Filming with a legendary Racehorse Trainer
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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some nice footage, but i had problems with english :D (maybe i just don't know anything about the topic so my brain is not contemplating)
Cheers dude.
I’ll be honest, his Irish accent was very difficult for me understand too.
I had to caption some other clips of his and had to seek clarification on lots of words I didn’t get!
yeah lol it is a combo of the accent and then also some of the phrases I think are specific to horse racing maybe ? I could have probably used captioning here as well LOL How did you do the moving shot that kept up with the running horses - was that drone?
Ha, I know he’s a devil to understand.
We did caption him on shorter clips but they didn’t require one for this clip.
The parallel horse shots were done by filming out of the window of a moving car.
It worked brilliantly - and Jonjo suggested it. He said he’s done that before with other crews.. he knows it makes a good shot
cool yeah the moving shot really worked out awesome. nice work as always @ashtv :)
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