Professional Studies Hand In!

Well it's the deadline for Professional Studies tomorrow. The brief states i should leave a link to my online website/blog as well as my digital portfolio of work. So this post is going to provide links to most of my projects I've worked on over the years all in one place. (obviously, this years projects aren't finished yet, but ill put a placeholder in and drop the link in when they are complete)

2014 - Final Major Projects:

The Pen Snatcher - Coming Soon

One in a Thousand - Coming Soon

Pube in the Butter - Coming Soon

If You're Watching This - Coming Soon

D&AD Project/Showreel
For Professional Studies we made a short film about ourselves to submit for the D&AD New Blood competition. We decided to make a short film about us making a film and how we do it, and combined it with a short show-reel of our work.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQzYPx9rGaw

The Heist - Minor Project 2013
A Project written, directed and edited by myself. A bunch of clueless guys break into their boss's house to reclaim the money that is rightfully theirs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzvLjSbDvec

Stranded - Minor Project 2013
A project where i worked on the Camera, Lighting and Cinematography. A woman is alone, stranded in space while an alien creeps around on board her ship: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jsAnoNEr9Q

Michael Shaw Films - Showreel 2013
My Showreel from last year showing everything I have worked on up until June 2013. Includes a couple things I didnt do on the group D&AD project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI4Ot8Fpgj0

Super Joe - Final Project 2013
Written, Directed and Edited by myself. An ordinary guy leaves his job to help people in his on way, seeing himself as a bit of a superhero: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oajCn5QTtGA

Seaton Carew Fireworks 2012
Filmed the bonfire night concert and fireworks show at Seaton Carew Seafront for the Hartlepool-based charity Red Dreams: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4UDlPBoSR4

The Paperboy - 16mm Film 2012
Shot on a 16mm Arriflex Camera, In which i operated the camera and worked on the cinematography/Lighting. A man whos worked as a Paperboy all his life find himself in a relationship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVdyaOUhAkE

The Piggy Bank
A small project where we were given an object and had to make a 30 second advert for it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-4fi6Arrps

The Good Samaritan - First project 2011
I worked on the camerawork for this project. First project we did at CCAD, its no masterpiece: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a8WZ4G7fRQ

Pube In The Butter 2

Most of this film has now been shot, Shooting in the studio was great fun, we've never done a live shoot before and it was quite the experience. I really think its brought the group together. Chris was organised and all of his actors turned up, there wasnt really a hiccup. It was all scheduled really well, we always shot anf finished on time. He did say the Live edit was a shambles, though i guess that makes the real editing job mine to do. Most of it was quite straightforward and we got some really good footage.

Here's a couple photo's from on location at the bandstand in Hartlepool. (Ive misplaced the images from the studio somewhere, I should have some up soon)

1 in 1000 2

Ive been Lewis's camera op for his documentary on the majority of his shoots, its gone really well. Even got in an inteview with Alistair Brownlee at BBC Tees! 

If You're Watching This 2

If Youre Watching This hasnt been a project ive been very involved in. In fact, Charles and Dan have went and shot the film without me since they organised their shoot last minute and I already told Scott that i would help on the pen snatcher that day. The footage looks OK, and the acting decent and it should be a simple enough edit. I just feel like i should have been a bit more involved, but we'll see in the final film. It might still be really good (besides a sound issue).

The Pen Snatcher 3

Ive started the editing, the editing process as a whole is probably going to take me longer than im used to since Avid is more fiddly than Premiere Pro is, which is a tiny bit worrying considering how late everybody has left the filming. The Pen Snatcher has 1 scene almost finished. Ive also played about with photoshop and created a couple mock-up posters for the film. The rest of the edit will have to wait until after easter, my edit suite has been moved to record Chris Coles's film in the studio.

The Pen Snatcher 2

Weve started filming!

Most of the film is out the way, its gone... okay. Scotts still been really nervous on set and hasnt stuck to the shot list. and he's also stuck his foot down and decided to cast Gary in the main role even though me, chris and craig said he wasnt great. and he really hasnt been great. In fact he's sort of tedious to work with and i feel he may let the whole film down. We also had to cancel one of our shoots at the dene because it started raining rather heavy. However the show must go on and the fact most of the film is out the way i guess is a good thing. a couple of photos to follow. You'll see we've shot in the stationary shop, been to the dene and shot in the tunnel, and built a jail cell in the studio!

London Trip!

Been on my first trip to london this week! It was great. went down with College to go to the BVE Expo where they show lots of new media gear and technology off, if it's your cup of tea it was a great time, sat on some of the sessions with the Avid lecturer and got some tips on colour correction and stuff. After that we had the night to ourselves, went for a walk around Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus, before getting tickets to see Spamalot on the west end.

The day after we went on the London Eye and the Dungeons (and got stuck on the bloody boat ride in there!), and walked around Westminister and Buckingham Palace before going for a coffee at Kings Cross and getting the train back.

It was a great trip! already planning my next visit to London!