5 Faces of Darkness

Spent Saturday filming with Sean Hogan again for a promo for Justin Greaves' new musical adventure, Se Delan.  We sat down with the legend that is actor Billy Clarke, who previously collaborated with Sean on The Devil's Business as well as a few other projects.  Sean is directing and editing the promo, which is going to be a strange journey through the mind, with the image of Billy's visage in various twisted states set to the dark soundtrack of the song.  I'm not afraid to admit that at times it got very emotional on set.

As always working with Sean and Billy is an absolute pleasure, and we were blown away by the make-up skills of Chloe Edwards.. frightening!

Here's a teaser image comped from screengrabs from the promo, which I expect will be coming soon to all reputable vendors of great music..

Northern Rock

@CBP_Official.

Spent last Saturday shooting the promo for 'Northern Comfort', a track from the new Crippled Black Phoenix album White Light Generator (out next month!).  Our old war buddy Sean Hogan directing, Nick & I filming.

We've been fans of CPB for years so it's pretty exciting to be collaborating on this film.  It was a nice, relaxed day - promo shoots can get notoriously long, but everyone enjoyed themselves. Big thanks to Chris' partner for the most welcome lunch!  The band were great, stayed focused and rocking for the whole day which made it so easy for us.  Most importantly, the track itself sounds wicked, and hopefully we can do it justice with some cool visuals.

Another great thing was that we got to roll out the Canon C100 and really let rip - it was just one of those days when everything you wave the camera at looks effortlessly cool!

So the footage of the band is in the can, Sean is now shooting some bizarre sounding stuff to finish the rest of the story involving a doll house.

Expecting something very, very dark...

John Whaite Bakes again...

@JohnWhaiteBakes.

Jim and I spent a mouth watering day last week working on a couple of recipe films for the gastronomic talent that is Mr John Whaite.

John is great to work with (we did some recipes with him last year) - he is a lot of fun on set and really knows how to "bake for the camera".

We were filming a couple of recipes from his upcoming book - and they were absolutely delicious.  (one of the perks of these shoots is eating the end result once the filming is done!)

I don't want to give anything away about the secrets behind the recipes themselves 'cos we're still working on the edit...you'll just have to Whaite and see the films when they're released... (see what I did there?) but suffice to say - they were baked to perfection.

Too busy for the likes of you!

OK so none of us have blogged since November, very slack there's no denying it.  Here's a taste of what we've been busy with:

The Aurora 2014 brochure and promo complete.

Black Friday happened and we were on the scene to help Asda to document the momentous occasion with both stills and film.  (Nick even made it into the Evening Standard!)

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/black-friday-sees-shopping-frenzy-and-scuffles-break-out-in-uk-stores-8972440.html

We also helped Asda champion their British cattle farmers although some of the places we visited were less easy to get to than others:

We shot an instruction maintenance guide for RGK Wheelchairs and Wheelpower which is still in the edit phase.  These guys supplied some of the British athletes with their chairs during the olympics:

There was a report from INREV...

Investors bullish about real estate in 2014 from INREV on Vimeo.

Our Promo for Leiths School of Food and Wine went live!




and of course Pearl became the latest member of 'Family Stanton'.

3D Aurora Spectacular

I'm holding a still warm from the printing press miniature masterpiece, in the form of the new Aurora Orchestra 2014 season brochure.  What a mouthful!  And what an epic journey we've had, from dawn shoots at Tower Bridge to jitterbug dance halls, not to mention the Nevada desert (well a posh car showroom in Chiswick).

The 3D printing specialists at Levavo did an incredible job creating perhaps the most detailed miniature printed 3D figures that have ever been born.  There's even a scaled Steinway Grand piano, for crying out loud!

A massive round of applause should go to @johnreidpiano, Aurora's principle pianist for not only squeezing into a undersized wetsuit but also for his superhuman strength, grit and determination (see photo) and I should also mention @ThomasGouldVLN, for his unique shape-shifting dance moves, (those lessons certainly paid off)!

Also - well done Paul Goodwin for making my photos look good. x