Double Amputee Racing Driver

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Consider, by the Telegraph is a new series exploring extraordinary people. The first in the series is a film I edited with "WONDERKID" Director Rhys Chapman who also directed the first episode. The films delve in to the life of ex army soldier David Birrell who, having lost both his legs after an IED bomb blew up and being discharged from the military needed something to help him push past his inflictions. David began racing cars and winning competitions in 2014 and has continued to gain sponsorship. The film shows us how he manages to race with prophetic limbs and tells his story of where he plans to go in the future.

You can view the film >HERE<

Experimenting with Anamorphic glass

I headed down to Gear Factory in London and shot this quick test with the 50mm Lomo Anamorphic lens. I've got a shoot coming up and the client requested using a wider aspect ratio to give the commercial a more premium cinematic feel. 

We looked at the Cooke S4 lenses but they were out of our budget at over 400+ per day so we went with the Lomo set which were around 300 per day. The Lomo's render beautiful images if a bit wide with the 2x squeeze. 

We will be filming on an FS7 which unfortunately doesn't give us a 4:3 recording setting so with a 16:9 sensor the image is very wide. I think we will end up filming 3840 x 2160 50fps and have to scale the image up to fit the 2:35:1 aspect ratio we need. 

To de-squeeze the image in FCPX in the scale option you just change the y axis to 50 instead of 100.