Projects
Project:
FIVE33′s Global Tour for Disney’s Alice in Wonderland:
Role:
Logistics / Tour Manager
Transportation co-ordination
Fire Safety + Regulations.
AV equipment installation
Management of Load and unload of of 3 MEGA Trail units or 4 hi-Ball Sea containers for global destinations. Crew & Plant planning and acquisition negotiation. Hands on prop and show repair and creation as required.
Tour Manager for Deauville France, Tokyo Japan and joint duties across the globe. Full global recce’s and crew assessment. Assisted with art Direction and staging planning.
Further images showing some of the stunning locations myself and the team took the show. Cheers Alice: Below Left: Bob Wishart (CM), Dom Hyman (TM) & Richard Grant (TM/LM) in San Diego. Below Right: Tokyo! Below below Left: Stunning Deauville Hotel. Below below Right: Recce location, Madrid.
Technically the show was complex and comprehensive involving secure power supplies, generator secretion, security, multi language crews and a million other on the day issues to resolve safely, securely and in budget:
Project:
Peter Weir: The Way Back.
Role:
UK Based coordinator (AGOG Creative effects) for large Ice effect element shot in Bulgaria. Three MEGA Trailer units filled with specialist equipment and materials including bespoke raft ice system. Developed highly safe method of creating a moving ice flow on a River whilst allowing crew to dress and adjust in a very demanding environment.
Project:
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Visitor centre dark walk/Dover Castle Pitch.
http://houses.shakespeare.org.uk/visitor_centre
Role: As Design Director for this prestigious project I developed the look and style of the new visitor centre at Stratford. Pitching to the client and creating the Art work Direction. Conceptual, technical, theatrical and production elements all brought together to bring life to the man. Extensive client facing, Photoshop concepts and art, research and design, Budgets and planning.
The final concepts illustrate the possibilities of the reality gleaned from the research and brief:
Original Photoshop composites:
Below; Concept development for show theatricality planning and research:
Colour and materials layer test mock, projection onto gauze overlaid onto base colour panels:
Example of a photo montages converted to conceptual blank canvas:
Initial site recce photo surveys and zone parameter block out composites:
The research for the SBT project involved access to an original copy of the Shakespeare Portfolio book. Also, extensive work was put in to source images and documents. The following image is rare and took some finding, I have cleaned it up and created a useable PSD:
Similarly:
Dover Castle pitch graphics; This project did not come to fruition however it had numerous unusual brief stipulations in regard to this specially Listed structure.
A combination of concept art, technical precise and presentation documents:
Project:
English Heritage visitor centre. Pendennis Castle; Main model (on behalf of Scenic Route):
A very unusual project involving Geographical procedures, cartography, sculpture, structural materials use and detailed model making. Lit and illustrated by LED and fibre optics. The model is based on OS maps of the terrain and photos and illustrations. The Site covers hundreds of years of military usage, from ancient earthworks to WWII gunnery placements including Victorian barracks!
It was a complex build and took careful consideration to get it accurate and strong, this model is also a TOUCH model. Unheard of at this size, some 2m in length and certainly a distortion of the DDA legislation (in a good way). I asked a colleague, “Sebastian Sue” to help me on this project, you will see his cheery face in the following images:
Process shots:
Project:
O2 UK tour launching latest Clamshell phone design (on behalf of Hothouse):
Initially involved with the build and sculpt for this touring show I was asked to tour it with 3 juniors as stagehands. We took Three Luton Trucks around the UK to O2 call centres and installed in the evening for a next day show. Product hung from the branches and it was all fire rated and travel toughened. the culmination was the Wireless O2 festival, backstage. I have had tougher 2 day standby’s than this, the free bar and gig helped…
Abstract and technical detail shots follow:
