Born To Film
Tim at the age of nine was given an old 9.5mm film projector and cartoon of Popeye by his brother, John. This opened up a whole new world of magic in the form of moving pictures.

This media inspired him at school and he would draw tiny squares on the sticky side of sellotape. Then fill them in with a sequence of pictures, complete with drawn sprocket holes and even a wiggly optical sound track. Another layer of sellotape was stuck to the first and he had made his first film!

Aged 14, he and his dad went to a BBC open day at Holm Moss transmitting station and saw his first ever live TV camera and said to his dad, “I want to be a cameraman and work for the BBC!”Years later after first training and qualifying as an electrical engineer, his first job in the media was to work with 16mm film as cameraman, editor and even “A & B roll neg cutter.”

Tim eventually became self employed as a freelance cameraman working mainly on corporate productions and many TV commercials. Destiny made his wish come true when he did work for the BBC as a freelance cameraman, then Sky Sports, C4 Wales, Granada Television and Yorkshire TV.

Today he is still very busily self employed and has gained much broadcast experience over the years. He has over the years invested in several broadcast cameras. First was a Sony 400 Beta SP but he now owns a Sony DVCam DSR570 and as well as the usual lighting kit he has all the basic audio equipment.

Recently he has expanded his in-house non linear editing facility and can master onto DVD. To complete the picture he runs a Ford Galaxy as a crew car with Sat Nav, and operates under the name...