I suspect you’ve been doing a bit of wedding filmmaker digging. Looking through films, exploring different styles, getting a feel for the people behind the cameras. Trying to find someone whose work speaks to you, someone who sees things a little differently and, importantly, someone you’d actually enjoy having around on your wedding day. So let’s get to it and see IF I’m your person;

Filmmaker, musician, guitar-tone obsessive, occasional collector of old cameras, and someone who’s somehow spent the best part of 20 years hanging around weddings with a camera. It didn’t actually start that way.

My original plan was to make it in music. I was a guitarist in a band, writing songs, chasing the dream and quietly convinced that a career in music was just around the corner. You know the sort of thing, write some great songs, get discovered, make a few records. Easy. Well, that was the plan.

By 26, it was becoming fairly obvious that world domination wasn’t quite going to schedule. The record deal hadn’t materialised, and I was beginning to think it might be time for a Plan B. So, I went back into education.

Boosh! Four years studying Broadcast Technology, followed by a Master’s in New Media Production. Not quite the rock ‘n’ roll career I’d imagined, but it turned out to be a pretty good move. Somewhere along the way, I fell into a job editing wedding films. And that’s when something clicked. All those years playing music, writing songs and obsessing over sound and rhythm suddenly had somewhere else to go. Editing wasn’t a million miles away from making music. It was still about timing, emotion, dynamics and knowing when to let something breathe. 

Eventually, I decided I wanted to be the person behind the camera too. So I picked one up, stepped out of the edit suite and started making films of my own.

What followed has been a 20-year adventure through weddings of just about every shape, size and personality. From intimate celebrations to huge parties, traditional weddings to wonderfully unconventional ones, and plenty that have taken me around the UK and further afield.

And I’m still fascinated by them. The characters. The relationships. The unexpected conversations. The things happening at the edge of the frame that nobody planned.

That’s probably why I’ve never been particularly interested in directing weddings like film sets. I’d much rather watch, listen and let things happen. Experience has taught me when to move, when to wait and when something interesting is about to unfold.

A Little Music, a Lot of Guitar Tone

Music has always been a big part of my life. I’ve played in bands, spent time around recording studios and developed what some might consider an unhealthy fascination with guitar tone.

I’m a confirmed guitar-tone geek. Give me an old alnico speaker, a small valve amplifier and a guitar, and I’ll happily disappear down a rabbit hole for hours. There’s a guitar tone itch that I’ve been trying to scratch for years.

That fascination with sound eventually led me to work as a sound consultant with acclaimed music producer Ken Nelson, whose production credits include Coldplay, Paolo Nutini and Badly Drawn Boy. Not a bad place for a guitar-tone obsession to take you!

Music has taught me a great deal about timing, rhythm, dynamics and atmosphere. Knowing when to build something up, when to hold back and when to let a moment breathe. Those instincts have naturally found their way into my filmmaking.