Film & TV

I have loved watching and making films ever since I was a kid. I started my own YouTube channel when I was only 13 years old. Cinematography is my passion and I wish to continue doing it for as long as I am able. I have experience as a 1st AC/Focus Puller, having worked with a very wide variety of cine-cams from companies like Arri, Panasonic, Canon, Sony and Blackmagic and motors like the Tilta Nucleus M and N. I have also been a 2nd AC/Clapper Loader and camera trainee on TV/Streaming shows and other short and feature length films. I am also Avid and Arri Certified.

I'm a graduate from Film Production at the University of Salford, where I specialised primarily in the camera department but also editing.

Apple tv's Slow Horses

This is the biggest credit in my career so far by a wide margin.

I had the utmost pleasure of working as a camera trainee on Season 4 Episode 10 of Apple TV's "Slow Horses". I still can't believe I'm saying that.

Working alongside HUGE industry names such as Academy Award nominated cinematographer, Danny Cohen ("The King's Speech", "Les Miserable") and Vince McGohan ("Ready Player One", "Sherlock Holmes") was absolutely unbelievable. I think I still might be in shock. The whole camera team were fantastic in training me in the language and roles of the TV Camera Department and I couldn't be more grateful. I assisted in kit transportation from the truck down to the location, battery runs and many other tasks required of camera trainees.

The production used a multi-cam setup, meaning each camera had their own crew. The cameras used were Arri Alexa 35s with Panavision Primo lenses (some seriously expensive, high-end kit).

This was also my first shoot EVER in London, which was a blast, and wouldn't be my last as I ventured down there only 2 weeks later for a short film as a 1st AC.

Housewarming

Housewarming was a short I worked on in 2023 as a camera trainee alongside a great team of other trainees from my year at university.

Housewarming won Best UK Short at Raindance Film Festival 2024 and is BIFA nominated for Best British Short. What an unbelievable achievement and I cannot be more proud of the team and cast for their performances.

I can't even describe how thankful I am for my editing tutor from university, Revis, for recommending me to the director, resulting in such a big achievement.

Directed by Liam White.

Hanky Panky

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Two weeks after being on set for Apple TV's show "Slow Horses", I headed back down to London once again, this time to 1st AC for a wonderful comedy/thriller short called "Hanky Panky" shot in Camden,

This film notably stars Bella Glanville, (as seen on Netflix's "A Whole Lifetime" and "Sexy Beasts"), who also produced the film itself.

I worked under Grammy Nominated and MOBO Winner, Roger Russell, which was an absolute pleasure. We shot using a RED Komodo with Cooke S4 prime lenses.

This was also my first time using the Arri WCU-4 Focus Motor kit, which was vastly more complex than the Tilta Nucleus M that I have become extremely familiar with since using in and out of university.

The cast and crew were an absolute joy to be around, and was by far one of the most friendly and fun set of colleagues that I have ever come across.

Directed by Cecille Fray.

uRGE

Urge was another final year project that I worked on at university alongside some of the best student filmmakers the UK has to offer.

We shot on the Arri Mini LF, which was an absolute privilege especially since we had already shot one film on it already (see Milkshakes and Burger Phones).

As usual with this crew, I took the role of 1st Assistant Camera, which when working with Leo Green is always a pleasure. It allowed me a lot of time to get acquainted with the Mini LF.

We shot across 14 days in some absolutely amazing locations (credit to the producer, Gracie Nuttall), at all points in the day, starting at 4am one day, 1pm the next and then the longest shoot day I have ever been a part of where I left the house at 8:30am and returned at 9:00am the next day. That was a long one, even longer than the 21 hour day we did on Coming Home, my second ever on-set experience.

We can't wait to show you this one.

Directed by Ben Robertson.

Sinister Sales

I have been lucky enough to continue my role as cinematographer at university on great projects such as this one. My second production of my second year at the University of Salford was a comedy called Sinister Sales, which ended up being my first selection and first WIN in a film festival as a cinematographer. We had a fantastic team that worked together to create, in my opinion, the best film I had worked on at Uni up until that point.

Sinister Sales is a wacky comedy about a plucky and naïve young man going for a job interview at a company with a much more sinister style of business than the average office block. This film is a hilarious comedy with genuine exhale-harder-through-your-nose-than-usual gags that will keep you entertained for a full ten minutes.

With slapstick humour combined with subtle jokes and brilliant delivery by our antagonist, the wonderfully talented Daniel McKeown, you'll want to give this film a few rewatches. There's plenty of jokes you may miss on the first time round!

Directed by Ben Robertson

Lichtblick

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My first shoot of 2023 also happened to be my first time shooting a film abroad, in this case over in Berlin, Germany! The film has amassed 8 international festival selections to date.

Sophia Tamaro, a fabulous director whom I have worked with numerous times before, asked me to fly out to Berlin to 1st AC/pull focus for her fantastic Director of Photography, Polina Georgescu.

We worked with a very international cast and crew, with members from Germany, Italy, Ukraine, USA and the UK among other nations.

"Lichtblick", meaning 'ray of hope', was my first time working with a Sony camera, namely the FX6. It was also my first time shooting with Zeiss Compact Primes.

I hope to shoot outside of the UK on a million more occasions, I thoroughly loved the whole experience, particularly working with such an excellent team.

Directed by Sophia Tamaro

Pause

As preparation for their third year film, the future crew of the short film, "Urge", decided to make a short film using the exact same crew in the same roles as to practice the workflow together. Winning an RTS award for best direction and starring Coronation Street and Happy Valley star, John Tueart alongside John O'Hagan and Ruth Sampson, this was a film pitched by 'Sinister Sales' director, Ben Robertson, in the second year of my Film Production cohort's tenure at the University of Salford. Fortunately, it wasn't picked to be shot for our project and instead had to wait for third year where we had access to, not only better kit, but a bigger wealth of knowledge and experience that would prove worthy to make this great film.

