NEWS
December 2010
This is a film made by The Proudfoot Company for Sotheby’s. It is promoting a sale of 20th Century British Art which featured an very interesting group of works from a Private Collection from artists such as Frank Auerbach, Leon Kossoff, Lynn Chadwick and Paula Rego . You can see it here.
November 2010
I have just finished a set of short “lesson plan” films about using dance in education for Teachers TV. Once again they were directed by the delightful and talented Lucia Zoro, my personal favourite is “Moving like Magnets”. You can see them here.
October 2010
I had great fun editing a couple of trailers and a foyer film for the excellent “Move” exhibition at the Hayward Gallery. They were directed by James Price and the exhibition really is as fun as it looks, I highly recommend visiting if you can. You can see the films on the “Move” microsite here.
This is a promotional film made by The Proudfoot Company for Sotheby’s. The item for sale was a pink diamond and it fetched the whopping record sum of $46m! You can read about it here and see the film here.
September 2010
I edited a series of short films about “Designer Couples” for the V&A museum which will be shown on Friday 24th September in the beautiful National Art Library. The films were commissioned for the “Friday Late” event “Two’s a Pair” which is part of London Design Week. You can also watch them on the V&A channel here.
August 2010
This is a rather nice promotional film made by The Proudfoot Company for Sotheby’s. It features a great collection of Post-War British Art assembled by Robert Devereux, he generously donated the proceeds to set up a charity supporting African artists, you can read the story about that here, and see the film here.
July 2010
Another Proudfoot Company film for Sotheby’s. It’s for Russian Art Week in London and features paintings, icons, Fabergé and Romanov heirlooms! You can see it here.
June 2010
I edited a series of eight films about bullying for Teachers TV. They were directed by Lucia Zoro who I was lucky enough to meet at the Berlin Talent Campus while studying at the NFTS. Some of the stories are genuinely harrowing and I hope that these films affect the students that see them as much as they did me! You can see them here.
May 2010
Here’s another promotional film made by The Proudfoot Company for Sotheby’s. It is for a selling exhibition of contemporary sculpture at the beautiful Sudeley Castle. You can see the film here.
April 2010
I edited a short promotional film at The Proudfoot Company for Sotheby’s. It is for potential buyers of “Modern Rome - Campo Vaccino” by J. M. W Turner. The painting was eventually sold for £30m, a new record for the British master. Somehow I don’t think the film will have clinched the sale! You can see the film here.
March 2010
I’ve been editing a series of internal promo films for MTV for the creative community Swatch MTV Playground, produced in collaboration with Swatch. I hadn’t heard of it before but there is some nice work at the gallery.
January 2010
House 149 is showing on the 12th January at the London Short Film Festival, it’s part of their “Night of the Living Docs” strand.
December 2009
I edited a film called “The New School” for “Against The Tide” an interactive documentary project developed by Earth Stock Films, which uses archive footage of the South East coast to inspire new films and start conversations about people, history and place. The film was directed by Danny Weinstein and you can see it here.
November 2009
I designed a custom Avid workflow assisting on Dead Normal (working title) a co-production between Coolabi and Burberry Productions which will air on the BBC in the UK and ABC in Australia. Post-production is being handled by Retro-Juice.
The CBBC press release describes it as “the comical adventures of three funny, strong-willed and sassy teenage sisters”. The show is being shot on the Sony F23 camera using a Convergent Designs Flash XDR recorder that records to standard SD cards.
For the technically minded we ingested 200Mbps XDCAM MXF files at Deluxe Australia and transcoded them to 15:1 offline Avid media. This media was sent to the UK using the Aspera Connect media transfer solution along with Avid bins containing the transcoded master clips. Copies of the full resolution rushes were posted to the UK on firewire drives and relinked to the master clips for the conform and grade.
August 2009
Just returned from Berlin where I edited a short commercial for LG electronics, the spot was produced by Simon Richardson for The Proudfoot Company. Shot especially for the IFA Conference it featured two jumpers and two cameramen performing a spectacular freefall into the summer garden of the Messe conference centre.
July 2009
I’ve been working for Retro-Juice Productions as a visual effects editor on the upcoming BBC childrens series Spirit Warriors which is set to air in 2010.
June 2009
I’ve been working again with Gemma Burditt on Welcome Homes, a Flash animation with post-production handled in After Effects. The film was created around audio interviews of staff at a cats and dogs home, recorded “documentary style”.
June 2009
Congratulations to Gemma Burditt on winning a Silver Lion at the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival with John West “Row” (Special bonus points if you can spot another film on this website that might have inspired this spot!!!). The agency who produced the ad was Cheetham Bell JWT.
