Here is the first in a series of cinematography videos I’m publishing to compliment the five episodes of Ren: The Girl with the Mark as they are released over the coming weeks. These videos will tell you the how, what and why of photographing the show. This week I discuss the camera equipment used, differentiating […]
Lensing Ren – episode 1
WATCH NOW BLOG POSTS Genre Fantasy action series (5×10 mins) Director Kate Madison Production co. Mythica Entertainment Cast Sophie Skelton, Duran Fulton Brown, Christopher Dane Awards 14 including: Best Web Series – Film Quest (USA) Grand Jury Award – Melbourne International Web Fest (Australia) Best Series – Gen Con Film Festival (USA) Grand Jury Award […]
Ren: The Girl with the Mark
I’m very excited to say that the fantasy action series I DPed in 2014 – and have spent most of my time since then helping with post on! – will premiere free online on March 1st. Here’s the new trailer which I cut for the show… Our lead actress, Sophie Skelton, set the internet buzzing […]
Counting Down to Ren: The Girl with the Mark
Shooting interviews is a great way for a cinematographer to learn to light. I figured out loads about how human faces react to light of different kinds from years of experimenting on the talking heads in corporate videos. And because those interviews were often long and dull, there was plenty of opportunity to evaluate my […]
DIY Interview Lighting for the Ren EPK
This coming week the core team from Ren, the fantasy adventure web series I lensed last autumn, will meet for a de-brief. We’ll discuss the challenges of season one and how we can meet those going forward to season two and beyond. And we’ll probably drink wine. So I thought now would be a good time to […]
What I Learnt from Ren
Seasone one of Ren wrapped last week, and after a few days of tidying up and recovering, it was time for an epic wrap party – actually, two of them. And then came the heartbreaking process of saying goodbye to all the wonderful people I had lived and worked with for the past two months. […]
Goodbye to Ren
Karn’s house is an awesome set which I had been walking past at Ren Studios for six weeks before I finally got to light it. It didn’t disappoint. In the words of my camera assistant Andy Roughan, I had to John McClane it to get the HMI up on the metal tank behind the set. […]
Ren: Lighting Karn’s House
This is our big interiors week on Ren. The main set is the inside of Ren’s house, which was assembled in a mere three days by Chris Dane and his team, cannibalising the village exterior set. In this video blog I explain how I lit the set. This set-up worked pretty much as-is for the […]
Ren: Lighting Dagron’s House
After a month of shooting exteriors, yesterday we shot the first interior set for Ren. Which was just as well since a tropical storm was raging outside and blowing down parts of the exterior village set. It was a classic prison cell scene, one of those shaft-of-light-through-the-barred-window jobbies. Amanda Stekly and her team did a […]
Ren: Lighting the Prison Cell
The first teaser trailer for Ren has been released today. This is the ambitious fantasy web series I’ve been photographing for the last four weeks. (I also cut this trailer.) Michael Hudson has produced a series of behind-the-scenes podcasts about Ren. You can listen to me talking about the cinematography, along with all the other […]
Ren Teaser Trailer Released