Pinewood Residency

Earlier this year I visited Pinewood Studios in Iver Heath, Bucks to observe and record my impressions of the Studios. Here are some favourite images. I used some discarded 35mm film (from the film Virtual Sexuality) to make some work that plays with the format - using what is intended to produce the moving image for its own aesthetic properties.

Whilst there I took hundreds of photos and made lots of drawings. Some of these I used to make digital images, but my favourite images are some photographs I took in the back lot around the huge blue screen. This is massive and stands behind the outdoor water tank where anything from Bond to Wolfman is likely to be filmed. When it is not used the tank more closely ressembles a car park with a waist high barrier around it - and, of course, the blue screen. When the ground is wet reflections of this screen give the whole area a blue cast and it makes for some very interesting images.