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Lucas staff – Team headshots
World leading fit-out and finishers (decorators to the uninitiated!) Lucas asked me to shoot some new staff pictures, it having been 5 or 6 years since our last shoots. We started in their office and I was delighted to see that it had been refurbished into a superb environment. It [...]
Procter & Gamble Plant – Filming manufacturing & machinery
Having run a number of events and created some sharp videos promoting the various services of their newly refurbished Reading campus our most recent project for P&G was making a film about their deodorant manufacturing plant that sends out millions of cans around the world each week. Still in love [...]
Boxing charity event and foundation dinner at Park Lane in London
Stuart recently photographed a joyous evening of people bashing each other’s brains out for charity. The first ever Careys Foundation Charity Boxing Ball was held at the glamorous Park Lane Hotel in London and raised a great sum for a great cause. Careys Foundation supports a wide variety of local [...]
Getting Steady with the Freefly ‘Movi’ Gimbal
As a fully certified equipmentloveaphobic (is that a word?) I try to keep the crew’s lusts for lovely cameras and sexy lenses in check by every 20 minutes shouting ‘Content is king!’, ‘Who cares what camera you used?’ and other such level-headed niceties. However I do have a bit of [...]
What is the best kit to use? And which is the best camera?
Although most of my friends have now learnt not to ask, I still get a regular stream of requests about 'which is the best camera'? The best answer to that questions is 'the one that is in your hand' and I am normally a bit dismissive about the whole thing [...]
Interviews with a script or without?
I need to confess something- 'fess up' as those who are hip wiv da kids might say. When a subject for a video interview announces that he is just 'learning the script' my heart sinks. Another good one is 'Can we put the piece of paper nearby so I can [...]
What is grading in a film and what does it do?
Grading, for the uninitiated, can refer to three things, all of which form an important part of the producer's life. Grading in education terms is what my primary school wife does pretty much every day- has this child reached the grade - can we give them a 2 or a 1? (Obviously made more difficult by the fact that [...]
Guidelines of what to wear when being filmed for an interview
The bottom line is - be yourself. It is best to be comfortable and confident. For most interview situations, the audience want to see authenticity - they want to meet the real you exactly as if they had nipped into your office for a chat. So on that basis, if you are [...]
48 hours spent in Romania to film charity work
Stuart left the rain and storms and spent the weekend in Romania, filming the work of a charity for which he is a trustee. The Grassroots Trust work across 3 continents to relieve poverty and Stuart has made several videos for them showing the work they do. One of his [...]
Polyco gloves and illustrator team up to create brilliant CGI feature video
Polyco use the latest technologies to produce the very best in hand protection. BorehamMedia have photographed their unique and gloves on numerous occasions. As a result,Stuart now has the world’s greatest collection of secondhand gloves. We made this 26 second video which illustrates the advantages of using impact resistant gloves. [...]
Rio 2016 Olympics? Try 2016 School Games at Loughbourough University instead!
With The Rio 2016 Olympic Games quickly becoming history, BorehamMedia were ask to go to the 2016 School Games at Loughborough University. Held on 1st-4th September, we attended Day 2 where young people were competing in practically every sport you could think of! The opening of the games saw [...]