With a stellar crew, or "The Avengers of our year group" as I've dubbed us, we believe this film has so much potential and will go far in a festival run. Written and directed by Ben Robertson, produced by Gracie Nuttall, cinematography by Leo Green, myself as 1st AC, Maddy Neve as production designer, Ollie Neate as sound recordist and mixer, and edited by Bartek Bilinski, plus all of our many daily runners from university.

Directed by Ben Robertson

HUggo

I worked as a camera assistant on my first ever BFI film in June 2022 back in a very familiar territory of Whitby, where I used to go to school. Huggo is a drama about a young mother who lost her baby during childbirth and her emotional journey with her boyfriend.

I thoroughly enjoyed working on this short film, particularly working with some very talented Yorkshire-based filmmakers.

This was my first time working in a camera team shooting on a RED camera, this time being a Komodo owned by DoP Aimee Bant.

I'm so thankful to have worked with Aimee Bant, Ed Cotton and Sophie Manoury in the camera and lighting department.

Directed by Katie Harriman.

Leaving the Frame

Leaving the Frame was our first second-year project at the University of Salford. During the shoot I acted as cinematographer for one of the three shoot days, as well as stepping in as gaffer and script supervisor to a certain extent. My primary role on this film, however, was as the editor.

The shoot was hampered by many issues, primarily crew absences and infrequent access to location as well as kit booking failures. Despite all this, we pulled through and created a film to be proud of, regardless of its shortcomings.

I loved shooting with the Panasonic EVA-1; it was a large step up from using the Canon C100 and was my first time shooting in V-LOG.

I accept that the colour grading is inconsistent, but as this was my first time grading a whole film I am rather proud of it. This film on the whole was a large learning process that certainly has benefitted me as I progress through my filmmaking career.

Directed by Oliver Neate.
Edited by Spencer Fox.

Things Have Changed

Things Have Changed is a short film I "acted" in, shot and edited in a week for a university activity. We were given a short, vague script and were told to create a short film from our own first impressions. This was my first taste of university filmmaking and my first time shooting in the city of Manchester.

This short is something I am rather proud of, particularly because it is used as a good example for all first years on the course.

I shot this film entirely on my Canon 90D DSLR on a £0 budget

This was my first attempt at sound mixing from scratch. I used a combination of in-camera sound captured while shooting, my own foley work and audio clips and score from Epidemic Sound.

If I were to reshoot this short, the only real change I would make would be to hire professional voice actors to perform the voiceover, rather than two non-actors (namely myself and my partner).

Created by Spencer Fox

Paper Planes

Paper Planes was our second first-year project at the University of Salford. During the shoot we tackled with bad weather (namely an absolute monsoon), cramped spaces and non-actors working with a trained theatre actress.

I assumed my role as the cinematographer, using the C100 and my own Canon 90D and Ronin S gimbal, as well as my Aperture MC RGB lights.

This was a far better overall production than the previous film, "Doodle", in my opinion. There were far less technical errors from visual side of things, and contained more difficult and visually impressive shots than any previous university projects I had completed.

I also believe the editing was far better than that of Doodle, and showed off my shots in a positive light, however a more experienced editor would have brought the best out of my cinematography.

Directed by Aaron Reid.
Edited by Adam Turner.

The Kindness of a Stranger

The Kindness of a Stranger was my first time shooting a micro budget with a cine-cam, namely the Canon C100.

We shot it over a few days in September 2019, using predominantly our own equipment, renting the C100 from York College, some non-actors and student actors, as well as the wonderful Ray Castleton. The crew and I travelled around the Yorkshire Moors on location, as well as shooting in my hometown of Scarborough.

As this was my first time working on set as Cinematographer, there are a few mistakes throughout the short, predominantly in exposure and white balance during the final scene. If we were able to reshoot this piece, I would absolutely put right these problems and it would be a far more polished piece.

Additionally, I also acted as the entire sound department on set, using all my own kit; from audio recorders to LAV microphones that plug into my iPhone, I did my best to get as many sound options as possible.

Directed by Sophia Tamaro.
Edited by Joana Fox.

train food (Music Video)

Train Food is a song by XXXTentaction, an artist that meant a lot to me as a teenager. His murder hit me like a ton of bricks on a Ferrari. I made this music video for one of his post-mortem songs for a college project when I was 17 (2018/19).

This video was the first time I attempted using special effects, and I felt that they were pretty well done! Of course, looking back on this video years later there are things that could be added, but all things considered, I think this video is pretty damn good.

The video itself got a distinction and I believe is the best product to come out of my college tenure.

I shot this by myself, with my drama friends acting as the cast for me. I used a 30cm slider, an obscenely heavy tripod, a gimbal that didn't even remotely work and a Canon 1300D of all things. It didn't even have an articulating screen! Props-wise, I used a revolver replica that my grandma got me for Christmas one year. My mum was mortified when I unwrapped that one.

Created by Spencer Fox

Doodle

Doodle was my team and I's first assessed short film at university, and my first time shooting a short film that I wrote myself.

This short marked the second time I shot a film with a C100, although I did make a few mistakes that I would go back and change if given the opportunity. Despite technical issues with the university-owned kit itself, there are a few times where I missed focus or had poor composition that I wish I could reshoot now.

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we had to once again use non-actors to fill the roles in the film. This included our university lecturer, my flatmate at the time and once again yours truly to act as the narrator.

We shot on location in MediaCity and around Salford and Manchester city centre in Autumn 2020.

Directed by Aaron Reid.
Edited by Yasmin Dean

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