Director / Lighting Cameraman
Associate Member

Check out www.ianburton.co.uk for trailers and info about the new BBC series and the recent award winning film 'The Asgard Project'

Ian Burton is a Multi-Award Winning HD wildlife and Documentary Cameraman, with 14 years extreme locations experience, of filming documentaries for broadcast and film, on High Definition.

Recently, he has been filming mountaineering and climbing films, 'On Sight' and 'The Adventure Show' on HD. Also, Filming with high speed Photron cameras upto 1000fps, and with a variety of grip equipment, including jib arms and dollies.

BBC NHU HD camera trained. Panasonic Varicam and Sony HDcam.

Skills

Adventure, Cable Dolly, Documentary, Expedition, Extreme Environments (arctic, desert, mountain), Extreme Locations, Field Craft, Hand-held Documentary, HD, Hide Work, High Speed, Irata Rope Access, Jib and Dolly, Long Lens, Rock/Ice Climber, Stills Photography, Super 16, Sync Shooting, Timelapse, Video, Wilderness experience, Working at Height

Credits

'Climbing Great Buildings' BBC 2, HD Channel & BBC 4

BBC series looking at the history of British architecture. Climbing some of the UK's most iconic buildings. ITN Productions for BBC2. 15x30mins. HD

The Asgard Project - MULTI AWARD WINNING

Cameraman and editor for the documentary featuring adventurer and climber Leo Houlding. filmed on Baffin Island, Canada. Posing Productions. 1 x 1hr Broadcasting on Discovery Channel

'How to Win a Losing Battle' Lecture tour

Based on the multi-award winning film The Asgard Project. The film follows top climber Leo Houlding to Canada, in an attempt to climb the North Face of Mount Asgard, a twin towered mountain on Baffin Island. This lecture highlights all the issues presented to any film makers, including broken gear and impossible conditions. Ian delivers the lecture in a unique style with limitless enthusiasm. Previous hosts incl. Sony, Nat Geo, Kendal Mountain Film Festival and the Adventure Travel Show.

Asgard Book

I am currently writing a book about the Asgard Project film. It will be published in 2011

BBC Nation on Film

Contributor and cameraman. I filmed a climbing sequence for the BBC using a wind up 16mm film camera from the 1930s. 1 x 1hr Truenorth Productions. Director. Rachel Bowering

On-Sight, MULTI AWARD WINNING

Cameraman for the new multi award winning climbing film from producer Alastair Lee and Posing Productions. 1 x 67' 'BEST CLIMBING FILM' & 'GRAND PRIZE' KMFF '08. 'BEST CLIMBING FILM' SHAFF 09. kendal head Judge Cameron McNeish said 'This is a vitally important film'

BBC 'The Cairngorms – Scotland’s Arctic'

Principal cameraman for the BBC Christmas special documentary about the wildlife and wild people of the Cairngorms. 1 x 60'

'Boot Polish' won BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

DoP for short film shot in HD in Pakistan. Filmed in Lahore and the Himalayas. UK FILM COUNCIL

'Psyche' MULTI AWARD WINNING

Award Winning climbing film from Alastair Lee & Posing Productions. Additional photography, climbing and high speed filming.

'The Eagle Odyssey', MULTI AWARD WINNING

Award Winning film about the White Tailed Eagles, Additional cameraman, shot in Norway and Scotland. An RSPB film

BBC Spring Watch

Badgers with infrared, waterfowl courting etc.

BBC Countryfile

Cameraman, filmed features and links with John Craven. Director Louise Pyne

BBC 'Mountain' with Griff Rhys Jones

Cameraman, filmed Griff Rhys Jones climbing Ben Nevis in summer and winter conditions.

BBC The Adventure Show (Series 1 to 5) RTS Award Nominated.

Principal and specialist Wildlife and climbing cameraman. 30 x 60min

Nevis, A Land for all people

Promotional film for the nevis Partnership about Lochaber and Ben Nevis

Elgar's Sonata for Organ Op. 28

A film about this little known work from Elgar. from Durham University media acadamy

BBC 'The Great Climb'

Principal and climbing cameraman, filmed features for the climbing broadcast. BBC

BBC 'Natures Calendar'

Cameraman, filmed long lens wildlife sequences for the BBC series.

Sparrows

Climber and rigger for RSPB, shooting with Cable Dolly at Burnham Beeches 2005, and filmed farming and woodland birds sequence for the RSPB film unit.

BBC 'The Natural World'

Researched UK farming for the BBC NHU.

Waterlands

A study of the wetlands of the British Isles. RSPB film

BBC 'The Eagle Has Landed'

The Natural World programme. Contributing cameraman.

Discovery Channel 'Beauty of' series.

Researching raptor film for Brook Lapping's HD 'Beauty of' series for Discovery.

Discovery Channel 'Beauty of Snakes'

HD Cameraman filming venomous snakes for Discovery for Brook Lapping.

ITV 'Wild Shots'

Filming wildlife sequenses for Nick Gordon's series about wildlife film making.

Undiscovered Country

Assistant camera. filming with RSPB in Caithness and Sutherland for 'Undiscovered Country'.

Science Pictures

Assisting cameraman Tim Platten at Science Pictures, Hitchin.

BBC 'Living Britain'

Assist BBC cameraman Paul Stuart filming Magpies for 'Living Britain'.

Equipment

• 'Planet Earth' motorised cable dolly
• Micro jib arm
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