Here's a journey down memory lane - my first real adventures in the world of storytelling and filmmaking, all of which date from the early 1990s. Enjoy...

THE ALCHEMIST

In 1990, at the tender age of 16, myself and my friend Tristan Barratt were let loose with a VHS camcorder and some basic editing equipment – and the end result was this shambolic but energetic no-budget one-hour fantasy adventure, presented here in seven parts.

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And - if you dare - there's the Out-take Reel…

THE NEW AIRWOLF:
THE NEXT GENERATION

Partly because I owed him for helping me with The Alchemist, and partly because it simply sounded like far too much fun to miss out on, I ended up playing a major role in Tristan's crazed (and semi-improvised) fan-film spoof of the Eighties super-helicopter series Airwolf, presented here in three parts. Prepare for surreal gags, many explosions and some truly epic overacting...

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MUSIC VIDEOS

Never one to turn down an excuse to show off, both Tris and I managed to turn a further chunk of our Media Studies A-Level into an excuse to produce our own music videos. My ‘concept’ was to try and take a happy, cheery visual style (based on Jason Donovan’s ‘Happy Together’ music video) and mix it with a hard rock track. The end result didn’t quite work, but was very well edited and more fun than I expected:

UnExtreme – “Get The Funk Out”

However, the idea hadn’t worked so I went back to the drawing board and instead decided on a reversal – taking a typical rock video style, and putting it to an ‘unsuitable’ track…

Psychic Metal Terror – “When You Come Back To Me”

For Tristan, on the other hand, the project was a chance to indulge in his eccentric habit of dressing up as the Bee Gees, in this spoof/homage to the ferociously over-produced Bee Gees video “When He’s Gone”. For this production, I did the majority of the camerawork, and also made a few cameo appearances…

TPBeeGees - "When He's Gone"

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