LewisArnold.co.uk

Drama Director

2009          Stained / Short Film / RedOne

2008          Spirited / Short Film / DVCPro-HD

2007          What Are The Odds? / Short Film / DVCAM

2007          Long-Standing / Short Film / DVCAM

2007          Leave of Absence Short Film / DVCAM

2006          These Four Walls Short Film / MiniDV

1st A.D

2010          Cobra Beer / Corporate/ Gas & Electric / Tom King

2010          Gilly Green Salon / Commercial / Stamp Films / Danny Germaine

2010          Platnum - Signals / Music Video / Stamp Films / Jonnie Malachi

2010          Kerrang TV / Ident / Box TV / Nicholas Bentley

2010          Sunday Girl - Self Control / Music Video / Stamp Films / Elisha Smith-Leverock

2010          Sunday Girl - Stop Hey / Music Video / Stamp Films / Elisha Smith-Leverock

2010          Gilly Green Salon / Viral / Stamp Films / Elisha Smith-Leverock

2010          Clouds / Short Film / Laughing Hyena Films / Gilbert James

2010          Two Door Cinema Club / Music Video / Gas & Electric / Nicholas Bentley

2010          Lauren Pritchard -’painkillers’ / Music Video / Stamp Films / HopeAudikana

2010          Boots No 7. ‘Lips’ / Viral / Stamp Films / Elisha Smith-Leverock

2010          Kids in Glass houses ft Frankie - Undercover Lover / Music Video / Tom King

2010          Dennis Ferrer - ‘Hey hey’ / Music Promo / Flynn Productions / Johny Mourgue

2010          Bullring ‘Life Feels Better’ / Viral / EMFS & 383 Project / Ed Moore

2010          La Roux - TigerLily / Music Video / Stamp Films / Yousaf Mian

2010          Schwarzcorpf / Viral / Flynn Productions / Nick Frew

2010          Scouting for Girls - Famous / Music Video / Gas & Electric / Nicholas Bentley

2010          Dots / Short Film / Jessica Lux / pro. Maddy Ells-Hill & Jo Coombes

2010          Mini Viva - One Touch / Music Video / Stamp Films / Elisha Smith-Leverock

2010          Sunday Girl - Two Floors Down / Music Video / Stamp Films / Elisha Smith-Leverock

2010          Madslinky ft Omar - Special / Music Video / Flynn Productions / Johnny Mourgue

2010          I blame Coco - Self Machine / Music Video / Stamp Films / HopeAudikana

2010          Baby / Short Film / Sister Films & HSI / Daniel Mulloy

2010          Performance ‘The Living’ / Music Video / Pulse Films / Sam Piling

2009          Billy Bones / Commercial / Flynn Productions / Alex Hemming & Matt Nee

2009          KCAT - Boys Don’t Cry / Music Video / Pulse Films / David Allain

2009          Groove Armada - Paper Romance / Music Video / Stamp Films / HopeAudikana

2009          Kristen Morrell - Ghosts / Music Video / RSA / Helena Brook

2009          Bacardi OneTen / Commercial / Flynn Productions / Orlando Cubitt

2009          Style Birmingham TV / Commercial / Full Range / Lee Kemp

2009          Good Shoes / Music Video / Flynn Productions / Tash

2009          Clasix Travel / Commercial / Full Range / Lee Kemp

2009          Bandito / Music Video / Gas & Electric / Tom King

2009          Tiesto / Music Video / Flynn Productions / Matt Nee

2009          DJ ZED BIAS / Music Video / Flynn Productions / Johnny Mourgue

2009          Expatriate / Music Video / Flynn Productions / Orlando Cubitt

2009          The Chapman Family / Music Video / Flynn Productions / Joe White

Arnold&Barber - Director Duo

2010         Mr Fogg ‘Stung’ / Music Video / RedOne

2010         David Sugar ‘Party Killer’ / Music Video / Canon 5D

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Our Promo tracks for Polly Mackey and The Paris Riots screened at Benicassim music festival in Spain last weekend. The videos where played on all the screens across the festival with the highlight being that The Paris Riots promo aired just before Oasis took to the stage!

All the bands videos will be available on apple and supajam later next month!

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Last Tuesday I shot the music video for The Crave’s brand new single ‘High’.

It was to be the bands first music video shoot and I had been recommend to their manager by the guys at SupaJam whilst completing the ‘Fast track to FIB’ competition. I spent sometime in between edits and ‘Stained’ pre pro to pull out some basic concepts. These concepts were aimed to complement the small budget and would allow us to focus the money onto the kit and a days worth of filming.

After being commissioned, Duncan McKenzie came onboard as a producer, to help bring together the video in just over a week. This also would enable me to not over stretch myself with ‘Stained’ which was also so close at hand.I had meet Duncan at Aquila and was really impressed by him and his awesome C.V. and he really went to town on the video.

