My Details

Current Work Details

What I do: DoP, editor, occasional writer-director
Website: http://www.neiloseman.com
Blog Feed: neiloseman.com/?feed=rss2
Where I work: I am just me
Technical Skills: Lighting, camera operation, editing, DVD authoring, web encoding/design/coding, VFX
Resources / Expertise: FCP edit system, Canon 600D, lighting kit
Availability: Paid Work or Collaboration

2002-2002: BBC,
Sony DSR-500 camera
2000-2000: Vivid,
16mm filmmaking
2000-2000: The Rural Media Company,
Avid editing
1999-1999: The Rural Media Company,
"Land" writing workshop
1998-1998: The Rural Media Company/Creative Development Partnership,
"Lonesome Takeaway" 16mm film course

Films I wish I had made: Back To The Future (all of them), Terminator 1 & 2 (but obviously not 3 - I bet even Jonathon Mostow doesn't wish he made that), Ghostbusters, Labyrinth, Return To Oz, The Land Before Time, Aliens, Pirates of the Carribean, Garden State
I cried watching: The Land Before Time
I left the cinema during: Never done that
Directors I love: J. J. Abrahms
Actors I admire: Jonny Depp, Natalie Portman, Bill Nighy
Writers I respect: Steve Moffat
My desert island discs: Cracked Rear View - Hootie & The Blowfish, Crossroads - Bon Jovi, Hitler Bad Vandals Good - The Vandals, Dookie - Green Day, Utopia Parkway - Fountains of Wayne, Untitled - The Rembrandts, South Park Movie Soundtrack
Books I have given my friends: Can't remember. Think I got my mate Rick some book about Laurel & Hardy once.
My death row meal: Anything cooked by John at Broome Farm B&B, Herefordshire
The best thing I own: The 35mm print of my 'The Dark Side of the Earth' test scenes, and the Wooden Swordsman puppet I had built for those scenes
More about me: I met Stephen Frears at a festival and he later said of me in an interview: "All you can do is admire him. If he's got this much focus he'll be alright."