sean russell
+44 (0) 7711 741786
Freelance for the past 20 years, based in the South East of England, providing 30 years experience in camerawork & creative lighting for location and studio productions.
Sean owns his location camera kits, sliders, jibs and polecam but also works with client provided equipment.
Sean has a strong technical background & can help guide directors & producers through the key technical decisions. His insight & experience allows productions to concentrate on the creative aspects of composition, camera movement & lighting styles.
Having started on 16mm film Sean has travelled through the technical format changes in professional camera work and gained a mind of information, not only in technical specifics but also in how to work efficiently and collaboratively with on screen talent and production departments.
This long time crewing experience & collaborative attitude has led to work in over 85 countries as a DoP on Music Promo’s & Commercials, 2nd unit operator on drama, lighting cameraman on documentaries, Arts, Travel & Entertainment programs, Children’s drama, Location inserts & multi-camera productions on location and in studios.
Sean started as a news agency photographer in 1987 & alongside that as a stagehand at a New York theatre school. This visual arts base led Sean to graduate from Ravensbourne College’s, School of Television.
After time as a staff cameraman for broadcast & production companies, Sean set out as a freelance operator. Camera-work has led Sean to live abroad for long periods -Hong Kong (3 years ), Australia (4 years) as well as shorter periods in Russia & the Middle East.
Since 2013 Sean has been steadilly increasing work within studio environemnts. Working as a camera operator, lighting and vision control work on regular talk & magazine shows.
Sean is a qualified commercial diver, in line with HSE requirements for underwater camerawork. ADAS L1 commercial diver (UK HSE Part iv) & listed HSE dive contractor.
Designed & developed the Hydra Support unit. A patented camera support tool used to enable an innovative & cost effective solutions to filming upon & within water environments, vehicles, scaffolding rigs, dolly tracks & uneven ground.
Member of BECTU & the Guild of Television Camera Professionals.
St Johns Ambulance - Senior First Aid
Sean also contributes to several broadcast publications by writing technical articles on camera work and technology, examples of these can be viewed on the following links.
Copyright 2018 Sean Russell
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location filming
studio's
camera support
broadcast television
commercial productions
music promo's
corporate
Copyright 2018 Sean Russell
All rights reserved