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
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)
“May Week Alternative” set out to change the way people thought about charity and over a quarter of a million pounds raised (and counting) later, it seems they have succeeded!
I’ve done a fair bit of work for Trinity College, Cambridge over the last few years, a lot of which I’ve been unable to share so I’m really happy to be able to finally post about this awesome project set up by Trinity alumni George Rosenfeld and Areeg Emarah in 2017.
Really proud of the video above shot by myself and Oliver Sharpe and edited by me.
It’s well worth your time, amazing project and lovely people!
Read more about it over on Trinity’s site
Or visit the MWA site itself www.mayweekalternative.org.uk
Or even joinraise.org to see where else the project has spread to
Big thanks to George, Areeg & Fiona who were super fun to work with and everyone else involved :)
I’m very pleased to present two films I DOP’d and edited with Soraya Syed on Islamic Calligraphy.
(I first met Soraya whilst DOPing of the multi-award winning feature documentary on calligraphy “Traces Of The Soul” in which she was one of the 12 artists featured)
The films above were commissioned by The Islamic Art and Material Culture Subject Specialist Network as part of their ACE funded activities that aim to support regional museums and their collections.
Excerpt from the SSN for Islamic Art and Material Culture blog post (Read the full blog post HERE):
“The art of Islamic Calligraphy can be said to be one of the most important historical developments in the Islamic world. Established over a thousand years and stretching across the world, calligraphy played a fundamental role in the development of Islamic Art and helped to develop a distinctive visual culture.
Hattat Soraya Syed has composed two beautiful short films consisting of a précis of the long and intricate development of the art of Islamic Calligraphy and the Methods, Materials and Training which go into establishing a master of this art. The films are not aimed at experts in the field, but they provide access to members of the public and to curators whose expertise is not in the area.“
Shot in September 2020 at Soraya’s studio in London with full COVID protocols in place.
Sony A7III
Tamron Di III RXD 28-75mm
Rode wireless GO
Sokani X60 vrs 2
Sachtler Ace Tripod
Edited in DaVinci Resolve 16
At the end of last year I was hired by the lovely folks at This Is Crowd to Direct/Shoot/Edit a promotional piece for their client Thomann-Hanry – “The world leading façade cleaning experts” and their latest project cleaning the facade at Somerset House in London.
You can read more about the project and Thomann-Hanry’s unique method of cleaning sensitive buildings over on their site HERE and watch the resulting video above, which turned out pretty well, I think.
Big thanks to This Is Crowd for hiring me and especially to Skye.
Big thanks also to Claudia from Thomann-Hanry.
A pleasure to work with you both.
Shot on a Sony A7III in 4K using Tamron Di III RXD 28-75mm, Canon FD 17mm and Jupiter 11 135mm lenses.
Edited and graded in DaVinci Resolve 16
Side Note:
The final day of this shoot was just before the UK lockdown due to COVID-19.
The edit was a welcome distraction from the beginning of the craziness.
Posting the film here now has taken on a slightly surreal edge as it was likely my last job shooting until this is all over.
Stay safe, wash your hands and be nice to each other!
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
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.
The interviews were lit using a Brightcast V15 Led Panel with a D-Fuse
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”
Back in December last year I was lucky enough to visit “VC Motorcycle Club” (The VC stands for Vicious C*&ts apparently:) at their workshop in East London for INFLUX to interview Gemma and Namin for the short film above. It’s finally up on the INFLUX site so I can share it here.
Head over to INFLUX to read the full article.
There was clearly not a vicious bone in their bodies and it was a really fun day. Some awesome custom bikes too, which I had to pretend to know something about :)
Watch the film (which I edited too) and then check out their website to see more of what this awesome group of custom bike riding women does for the female motorcycle community.
Respect sisters :)
My D.O.P. / Camerman / Editor Showreel 2016
Music “A shrine for horses” by Laica – laica.bandcamp.com
Used with kind permission of the artist.
You can see my previous years show reels HERE.
Please contact me for worldwide projects large or small.