Production

For 11 years, I ran all stills shoots at 4 Creative, Channel 4's in house agency and production company, rounding out my experience, previously gained at some of the top advertising and production companies in the UK. On top of my art dirction work, I now use that experience working with agencies and Clients alike to produce award winning stills and motion shoots, in the UK and abroad. My little black book is packed with the best Stylists, Production Designers, Make up Artists and every type of Crew member you could ever need. I handle everything from Casting, set building and location finding through every part of shoot management to post production, bringing your ideas to life

We produced this shot for Channel 4 and had one week to put the whole thing together, which involved a cast of 120 people plus all of the accompanying crew, costumes and props needed for such a big job. We commissioned Canadian Photographer Mark Zibert to work with us. In all we had over 200 people on set. Not to mention the cobra, tiger and elephant! Couldn't have pulled it off without our brilliant AD, Paul McCann, though the pigeon wrangling was all us!

We spotted the Talent of young British Photographer and DOP, Andrew Bainbridge, who asked us to edit his portfolio. We then collaborated to create this image based on the work of Edward Hopper, putting together the location, styling, casting and post production

We created this story featuring a Super Heroine with the power to shrink, taking on a powerful Sorceress. We cast Actress and Aerialist Joss Wyre as our Heroine. For the role of the Sorceress, there was only one person we could possibly turn to. She's been a Prisoner on Cell Block H, a Neighbour on Ramsey Street, she starred in the first ever video on MTV, has given Mad Max and James Bond a run for their money and now the amazing Virginia Hey is our Villainess. We teamed up with Photographer Billy Waters to create our homage to Stan Lee, Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko.

We used a mixture of photography, design, library image and old fashioned arts and crafts to create this image for Jezza Neumann's incredibly moving documentary, China's Stolen Children. Jezza had just returned from China and we had 48 hours from brief to deliver the final image.

Channel 4 shut down Trafalgar Square for the day and we had a great week producing the stills shoot with Jim Fiscus, shooting screen legends, Dame Judi Dench, Ewan MacGregor, Willem Defoe, Christian Slater and Ray Winstone, TV Production by Shananne Lane at 4 Creative.

We produced these images for Channel 4's Hollyoaks and commissioned Kansas native Lyndon Wade to be our Photographer. We shot on 2 different sets to achieve the effect of the two different worlds - before and after having some Hollyoaks rubbed on it!

TUI. We produced and art directed this week long shoot in Thailand for our Client, TUI. From casting our 8 Models and travel/shoot logistics, through to direction of the shoot and delivery of hundreds of images, the shoot took us from the beaches of Khao Sok, beautiful islands, night markets, several TUI hotels and the incredible Cheow Lan Lake. We're at our happiest handling all parts of a production for our Clients. Now we want to go back for a holiday!

We'd spotted the personal work of Photographer, Gavin Evans and were waiting for the right project to come along that we could unleash him on. We came up with this concept for the BAFTA winning film, The Mark of Cain. Lead Actor Gerard Kearns gave an incredibly moving performance in the film, and gave excellent karaoke at our impromptu wrap drinks!

We produced these images of Singer/Song Writer, Hannah White and asked Soulla Petrou to shoot, with styling by the brilliant Kate Ruth.

Producing this campaign for Channel 4 involved picture researching for the iconic images, the casting of perfect body doubles and then matching the lighting and position of the original shots to blend both images together in post production. Art Direction: Alice Tonge.

We created this image of Professional Wrestling Champion, the 'Amazon', Ayesha Raymond, with Photographer Billy Waters. Shortly after our shoot, Ayesha was announced as the only English Competitor in WWE's Mae Young Classic Event. We handled every part of the project from creative concept through to casting, styling, art direction & production. We had a great day with Ayesha, and happily, most of the Models we worked with are now out of hospital.

We'd previously given Kansas based Photographer Lyndon Wade his first job in the UK and asked him to shoot this image for the Channel 4 drama, All in the Game. We produced the shoot in two parts. The first included shooting at a premier league football ground, a case of £50 notes and a leaf blower. The second involved laying turf in a studio and the absolutely charming Ray Winstone. Art Directed by Jim Chambers

Alone in the Dark. We produced this poster for our Client, Hachette books, as well as art directing the shoot. Our work for the Karen Rose novel, Alone in the Dark, ran all over the UK and was a chance for us to do a project with the incredible Julia Fullerton-Batten.

We collaborated with Photographer Micky Modo to create these posters for our 'Silent' project. We cast modern day Actresses as characters in female led films to evoke the spirit of Hollywoods Silent era.

We worked with the in house team at ITV to direct and produce these digital motion OOH spots for TOWIE. We had a lot of fun directing Gemma, Lydia, Jess, Mario, Arg, Dan and Fearne moving to their new home on ITV BE. We ain't even lying.

Producing this shoot for the ITV show Grantchester, had us recreating their 1950's set and shooting with the charming and handsome Robson Greene and James Norton. We recruited our old friend Jim Fiscus to shoot for us, which as usual was an absolute pleasure.

This poster for Channel 4, which we also art directed was our first underwater shoot. We've done several since, both in the UK and abroad, in water tanks and the open ocean. Harry and Beatrice - have wet suits, will travel!

We were asked to produce this campaign for Jill Mansell's novel, 3 Amazing Things About You, which involved casting 4 wonderful Actresses, writing a script for the TV spots and creating 4 x poster images, showing the relationship between Jill and her Readers.

Always a pleasure to shoot with Messrs Oliver, Ramsey and Fearnley-Whittingstall, although not as much fun as seeing the look on our location Chefs face when we told him at breakfast who he was cooking for that day!

