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DANCE, DOG, DANCE; SHORT FILM - Director of Photography and Finishing Editor
In 2025 Knock and Nash shot their third short film, with the intention of telling a story that appeared as if it was in real time, and therefore in one long take. This required various stages of planning for not only the actors, but also in terms of camera equipment and how it would move through the scenes in a way that would appear unbroken.

Technically, this film was Knock and Nash’s most complex one to date, with only Chris operating camera, the Sony FX6 was chosen instead of their usual URSA 12K to minimise weight, and to utilise the autofocus features; to limit the amount of work Chris had to do while also navigating doorways, camera movement and even exposure changes mid shot.

The film was very difficult to shoot but ultimately successful, and is currently in post production.

THE SKY SPREAD OVER EVERYTHING; SHORT FILM - Director of Photography and Finishing Editor
In September of 2024, Knock and Nash shot their next short film; but this time directed by theatre director Ellie Rose. Chris’ responsibilities were similar to Show Pony, with his primary role to handle the camera equipment, lighting and any camera movement, as well as working with Ellie to bring her ideas to life.

In post production, Chris’ responsibility initially lay with working alongside editor Elisa Cherene Holliday to ensure a smooth workflow from offline edit to finishing. Then in the grading and finishing process, Chris’ plans during the shoot came to fruition. The film’s theme revolves around alive characters and dead characters, with some scenes in the past and some scenes in the present; Ellie wanted the material to hint at this story arch and so the shots themselves were designed to subtly insinuate this. Which shots were which was displayed on the clapperboards so there was no guess work in post.

The film had a small premiere in September of 2025, with a very positive reaction by the audience.

SHOW PONY; SHORT FILM - Director of Photography and Finishing Editor
In 2023 Knock and Nash productions embarked on their first short film, written by accomplished writer Lee Mattinson and directed by Knock and Nash’s own Jordan Tweddle.

Chris’ responsibilities were first to choose and handle the camera equipment used for the film, alongside planning camera movement, lighting and any staff required for the shoot. Following the shoot Chris planned the edit workflow with experienced TV editor Elisa Cherene Holliday, before handling the finishing process of colouring in DaVinci Resolve, and ensuring all passes in edit, dub, grade and any VFX all came together as easily as possible.

PIP DECKS VEGAN LEATHER CASE; DIGITAL ADVERTISEMENT - Video Producer
In early 2023 Chris was asked by Charles at Pip Decks if he could photograph their new Vegan Leather Deck Cases, and also provide some video to maybe be used in the future for adverts.

After providing a wide range of footage of the cards and decks being used, along with static product shots. Chris was then asked if he could shoot a few extra shots and produce a full advert to be used in the upcoming months.

Along with assistant Emily Chapman, Chris filmed, edited and finished a 90 second advert in a couple of weeks; which is now being used across social media platforms and the Pip Decks website. This can be see here.

NORTH SEA SISTERS; SHORT FILM - Editor, Colourist, Finishing Editor
Chris has been working with film-maker Debbie Harman since August 2022, to put together the edit of her short art film, in collaboration with ‘Girls with Capes’ and ‘Lauras Torenbeek’.

The film uses a range of media from archive material, drone footage, soundscapes, and original footage to bring an immersive feeling doucmentary about grief and using nature and the sea to heal.

HIDDEN; SHORT FILM - Assistant Editor, Colourist, Finishing Editor
Chris was invited to be a part of Cusp Film’s next project by editor the Mike Aspinall. Initially Chris was asked to aid the start of the edit with syncing rushes and managing the workflow from shoot to edit, too finishing.

During the edit process Chris was asked to also then colour and finish the short, being given a set of style references of which the director, producer and DoP all agreed for the look of the film.

TREASURE; SHORT FILM - DIT, Colourist, Finishing Editor
Having met Sean Healey at Emmerdale, Sean asked Chris to help on a short film he was creating, as he didn’t know the ins and outs of post production; and on a low budget, mistakes couldn’t be afforded. Chris was brought in to initially be DIT for the film’s two weekends of shooting, and then later on organise the entire post production workflow; as he had done for previous short and feature films.

Chris finished the film in early 2022 with director Sean, and DoP Chris Sowden advising on the colour and finishing touches, which after several weeks of work was shown at a private screening for the film’s cast and crew, which was very received. The film is now in the process of going through various film festivals.

THE OUTING; SHORT FILM - DIT, Colourist, Finishing Editor & Stills Photographer
In early 2021 Chris was asked back by Joanne Mitchell to work on her latest short ‘The Outing’. The film involved a three day shoot on location in Gateshead. Chris worked as the DIT for the film, but like with ‘Evie’ he also used any down time to be the stills photographer; again providing publicity shots and social media content.

Once the filming had finished Chris organised post production, supplying the media for the edit, audio dubbing and VFX work. Before colouring and finishing the film himself in DaVinci Resolve.

The Outing has since been nominated at several film festivals, including ‘Indy Short’ which is connected with BAFTA.

ECOSTRAD; TV ADVERT - Colourist & Finishing Editor
In September of 2021 Tom Richardson had organised and shot an advert for the brand new radiator company Ecostrad; with the intention of the advert to be screened during Grand Designs on Channel 4.

The post production of the advert became more complicated than expected, and so Tom hired Chris as the advert was now involving Avid, Adobe and Resolve software packages. Chris remade a handful of VFX shots, along with colouring the advert, and putting in the final touches so it matched the original concept.

KNOCK AND NASH; ACTING SHOWREELS - Video Producer
In late 2020 Knock and Nash productions was founded, with the intention of training actors and providing them with bespoke acting showreels to use for their acting careers.

Chris was initially asked to consult on what equipment the company should buy to produce the showreels; with the limited budget they had. Having done this Chris was then asked if he could help in the finishing of the first showreels to speed up the process and build a workflow for Knock and Nash to use. With the first showreels being such a success, Chris was asked to come on board as a regular contributor to the Knock and Nash team, with Chris lighting, shooting and finishing off the subsequent showreels.

His work with Knock and Nash, resulting in Chris writing a guide for Resolve for others to use and learn from, this can be found on his blog.

SASHA AND THE SHADES; MUSIC VIDEO - Colourist
Having met Steven Owen and Matt French while working on Evie, they asked Chris to work on some music videos they had coming up with band ‘Sasha and the Shades’. Initially Chris did some consulting on issues the pair were having with the colouring and finishing process.

This quickly progressed into Chris finishing the first of the music videos, and later on colouring the second video; which included some visual effects work. Chris has made a ‘breakdown’ of the work that went into the video for ‘Thats The Way It Goes’ to show how the footage looks before and after the finishing process with colouring, and the smoke and sparks he added.

EVIE; FEATURE FILM - DIT & Stills Photographer
Chris was asked if he could work on feature film Evie, during the covid pandemic in 2020 and 2021. The film was a personal project by Jamie Lundy, who along with Dominic Brunt, wrote and directed the film over three weeks in various parts of the UK.

Chris’ main task was to manage the film’s rushes, report any issues and provide playback when needed for reference. Chris’ second task was to provide BTS photography and video when he wasn’t DITing; this was used to provide publicity images and social media content

Due to the small crew, Chris also often stepped in to assist with the camera team when they were short handed; as he is already experienced in this area.

EMMERDALE; ITV SOAP - Colourist & Finishing Editor
Chris worked on Emmerdale from 2013 until 2025, he started as an edit assistant but in 2018 he progressed to the Online Editor of the show, with a further change to his role in 2021 to ‘Media Producer’ where Chris’ responsibilities involved the whole post department.

