Wild Cherry Media Ltd is a production company specialising in environmental content, inspiring conversations through engaging and thought provoking communication projects.
Current Projects:
Silverback Features. Lighting camera person for longterm feature film, specialising in gimbal camera systems and long lens behavioural sequences in remote location with close proximity to animal characters.
Brian Leith Productions NDA Series. DoP climate change series, working with the production to define the style of the series. Handheld observational documentary style, gimbal, tripod work, macro and drone.
Sentient Series, Disney Plus, Wildstar Films. Sequence filming with long lens and specialist gimbal equipment in remote location over a large filming area on foot.
A Real Bug’s Life Series, Disney. DoP specialist macro filming with variety of motion control systems, different micro and macro lenses as well as complex lighting set ups and set designing both in the field and studio.
HumbleBee Films NDA Series. Sequence filming, specialising in gimbal system covering behavioural spectacle.
Previous projects:
Chimp Empire Series, Netflix. Western Chimps DoP. Specialising in long lens behavioural sequences following the same individuals for 32 weeks, as well as gimbal and handheld filming techniques.
Saving Our Wild Isles, BBC iPlayer/WWF/RSPB. DoP for hour long programme. Specialising in Observational Documentary, creating the style for the programme with handheld and gimbal work as well as tripod, long lens, eye direct interviews and drone.
Painting Birds Series, Sky Arts, Drum Studios. Long lens filming.
Prehistoric Planet, Apple TV, BBC Studios. Specialising in drone work as well as technical filming for CGI.
Wild Babies Netflix Series, Humblebee Films NDA Series. DoP for cuckoo sequence. Remote motion control system, long lens, drone, gimbal.
Animal Season 2 Netflix Series, Plimsoll Productions. DoP covering chimpanzee behavioural sequence using a range of techniques including long lens and gimbal.
Europe's New Wild Series, Off The Fence Production. Specialist infra-red beaver sequence, including inside lodge filming with probe lens.
BBC Countryfile. Chew Valley Plants Trees Short Film. Ben Moss tells us about the Chew Valley Plants Trees scheme that he helped set up to promoted afforestation in the region as well as further afield. A story of hope and inspiration. Filmed, Produced, Directed, Edited.
Secret Safari: Into the Wild Series, Channel 4. Bringing wildlife and observation documentary together as we follow wildlife characters in Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya, told through the eyes of the rangers conserving these animals.
A Wild Year Series, BBC Natural History Unit. Natural History Documentary series on three UK locations, aired summer 2020. For more information please read this blog.
The Age of Nature, PBS - A fascinating series highlighting our affect on the world. Airing Autumn 2020.
Flight of The Swans Expedition, WWT. Following Bewick’s swans with The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust from their breeding grounds in Arctic Russia to the UK for winter sanctuary. Working across filming, photography and social media campaigns.
Digital communication projects, working with the likes of the National Trust, Cotswolds Tourism Board and WWT on dynamic content for social media campaigns.
