Still Life - 4 Stories, Many Drugs (Documentary Trailer)

Still Life (Documentary Trailer) (DVCAM & miniDV) (2005) from M.Y Films on Vimeo.

Here's a trailer for a 40 min documentary that I filmed at HMP Wayland.
I spoke to 4 inmates who recounted their life stories and their experiences with drugs.

The aim of the project was to raise awareness on substance abuse and to give young people a better understanding about addiction through true-life experiences and steering clear of a "Just say no" approach.

To this day, Still Life still remains one of my projects that I'm most proud of.

The full length documentary, background info on the project and an article on the project in The Guardian can be found here: http://m-yfilms.blogspot.com/2010/03/still-life.html

Kerse Da Verse - Voodoo Browne (feat. Cosha Don) (2011)

Kerse Da Verse - Voodoo Browne (feat. Cosha Don) (DVCAM) (2011) from M.Y Films on Vimeo.

This music video was selected to be in the BBC Music Video Festival 2011 & STIX Festival.

I was approached by rapper Voodoo Browne who pitched me his idea for a typical hip hop video (rapping in various locations in his 'hood, with all his crew etc). However I wasn't really feeling this concept as I felt it would more than likely turn out to be a little cliched and also be visually uninteresting. So I pitched him a few other ideas and this is the one he went for.

The project was scripted, planned, shot, edited and directed by me.
With the exception of a few intentional scenes, the whole video was lit solely by fire.

Massive thanks to Mr Lee for getting roped in to doing the make up.
He'd never done anything like this before.
Check out his artwork at:
www.facebook.com/pages/Mr-Lee-Creative-Services/160175240667460

Enormous thanks also go to Tim and Charlie Clarkson for letting us use their place to shoot the video.

http://voodoo.ambiel.co.uk/

Playing 4 Success @ Ipswich Town FC (2001)

This was my first ever paid and commissioned job.

It's a short promo film for "Playing for Success" - a national initiative, set up by the Department for Education and Employment, which aims to help raise children's literacy, numeracy and ICT skills through football clubs and other sports grounds.

Music:
The Chemical Brothers - Where Do I Begin
Nu Tone - e.Spresso



Ipswich Town FC badge animation for "Playing 4 Success @ Ipswich Town FC".

ITFC's media department gave me an Adobe Illustrator file of the team's badge which I broke down into seperate elements, then animated and added the appropriate sound effects.

Illustrator, Photoshop, Flash and Final Cut Pro were used to create this logo.

HMP Wayland - aka - Wayland Sports and Social Center (2004)

This short tongue-in-cheek advert was featured in the middle of a Hepatitis C awareness video that I shot and edited at HMP Wayland in 2004 (and updated in 2010).

The project was scripted by HMP Wayland's Hep C Support Group, with additional material from myself, and won 2 Koestler Trust awards.