Simon Carter

Photography / Graphic Design / Screenwriting Currently creating high-concept, commercial photographic and graphic assets for global distribution through Getty Images. Content covers contemporary themes in finance & lifestyle. Preparing Virtual Reality project pitches for internationally renown Museums with Emmy-winning London based VR company. Seven feature length drama screenplays completed on true life stories of little known figures who changed the twentieth century. I enjoy challenging projects that push creative teams to produce work that goes beyond expectations and changes the way people think. When requested, I join other companies to work on large projects as a specialist.

Photography / Director of Photography / Graphic Designer / Shoot Producer I have been lucky enough to work in varied creative roles across several visual industries including advertising, branding, photography, film and television. This wide creative experience is extremely helpful in seeing ‘the big picture’ when it comes to ideation for clients’ needs and the strategy required to implement successful concepts. Clients: Getty Images, Spyker Cars, Metropolitan Police, BAR Formula One Team (now Mercedes F1), National Geographic, Sony, Time Magazine, Toshiba, Bloomsbury Books, and award winning work for MTV studios.

 International experience includes shoots in Paris, Frankfurt, Sydney, Tokyo, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, across the US South West and Death Valley, Joshua Tree, White Sands National Monuments.

Photography / Shoot Producer Documenting life on family run ranches in the USA. 'The West' is a black and white documentary series capturing the knowledge, skills and processes of tradtional ranching. 'The Contemporary West' is a colour documentary series caprturing the constantly evolving way of life of ranchers to modern lifestyles. I have been inspired by the legends of The West from an early age and frequent travels to the South Western USA inspired this ongoing project to record the last traces of the frontier mind set and spirit of individuality. This fast disappearing way of life is threatened by the expansion of large meat producers with the obvious impact on animal welfare and quality of produce. Projects The West' 'The Contemporary West' on : www.elanstudios.co.uk

Senior Art Director / Shoot Producer I was involved in projects from concept to delivery across the business. I collaborated with designers, promo directors, social teams and web programmers to push boundaries in an ever-changing retail environment. I led on defining the image content to convey the requirements of the myriad of brands promoted at QVC and the positioning of QVC in the UK. I managed a team of eight photographers in a very fast paced and creative environment providing imagery for all of QVC’s broadcast channels, digital platforms, social media and print. I enjoyed working on multiple projects and at QVC the photography department operates seventeen hours a day, seven days a week to provide broadcast imagery for live shows and web content covering fashion, fashion accessories, jewelry, electronics, homeware, food, bedding and gardening products. This helps generate a versatile and conceptually innovative design, photography and styling team. The photographers are free to innovate in their approach technically and artistically within briefs. This process led to a steady development of style guides that are being adopted internationally. I mentored the photographer’s personal development carefully through one to one sessions exploring the history of art, design and advertising. For moving image projects shot on location, I led a small team of photographers shooting still imagery in collaboration with the live teams. Each was a complex scheduling operation between a combined crew of up to twenty. For the web and broadcast, I designed an image requirement tool that combined multiple shoot lists into a priority led, live screen interface called ‘Liveboard’. This is currently being rolled out to QVC’s in Europe. I created an in-house library of key-worded creative imagery to ensure that resources are shared between the UK, France, Italy and Germany. This is being incorporated into a global asset management scheme by US teams.

Being a 'hands on Producer' for the isney Channel project i became acutely aware of the shortage of skilled model builders. I assisted a small team building a 4mx4m cardboard city forstop frame animation. This led me to cntinue developing my modelling skills. SRC Preparations, www.srcpreparations.com incorporates my writing, photography, story telling and model building skills in a miniature world of historic racing car construction. The physical set is scratch built in 1/12 scale inspired by my life experiences and drawing on the inspiration of classic film special effects techniques. The model photography was featured with an interview in the March 2018 issue of Canon Europe Newsletter and promoted to two million readers across Europe. It has subsequently been published in Tamiya Magazine in Dec 2021 (issue 313). https://www.srcpreparations.com IG srcpreparations

In collaboration with the CEO Trevor Murphy, I set up a subsidiary ‘Bermuda Active’ and lead the development and presentation of animated advertisements for clients on the CBS Alive London Underground video poster network.

