Commercial work as a DoP contributed to Best Campaign Award (Guerilla Films) for Alnwick Castles’s TV commercial, the 2015 Roses Creative Award, (Cheetham Bell JWT) for the Dreams Beds TV commercial ‘Train’ as well as The Royal Television Society Solo Craft Award for cinematography. Filming began as a visual arts undergraduate in Brighton in... Read More

Commercial work as a DoP contributed to Best Campaign Award (Guerilla Films) for Alnwick Castles’s TV commercial, the 2015 Roses Creative Award, (Cheetham Bell JWT) for the Dreams Beds TV commercial ‘Train’ as well as The Royal Television Society Solo Craft Award for cinematography. Filming began as a visual arts undergraduate in Brighton in 1994, developing from a curiosity for moving image based art work, to then working in the film and TV industry. After graduating Chad bought his first movie camera (a small handheld miniDV camera) and travelled across China documenting work and conversations with artists. This project opened the doors for further studying a Masters in Cinematography at The Northern Media School in 1999. Soon after this in 2000, he began as a trainee on 35mm features, drama's and commercials, and continued working across a wide range of formats, genre’s and crews, as well as facilities rental companies, learning lighting, camera craft, developing technical know how as well style in the process. Specialised in: Commercial cinematography, studio lighting/location lighting, lifestyle, fashion, food. Proficient in handheld operating, easirig, electronic stabilised gimbals, fluid head, sliders, mini-jibs, working with grips/ track and dolly, Jimmy Jib ops, car mounts, tracking vehicles, motion control shoots, single camera, basic sound recording, multi camera, full commercial production crews, extreme weather, water and foreign travel. Read Less