Shooting in Birmingham and using a mix of London and Birmingham based crew we managed to shoot the video using RedOne, courtesy of D.O.P David Litchfield

David was also on hand during the shoot to assist the music videos D.O.P, Brian Fawcatt and his fantastic team. Brian a graduate of the NFTS is a truely awesome talent and name to look out for in the future, if you don’t already know it!

It was my first experience shooting with the RedOne and I have to say I was really impressed by the quality and workflow of the image during the shoot. We had shoot with a set of Nikon Primes on the front of the camera which really helped lift the images as well!

We were also lucky to have access a Crane and Steady CAM bought and operated, on the day, by Jon Iles. Jon is a music video D.O.P who came along as a favor to the bands management and although we had a few technical problems getting a picture from the monitor, meaning we shoot blind, the images from the crane are superb. Thanks to Jon and our focus puller Eva Arnold (no relation) who did an awesome job under the circumstances!

The location itself was a derelict building in Digbeth. A great location were the only staircase was falling apart and near collapse. On the day before the shoot the 1st A.D. David Knight and Duncan found out that the old broken staircase was our only access to the warehouse and beneath was another set of concrete stairs leading into a dark damp basement!

This meant Monday night we called in my best mate (a professional carpenter) and set about building and securing a brand new staircase cable of taking the weight of a generator and our 1st AD Big Dave, nicknamed for obvious reasons. This a side the shoot ran really smoothly and I’d like to thank all the crew, talent, band members and management for their time on this small but professional shoot!

Now its over to Ed Enayat of WhiteHouse Post to bring the edit together before flying sending it on to Steve Ellis of Clusta who will be grading the video ready for an August release!

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It has been a long road to finding the right cast for ‘Stained’, especially after seeing so many talented people over the last four weeks. Thanks to everyone who gave up their time to come to the open casting session, but we can now reveal that Ricci Harnett, Craig Conway and Frank Harper are all onboard! We’re now really excited about the three day shoot which starts in two weeks time.

The cast so far are:

Jamie: Ricci Harnett

Truman: Craig Conway

Matt: Frank Harper

Nelson: Everal Walsh

Dave: Sebastian Shaw

Governor: Alexander Delamere

Ali: Nicholas Keith

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Want to be on the set of our new prison movie ‘Stained’, here’s your chance!

Written by ex-prison officer Ronnie Thompson (author of ‘Screwed’) and Colin Butts (author of ‘Is Harry on the Boat’), we are currently looking for background artists to be involved in the film which is due to be shoot in a disused prison in Scarborough towards the end of July.

We looking for  majority males 18+ along with some females, to be a part of this dark and raw drama and see the production and its stars in action. The dates are as follows:

Thursday 30th July 2009

Friday 31st July 2009

Saturday 1st August 2009

If your available for one or even two of these days and are interested in hearing more please contact us and let us know!

E-mail: lewis@issueseven.co.uk

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If your one of the thousands of people at the Benicassim Festival in Spain this year you may see my lastest work with the guys of SupaJam and Ed Enayat of WhiteHouse Post.

The winners of ‘Fast Track to FIB’ The Paris Riots will have their promos played on the big screens before and after Oasis play the main stage in front of tens of thousands of music and festival lovers. Also you’ll be able to check out Polly Mackey and The Pleasure Principle’s promo video before they take to stage on Thursday 16th and then again on Friday.

We are now working to a tight deadline to ensure the videos make it out to Spain and Ed has been putting in hours around the clock to make this a possibility, so many thanks Mr Enayat!

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Pre production is finally in fifth gear for ‘Stained’, after a very long script development process with the awesome Ronnie Thompson and Colin Butts.

I originally read the script in September 2008 after being introduced to Ronnie’s book, ‘Screwed’ an account of prison life from Point of view of an officer. After contacting Ronnie, through the aid of Geoff Thompson, Tom and myself have been trying to cement funding, which has came in the form of Screen WM and Dan Lawson.

It’s a great feeling to finally be visualising and bringing together all the elements too make the film a reality. Their are many obstacles and challenges facing us now, especially given the tight budget.

However we have already tackled the first issue of finding a fantastic prison location, confirming shooting in a disused Prison in Scarborough. Built in the 1800’s it was only used for 2 years before been taken over by the council, who now look after the building which is often used for films and TV programs. We’ve been shown around by the Operations Manager who along with the team at Scarborough Council have been extremely accommodating.

The location itself is superb, with great landings, as shown in the image. It will give off such a dramatic feel and authentic look to the film, it is just ideal and Scarborough Council have been really understanding and helpful. It also means that now we have our location we can really start storyboarding and visualising the script and I hope to have all the boards drawn up by the end of next week.

Will keep you posted as we confirm cast this week and bring onboard crew!

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