Stephen Foote - Lighting Cameraman, DoP updated 03/2010
Specialist in Marine and Underwater filming +44 (0)7831857399
Documentary Credits
The Natural World: Resurrecting Eden (currently shooting)
(1 x 60mins Aqua Vita Films for BBC/WNET co pro,) Varicam HD; Tx late 2010
More Than Just a Game (dir Andy Bell)
(1 x30 mins BBC1) Tx March 2010
This World - Stalins Back (dir Roger Corke)
(1 x 60 mins BBC2) Tx December 2009
Britains Dirty Beaches (Dir Andy Bell)
(1x30 mins BBC1) TX August 2009
Slumdogs and Millionaires (Dir Andy Bell)
(1x30 mins BBC1) TX March 2009
Should We Be Afraid of the Russians? (dir Roger Corke)
(1x30minutes BBC1) TX October 2008
What Really Sank the Mary Rose? (dir Howard Foster)
(1x60minutes Red Lobster for the History Channel) TX November 2008
Dispatches - A Widows War on Yobs (dir Karen Edwards)
(1x60 mins Wall to Wall for channel 4) TX July 2008
The Thames Project (dir Brendan Hughes)
Underwater Sequences
(2 x 60 minutes Touch Productions for BBC2)
Dangerous Toys - Dispatches (dir Karen Edwards)
(1x60 minutes Quicksilver Media for Channel 4)
Europe or Die Trying (First 2 of 4 programmes) (dir Howard Bradburn)
(2 x 40 minutes BBC1)
2010 RTS award to Paul Kenyon, Specialist Journalism
Dogfighting Undercover (dir AndrewBell/Roger Corke)
(1x60minutes BBC1) TX October 2007
Bafta nomination for best current affairs documentary 2008
Panorama - The High price of Gas (dir Angeli Mehta)
(1x40 minutes, BBC1)
The Beautiful Bung - Corruption in World Football (dir Roger Corke)
(1 x 40 minutes BBC1)
Saudi Strategic Storage Programme (dir Barney Broom)
(1 x 20 minute corporate – HDCAM)
La Legion Etrangere (dir Elisabeth Nord)
(1 x 10 minute pilot for 3 1 hour docs – Digi beta)
The State of the Apes (dir Ted Oakes)
(1x30 min BBC Natural History Unit for BBC2 TX December 2005)
Time Team – Big Roman Dig (dir Claire Slessor)
(6 x 2 minute VT inserts, TX July 2005)
Pets are People (dir Phillipa Robinson)
(2x30 min Blast Films for BBC Tx autumn 2005)
Whistleblowers - Railways (dir Roger Corke)
(1 x 60 min BBC1 Tx 11/2004)
Who Killed Kirsty McColl? (dir Olivia Lichtenstein)
(1x60min Working Women Films for BBC4/BBC2 Tx 2004)
Trouble at the Top – Celebrity Hair (Dir Kate Middleton)
(BBC 1x40min Digi )
'Fighting the War' (dir Neil Grant/ Paul Dwyer)
(BBC documentary series TX June/July 2003)
(RTS nomination Factual Photography)
The Trouble with Sleep (dir Emma Hindley)
(BBC 1x 60min TX July 2003)
Seroxat – Emails from the Edge
(1x40 min BBC Panorama dir Andy Bell Tx May 2003)
(RTS programme Nomination 2004)
Corporate for Saudi Aramco Oil
(1x9 min Creative Media)
Anatomy of September 11 (prod. Eammon O’Connor)
(1x120min Granada/New York Times Tv for A&E USA Tx 9/11/02)
Bin Ladens Biological Threat (dir. Mike Smith)
(1x40 min BBC)
Working Girls
(6x30min LWT dir. Michelle Carlisle, Tx 2003)
Damilola
(1x60 min BBC dir. Andy Bell TX April 2002)
The Science of Sport - Golf
(1x50min United for National Geographic dir. Penny Beeston)
The Science of Sport – Tennis
(1x50min United for National Geographic dir. Georgina Harvey)
Terror in America - The British Victims and Survivors
(1x50 min BBC dir. Steve Condie)
The Secrets of the Black Diaries
(1x60 min Blakeway for BBC dir. Paul Tilzley Tx March 2002)
Jules Sylvesters' Ten Most Dangerous Animals in Africa
(1x60 min Partridge Films for Discovery dir. Penny Beeston)
Jules Sylvesters Five Wildest Animals in the Wild West
(1x60 min Partridge for Discovery dir. Penny Beeston )
The Soho Nail Bomber
(Digi Beta BBC 1 x 50 min dir Andy Bell)
Panorama - Die by Wire
(Digi Beta 4:3, 1 x40 min TX July 1999 dir Andy Bell)
The Big Squeeze,
(60 min Partridge Films for Discovery Channel Dir Sally Weald)
The Great Croc Trail,
(60 min Partridge Films for Discovery Channel dir Mark Strickson)
The Biggest Lizards in the World
(60 min Partridge Films for Discovery Channel Digi Beta dir. Mark Strickson)
MacIntyre Undercover
(BBC, TX 2000 dir Colin Barr)
Englands Shame
(1x50 mins BBC TX 8/2000 dir Tom Giles)
(Winner of Broadcast Magazine News Programme of the Year Award)
The Man Who Played God
(1x50 minutes BBC TX Aril 2000)
(nominated for Broadcast News programme of the Year Award)
Submarine Escape Training
(SSVC for the Royal Navy dir. Roland Brinton)
(IVCA Silver award)
Blaze
(1 x 50min Darlow Smithson for Channel 4 dir. Jonathan Jones TX summer 1999).
