Bewildered 23′ – Creatures of the Deep

This summer I had the pleasure of bringing together the 2023 highlight reel for the truly fantastic, up-and-coming Devon based music festival known as Bewildered.

Across two and a half days, I documented the wide array of musical talent on offer, as well as the incredible festival site itself – which was brought together by a plethora of incredibly talented local artists and creatives – all of whom made it exceptionally hard to condense the magic of the weekend into just a 2 minute reel.

Alex

Wildflower – a short film

Wildflower is the first instalment of filmmakers Alex McPake & Mac Nixon’s ‘Places’ series.

‘Places’ is an experimental collaborative project between the two that flips the process of traditional filmmaking by shooting interesting locations and then constructing a narrative retrospectively.

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Tennis Wales – ‘A Coaching Case Study’

During my time at Equinox I had the pleasure of working on a regular basis with client Tennis Wales.

Typically, I found myself shooting and editing multi-channel content for their socials, often highlighting the great people who make up their organisation. In the below instances, those people were Newport based coach, Kari Davies and Llantrisant based assistant coach, Emily Jordan.

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Blue Amber Perform Live at The Moon in Cardiff.

‘Old Breed, Pt. II’ & ‘Books’ performed by Blue Amber at The Moon in Cardiff as part of this years Psych & Noise Festival.

Video Production by mcpake media (with thanks to Stephen Shelmerdine). Sound recorded and mixed by Ed Townend.

Blue Amber – Old Breed, Pt. II (Live)
Blue Amber – Books (Live)
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Richard Meyrick Guitars

I had such a fantastic day filming and chatting with the very talented Richard Meyrick Guitars about his craft and guitar making passions for this project. Sifting through endless 4K 60fps footage of Richards process made the edit a joy to put together too.

If you’re looking for some promotional videos to showcase your business – do get in touch!

ALEX

Paths – a short film

Paths is the second instalment in Stephen and I’s ’12 Hour Films’ series. It was written, shot, scored and edited in a 12 hour timeframe.

We’ll be honest, we’re not entirely sure what this one is… but we do know we had a right hoot making it.

With that in mind, shifting the focus of filmmaking away from creating the most ideal finished product and moving it more towards finding immense gratification in the process itself is the very reason we started this challenge the first place – and so far its been a top laugh, so that’s nice! Anyway, here’s to another one!

Again, we hope you at least enjoy some of it.

Alex