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Making Beach

[vc_row full_width=”” gap=”0″ full_height=”” columns_placement=”middle” equal_height=”” content_placement=”” video_bg=”” video_bg_url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMJXxhRFO1k” video_bg_parallax=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=”” parallax_speed_video=”1.5″ parallax_speed_bg=”1.5″ el_id=”” el_class=”” css=”.vc_custom_1508950348138{margin-right: 15px !important;margin-left: 15px !important;}” parallax_enable=”” parallax_ratio=”0.8″ parallax_opacity=”” container_wrap=”” no_bottom_margin=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1485452268318{padding-top: 20px !important;}”]“Unfortunately, due to unforseen incompetence, Making Beach is all that remains of the disastrous shoot for natural history TV series ‘Beach’; a proposed Sunday tea-time audience pleaser from Aprill TV.”[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/147140164″ align=”center”][vc_column_text]Produced by Future Sun Films, this fictitious web comedy follows Professor Leslie Macready as he tries to get his life-long dream programme ‘in the can’. Battling an inexperienced, indifferent crew and hostile guest presenters, each episode traces a different day of excruciating destruction in what should have been a simple shoot on a beach.

Making Beach started life as a conventionally formatted, episodic sitcom. However I was eager to play with the idea of disrupting that linear arc of watching sequential, free-standing episodes. Working with writer Simon Messingham we introduced the idea of having a much freer viewing experience whereby additional scenes, fictitious behind-the-scenes footage and character sketches are used to tell the story of Professor Macready in a more randomised manner. Making Beach is made up of 16 separate ‘episodes’ and clips which vary in duration of 1 to 10 minutes, and although there is a playlist for convenience, the intention is that they can be watched separately, in any order, or even binged in one 58 minute glut (perfect for the Brighton to London train, in fact).

As viewers we build up our knowledge and understanding of the characters, how they interact with one another and what their preoccupations and paranoia’s are. We made Making Beach for a very specific audience to be watched entirely at their leisure in the comfort of their handheld device.

Role: Creative Director. Co-Producer and Director, DoP and Editor.

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Surrey Police – campaigns

Child Sexual Exploitation awareness campaign.

I made nine ads for Surrey Police’s Child Sexual Exploitation campaign to raise awareness of online grooming among young people as well as to educate their parents and teachers about how to help protect children online. Here are two of the films that ran out across multiple social media channels, TV, local cinema and radio – the whole campaign can be viewed on Youtube.

Policing Matters’ campaign

This series of 20″ ads for Surrey Police’s ‘Policing Matters’ campaign was designed to reduce the number of emergency calls to 999. Bringing some levity to issues where the public was asked to really question what they had just seen certainly got some interesting comments on social media.

Roll-out included targeted TV, radio and online channels as well as OOH and social media to maximise audience reach in Surrey.

Tourism film

This tourism promo film for Adur and Worthing Council in Sussex was filmed over six months and incorporated multiple events, sites and dramatisations. At it’s heart is a story following three protagonists who represent potential visitors to the borough and it’s attractions. We cast local actors, both professional and non, to play these characters, shot many of Shoreham and Worthing’s best-looking landmarks and most popular cafes and restaurants, as well as some of the biggest events throughout the summer and autumn.

Role: Self-shooting Producer and Director.

We Are Art

A promo for the arts collective We Are Art who work with local artists and youth groups to bring transformation to local communities and built environments. A simple premise that takes a familiarly negative perspective of Youth Culture and gives it a positive twist.

Role: Self-shooting Director and Editor

Four Tet live

Squidsoup asked me to film this unique live collaboration at London’s ICA. Kieran Hebden of Four Tet performed his new album Morning/Evening with this in-the-round, immersive experience: Squidsoup’s Ocean of Light project. We had a three camera set-up for the shoot and made various edits of the set.