In the summer of 2018 we had the opportunity to capture the incredible spectacle of extreme weather in the infamous tornado valley in the US. We went with a small crew and some very expensive cameras. Among them was Sony’s fantastic feature film camera the Venice. Lead by storm chaser Stuart Robinson and DOP’d by the
Back in June 2018 we had a very interesting shoot in the states. Normally when you plan a shoot you’re looking for good weather. In this case our definition of ‘good weather’ was somewhat different to most people’s definitions. In this case ‘good weather’ meant the most extreme weather we could find. We were actually looking
The second part of the Extreme Earth series we produced in partnership with Stuff magazine is now live. Shot in Nevada and Arizona, this 90 second video was commissioned by Philips to show off their Ambilight televisions. We shot this film in 4K HDR using Sony’s Vegas cinema camera and DOP legend Alister Chapman. We
On a crisp December day last year I found myself trying to keep warm in the middle of an airfield in Bicester, waiting for a specially designed mechanical man to walk in front of a car. It was one of the more random moments of my career watching an army of 4 technicians punching information into a computer
A few months back we were at Anglesea motor circuit rigging 360 cameras to some of Ford’s most impressive cars. It’s taken a few months but one of those videos is now live. The project came about when our friends at Haymarket asked if we could look into filming 360 video in a car. As we had experience shooting
Congratulations to our friends at Haymarket who recently won Digital Commercial Partnership Of The Year at the PPA Digital awards this year. We produced a little video starring the wonderful Nicola Hume following her on a typical day as an O2 user with the One Plus handset. The video was part of a larger campaign Haymarket
We’re proud to say our work is currently being displayed on 200 HDR Philips TVs in Berlin at the trade electronics show IFA. The project is one we shot back in November where we set out to capture the northern lights in Northern Norway. The result of months of tweaking and grading in the HDR
Recently we were tasked with capturing the northern lights or aurora borealis on film. At the moment we can’t say much more about why but the project involved a crew travelling to Northern Norway and enlisting the services of the legendary Northern Lights specialist Alister Chapman. We also got to use lot of our toys
Recently we had the opportunity to work again with our friends at Haymarket Publishing. This time it was to produce a fun video for an exclusive mobile phone. The video featured presenter Nicola Hume who takes us through her day using the One Plus 3 handset. This phone is exclusively available on the O2 network
Working with our colleagues at Autocar, POV was at the Paris Motorshow this year to make some content for car manufacturer SEAT. We were working with presenter David McCellend who fronted the videos. The videos covered subjects such as SEAT’s virtual reality press conference, their neuro configurator and of course their cars including the Ateca X-PERIENCE
If you want really positive and imaginative solutions to the whole spectrum of video problems then this is the company for you. I’ve worked with Leigh at POV many times now and always found him to be a highly professional and creative operator and a darn nice chap too. He comes highly recommended by me, use him and you’ll be recommending him too, I guarantee it.
Chris Maure, Corespondent Films