Kit Owned:

Cameras - Z1 and 5D
Sound - x2 Me66, NTG-2, GWU 300 Radio Mic, Tascam HD-P2, Sound Devices 788T
Editing - MacBook Pro (2009 edition), FCP Studio (3) + Natress, Magic Bullet, FX Factory, CS5,Toast Titanium (10)
Delivery - 5.1 Dolby Sound mix, Blu Ray, DVD, HDV, Mini DV, HDD, FTP
Storage - upto 6GB FTP data transfer and storage, and upto 8TB HDD Storage (WD)
Lighting - 3X Redhead Lamps + Gells, Pop up Green Screen

Check out my full range of kit at: JGrayOnline.com/Kit

And Now About Me......

With over just over 5 years in the broadcast industry, and working for companies such as
BBC, Ideal Shopping Direct, and now a Freelance
Lighting Cameraman, Sound Operator/ Recordist and Final Cut Pro Editor.

Born in UK Grantham, James was brought into a family full of art and music.
Learning the piano at the age of 5, and then learning the guitar from the age of 12.

From Secondary School James got involved with amateur Theatre inside and outside of his school, being the main man when it came to anything technical. James learnt all his lighting techniques through out school working with other professions light and sound technicians he soon became trained up in sound and lighting.  

His potential was seen by the his head teacher and was approached to make a school promotional video, learning new ways and camera techniques James learnt how to edit and how to use a camera.

From School James took his knowledge to college to study at Melton Mowbray and learnt a professional way of learning, also with making experiments and playing about his experience grew and the college saw his potential with what his was capable with. Also learning advance techniques with editing, lighting and sound, while taking other courses like photography and multimedia, web and CD/DVD Authoring. At the end of his course won the best practical student and three distinctions leading him to one of the top students in his year.

This lead James onto University where he specialized in Single camera and Drama also Documentary and reinforced his talents and skills, he also learnt how to use a glide-cam and stedi-cam.

His talents were picked up from his local shopping TV channel from when he finished his course at university and learnt a solid grounding of Sound and the theory of Sound, including on the side learning about broadcast engineering, camera operations, and broadcast studio and location lighting.

James then found himself at the BBC as a Runner in 2007 working his way up. He helped out in all post production processes from begining to end, while going on shoots with producers and AP's, helping out from researching, logging, sound, camera assisting, and editing including motion graphics.

His talents improved post-production including being on call 24/7 for the department for all their technical needs, James's talents excelled the performance of the work place and helped editors working on tight deadlines work to their maximum with no constraints. His work didn't go unrecognized because he was made the Technical Supervisor for all edit suites and production kit within the unit.

James moved up-to Researcher at the BBC, where he edited clips for BBC YouTube, bbc.co.uk and mobile. He found himself in a good position researching rights and contacting executive producers for permissions, etc.

Also making montages for Marketing for online content, for 'The Apprentice', 'Doctor Who', and many more. Please check out the Videos Page.