Matthew Marschner
Lighting Cameraman/Director of Photography www.mmimages.uk
mmarschnertv@gmail.com
+44 (0)7831 625612
Diary Service Linkline +44 (0)208 426 2200
I am an experienced Lighting Cameraman/Director of Photography with a strong and diverse track record working with major broadcasters and production companies across all genres of programme making. With 30 years experience within the Television and Film Industries I can bring not only confidence, but also a huge creative and technical expertise to the productions I am engaged on. More increasingly, I have been applying my professional broadcast standards to new digital distribution methods such as Facebook Live events and working with LiveU on news features. I work with all the current digital cinema and broadcast cameras and own a full broadcast shooting kit currently based around my Sony FX9/Sony A7SII cameras.
Most recent productions and companies that I have worked for include
Olympic Broadcasting Services
‘Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games and Pararalympic Games: 2021 Creating journalist-led sports content for rights holders.
Key Role: Self-directing cameraman/package offline editor.
‘Lausanne 2020 Youth Winter Olympics Journalist-led Sports Coverage and Athlete Profile filming.
The “Making of’ Documentary of the 2018
Winter Olympic games in PyeongChang . Korea. The ‘Making of’ Documentary of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games
Key Role:Self-directed shooting and liasing with venue managers, host-nation and games rights- holders for filming access. Long-form documentary.
PMA Film & TV Lighting Design, Press Junkets and EPK filming for latest movie releases.
Including ‘Alien Covenant, ‘The Greatest Showmman’ ‘Aladdin’, ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ ‘Rocketman’ ‘Mary Poppins’ ‘’Munich’ ‘The Lost daughter’ 'A complete Unknown' 'Galdiator II' 2024
Key Roles: As well as a Lighting Cameraman’s role I also have a DOP/Lighting Directors role in many of PMA’s productions.
Designing and specifying lighting for specific locations for celebrity interviews and events including’ ‘Facebook Live’ multi-camera
shoots. 2012-2025 0ngoing
London Parakeet ‘’Terminator’ TV ad 2019 Hachette ‘Assasins Creed’ TV ad 2018 ‘Spitfire’ TV ad 2020, Lancaster Bomber and 'Dalek' TV ads 2024 Key role: DOP Commercials
Deutsche Well German TV ‘Euromaxx’. 2021-25 Arts programme for German Broadcaster. Ongoing
Key Role: Lighting Cameraman documentary features
‘Conflict Zone’ with Tim Sebastien. 2- camera location lit interviews 2021 ongoing
Key Role: Lighting cameraman news features.
RTS and SRF Swiss Television. News Features for Swiss French and German Television working with foreign correspondents in London. Also work with LIVEU on lives from UK news features and live broadcasts. G7 Summit St Ives and Cop26 conference Glasgow 2021 Ongoing.Key Role: Lighting Cameraman/Sound/Live U
GIG Productions ‘Novavaxx’ The story of the making of a vaccine for Covid 19. Medical corporate film 2021 Fujifilm Medical Imaging various productions 2020-24
Key role: DOP
Videotel Productions ‘Cyber Security’. 2017. Long-form Documentary for the International Maritime Organisation. Health and safety films for the maritime industry 1988-2023
Key Role: Lighting Cameraman Documentary
Curve Media C4 ‘Claimed and Shamed’ Series 7-11 Key Role: DOP/Lighting director
on studio/location links with presenter Ore Oduba. 2016 to 2019 ongoing
Shine Media ‘The Apprentice’ BBC 2007-17 series
Key Role: Part of a large multi-camera team but also working on an individual basis. Observational documentary and multi camera studio shooting.
BBC TV ‘Strictly Come Dancing’ Judges final selection VTs BBC 'Fusion' events 2023-24 Key Role: DOP/Lighting Director large studio set- ups
Shell International: In-house Corporate Communications 2018 Key Role: Lighting cameraman/Directing.
Other companies I’ve worked for in the past include:
BBC TV ‘The Voice’ ‘Animal Hospital’‘Holiday Programme’ ‘Gardeners World’ ‘Watchdog’
Love productions: Great British bake-off’ VT’s
Molinare: TV Commercials for Matalan, Backugan and Cuprinol
Banana Split Productions TV Commercials for Hachette Publishing ‘HMS Hood’, ‘Quilting’ Marvel comics’,’ Peppa Pig’ ‘Biospheres’ and various TV commercials for Eaglemoss Publishing
RDF Media ‘Wifeswap USA’ for ABC/C4 ‘Wifeswap UK
Firehouse Productions: ‘Worldvision’ HIV/AIDS Film Director/Cameraman on documentary highlighting problem of HIV/AIDs within the community of Kisumu . Kenya ‘Accenture’ Corporate Communications ‘Vodafone’ Corporate Communications
Shine TV: ‘The Magicians’ for BBC ‘The Voice'. Australia. London Filming with Kylie Minogue’
Optomen TV: ‘Market Kitchen’ Multicamera Studio based programme for UK Living/food
Freemantle Media Channel 9 Australia: ‘Masterchef’ Australia. London Filming ‘Chelsea Flower Show’
Silver River Productions: ‘The Best Diets in History’ for C4
Endemol: ‘Roar! For CBBC 2006-10 Childrens infotainment programme about wild animals ‘Great Estates’ for C4 Behind the scenes intrigue in various stately homes.
Disney: ‘Violetta ‘The Scoop!’ Studio entertainment
Darlow Smithson: ‘Built for destruction’ for National Geographic Series looking at the destructive power of volcanoes.
Ardent productions 'Crown & Country’ Historical series for ITV presented by Prince Edward. Dir: Robin Bextor
Satel Doc: ‘Marie Antoinette’ ‘Richard the Lionheart’ 2 x 50 min historical drama documentaries for A&E Channel USA
Employment history:
Sept 1988 to present: Freelance Lighting Cameraman/DOP
Aug 1983 to Sept1988: Eyeline Films Ltd
Duties included camerawork on tape/film Assistant Film Editor
Tape-based video editing
Sept 1980-July 1983 Harrow College of Higher Education
Degree 2:1 in Applied Photography , Film and TV
BBC ‘Safe working with camera and lights’ Passport
Final Cut X 3 –day Apple-approved training course 2016
French Language course (Refresher) 2020 Morley College London.
Staying fit. Swimming, Tennis, Cycling, Rowing Travelling with my stills camera
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