• ‘The World’s Finest Cars’

    What happens when you have more than ten cars? Entered for an Emmy Award by the broadcaster for Best Editing, this sixty-minute film (2006) was filmed, directed and produced by Patrick Mark, one half of the Mark Stewart Production partnership. The other half is Mark Stewart, son of Jackie Stewart. So they know a thing …

  • ‘Leaves’ by Philip Taylor

    What happens when you seize the moment but don’t have your permissions sorted out?   Remember the wonderful autumn of 2003? No wind or rain for weeks left the trees dressed in wonderful capes of golden thread. Until one Friday night in November, the wind rose ferociously. Saturday dawned. Huge piles of leaves had drifted …

  • ‘Me My Head: Tumbling Down’

    Here’s a good example of the music end of the market. Like almost all the music videos out there, the budget was barely enough to buy bread and milk and pay the rent for the director, let alone to pay for an editor, camera hire and so on. But for the love of art and …

  • Why not work with animals and kids?

    It’s an oft-repeated phrase in film and telly: “Never work with animals and children.” Looking at these little kittens I can see that they’re so sweet and cuddly they make me look like Genghis Khan. Looking at the film my 11-year-old son cut from my footage, I’m happy to report that children really do know …