So over the past few months TWO trailers have been released featuring shows I have worked on over the past 18 months as Layout Supervisor at DNEG. Both feature heavy amounts of full digital cinematography, camera blends, camera and environment layout. I can proudly say they are two of the best projects I have worked on in my career to date in terms of scale, pushing work artistically and the final output promises to be even better as we head into final delivery.
Greyhound
Lucky to be on the same show with one of the actors who got me into film - as a kid watching Big and Splash all the way through Saving Private Ryan and Catch Me If You Can, to more recent output such as Sully and Captain Phillips, Tom Hanks.
On a personal level this film meant a lot, as my own Grandfather (another Hanks) trained as a navigator in the Fleet Air Arm to provide air cover for transport ships on shipping routes in the North Sea, so it brought it even closer to home the stakes that merchant ships and naval service crew faced heading to the front lines.
Fast and Furious 9
My third time working on this franchise (after Fast and Furious 6 and the Universal Studios ride Fast and Furious: Supercharged), and it's still getting bigger and badder with each instalment:-