The poster for Simon Scarrow's 'Hearts of Stone' saw us team up with Gary Salter to create a our own small part of WWII era Greece

We produced this poster for Charlie Brooker's Black Mirror. With all the clever ways at our disposal of creating digital effects, sometimes there's no substitute for a bunch of iPhones and a hammer.

We commissioned Dean Rogers, a long time Collaborator of Shane Meadows, to shoot the cast of Shane's brilliant, This is England. Working with Art Director, Joseph Ernst, we produced the shoot in an abandoned theatre in Sheffield and saw up close what a close knit gang they are. It shouldn't be legal to have that amount of fun on set.

We art directed and produced this for Charlie Brooker's award winning series, Black Mirror, whilst working in house at Channel 4. The Star of our shoot was absolutely charming and was encouraged to work, with food fed to her on the end of a stick. Potential Clients should know that this technique also works on us.

We produced and directed this poster and 12 x 2 minute social films to promote Save with Jamie for Penguin Books

As well as producing this for channel 4, we were also the creative team, coming up with the concept and art directing the shoot

To produce this shoot, we hired the world famous 007 stage at Pinewood Studios. We have a great little black book full of brilliant Production Designers, but since the inspiration for the image was 'Pans Labryinth', we went all out and engaged the Production Designer who'd won the Oscar for his work on Guillermo del Torro's film.

Bring the Noise. We produced this shoot for Sky, bringing in Gavin Bond to shoot it for us. It's always fun to hang out with a PussyCat Doll.

The Promise. We produced this shoot for Channel 4, and it was an international affair. To shoot the Cast we roped in Andzrej Dragan from Poland. To design and build our Palestinian/Israeli landscape we were lucky enough to work with the insanely talented David Mark Lee along with the gang at Artem. We then got Australian, Julian Wolfenstein to shoot the model. From there, Stuart Frost put the whole thing together. And it was all done over Christmas week! Art directed by Joseph Ernst.

Our tribute to our favourite US President, Jed Bartlett, was created when we worked in house at Channel 4 and saw us give him his place amongst his illustrious Predecessors. We're now thinking of lobbying Congress to get Matt Santos. placed to the left of Washington

Britain’s Forgotten Children. We had a couple of days between this concept, by Joseph Ernst being approved and our shoot date, so we did what anyone would do and put a call in to a Canada based Photographer who had never worked in the UK before. To his credit, and our relief, Mark Zibert got on a plane the very next day!

It was very unusual for us to not work with the Cast of a show at Channel 4. On one of the rare occasions that this was the case, some cunning body double casting and styling was the solution. We produced this shoot and commissioned Elen Von Unwerth to be our Photographer. Art Directed by Adam Shutler.

We produced this for the Channel 4 show, Fresh Meat. Mr Whitehall took some convincing that the pepper we were going to use would be big enough to protect his modesty. Each shoot is different.

One of the simpler shoots we've produced, this poster for channel 4 was also one of the most award winning.

We commissioned American Photographer, Jill Greenberg to shoot this image. The babies were so young that they were cast for the shoot before they were born! Art Directed by Alice Tonge

We brought in Mary McCartney to work with us in creating this image of the incredible Katie Piper and friends, so we spent the day with two of the coolest women we've ever met.

This poster that we produced for Channel 4, brought Big Brother to a fitting and dignified end, before it was dug up to die a slow death on Channel 5! Art directed by Alice Tonge

We produced a series of images for various Derren Brown shows, one of which saw him predict the results of the lottery. We didn't need to give Derren much direction - he knew what we were thinking. Art directed by Joseph Ernst.

We teamed up with James Turnham at Channel 4 to produce this shoot with the cast of Shameless. We brought the Manchester based Cast down to hang out with us at Bethnal Green working mens club. It was the first shoot of its kind the channel's in house agency, 4 Creative did and it set the benchmark for all of the work that was to follow as well as that of the in house agencies of every other UK Broadcaster.

Sky asked us to produce this for the marketing campaign for their period drama, Jamestown. We chose the very talented and handsome Lorenzo Agius to work with us and had a lot of fun hanging out with him in 17th century Virginia.

Jamie’s Great Britain. We directed produced this shoot for Jamie Oliver and Penguin Books. We can’t take any credit for the book being a number one best seller, but we’ve still mentioned it!

Working in house at Channel 4, we shot the cast of this documentary for billboards that appeared nationwide. Art Directed by Molly Manners.

It was a huge amount of fun shooting this all star Big Brother line up. We brought in Jenny Hands to capture the image that marked the end of the ground breaking show on Channel 4.

We were asked by Jamie Oliver to work with the ad agency Mother to produce a campaign for their Client, Youngs. Two days before the shoot, Youngs told us they wanted 2 x ads but didn't have any more budget. Keeping our shoot team very tight, we managed to produce the shoot and deliver both finished ads for the cost of one.

The Making of Modern Britain. Working with Pan Macmillan and the Outfit, we came up with the Creative for this book by Andrew Marr. We wanted to show the Author with a ringside seat, bearing witness to the seminal moments of the 20th Century. Andrew was a pleasure to work with, as were Sir Winston, Franklin and Uncle Joe.

We'd wanted to collaborate with the incredible Lisa Lottie for ages, so when we saw that she was en route to the UK from her home in Australia, we jumped at the chance. What that lady can't do with a hula hoop is not worth talking about. We roped in our friend, Photographer extraordinaire Charlie Surbey, and ran away to join the circus. We just had to make sure we were home in time for tea.

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