Video Journalism

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Video review: Owle Bubo iPhone rig

The OWLE Bubo aims to turn an iPhone 4 into a serious contender for shooting HD video. In this video review I took it to the Arundel Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in West Sussex on a day out with the family to see what it is capable of.

March for the Alternative – Hyde Park protest

  Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls takes a verbal bashing from an angry protester, Shadow Welsh Secretary Peter Hain talks debt and Labour leader Ed Milliband refuses to comment. In the meantine, Tony ‘Baldrick’ Robinson marches on the frontline as 400,000 people march from Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park in protest at public sector cuts. I [...]

Panasonic GH2 video review

So I’ve just treated myself to a new Lumix GH2 DSLR or to be precise, micro four thirds video and stills camera.

Kettled – Student protest in Parliament Square

  Politicians in The House of Commons vote 323 to 302 to increase tuition fees. Following the vote thousands of protestors in Parliament Square complain they can’t leave because of police kettling. Here they describe what’s happening. This piece was shot on a Sony Z7 video camera and followed that week’s Rod Liddle’s Got Issues [...]

Online video series: Guardian Careers

In 2009 I was commissioned to produce an online series of careers videos for The Guardian. My pitch was originally to create features about jobs related to English heritage and the environment – but after six months began to include films about unusual jobs too. All of the videos were shot on a Sony VX1000E, [...]

Clarkson and Gill hit the 2010 campaign trail in Watford

  A tricky one day shoot with Jeremy Clarkson and AA Gill for The Sunday Times. They met with Liberal Democrat Sal Brinton, Labour’s Claire Ward and Conservative candidate Richard Harrington on the campaign trail in Watford.

Supermodel Abbey Lee ‘Style’ shoot

  A behind the scenes video of Australian supermodel Abbey Lee being photographed for The Sunday Times in Paris. As with all of these kind of shoots, what the the videographer needs is an afterthought.

What you didn’t see at Conservative conference 2009

For the third year running I am the Sun’s ‘man on the ground’ for the political party conference season. That means getting the kind of video material you don’t see on TV.

What you didn’t see at Labour conference 2009

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Broken Britain fringe debates 2008

Delegates to both the Labour and Conservative political party conferences have taken part in fringe debates on Broken Britain.