Unit stills from the short film Roy, I got to work with the lovely BAFTA award-winning David Bradley, such a wonderfully kind man.
We were on a lovely set in a small cottage, within a picturesque village. So much fun was had with lots of laughs!
The photos can also be seen on the On set section of the site!
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Happy New Year!
2019 has been another brilliant year in photography, from shooting portraits at the Hermit studio in Nottingham studio to behind the scenes on short films with amazing actors such as Stephen Graham, to photographing for events and working as a photographer at Boots!
I’m so grateful for all the opportunities I’ve had this year and I look forward to 2020 and all that it brings!
See below for a selection of some of my favourite photos that I have shot through the year!
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I had the opportunity to work as a Unit stills photographer recently on a BFI short film called Pop which is about identity and gender, the short needs some support to get it to completion.
The talented Director Laura Margo Roe and DOP Bartholomew Bazaz did an amazing job on the film as well as the rest of the crew, and it was so much fun to work on, I had the pleasure to work with the wonderful Stephen Graham and the young lead Jake.
So to get it through post-production they have a crowd funder which can be seen below, So get yourself a perk and help it get to the final stage, even a share is a big help! Take a look at some of my stills from the film while your there and some can be seen in this blog to!
Portrait of Stephen Graham who plays Pop
Behind the scene shot of Stephen Graham and art director Charlotte Ball
behind the scene shot of Jake the lead of Pop.
Portrait of the talented young Jake
Checking back the shot with Bart Bazaz.
Director Laura Roe going above and beyond helping Jake across a flooded field.
Behind the scene on Pop.
I worked on a little Commercial last week doing behind the scenes photography on a Farm in Rugby it was an interesting shoot with tractors and a robot arm for the camera, which was called the Milo! It was very fun to photograph, and watch manoeuvre around the actors to capture the scene.
Here’s a few photos from the shoot, I met some lovely people and leaned how to sneakily get my shots without being hit by a gigantic mechanical arm!
Who needs a mirror!
I’l now be moving onto a short film next week doing more Behind the scenes!
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First shoot of the year was shooting Behind the scenes photos on a commercial for Glide. It was a lot of fun and a great start to 2019! The commercial can be seen here Glide-Typical Student.
I have some exciting shoots coming up this year which I look forward to sharing in time!
But for now here’s some of the BTS photos from the Glide shoot, more can be seen at the Unit Stills section of the site!
Beth ready for the shot.
BTS of Andrew and Matt ready with the Stedicam.
Going for a take.
BTS of a shot of Beth and Andrew ready to go!
BTS of Stedicam shot in action.
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Hello again so I guess this is another update on the work I’ve been up to!
It’s been a christmassy couple of weeks of work!
To start I had another studio shoot with the wonderful band Megatrain, with the lovely Felix and Tiger, shooting their Christmas photos and Cover shot for their new Christmas single Bolshevik Xmas No. 1, which is an amazingly Beautiful song and now available to listen to on Spotify and by clicking Here :). These guys crack me up, I struggled to take some of the photos due to laughing so much, the shoot was a lot of fun!
Check out the photos below from this shoot!
Megatrain Christmas Portraits!
Megatrain Christmas Portraits!
Here’s the cover photo from the new xmas single on Spotify!
I’ve been Pretty busy on commercials and Music videos shooting Unit stills and behind the scene photos, some of which can be seen below, some are actually from Megatrain’s music video to!
BTS from the Megatrain music video.
BTS from the Megatrain music video.
BTS from the Megatrain music video.
Unit still From the Xmas Bosch commercial
BTS photo From the Xmas Bosch commercial
There’s more from these shoots on the Unit stills section of the site so go check it out!
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I’ve been quite busy lately on a few film sets. From working on music videos in Ireland to short films in Manchester!
I love working on set and documenting the events of the day, I did Unit stills on a great little music video for Hazey eyes with Director Simon Diamond, and amazing actors Erin Kellyman and Tom Blyth, Stills from this can be seen below and on the unit stills page!
Unit still of Erin and Tom
BTS of Erin waiting for a take!