In Chris’ time there, he was assigned a variety of tasks to aid in the creation of the show, and also to improve the departments various workflows. He was an integral employee of post production, having crafted various workflows including how they intergrated their professional Baselight colour-grading system.
Chris’ work at Emmerdale has spanned over into other roles such as managing media on their larger productions at Pinewood Studios, editing all the content for the Studio Experience and creating timelapses.

Chris chose to leave Emmerdale at the end of 2025 to pursue his own creative projects and work on a larger range of shows and films.

MUMMY’S BOY; SHORT FILM - Editor
In early 2019, Chris was part of a small team to make a short film with accomplished writer Stewart McDonald.
Chris worked as both the film’s editor, but also as a camera assistant for DP Andy Schonfelder, which gave him a deep insight to the footage, both from a story and a technical perspective.

This was Chris’ first venture into editing Comedy, which can be a challenge as it would need a particular rhythm; he took on the challenge and Stewart was really happy with the results. And the film’s first public screening was received really well by the audience.

SYBIL; SHORT FILM - Colourist & Finishing Editor
Chris was asked in 2018 if he could again assist David Mercer on the production of a short film, directed by Jo Mitchell.

Chris was initially managing the ingest of the daily footage, and organising the media for Dave. But due to Chris’ skills as a colourist and finishing editor, he then also coloured the final cut using Baselight, and finished the online edit alongside Jo, at his home editing system.

ATTACK OF THE ADULT BABIES; FEATURE FILM - 1st Assistant Editor
After working with Editor David Mercer on film Bait, Chris was asked back for Dominic's next feature 'Attack of the Adult Babies' as an edit assistant.  

It Involved backing up, creating proxies and ingesting the film's three weeks of rushes, shot on Red cameras, followed by regular contact with David about any technical issues and transferring footage between dubbing, VFX and the online edit.  

BAIT; FEATURE FILM - 1st Assistant Editor
In 2014 Chris was the 1st Assistant Editor on Dominic Brunt's feature horror film Bait; he was asked by editor David Mercer to work for him, after meeting at Emmerdale.  

In this role he initially designed workflows and the structure for organising rushes for Dave to use in the edit.  Once this had been completed Chris managed the Avid project and moved it between the various machines they cut on. Chris also sent out cuts to Dominic and Metrodome to view, whilst managing all the VFX clips to and from the VFX artists; and the relevant audio files sent to the dubbing mixer.  

PAT AND AKI; SHORT FILMS - Director of Photography
Since 2015 Chris has been asked on several occasions to shoot for the YouTube Channel 'Pat and Aki'.  This relationship initially started as help in colouring, but quickly developed into Chris shooting their more extravagant films.  

Most notably the Logan Official Trailer Parody video which required being able to recreate shots from the official trailer with precision.  Another major project for the team was the Channel's first attempt at drama and action, Stryker vs Merc with Chris being called in again to shoot and colour the short, which involved a lengthy fight scene, requiring a lot of blocking and camera movement.  

SAD. MAN. SMILING; SHORT FILM - Director of Photography
Chris was asked by Karl Falconer of Purplecoat Productions to be the Director of Photography on this 30 minutes short film.

Chris' role mainly consisted of lighting every scene of the film, to choreograph camera movements with the two camera assistants: Adam Sheldon and Aaron Hussein; and also to camera operate.  They mostly shot on Canon DSLR's, and utilised the Movi M5 when shooting in Snowdonia; Chris has blogged about this previously - Click Here To Read It

The film’s visual quality and cinematography was regularly commented on, once the film was made public.

TWELFTH NIGHT ON TOUR; DOCUMENTARY - Filmaker
In 2014 Chris toured around the UK with Purplecoat Productions to document the lives of their cast as they performed Shakespeare's Twelfth Night in five cities, in six days.  

Twelfth Night on Tour displays the difficulties involved in a feat of this magnitude.  
The trailer is available to watch Via This Link, and Click Here To Watch The Film

Chris has previously blogged how this documentary was shot and what gear was involved - Click Here For The Blog Post