Double Amputee Racing Driver

Consider, by the Telegraph is a new series exploring extraordinary people. The first in the series is a film I edited with "WONDERKID" Director Rhys Chapman who also directed the first episode. The films delve in to the life of ex army soldier David Birrell who, having lost both his legs after an IED bomb blew up and being discharged from the military needed something to help him push past his inflictions. David began racing cars and winning competitions in 2014 and has continued to gain sponsorship. The film shows us how he manages to race with prophetic limbs and tells his story of where he plans to go in the future.

You can view the film >HERE<

 

Experimenting with Anamorphic glass

I headed down to Gear Factory in London and shot this quick test with the 50mm Lomo Anamorphic lens. I've got a shoot coming up and the client requested using a wider aspect ratio to give the commercial a more premium cinematic feel. 

We looked at the Cooke S4 lenses but they were out of our budget at over 400+ per day so we went with the Lomo set which were around 300 per day. The Lomo's render beautiful images if a bit wide with the 2x squeeze. 

We will be filming on an FS7 which unfortunately doesn't give us a 4:3 recording setting so with a 16:9 sensor the image is very wide. I think we will end up filming 3840 x 2160 50fps and have to scale the image up to fit the 2:35:1 aspect ratio we need. 

To de-squeeze the image in FCPX in the scale option you just change the y axis to 50 instead of 100. 

A secret party with Katy B

Our task was to capture an exclusive event with 200 spotify invited guests at an undisclosed location in London which was to have an unknown musician perform at. We had 4 FS7 camera's and were directed by the talented Daniel Morgan (who has worked with the likes of Rudimental).

The venue was Shapes in Hackney, and the Talent was none other then Katy B. The shoot consisted of a few sections with our actors riding in the car and attending the venue, Katy B getting ready and general cut aways of the event and vehicle. We would have liked more shots of Katy getting prepared but time was against us. 

The Final shots of the gig in full swing had all 4 cameras rolling at a mixture of 1080 150fps and 4k 50P to give the editors room to crop etc. The gig was awesome and everyone had a great time!