Tag Archive for Director of Photography

A town transformed — Cllr Richard Slade, Mayor of St Neots 2024–2026 (video)

The outgoing Major of St Neots and good friend of mine, the lovely and talented, Mr Richard Slade commissioned me to make this video for him and St Neots Town Council to reflect on all that he has achieved in his four years as Mayor and Deputy Major.
We had a fun day filming it around St Neots and I was assisted (Thank you!!!) by the awesome Jen Nesbitt.
The drone footage was shot by Maciek Platek

Shot on a Sony A7IV with Tamron 28-75 2.8 lens
Edited in Davinci Resolve

Filming with Dame Evelyn Glennie – Listen Up! at City Lit 7-18 May 2026

Recently I was very honoured and somewhat overwhelmed to meet and film with the legendary Dame Evelyn Glennie.
Along with my good friend and sound recordist Joe Harris we were making a film to be shown at an upcoming exhibition:

From 7-18 May, The Evelyn Glennie Foundation brings Listen Up! to City Lit – a public-facing residency inviting people to experience listening not as a passive act, but as a powerful, embodied practice that can transform how we relate to sound, to one another and to the world around us.

Evelyn and her team (shout out to Gethyn in particular) were an absolute joy to work with.
We could have stayed for hours listening to Evelyn!!

Go to the Listen Up! event !!!

“eARThworks” Feature documentary – TRAILER

Here is the trailer for Martin Cooper’s latest feature documentary “eARThworks”, the 3rd feature doc that I have shot (and done motion graphics for) working with Martin.
Coming to a film festival near you soon (and streaming services after that – watch this space)

This film explores our natural environment through the prism of three contemporary artists, from Europe, Africa, and Asia—a painter, a photographer, and a calligrapher. Their work investigates the natural themes of Light, Land, and Water. Together, their work encourages us to re-appreciate and value these vital aspects of nature, which allow not just human life, but all life to exist on Earth.

Featuring Artists: Filippo Sciascia (Bali), Nakajima Hiroyuki (Japan) & Nii Obodai (Ghana)

Director: Martin Cooper
Director of Photography: Adrian Storey
Composer: Rob Lewis

One Minute Mistake – The Appliance of Science – A Short Film

I’m pleased to finally share a short film that, some time ago, Director Martin Cooper and I were commissioned to make for inclusion in a project called “One Minute Mistake”.
“The Appliance of Science” is what we came up with.

Somewhat of a departure from our usual documentary projects, it was a lot of fun to make. Despite my reluctance to appear onscreen!
Filmed on a green screen with all the backgrounds of the ‘laboratory’ generated in Stable Diffusion (AI Image generator).
The editing and compositing process, done entirely in After Effects, was a very interesting challenge.

We hope you enjoy it.

Staring – Martin Cooper, Adrian “Uchujin” Storey & Steve Gorton
Director – Martin Cooper
Director Of Photography, Editor & Digital Compositor – Adrian “Uchujin” Storey
Hand-drawn animations – Parham Ghalamdhar
Opening Title Card – Michael Knaggs
Music – Ethan Uslan (Used under a CC 4.0 Licence)

Ed Boxall – Dance Beneath A Diamond Sky (Music Video)

Ed Boxall an artist/musician and dear old friend, recently asked if I’d be interested in making a video for a track on his upcoming “Wild Ones” album release.
Back in the (distant) day, Ed and I had a band called “Sunshine Head” and I have always loved his songwriting and art work, so it was a swift and simple ‘yes’.
The track he chose was titled “Dance Beneath A Diamond Sky”, the Bob Dylan reference immediately endeared me to it.

Ed was happy for me to have free rein to do whatever I wanted and after listening to the track a few times an idea presented itself.

I took some existing footage I had shot on a beautiful old Russian Helios 40 85mm lens in a nearby wood and a whole stack of illustrations Ed had sent me.

I had been planning on experimenting more with AI image generators after my initial experiments a year ago as much had evolved in the space. This seemed like the perfect project on which to play.

I fed both the footage and the drawings into the Deforum extension for Stable Diffusion, using prompts generated from Clip Interrogator. This produced some interesting shifting animations of the static footage and dreamlike hallucinations of Ed’s original drawings. I also generated some additional elements to layer into the video using variations on the song’s title as prompts.
Everything was blended together in After Effects and a grade applied to complete the look.

I wanted to make something that didn’t look like it had been generated by AI, something that was using it more as a tool to play with my original footage and Ed’s original drawings. Not only was it more satisfying to use these tools to create based on work done by our own hands but (for me at least) it dismissed a lot of the ethical hand wringing that rightfully accompanies a lot of things being produced by it.

We hope you like it.

Listen to the full album “Wild Ones”

See and order the “Wild Ones” book and Ed’s other work on his website www.edboxall.co.uk

‘Fossil Characters’ Nakajima Hiroyuki Short Film

Allow me to present the film I shot with Director/Editor Martin Cooper about calligrapher Nakajima Hiroyuki’s exhibition in Milan last month.
This performance/exhibition/ was part of the event “Written in Stone”, a group exhibition held in Milan October 9-16 2023, in Palazzina dei Bagni Misteriosi of Franco Parenti Theatre, curated by Katia Bagnoli and Bruno Riva.
It was a real pleasure to work with Martin and Hiroyuki again. It’s been some years since I last saw Hiroyuki after meeting him during the filming of Martin’s multi award winning feature documentary “Traces Of The Soul“.

