Assistant
Associate Member

As well as creating my own films my background has mainly been travelling and working on natural history and travel photographic trips. My journeys have taken me to Africa, Central America, Europe, Canada, the Middle East and Asia.

These have all been photographic trips focusing on natural history providing me with excellent opportunities and experience. From a very early age I have spent many hours watching and waiting, observing the behaviour of the various species or looking at the detail of the plants and environment in these destinations. Although mainly tropical destinations I have also experienced winter in the Artic circle (watching Orcas) and Canada's north, which I thrived on! Other exhilarating moments have been in rainforest canopies and camping in remote, wild and primitive deserts and savannas – so I'm used to roughing it.

Qualifications
First Class - BA Hons Film Arts (Natural History Filmmaking)
Full Offshore RYA Yachtmaster
PADI Open Water
STCW95 First Aid

Skills

Adventure, Camera Loading and Assistant Work, Documentary, DV camera operation, Editing, Expedition, Extreme Environments (arctic, desert, mountain), Extreme Locations, Field Craft, Final Cut Pro, Hand-held Documentary, Hide Work, Image Intensifier, Infra Red, IRATA level 1, Navigation, Night Filming, Open Water Dive Licence, Wilderness experience

Credits

BBC NHU - Springwatch 2010

Story Developer 4am - 2pm Shift. Other on job experience includes:- IR, time lapse, mini cams & remotely controlled mini cams, camera assisting (wildlife & sync), jib assisting, sound record assisting (spotting birds), Avid Interplay Assist software, crowd control, running.

Mama Kiko, A Seed of Hope

2008 - Mama Kiko, is, a seed of hope, in Africa where the land is slowly turning into a desert, a dry dusty expanse, that if not stopped, will continue to consume all that exists. This documentary follows the incredible work of a remarkable lady who is providing sustainable solutions for the resilient but desperate people. The audience is taken on a journey of courage, joy, loss, beauty and above all, hope, in a landscape dependent on the actions of it's people. Produced, filmed & edited.

In Search of Bears

2007 - Winner of the Splice Film Festival and the ITV Westcountry Award for Media. This short film centres on a unique opportunity for Peter Cayless to live with seven orphaned bears as they learn to adopt to a life in the wild. The bears living on a remote island in the middle of a vast lake in Canada's remote north wait unitl they sense the time is right to swim across to the mainland - a journey of about a mile. Produced, filmed directed and edited (Final Cut Studio 1).

The Peter Davey Education Trust

2008 – Short promotional film for the Trust. Produced, filmed directed and edited (Final Cut Studio 2).

Village Progression

Producing visual media for Eastern Produce Kenya Ltd. on the progression of introducing sustainability into the villages. Such as power points and short films.

Grandparents

2008 – Promotional film for the Samoei Community Response to Orphans & Vulnerable Children Organisation. Produced, filmed directed and edited (Final Cut Studio 2).

Orphans

2008 – Short promotional film for the Samoei Community Response to Orphans & Vulnerable Children Organisation. Produced, filmed directed and edited (Final Cut Studio 2).

Dolma Development Fund - Ethiopia

2006 - Dolma Development Fund – Produced, filmed directed and edited a film for marketing purposes. - (South Omo Valley – Ethiopia).

Wye - Voices from the Valley - Work Experience

Inc. – Sitting in on the edit.

TV Series - Teachers - Work Experience

Film @ 59 – Bristol - spot sound effects and foley.

Two Four Production Company - Work Experience

Camera assistant and equipment store assistant. (Plymouth).

English Nature, Dawlish Warren Nature Reserve - Work Experience

Working alongside conservationists.

ITN – UK News - Work Experience

Field assistant to news crew filming at night.

ITV Westcountry – Work Experience

Field assistant to Cameraman Matt Mulcrone.

On the Trail of Tarka - Work Experience

Halcyon Media - Field Assistant to Charlie Hamilton James and Jamie McPherson.

Equipment

• Sony PMW-EX3 kit
• Mac Pro Edit Suite - Final Cut Studio 2
• Canopy Access - Personal Protection Equipment x1
• Canopy Access - GBRS (Ground Based Resuce System) Tectra 11mm 100m x2 ropes