeds LS2 to review the compositing animation and editing we've been doing on his footage from a training course in Japan. 

We've created a flowing flag animation blending his brand logo into the Japanese flag. We'll let you know when the project goes live. To find out more about Nick and his work abroad, you can visit www.nickkemptraining.com.

We're well into the Inca Trail trek and in this photo I'm taking a well earned break from photographing and filming the adventure to enjoy the views of the stunning mountains and emerald lakes. We've just come over the highest point in the pass which if I remember correctly was about 4500m above sea level.

Just before this highest point was an old abandoned silver mine, which to get to you had to hike off from the path up a steep scree zig zagged path. But it was worth it. I donned the head torch and took the small HF S21 camcorder and went right into the mine. It was dark and damp and thankfully lacking anything with teeth or claws! I saw what looked like some traces of silver in there too and our guide Willow said there were plans to re-open the mine in the future, I wish I'd packed a pickax, but then again... with all the camera and sound equipment I was loaded down enough!

You'll get to see some of the footage of the mine in the final video which we're putting together to promote charity events in Peru for our client Student Adventures.