Kristian Barrass - Freelance Lighting TV Camera Operator & DOP
Broadcast quality camerawork for factual TV & business marketing productions in Yorkshire and the whole UK
27 years experience in entertainment, lifestyle, documentaries, sports, news & corporate
Bio
Kristian is an award winning versatile and creative lighting camera operator/DOP with over 27 years broadcast TV experience, filming in many different situations, able to quickly adapt to rapidly changing situations and environments.
Whether it’s a sensitive documentary, presenter led lifestyle or entertainment programme, fast paced sports show or prestigious branded live corporate event, he always strives to deliver the best results to your production - both artistically and technically.
Recent credits as lighting camera operator and DOP have included, "Grand Designs" for Channel 4
and "My Lover My Killer", "Kill Thy Neighbour" and "Sunderland Till I Die" for Netflix.
Kristian is an owner operator of Sony FX9 & Sony A7S3 cameras.
Award winning Sony G Master & Sigma Art lenses.
DJI RSC2 Gimbal with Full Frame Sony A7S3 4K camera
CAA approved drone pilot with DJI Mini 2 drone.
He continues to regularly work for the likes of BBC 1 O'clock & 10 O'clock News, BBC News Channel, BBC Breakfast, ITV News and Channel 4 News, as well as a number of foreign channels such as Channel 10 and ABC in Australia and ZDF and ARD TV in Germany.
Don't worry if you don't have the time or budget to send a director or producer, as he is happy and confident to self-direct, including conducting interviews.
Kristian is also able to work as a directing self-shooter as illustrated by working on BBC 1's fast pace "Car Wars" and self-shooting corporate assignments for leading producers such as Media Zoo, Polar Media, The Marketing Cafe, Middle Table, Proudmotion and ITV News amongst others.
Location editing and uploading of footage via a MacBook laptop running Adobe Premier Pro is available as well as chroma key filming using large portable green screen backgrounds, dynamic moving b-roll footage via a Sony A7S3 with Ronin RSC gimbal and a Go Pro HD mini cam with a variety of mountings.
Kristian has extensive experience of working with various satellite trucks to shoot items such as live standup reports, press conferences and breaking news. In addition, he's regularly operated Live U, Mobile view and WMT IP streaming equipment to feed rushes and undertake live broadcasts in addition to using BT and ADI fibre boxes.
Being based near Hull and the Humber region has led to numerous assignments in the petrochemical and renewable energy sectors including filming projects at INEOS, Orsted,
I-Gas, BP and Dong Energy - both on and off shore.
Kristian began his career as a staff, trainee multi-skilled operator at ITV Yorkshire in 1994. He progressed to staff camera operator where he worked for 2 years on news, sport, current affairs and the Tonight magazine show. He was then selected to be the first ever dedicated sports camera operator at ITV Yorkshire before moving onto international sports broadcaster BSKYB where he worked for several years as a contracted lighting camera operator across the full spectrum of Sky Sports programming, both in the UK and Europe. During this period he was assigned to work on numerous high profile sporting events and programmes.
Kristian turned freelance in 2003 and, although Sky Sports continued to be one of his main clients, he branched out into other areas of mainstream network programme production working for all the main terrestrial UK broadcasters, streaming platforms such as Netflix and numerous leading independent production companies on a wide variety of factual, entertainment and lifestyle programmes as well as business marketing content shoots for some of the worlds' biggest brands.
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