These are some production photos from The White Hare (currently being edited), written by Lucy Gough.
Directing Kate Maravan and Lily Wellan in a scene towards the end of the film
Checking notes with Joe, the first AD
A scene on location in the Cmystwyth ruins
The boys, courtesy of Danetrain
Shooting a scene in a Welsh farmhouse – Casper meets Lily for the first time
The car mount – with £80k of camera attached…
With DoP James Martin on another hillside
Setting up a tracking shot at the cottage
The White Hare was shot in April near Abersytwyth in Wales on a Sony F900 (the camera used for Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Collateral and Avatar among others). We had a crew of around fifteen and the film stars Kate Maravan and David Michaels. The script was an adaptation from the BBC Man in Black radio play of the same name, written by Lucy Gough and originally starring Mark Gatiss and Tom Goodman-Hill.
The edit is at rough-cut stage and I’ve just finished the trailer below. Premiere is expected to be in October: watch this space!
Rinse It Out has been given the Best Technical Achievement award at the Preloader Film Festival in Swindon. Industry professionals gave the award and also gave some positive feedback.
I’ve got a new regular slot reviewing films on Hammersmith OnFM 101.4 . It should be streaming on the web soon but in the meantime, if you live in the Hammersmith area, tune in on Saturdays at 3pm!
Rinse It Out is a solo single by pianist, singer and songwriter Sam Swallow, regular keyboard player with The Hoosiers . We shot it around the Shepherd’s Bush area on my Sony V1 back in October. If you’ve got a fast connection, be sure to watch it in HD.
This is a teaser trailer for The White Hare, a half-hour horror film I’m shooting next April in Wales. It’s based on a BBC radio play by Lucy Gough, originally starring Mark Gatiss and Tom Goodman-Hill, and is about a young couple who move to the country and start to get spooked by a little girl.
I’ve finally managed to get hold of a recording of my piece Franckly My Dear… which was commissioned by Adrian Adlam and the Freden International Music Festival where I was composer in residence in the summer of 2008. The commission was for a companion piece to Chausson’s Concert for piano, solo violin and string quartet (played here by Adrian Adlam (vln), Thomas Hell (pno) and the Cremona Quartet).
The piece is based on fragments from the Franck Violin Sonata: the opening chords in the first clip are directly from the beginning of the sonata, and a literal quote comes near the start of the second clip. If you want to skip to the nice neo-romantic bit, just listen to the last minute or so of the second clip 
It’s been a long time in the making for a short but Be There In Ten is finally done. I’ve cut a second, slightly longer trailer which is below – if you’re interested in getting a copy of the full movie you can contact me by email (details on my biog page); I’ll also post any details of screenings etc. here in the meantime. Depending how things turn out we may eventually post it on the web in any case, so watch this space.
The film is sort of a cross between a relationship drama and a horror, something I’ve tried to capture in the trailer. It clocks in at around 14 minutes and features grainy Super-8 footage shot around Southbank and Hyde Park, several ghosts, some Steadicam shots made on a dark, rainy night in Chiswick, plus a couple of star turns from the two leads, Sarah Winter and James Powell.
The music at the start of the trailer is the actual music used in the credits of the film (a more extended version of which I posted previously).
A short film I made in a day to enter a local competition. The brief was to make a film inspired by any feature film of your choice. I picked Frankenstein (1931) and based it around the famous scene where the monster unwittingly drowns a little girl in a lake, one of the most frightening and haunting sequences in early horror. You can see the original clip from the film, and my movie, below:
Be There In Ten (trailer in a previous post) is nearly complete! Click on the link below for my music for the final scene running into the credits. Thanks to Rhyanne for viola solo and vocals.