The Catch Up Drink - The Barbarian Horde

The band have very clear ideas and for this shoot they wanted to pay homage to some classic films: The Seventh Seal, The Third Man and Death in Venice, so following a two day shoot in their adopted home of Hastings, the colour grading requirements were high contrast, part black and white and part desaturated 1970s film look as El Moustachio meets his fate on the stoney beach.

Listen out for the instrumental section during the chess game- I remixed this to give a longer version so we could fit the full narrative into the video.

Amina Atiq - Shamin’ on the Train

As part of Black History Month, I filmed this powerful piece by Yemeni Scouser and spoken word artist, Amina Atiq, who suffered racial abuse on a train in Liverpool and was commissioned by Writing on The Wall to write about her experience.

music video Dance sequence

Very pleased with how this dance/ dream sequence turned out from the music video for ‘Who’ by The Linda Campbell Band . We had use of the Charter Theatre in Preston , and I choreographed this segment on the day with dancer Alice Marsden then gave it a vintage film look in post production.

Superheroes: Words are our Power

I was proud to be asked to make a short film documenting this exciting literary project in Merseyside schools, organised by Writing on the Wall in Liverpool.

Read more here: https://www.writingonthewall.org.uk/literacy-in-schools.html

The Metamorphosis

It’s The Barbarian Horde once more- this was an earlier video and again they had a detailed storyboard prepared with a surreal storyline of a lobster, unlucky in love, who finds his soulmate (a squid) on an East London park bench.

The brief was to keep the characters in bright colours in a black and white backdrop so that is what was achieved with colour grading.

Liverpool, the cyclists’ view (2019)

In this, my own documentary, I talk to councillors, experts and campaigners about cycling on Merseyside and find that all is not well for those on two wheels. I also travel to Holland to find out more about how the Dutch overcame many obstacles to make their cities some of the most bike-friendly places on the planet, and to see what we can learn here to make Liverpool a safer city for cyclists.