I'm a multiskilled 2nd Camera/Camera Assistant with abundant location experience across adventure and natural history productions. I have filmed and assisted on multiple productions for major broadcasters including National Geographic, BBC and Discovery. These shoots took me to remote and challenging environments across the world, including working... Read More

I'm a multiskilled 2nd Camera/Camera Assistant with abundant location experience across adventure and natural history productions. I have filmed and assisted on multiple productions for major broadcasters including National Geographic, BBC and Discovery. These shoots took me to remote and challenging environments across the world, including working deep in the Guyanese jungle during the rainy season with no facilities, to filming at high altitudes in the mountains of the Andes in extreme weather conditions. My experiences working in challenging environments with a variety of equipment have built on my resilience, technical skills and my ability to get stuck in wherever needed.

With a strong understanding of filming techniques I have operated a variety of equipment including CN20 long lens, shoulder rigs, motion-controlled sliders, gimbals, timelapses and drone. Confident shooting with Sony Cinema cameras and lenses, as well as being a CAA qualified drone pilot. I have often managed and maintained kit in harsh environments, as well as dealing with power cuts and using generators. I also have extensive data wrangling experience working with large amounts of 4k footage in remote set ups, as well as ingesting and editing whilst on location.

Skills list:

- Long lens - filming wildlife sequences with CN20
- Sync - I have extensive experience filming sync with multiple presenters and contributors including interview setups and PTCs. I am also confident filming offspeed pretties of contributors/presenters
- Gimbals - I can balance and operate a number of gimbals including Ronin 2, RS2 and RS3 
- Timelapse and starlapse 
- Motion control timelapse systems (Syrup, Rhino)
- Camera Trapping - Camtraptions as well as Bushnall and browning setups. 
- Drone -  I have my UK GVC and have plenty of hours on DJI systems such as Mavic Pro 3, Mini Pro 4 and Inspire 2
- Mini Cams - I am confident rigging GoPros and 360 mini cams for cars, boats and wildlife sequences.
- Photography - as well as my camera work I also have extensive stills experience and regularly have taken production stills on location for deliverables. 
- Data wrangling - I am extensively experienced at DIT and handling large amounts of rushes on location. When working on ‘Malawi Wildlife Rescue’ it was my responsibility to manage over 100TB worth of 4k obs doc footage across the 4 weeks I was on location.

To view my showreel, please check my website https://www.tessbenjamin.co.uk/ Read Less