I first came to Islay in 1994, shooting a film about sailing and whisky – two things that I found are best left well apart. The story involved filming what was then an RNLI Thames class lifeboat and I stood on the deck of our tiny yacht mesmerised as this majestic boat sped towards us Read More…
Do you remember the moment in Jaws when Roy Scheider sees the fin of the great white shark from the beach… duunnn dunnn… an unforgettable scene that made movie history. The camera both zooms and tracks back simultaneously. The ‘Dolly Zoom’ an unsettling in camera effect pioneered for Alfred Hitchcock for the film ‘Vertigo’. Well Read More…
In 1990 I spent two months making a film about an environmental research expedition in Spitsbergen, part of the Svalbard Archipelago in northern Norway, bordering the Arctic ocean. Crawling through the dirt rocks and dust of a glacial moraine I spot a seal. Taking care not to disturb it, I set up the tripod and Read More…