User:Geoffboyle/Geoff Boyle

Geoff Boyle got his first camera, a Brownie 127, when he was 8. From then on his career was clear.

After art school, Derby College of Art, in the late sixties he worked as a stills assistant, where he worked mainly in fashion and advertising and then as a stills photographer specialising in music. One day he was asked if he knew anyone who could film a concert. Of course he did!

He moved to film completely and shot documentaries for TV, 10 years or so of 20/20 for ABC and an awful lot of music promos.

In 1985 he was shooting a documentary about the making of the Pirelli calendar. It was being photographed by Terence Donovan who liked the way he lit and asked if he shot commercials.............

After concentrating on commercials for 20 years he started to shoot more drama, his first major motion picture was Mutant Chronicles which he spent from May to October 2006 working on, shooting main unit and then model and second unit.

This film was shot digitally and he was able to draw on his many years experimenting with digital systems, he shot the launch material for the Viper system nearly 5 years before Mutants was shot!

A sideline in the last few years has been advising people on digital technology.

Films he has photographed include:-

The BAFTA winning short film - About a Girl in 2001 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0296484/

The Mutant Chronicles in Shepperton & IoM 2006 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490181/

The Dark Country in Albuquerque 2007 (3D) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469318/

Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li in Bangkok 2008 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0891592/

Wallander in Ystad Sweden 2008  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1345414/

Geoff Boyle always been excited about creating images and the technology to create those images. There are links http://www.gboyle.co.uk/articles.html to Articles he has written about the technology and how it impacts on us.

Since his involvement in The Dark Country he has moved further and further in to 3D shooting commercials, TV station idents and corporate films in 3D as well as advising production companies on cost effective ways to shoot 3D.

He believe's strongly in sharing knowledge and training, this is reflected in the Cinematography Mailing List which he established in 1996 and the amount of workshops that he teaches.

In September 2000 Geoff was awarded the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers SMPTE Eastman Gold []

In 2001 Geoff was made a Fellow of the British Kinematography Society BKSTS

In 2006 Geoff was awarded the BSC, British Society of Cinematographer, Bert Easy Technical award