I worked on another music video in Ireland for musician Daithi and Director Lochlainn Mckenna, which is on the low down till the video is released, so I’m unable to share photos for this at the moment. But I can share the music video I worked on in the summer for Daithi, which is here: In my Darkest Moments which has won 3 Shark awards since its release!
I also just came off doing Unit stills on a Short Sci-fi at the weekend, the photos for this are in the editing process at the moment.
And last but not least, I worked on a great little short in Manchester called Lippy, which is a short horror for FOX’s Hulu, Huluween film festival. It was great to work with Director Lucy Campbell DOP Phill Wood, and Actress Kierston Wareing. Stills can be seen below, and on the unit stills page.
BTS of the Clowns in action.
Kierston Wareing applying some Lippy!
All words in Bold can be followed to a video of the productions, or a link to the photos on my website!
If your after a Unit stills photographer for any of your projects, please get in touch!
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It's been a busy couple of weeks, I've worked on a few Commercials, headshot shoots and also photographed the behind the scenes on a short film for the 48-hour SCi-fi challenge.
The 48 hour Sci-fi film challenge is an exciting one, as you only have 48 hours to make the film from the script to final edit, so not much sleep is had, but it's a lot of fun all working together to get it made in time. My job was to document the weekend and the spirit of making the film with behind the scene shots!
The final film from this shoot can be seen following the link: https://vimeo.com/263838480
Below is a few Unit stills from the set to!
Unit still of one of the lead actors of the shoot Dan McGrath
Another unit still of the two lead actors Miranda Heath and Dan McGrath
I do love being busy, some of the photos from these shoots can be seen on the website in the Unit Stills section and here's a few BTS of me on some of the jobs.
A BTS shot of me shooting some commercial portraits. Photo credit: Jake Barrett.
BTS from a headshot shoot with Jess, Photo Credit: Karl Poyzer
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It was great to see my unit still's from two different films used on online articles to promote the films!
The first one was from the most recent film I worked on, which was Socks and Robbers the article was in the Burton mail explaining why the crew where at an American diner in Swadlincote, check out the article below to find out more and to see a first look at my photos to accompany the article these photos haven't been released yet so its a sneak peak into the set of Socks and Robbers!
https://www.burtonmail.co.uk/news/local-news/50s-american-diner-socks-robbers-1306188
A Unit Still shot of the action in Socks and Robbers!
The second article is on the Birmingham Live site about a Kickstater campaign to raise money for a Star Wars short film called Padawan Rising, It's an exciting project with lots of stormtrooper's involved. It was great to work on the trailer and it will be even greater if the funds are raised to make the film, as I will hopefully be the unit stills photographer on that to!
See the link below for more information and follow the campaign if you would like to get involved in the film!
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/star-wars-film-shot-birmingham-14416470#ICID=Android_BMNewsApp_AppShare
More Star Wars photos from this film can be seen on the Unit Stills section of my website so got take a look!
A behind the scene shot of the cheeky stormtroopers from Padawan Rising!
These Articles just go to show how important it is to have Unit Stills/ Behind the scene photography on your films, they are great to show the adventure of your time on set, a good source of publicity and help show the films progression. Production stills can also be taken to be used for posters (as seen below for the short film WashClub) and for festival releases to promote your film in the programmes to.
One of my Production stills used as the poster for the short film WashClub!
So keep me in mind as your behind the scene photographer when your working on your next film project or commercial and get in touch through the contact section on the website or email: gemmaobrienphoto@gmail.com
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Last week was an interesting shoot I was BTS photographer on a little short called Socks and Robbers a bank heist film, it wasn't your normal shoot it involved sock puppet masks and CGI, this made for some interesting photos, from actors walking around with sock puppet characters for a head, to green screen masks!
It was a very fun shoot with a talented crew, we shot in the Nottingham council house which is stunning inside, and a beautiful bank scene was created by the talented art department!
Inside Nottingham council house
Im now working on the edit, so photos will be released soon once I have the all clear from the crew, but for now here is a sneak peak of photo from the set!
BTS shot on set of socks and Robbers
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