West Midland Police Drug Squad
(BBC TX October 1998 dir. Andy Bell)
Underwater Unit, Drama
Howard's Way , The Firm, Drowning in the Shallow End, South of the Border, Between the Lines, The Eye of the Storm , Walls of Silence, Ghost Stories - Blood and water, Roughnecks, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion, Mrs Hartley and the Growth Centre, Wycliffe Series 3, Have Your Cake, McCallum, Roger Roger 2, Casualty, 'Whirlpool'
Underwater docs
The Natural World - 'Amazon the Flooded Forest' BBC. Bookmark -'Iris Murdoch' ,'Martin Amis' BBC,'Under Sail' BBC. 40 Minutes - 'The Rat Catchers' BBC. QED - 'Misha' BBC,'Chronicle -The Wreck of the Amsterdam'; 'Operation Asterix' BBC, 'The Crystal Aquarium' (Maya Vision). 'This Morning' Granada TV, 'You Bet' LWT. 'The SS Mindi' SABC, 'Return To Jutland' Grampian TV. 'Tomorrow's World' BBC, 'Time Team' Channel 4, World in Action Granada, Countryfile BBC, 'Submarine Escape Training' SSVC - Royal Navy
Other documentary credits from the past include
Inside Story, Scare Stories, The Natural World, 40 Minutes, 999 , QED, Your Life In Their Hands, Horizon, Nature, Tomorrow's World, The Mission, Garages from Hell, Network First, World in Action, The Big Story, The Cook Report, Blaze, Dispatches, Time Team, Blue Peter,etc etc.
Features
Shadow Run, starring Michael Caine. 2nd Unit DoP, B camera operator
Commercials
‘Ladbrokes - Pantomime Horse’ (dir Ric Hakes)several 5 and 15 sec idents, Ricandjo.tv
‘Nintendo’ (dir Ric Hakes) several 5 and 15 sec idents, Ricandjo.tv
'Elephant"- Coca Cola - Underwater DoP (Spots productions for Fallon McElligot for Coca Cola USA) Dir: Tarsem
'Hard Shoulder' -Department of Transport - 2nd Unit Lighting Camera (Young Guns for COI for DoT) Dir: Paul Street
'Thomas Cook Summer '93 Give-away' - Lighting Camera (FBS Origin for Lowe Howard Spink for Thomas Cook)
Clients include
Darlow Smithson, Mentorn Barraclough Carey, Central TV, BBC TV, Granada TV, Grampian TV, LWT, Carlton TV, Spots, Bazal, Twenty Twenty, First Choice, Carlyle, Diverse, Illuminations, Brian Lapping Associates, Grundy Television, Stephen's Kerr, Mann Made Films, Touch, National Geographic, Partridge Films, World Wide Pictures, Walt Disney Corp., Central Office of Information, Maya Vision, Domaine Films, Workhouse, Myriad, SSVC, Just Television, TV6, Fulcrum, Tiger Aspect, Shearman, HSE, Endemol
Corporate productions for:
The Financial Times, The Portman Group, Currys, Canon, BMW, Jaguar, Ford, Rover, Lotus, Unipart, The Royal Scotsman, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy, British Army, SKF Bearings, Conoco, BP, Mercury Telephone, Department of Transport, Vickers, VSEL, All the High Street Banks, Thomas Cook, Ideal Standard, Sony Broadcast, Royal insurance, IBM, Digital, Price Waterhouse and many others.
Equipment and toys
Digital Beta, 35mm, 16mm, Super 16, High Definition Video. Experience filming from over 16 types of civilian and military helicopters from the Robinson R22 to the Chinook. Lots of different dollies, cranes, Steadicam, minicams, hidden and covert camera, surveillance, hotheads, underwater housings etc, etc.
Travel
Countries marked in red:
Hostile Environments Experience
HEFAT trained, I have done a lot of filming in remote parts of the world - Amazonian and Indonesian rainforest (total of seven weeks in the jungle), African bush, deep water offshore diving 80 miles from land. Plus Sierra Leone with 2 Para for Channel 4, Euro 2000 riots in Brussels and IMF riots in Prague for the Beeb; 400' under the Med in a submersible, very close to wild animals in Africa, Police drug raids etc.
General Background
1986- Freelance Lighting Cameraman
1983-1986 Freelance Camera Assistant with cameraman Tim Johnson.
1981-1983 Staff Photographer Mary Rose Trust
Chief Diver Mary Rose Diving Team
1979-1982 Volunteer Diver, Mary Rose Project
1979-1981 Plymouth College of Art and Design
Qualifications
1981 Institute of Incorporated Photographers Diploma in Vocational Photography.
1982 Health and Safety Executive Part 4 Commercial Air Diver
1996 Part 3 Commercial Air Diver. (Surface air supply)
2009 HEFAT (AKE) Hostile Environments 5 Day Course
BTEC First Aid Trained
