Films
I have been adding another string to my bow as a wildlife film maker and as such I have provided links to the two short films I made in 2009.
I try to do things differently from the usual BBC style documentary, crossing boundaries between fiction and documentary - documenting what's there whilst experimenting with new ways to look at our environments.
As a photographer I'm concerned with a pleasing photographic style, composition and use of light. I always think it important to make the links between human and wildlife environments as I feel a lot of problems with our local environments arise as we continue to look at wildlife as something 'over there' and to be revered.
The first film follows a running man along the Sefton Coast from Crosby in Liverpool, through Ainsdale Sands and Formby to Southport with Blackpool Tower visible across the water. He stands as a metaphor for how we can choose to stand still and watch manmade technology change and move around us or we can take notice of our environments and the nature that forms a part of it:
http://www.els.salford.ac.uk/urbannature/gallery/msc/short/running.htm
The second film follows a similar theme in that it looks at how we submerge ourselves in the city and our day to day lives. We stop noticing what's around us, using up resources and creating environmental problems beyond the limits of our local environments. It contrasts this to Limestone Pavement, how it thrives like a city but only within it's limited resources. Filmed on location in Lancashire, North Yorkshire and Manchester City Centre:
http://www.salfordtv.net/player.php?id=38
I hope you enjoy them!
I try to do things differently from the usual BBC style documentary, crossing boundaries between fiction and documentary - documenting what's there whilst experimenting with new ways to look at our environments.
As a photographer I'm concerned with a pleasing photographic style, composition and use of light. I always think it important to make the links between human and wildlife environments as I feel a lot of problems with our local environments arise as we continue to look at wildlife as something 'over there' and to be revered.
The first film follows a running man along the Sefton Coast from Crosby in Liverpool, through Ainsdale Sands and Formby to Southport with Blackpool Tower visible across the water. He stands as a metaphor for how we can choose to stand still and watch manmade technology change and move around us or we can take notice of our environments and the nature that forms a part of it:
http://www.els.salford.ac.uk/urbannature/gallery/msc/short/running.htm
The second film follows a similar theme in that it looks at how we submerge ourselves in the city and our day to day lives. We stop noticing what's around us, using up resources and creating environmental problems beyond the limits of our local environments. It contrasts this to Limestone Pavement, how it thrives like a city but only within it's limited resources. Filmed on location in Lancashire, North Yorkshire and Manchester City Centre:
http://www.salfordtv.net/player.php?id=38
I hope you enjoy them!
