Fenn Penridge

I just looked it up and you can't even make calls on a Red! For the kind of prices they charge I at least expect to be able to send a bloody text! Jim needs to get his poop sorted. Seriously. I'm shooting a music video next month for Chris de Burgh using a Nokia 6680 3G. I can call, I can text, I can shoot Chris while video calling my uncle in prison. Can a Red do that? Yeah, didn't think so.

I think the American English accent is nicer than the English English accent. I am English English by the way.

It's a strange situation to be in sometimes when one client wants to see big, impressive cameras being used, large screen iMacs for onsite editing because it simply looks "the balls". Then you have other clients who are happy when you turn up with an iPhone rig or a 5D and edit on a tablet. The results are incomparable really but some people just want to be seen to be hyper trendy, current and modern. Even to the detriment of the end result. You know, the thing for which they've paid through the nose. Oddness.

Ah! Sorry Ari Alexa! Bloody hell... ;-)

This is truly bizarre. No one has ever said to me before that my name doesn't "sound" real. Equally I've never been accused before of being fictional!! I'm sorry if my "amateur" ways aren't up to your standards. But let me tell you something, I have a list of clients who are extremely happy with the work i've done for them using all manner of cameras and techniques. It's not like i'd shoot a feature length on a bloody iphone. I'd obviously go with something like a Arry Elixir or EPIC or something! Oh, and also, that boy in the youtube video isn't me! I haven't looked that young in many, many years! Very best to you all anyway. Thanks for the welcome! :-)

It's my belief that film will be very much redundant in the very near future. I recently suggested to a client, a high-street super-chain selling high-end fashion, that we shoot an ad on 35mil as they were after a retro look and they weren't interested. The budget was there but they thought it was "too old-school". So I turned up at the shoot with an iPhone with a shallow depth of field rig and they loved it. The results were great too. Very 35mil. Needless to say they, and I, were happy. So was my bank. In my own personal films I tend to use what ever is best suited to the job. Sometimes it's a 5D, sometimes it's an iphone. What ever I choose I always get the required results. Interesting post though. Looking forward to getting to know the community here. Cheers yeah, Fenn