Filming recently with Green Rock for NatWest for a video featuring their Business Growth Enablers in a studio in Glasgow.
Canoeing on Lock Eck
A frame grab from recent filming on Loch Eck with Advaceworx for Edinburgh City Council Sports and Outdoor Learning.
Peoples Ford Transit Tales
I’ve been working with Edinburgh based car and van dealership, Peoples Ford, producing video content for their Transit Tales campaign.
Behind every great business is a great story. Filming throughout the UK with Peoples Ford customers – including Braw Beard, Fleurtations Plantscapes and Liverpool based band The Cheap Thrills – Transit Tales tells the stories of the businesses that rely on the UK’s favourite commercial vehicle.
Baku 2017: Journey from the Caspian
Prior to an Olympics Games, a torch is lit and carried around the host country to bring the spirit and excitement of the games to the whole country. For the Baku 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games, the journey focused on water instead of fire. Water is hugely important in the Islamic faith, symbolising purity, healing and cleansing.
Following the Launch Ceremony, waters from the shores of the Caspian Sea were sent throughout Azerbaijan. In return, crystal waters collected by children from lakes and rivers, waterfalls and springs across the land were united at the Opening Ceremony of the Games in Baku.
The Journey from the Caspian visited 16 locations over 37 days, travelling over 3000km before returning to Baku.
Working with local production companies in Baku, I produced and edited this video capturing the Journey from the Caspian. The video was projected on a large 85x35m projection screen during the Opening Ceremony, as well as being broadcast live to over 30 nations worldwide.
Baku 2017: Highlights from the Opening Ceremony
The Opening Ceremony of the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games took place in Baku, Azerbaijan on the 12th May 2017.
The spectacular Opening Ceremony, ‘Knowledge’, tells a universal story of peace and hope, and celebrates the enormous contribution Islamic civilisation has made to everything around us.
After relocating to Baku in January 2017 it was a privilege to be part of the Ceremonies team, producing and managing video content for the Launch Ceremony, Regional Events Programme, and the Opening and Closing Ceremonies.
Video content was displayed on an 85x45m projection screen, lit by over 130 projectors, as well as being broadcast live to over 30 nations worldwide.
Baku 2017: Launch Ceremony
On 5th April 2017, the Journey from the Caspian Launch Ceremony took place at the Stone Chronicle Museum in Baku.
Ilham Aliyev, the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan presented water from the Caspian Sea to children from all over Azerbaijan. They will then take the water back to their regions as part of the Journey from the Caspian. This water represents a memento, from Baku and the Islamic Games to the regions of Azerbaijan.
The Journey will visit 15 more iconic locations throughout Azerbaijan, travelling 3000km over 37 days before returning to the Baku Olympic Stadium for the Opening Ceremony of the 4th Islamic Solidarity Games.
As well as producing video content for the ceremony its self, I also provided quick turnaround highlights and multi-camera edits for distribution to broadcasters and media in over 50 nations worldwide.
Andy Murray Live for Sky Sports
This week I worked alongside Sky Sports and Lagardére Productions to produce feature content for Andy Murray Live at the SSE Hydro, which was broadcast live on Sky Sports 3 and streamed worldwide.
Several packages were filmed and produced throughout the day for the evenings live broadcast, which included interviews with British No.1 Andy Murray, Jamie Murray, Tim Henman and Grigor Dimitrov.
Andy Murray Live, hosted at the 10,000 capacity SSE Hydro, is the brainchild of Murray, who wanted to build a legacy tennis event in the UK which raises valuable funds charities including Unicef and Glasgow-based charity Young People’s Futures.
Valt Vodka for CNN
I recently filmed the bottling of Strathleven Distillers Valt Vodka for CNN International with Partickular Films.
Valt Vodka is the first Scottish single malt Vodka in the world, and is distilled using a unique quintuple micro-distillation technique. The footage will be broadcast by CNN later in the year.
SPFL Highlights for BBC Alba
Filming Motherwell vs. Dundee Utd from the gantry at Fir Park for mneTV and BBC Alba.
The multi-camera OB is broadcast after the match on BBC Alba, with post match interviews and game highlights being provided to both Sky Sports and STV.
Biffy Clyro for HMV
Filming Robbie Coltrane & TS Queen Mary
This weekend, while working with Mallard Productions, I had the pleasure of filming with Scottish actor Robbie Coltrane as he launched a fundraising campaign to restore the TS Queen Mary.
Coltrane is patron of the charity, Friends of TS Queen Mary. The steamship is the last remaining Clyde-built turbine steamship, and has been brought back to Glasgow after being withdrawn from service in 1977.
The charity needs to secure £2m to restore the vessel and open it to the public as an exhibition and an arts and culture venue.
Channel 4 Racing – Scottish Grand National
In the studio at the weekend for Channel 4 Racing and IMG, broadcasting The Morning Line and the Scottish Grand National live from Ayr Racecourse.
Kevin Bridges DVD Launch
I filmed for HMV last week as Kevin Bridges launched his third DVD, A Whole Different Story.
Kevin signed copies of his DVD and met hundreds of fans at HMV’s Argyll Street store in Glasgow as well as doing a series press interviews. I filmed content throughout the day for HMV and a number of other publications, including The Herald and The Scotsman.
The release of the DVD, filmed live at Glasgow’s SSE Hydro, comes at the end of an 180-date stadium tour.
Documentary for The History Channel
I was recently worked with Malaysian production company FactualTV on location in Fife, filming for their History Channel documentary on the destructive practice of fish bombing. The documentary will air in early 2016.
Behind the Scenes with Entrepreneurial Spark
I’ve ben working on a long running project with Entrepreneurial Spark producing a series of educational videos and internal communications. Filming at locations throughout Scotland and the rest of the UK we’ve interviewed CEO’s of some of the UK’s biggest companies and some of the newest startups.
