It is hand-embroidered in a style inspired by the 11th-century Bayeux Tapestry that contrasts amusingly with the show’s story lines. I also hang out with my partner and my daughter, who's four. We see so many families and individuals brought low by addiction, lack of employment opportunities, mental health issues etc.
I started off with some terrible non-Nikon lens on it, and had to wait for a long time until I could afford my first decent NIKKOR – it was the 50mm f/4, which someone had told me I should get for portraiture. That wasn't dissimilar to the film world, working with nomadic, creative people, and what I learned there meant my eventual transition to film wasn't too difficult. A project of this magnitude in a country with less than 2 million people means that seemingly every taxi driver has a story to share about someone who was involved in a pivotal way. In the days of film, I'd probably reject nine out of every ten shots developed. It works through personal recommendations and ‘parties’ in homes. HELEN SLOAN Film TV. Interview by: Elizabeth Porter, 5th September, 2014. The other day we got asked for size 9 shoes and clothes to fit a child age 7. And how would I choose?!
When Helen Sloan was asked to submit her portfolio for the role of stills photographer on a new TV series being filmed in studios just five minutes from her Belfast home, she had had no idea how big a phenomenon it was set to become. Bangor Inter Church Community Initiative (BICCI). Lenses include the 24-70mm f/2.8 on one D3 in the blimp, and another 24-70mm on a Df around my neck. I just read the script for each season, because I don't want to get 'out of the moment' – if I know someone's going to turn into a bad guy two seasons on, that might affect how I shoot them now, so I try not to find out. We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. I love the 24-70mm. Extras planned vacations from work so they could come back to the series each season. Then a friend asked me to do some shots for a short film, and thought they were great. The fantasy canines of the series — known as direwolves — have inspired entrepreneurial efforts. Other systems feel too plastic; Nikons feel sturdy, they're well designed, they look good. They can be classed as ‘work poor’, a group which has been identified more widely in the press and the news in recent months. Fusing art and the wider creative industries, we provide a platform for inspiration, international networking, discovery & personal development. He had a Nikon and thought they were the best. I shoot other TV series or movies, including season two of The Fall, and more recently The Frankenstein Chronicles with Sean Bean, which is coming out in the autumn. (In a minor act of heresy, he opted to skip the traditional black pudding, a concoction whose ingredients include pork blood and oats.). Helen Sloan She was born in Ireland in a family environment of artistic parents – father interested in art work and mother in music and both pursued teaching profession. Usually they'll say, oh my god, that's my dream job, and then they'll ask me who's going to die next… It's not like any other job I've ever done.
A: It was really when I was dealing with an ethnic minority man I was trying to help who lived in a shared house in Bangor. . Game of Thrones tourism is booming — 350,000 visitors contributed at least $64 million to the local economy in 2018 — in sometimes unexpected ways. I have also learnt how to manage people. Game of Thrones has helped the 1.8 million residents of Northern Ireland contemplate a future beyond grim headlines. There’s a kind of righteous anger comes into play. "You can’t see Kit’s abs," she says, referring to actor Kit Harington, who plays the King in the North. Helen talked about the very difficult situations she finds herself in at times and recently having to break up a fight between refugees at an agency office in Belfast. I'll have the ISO up pretty high usually – it suits my work. Kit Harrington as Jon Snow (left) and Conleth Hill as Lord Varys in the final season of "Game of Thrones."
Helen Sloan, who grew up in the village of Ahoghill and who spent eight seasons as the show’s stills photographer, recalls how people used to ask whether she was a member of the IRA when she traveled abroad; now they ask her about Game of Thrones. View the profiles of people named Helen Sloan. I like the frame to be busy, and to almost underexpose. I got to see the hard work involved, and how emotionally draining it can be for performers, and actors likewise, which helps you learn how to pick your shooting moments. Everyone including myself who work at Storehouse North Down do so on a voluntary basis and all our donations and income goes towards feeding those most desperately in need.
I was aware of some organisations in our area trying to help people in dire straits. For this past two years BICCI has organised a Christmas Day lunch for a number of vulnerable people in our community and all thanks to the likes of Primacy Meats, M&S, Tesco, Sainsburys, ASDA and Lidl, it didn’t cost us a penny! One day you're on top of the monkey bars, or coasting on the swings, but the next you're flying down the slide and having to climb up again.
My first camera was the Nikon F3 my dad bought me. Q: What’s God saying to you about the future? (The show also filmed in Iceland, Croatia, Spain, and Morocco, among other countries.). There are so many photographers now and everything is expected to be super-processed, hyper-sharp and perfect, so the way your work is going to stand out is if you're totally true to your art and you capture the emotion. My own advice would be to keep learning, keep looking, keep trying, and don't be offended when doors close – it's usually not personal, so just keep knocking on other doors. One of the developments has been to provide children’s clothes and nursery equipment. Lots of people think Bangor and North Down is … We continue to pray for that and ask others to do that to. After my degree I started to shoot landscapes in Iceland for a wall-art company. I always enjoyed taking pictures. In 2008, after working on projects from war to sci-fi to horror to fantasy, I was asked to submit my portfolio for a new series, Game of Thrones, and they saw something in my images that matched their vision for the show, so I was there from day one. I love what HBO are doing with it, and the crew and cast are the best. When Helen Sloan was asked to submit her portfolio for the role of stills photographer on a new TV series being filmed in studios just five minutes from her Belfast home, she had had no idea how big a phenomenon it was set to become. The show, says Hill, has been “life-changing,” a sentiment many share. Click here to find personal data about Helen Sloan including phone numbers, addresses, directorships, electoral roll information, related property prices and other useful information. We’ve worked with Frank Sellar in Bloomfield Presbyterian and with Shore Street in Donaghadee. They were known to be fiercely loyal to their fictional roles; some background actors who were cast as members of the Night’s Watch have been around since the pilot. That’s another way people can help. Almost no one recognized Conleth Hill, the actor who plays Lord Varys, the bald eunuch and royal adviser whose cunning enabled him to survive nearly eight seasons on one of TV’s bloodiest shows, Game of Thrones, without ever lifting a sword. ), In addition to that space, Northern Ireland offered relatively inexpensive labor and housing, and a wide array of natural scenery and centuries-old ruins within a 90-minute drive of central Belfast. Seven years on, with filming for the seventh series of Game of Thrones about to start, we caught up with Helen in a rare break in her schedule to find out more about how she went from shooting circus acrobats and Icelandic landscapes to the blood, guts and high drama of HBO's most popular TV show ever – and how her Nikon kit handles this most unusual of work environments with aplomb. People ask me how do I sleep at night. Some photographers use monopods, but I find they get in the way. “Every time a plane flies overhead, my dad says, 'Look, more tourists!’” says Caelan Mulhall, 23, who appeared as a Stark soldier in the show. We're all hired on the strength of our work, so if we were then restricted they wouldn't get the product they wanted. I always shoot in manual. Roughly 75 percent of the series was filmed on soundstages and in otherworldly locations around Northern Ireland.