I assembled the offline cut of the spot (uncredited - grrrr!) and then handed over to the capable hands of Andy Hunwick at 422 in Manchester for the online, VFX and sound post production. Well done Gemma!
April 2009
I cut some short documentaries for The Ashden Awards for Sustainable Energy, you can see the films on their website.
March 2009
I edited and encoded the animations and video content for the Amnesty International Media Awards
March 2009
I edited a internet commercial for Colgate Total Protection. 3D graphics were by Jellyfish.
Nov 2007 - Mar 2009 (Phew!)
Finally finished a marathon stint as an assistant editor on Fantastic Mr Fox, a stop-frame animated feature directed by Wes Anderson. The film is an adaptation of Roald Dahl’s short story and features an impressive roster of voice talent with George Clooney and Meryl Streep taking the lead roles. The film is slated for a November 2009 release.
March 2008
I cut a short documentary for director Nick Leader about Virgin Galactic the world’s first spaceline. The film was commissioned by CurrentTV but is no longer available on their website.
Sept 2007
Just finished cutting a one hour documentary for Channel 5. Diana The Inquest was directed by David Cohen for Mentorn. The turnaround was a sleep-depriving five days!
Sept 2007
Completed an intense weekends work on the landmark documentary Channel 4 at 25. The editor had literally worked himself into the ground so I stepped into the breach to afford a well needed rest. It was a thoroughly enjoyable and interesting experience - as well as working with some remarkable professionals the amazing selection of archive brought back many wonderful and long forgotten memories!
Sept 2007
Edited a trailer for Freefonix an animated series created by Magnus Fiennes, Alex Tate and Simeon Warburton. The show aired on BBC1 and CBBC.
July 2007
I cut a short documentary for director Rajesh Thind about LastFM the website that recommends music, videos and concerts based on what you listen to. I’m a firm fan of the site - so if you haven’t heard of it take a look. The film was commissioned by CurrentTV.
May 2007
Tanju Miah won the “Best Post-Graduate Factual” prize at the 2006 Royal Television Society Student Awards. I attended the award ceremony with composer Birger Clausen. We were surprised and pleased to win - unfortunately we had to pay for our own drinks.
Oct 2006
I’ve just edited “Dragonfly” a BBC New Music Short for director Gemma Burditt. The film was made in association with Warp Films and 679 Recordings and screened as part of the BBC Electric Proms at the Roundhouse in Camden.
Dragonfly was commissioned from over 300 entries as part of the BBC New Music Shorts competition run by BBC Electric Proms, BBC New Talent and BBC Film Network. It was produced by Warp Films.
Sept 2006 - May 2007
I’ve completed work as assistant editor on the BBC series (10 x 30 minute) The Roman Mysteries adapted from the popular childrens novels by Caroline Lawrence. The series was edited by Adam Green and directed by Paul Marcus.
Sept 2006
I attended the Toronto International Film Festival where Tanju Miah was the only non-Canadian short on the programme, once again the wonderful NFTS paid for my flight!. Toronto was a fantastic city to visit and the festival events and programme were spectacular. I spent five days there and watched five films a day pretty much every day. Combined with the gala openings and parties in the evenings I think I slept about five hours a night all told. Exhausting and exciting!
June 2006
The NFTS paid my plane ticket to the Cannes Lions festival where our Kodak Student Commercial entry “I Wish I Was a Dog” was in competition. We didn’t win anything but I got to swim in my pants at a party in the hills - so it was a successful trip as far as I’m concerned.
June 2006
Feeling good about finishing Everyday Journeys a series of four short documentaries for C4’s 3 Minute Wonders strand and my first broadcast credit.
The films are directed by Rajesh Thind and each film follows a pair of people taking an “everyday journey”. I’m really pleased with the films and one of them “Sonia & Rossana” got a good write up from Victor Lewis-Smith in the Evening Standard.
April 2006
Worked as assistant to Michael Johns on Framed a low budget feature shot on 35mm. At the time Michael was in charge of training and arranged screenings at Pinewood for the British Guild of Film Editors which he very kindly invited me to. I was somewhat starstruck by all the Bond paraphernalia.
March 2006
NFTS Graduation Screening where our proud parents endured our graduation films and I received my MA in Film Editing from Chairman Michael Kuhn and President Lord Attenborough.
Sept 2005
Hungover after celebrating our success at the Kodak Student Commercial Awards. Our entry “I Wish I Was a Dog” won three awards - “Best Overall”, “Best in Category” and “Best Cinematography”.