Happy Christmas!

Happy Christmas! 

Collage christmas cards I made. Used ephemera from a old 1940's book on good house keeping.

Fabulous & Wacky

Here's the final shoot for a Havaianas shoot I worked on earlier this year with Anna Burns Studios. Prop Sourcing lots of fun animal heads and Giant sized bears. 

Fabulous and Wacky!

Under water shoot 'Lipton Sun Tea'

I recently worked on a Lipton Ice Tea commercial. I was a prop buyer for it. This involved a week of prop sourcing books, lampshades, cushions, magazines, record covers and working closely with special effects company 'machine shop'. 

It was shot at under water studios in Basildon. All props had to be individually dropped in and put in place by the scuba diving art team, making sure everything was weighted down, filling props with weights.

Never experienced an under water shoot before, it was very time consuming! Was amazed how long the models could stay under water. 

Looking forward to seeing the finished piece!

London Edge Fashion

Here's something I helped out on a little while back with SkinnyDip. Print campaign for trade show London Edge, shot in the basement of the Bookclub studios and on the streets of Shoreditch.  

Working alongside Jonny and the SkinnyDip team was great fun. The models looked fab with punky dr martins, tartan, studs and fur.

Assisting Art Director Carla Baxter. 

Photographer - Jonny Wright.

My photos from shoot :

On set - 'Episodes Series 2'

Last week I worked alongside Jonathan Paul Green (Production Designer) and Louisa Morris (Art Director) and art team, for Episodes series 2, staring Matt LeBlanc and Steven Mangan.

Hat Trick were the production team behind the series, and they were a great production team to work with. 

The first day on set was at Balham. Matt LeBlanc walks in the set with a golden globe award for the series and well deserved I say! An ordinary english restaurant was converted into a LA style deli. I helped dress the set with food props and making small props. Then watched the scene in action with Matt and Steven. Take after take, the mayonnaise dip had to be carefully filled up every 2 minutes after Matt diped it in his bread each time. Some great looking sandwiches were made for the scenes but decided I don't want to be a  master art - sandwich maker for production.

Second location was set at Bracknal ice rink. There wasn't much going on in the town of Bracknal apart from the ice rink. I got to the location pretty early and got to catch Matt practising his ice hockey moves, and a professional he was! 

The last location was set at a house in Twickenham. Grand Piano, open planed house. The set was made to be a LA million dollar house. The car on set was originally red, it had to get coated white to match the car that was shot in LA. Stephen Mangan and his facial expressions on a certain scene were hilarious!

I learnt a lot from working alongside Jonathan. He started out graduating at St Martins in sculpture design and started work making puppets for 'Spitting Image'. His worked on sets for TopGear to Kelloggs Crunchy Nut Campaign with Bruce Bowls. For anyone trying to get into set design he has a truly inspirational write up on how to get started in a production Art Dept   Art Dept write up. 

It was a great privilege to have met and worked alongside of the director Jim Field Smith, the  writers David Crane & Jeffrey Klarik, and Exec Producer Jimmy Mulville. Not forgetting  the fabulous actors Stephen Mangan & Tamsin Greig, Matt LeBlanc and Mircea Monroe.

Great insight to the world of TV production!