Because film is better than digital.

For the last few weeks I've been doing a lot of travelling around on shoots, and here are my 35mm production stills from my time in Belper, Derbyshire- for a short film called The Opening Night. and my shoot in the beautiful Kilkerran, Scotland where I spent 10 days in the 1940's shooting the film on 16mm...

'The Opening Night';


I spent a few days in Belper, working as D.O.P on the film, with Sophie Briggs Directing, Jesse Tadini Rybolt on SOUND, and Laura Brimley as editor. We had a great, if strange time in Derbyshire, travelling around in Laura's trusty film-mobile 'Larry'...

'The Lost Girls';


My 10 days in Kilkerran started as epic as it finished. After getting back from Belper late the night before and leaving the morning of the next day, the 10 hours or so drive flew by as I dreamt in the car, whilst waking up to different sights of the motorway on the way... ANGRYBEAR and the equipment spent an extra 3-4 hours on the road, and in the early hours of the following day we all worried and devised plans to find them in the middle of nowhere roads of Scotland. Then they arrived, as if by magic. Our 10 days had begun.
After a couple of days spending as a weekend recce I shot some super 8mm for montage edits in the film and ended up chasing rare steam trains that happened to be in the area, running through marsh-lands, driving too fast to care along winding, 'post-man pat' roads- we made the shot.
After packing for wintery, rainy weather conditions we all ended up getting sun-burnt and shooting in summer atire for most of the week! The house in Kilkerran is amazing, driving up the mountain in the 'mule', clambering over rivers and playing in the woods- this shoot started like more of a holiday than work. amazing.
I hope my photographs and the end film does the house and land some justice. enjoy.

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