Back in May of this year I was commissioned by Cynnal Cymru to make a film about Sustainability in Wales. I was to accompany Photographer Daniel Green on a journey around Wales. Dan was going to photograph 20 people/groups who were on the Cynnal Cymru Green list. My task was to capture what they had to say about their contribution to a sustainable Wales.
I felt quite privileged the day I was allowed to film at Cilieni Village, a replica North German Village at Sennybridge in the Brecon Beacons military range. I had very little idea of what to expect that morning, Mike Devaney who is the technical director for the National Theatre of Wales picked me up and we headed to Sennybridge.
If you are like us and have a HD camera that shoots at 35mbps on a 1/2″ sensor and you are aware that many broadcaster minimum requirements for HD footage is 50mbps with a 1/2″ sensor. So you think that your current camera falls short of these requirements and you may have to spend a considerable amount of money in upgrading to a bigger unit, well this just isn’t true.
When I was asked to create a short film for National Theatre of Wales and the brief was the industrial landscape at night. Specifically Port Talbot, I was very excitied about the project. I had to make Port Talbot look beautiful. To some people this may sound like a big ask but it really wasn’t. Port Talbot at night looks amazing, the massive steelworks was the inspiration for Ridley Scotts’ futuristic vision in the movie Blade Runner. The dark gigantic buildings towering on the horizon gives such depth to any shot and when you get amongst the residential ares around the steel works you find yourself spoilt for choice with multi layered scenes around every corner.