03/09/2021
Really pleased to be able to share this film … a labour of love indeed.
The talented Nicola Pike]] was commissioned to write a piece for Christians in Media]] and she then came to me to see how we could take it further. This is the result.
It’s a piece speaking to those who have influence realising their position and potential to have impact. It warns against being swayed by life’s distractions and making the most of where you are at.
Nicola and myself co-wrote the narrative and then I turned into producer, location scout, director and editor to bring it home with a wonderful team of amazing people who worked their socks off to make sure we could capture all footage in a single 11 hour period.
This challenged me for sure, not the usual budgets, logistics, pre-prod, crew, catering (ha!) which meant It turned from a commission into a personal project. But with that came a freshness of creative problem solving and being granted the freedom to think on our feet - totally trusted by the client to deliver what we wanted the whole way. Sure story boards and pre-prod meetings are great, but being forced to adopt more guerrilla tactics is definitely refreshing.
Staring:
Spoken word: Nicola Pike]]
Director: PHOTOGRAPHER || DIRECTOR]
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Edit: PHOTOGRAPHER || DIRECTOR]
Client: Christians in Media]]
and was one of those projects which we all just had to throw ourselves into to bring it to It was a commission from Christians in Media]]
Co-created with the talented Nicola Pike]] (check her out)
Director’s cut + some frame grabs from a film I directed for Riverstone.
This was shot around the stills … not the other way around. Quite a challenge in mindset shifting on set - same space and talent, but the subtleties of character direction change, the story adapts and the technical parameters all shift when hopping from stills to motion.
The frame grabs here showcase how ‘s background i