Having a full understanding of story, character and structure is essential to creating any successful moving image content. Be it a commercial, infomercial, fashion promo or drama-documentary my intuitive understanding of what works speeds up production and builds client confidence. I can write, direct and produce compelling content for long or short form storytelling. I have honed my skills across twenty years of production for film, documentaries and commercials.

Disney Channel Idents. The project required the construction a large 3D model city built entirely of cardboard. After an eight week design and fabrication process, stop frame animation brought the city to life and Disnney characters were overlaid, running around the city interacting with cars, buses, buildings and cranes. Six idents were created in total. My role was as project producer and assisting in the physical construction of the cardboard city, including art direction and lighting and directing the motion control rostrum shoot.

Live show producer for Great Big British Quiz (GBBQ) and Glitterball. Enteraction TV was the production company behind several extremely popular Play-To-Win quiz show formats in the UK. I produced shows in London, Bristol and Manchester running teams of production personnel and live show crews. The format was embraced by European companies and advanced plans were created to launch shows in Spain, Canada and Ireland. Executive Producer Melody Trix: A variation on the GBBQ format was built in Egypt for the Melody network called ‘Melody Trix’. Melody Trix was a live interactive Arabic quiz show for the Middle East and North Africa region. The $1m project included the planning, design and implementation of Interactive platforms for 21 Middle East telephone networks, interactive television gallery, graphics console for vision mixer, on-screen graphics and physical set. I developed a training school for locally recruited crews and presenters, designed show content in Arabic and presentation strategies for the region.

www.HDRI-studio.com was created to push 360 degree image capture technology to its limit and produce the very best and most versatile examples of physical lighting scenarios for 3D rendering. Clients include: Mercedes, Renault, Cadillac, Pioneer.

Collaborating with multi award winning director Mario Cavalli, I was the Director of Photography for ‘The Cask of Amontillado’ a 15 minute period drama shot on 35mm film.. Twentieth Century Fox was impressed enough with my first DoP project to consider releasing it as a short with Cate Blanchet’s ‘Elizebeth’. The film earned me membership of BAFTA. The film is currently used in schools throughout the USA as study material for Edgar Allen Poe. I was also Director of Photography for several animated commercials and music videos including Lemon Jelly and Killing Joke.

Photography / Graphic Design / Shoot Producer Twenty years experience creating high-concept, commercial photographic and illustrative images for global distribution through Getty Images and subsidiary companies. Financial institutions have been key users of my submissions for Getty Images. 

I have shot imagery in all of the principal financial districts worldwide and these reflect trends in financial technology and trading as well as image styles.

Photography / Graphic Design / Shoot Producer Commissions include advertising, fashion and product imagery. Full production service, from initial concept to delivery. Concepts and Art Direction. Location recces. Casting. Prop Hire. Set Builds. Photography. Overseeing print run.

Concepts, design, artwork and shoot co-ordination of film and televsision title sequences for projects that included 'Chicago Joe and the Showgirl' Working Title, 'We're No Angels' Paramount Pictures. Chicago Joe and the Showgirl was one of the most complex pieces of rostrum camera animation attempted by King Camera at the time. After meticulous preparatiuon it was captured in one shooting session. I lit and directed motion control shoots for TV title sequences for BBC and ITV drama using the motion control rig at Geoff Axtell Associates. The rig was originally designed and built for the SFX sequences in the first Star Wars film 'A New Hope'. Plume Partners was Richard Morrison's (Morrison Studio) first title sequence design company. Richard's wealth of experience, patience and contacts provided a springboard for many personal projects to follow.