In late October I went out filming for 2 days, shooting on a project for Tote UK, the long-time racing bookmaker. The job was via Other Things - a creative agency in Leeds - who asked me to shoot and edit on the video job.
The two days were a jam packed with filming across seven (really incredible) stable locations; which involved recording talking interview headshots with the trainers (of some amazing race horses) giving their favourites to follow for the coming season.
These short films were films designed for social media, to promote the Totes revamped Ten to Follow campaign.
The most jaw dropping premises I had the pleasure of filming in was that of Jono O'Neill - a legendary Irish race horse trainer and former jockey. (according to Wikipedia, he won 900 races as jockey..)
His estate was immense, and took 3 minutes to even just drive down his private drive way to the buildings.
He had (I think he said) over 500 acres of land.
We only had a relatively brief visit, as we were working to the trainers tight schedules, but at each location we managed to shoot talking heads with two cameras and two microphones, as well as general shots of stables as b-roll.
It was fun to shoot the horses on gallops, shooting out of the back of Jonjo's 4X4, speeding alongside the horses in full gallop. Quite an awesome experience.
[note: I am not a gambling or horse racing enthusiast in any form!]
I produced 7 x full films, and 7 x short social 30second edits.
To find out more about Tote Ten to Follow, check out: https://tote.co.uk/ten
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