My last blog post was some photos from the trip in case you want to see those.

Peripheral Neuropathy – A Short Film

Allow me to present my latest short film “Peripheral Neuropathy”

I started thinking about this idea about 8 months ago and even filmed a few bits to check and see if it was going to work.
I had drawn up a storyboard and planned out 80% of it but had hit a brick wall with how to end it.
It got shelved but kept bubbling away in the back of my mind every time I looked at the crudely hand drawn storyboard taped to my speaker stand.

Then text to image AI models exploded into my world, adding an entirely new tool to the toolbox.
Quite simple film making and some finessed After Effects skills had gotten me most of the way, could I leverage this new tool to finally get this finished?

I’d already been using Stable Diffusion on another short Directed by Martin Cooper to generate backgrounds for some green screen footage we had shot and was increasingly excited about the possible uses in other work.

There ended up being very little actual Stable Diffusion stuff in this film, but what has ended up in there made it possible to finish the film, something I was beginning to worry might not happen. It had helped in other ways by inspiring experimentation and ultimately provided a much needed creative spark, so deserves more credit than the amount of it’s inclusion would suggest.

I used the Deforum animation plugin in the Automatic web UI of Stable diffusion to create a low poly moving “field” to mirror the actual field seen in the piece.
I also used Stable diffusion to generate an image of an aged me from a video frame, I attempted to use EbSynth to map the image back onto the video but was not really getting anything I was happy with. I ended up using FILM to map the image onto the footage, which gave a much more satisfying result.

I knew it needed more than the natural sounds present to bring it all together and asked my long time friend and musical talent Danny Griffin to see what he could do, the only real brief being I didn’t want it to end up being like a music video. I think he absolutely nailed the soundtrack, adding so much more to the piece.

You can draw your own conclusions on what it’s about or why it has the title it does.

I’m very pleased with how it’s turned out. I hope you like it.

*Note to self: Figure out the whole story before starting something in future otherwise it just gnaws away at you :)*

“Michael Murfin – A State Of Change” – Short Documentary

Recently I was hired to make a documentary about Cambridgeshire artist Michael Murfin to accompany his “A State Of Change” exhibition at St Neots Museum Exhibition Room which runs from March 13th – April 27th 2019.

Michael talks about his life, work and about the oil paintings recording the A14 upgrade project in Cambridgeshire that make up the exhibition.

I shot it in 4K (for 1080p delivery) on a Sony A7III with a Tamron 28-75 lens.
Supported on a Sachtler Ace tripod.
Audio was from the RODELink Film maker kit wireless lav, the Rode Video Mic Pro and the Rode Video Micro.
The interviews were lit using a Brightcast V15 Led Panel with a D-Fuse pop up softbox as the key and an Aputure LS-Mini 20d as a hair light.

The subtitling was done using the awesome service over at rev.com who turned around the 14 minute film in about 3 hours with 99% accuracy for a VERY reasonable price. I’m not associated with them in any way, but this definitely won’t be the last time I use them.

Many Thanks to Michael & Hilary for their hospitality, tea and humour throughout the process.

Directed/Shot/Edited:-
Adrian “Uchujin” Storey

Music:-
LLOYD ROGERS
Cartesian Reunion Memorial Orchestra – Violin Machine
“1 Fast”

Cartesian Reunion Memorial Orchestra – The Little Prince, A Ballet In Two Acts
“On Matters Of Consequence – Act I”
“On Things Invisible To The Eye – Act II”
“Gifts Of Stars – Act II”

USED UNDER A CC PUBLIC DOMAIN MARK 1.0 LICENSE

KAI ENGEL
Caeli
“Modum”

USED UNDER A CC BY 4.0 LICENSE

San Luca Tattoo Lounge – Photos/Video/Website

Whenever I go somewhere new I try to seek out the local tattoo shop as it almost always provides interesting people to talk to.
My hometown proved no exception and I’ve slowly become friends with the good people there.

So when they told me they were moving to new premises I suggested they might need a new website and perhaps some photos and a video to introduce people to it……

Watch the video here and head over to their site to see more.
If you are in Huntingdon maybe even swing by and get some new ink, don’t forget to mention who sent ya :)

www.sanlucatattoo.co.uk

San Luca Tattoo Lounge
97 High Street,
Huntingdon,
Cambs
PE29 3DP

01480581831

07778135805

info@sanlucatattoo.co.uk

Video (and photos) shot on the Sony A7III with the Tamron 28-75 mm/F 2.8 DI III RXD Lens

(Really loving this combo at the moment, beautiful images and far better colour straight out of camera than my old A7SII. That new autofocus doesn’t hurt for gimbal work either.)

Music in the video
Gravity Sound “Kick The Can”

Used under a CC Licence