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Examples of shoots

Drama

The Queen’s Nose

When I was offered The Queen’s Nose I initially said ‘no thank you’. I had liked the script very much (it was from a book by Dick King Smith, he of Babe fame) so I was not against the project for that reason but I did not want to go straight onto another tape project as I was currently shooting a series on analogue video and was not enjoying that medium very much. I was also discouraged by the fact that the director wanted to use an operator who did his own focus pulling, not, at that time, my style at all.

Carol Wiseman, the director of The Queen’s Nose, came to see me on location and totally convinced me that it was the only possible project I should shoot that summer, and so started a long and very ...

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