A man with scarred face and glasses

Film and acting

Although I first became interested in film and drama through acting, I quickly started looking into other aspects of production.

I have been involved in all stages of bringing a work to completion, including scriptwriting  filming, cinematography, sound, computer graphics, prop-making, and special effects. 

The Librarian's Ear (And Director's Cut)

This was for university, we were tasked with making an experimental film. The group thought that filming a guy going about his day with weird camera angles could work, however Joseph didn't think this was experimental enough so he helped morph the idea into the…

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The Ventriloquist

Possibly my favourite of my own films. The film evolved from the idea of somebody kidnapping a guy at a bar and slowly replacing his limbs with wooden ones until he became a puppet. Finding all the extras for the final scene was an absolute…

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Autonomy By Owen Saddington

Joseph Rutland running in an urban area with colour gradient

For this film, I played the part of somebody trapped in his film for a director down in Stoke on Trent. The film was supposed to be experimental by nature. I really didn't like Stoke on Trent as it was incredibly foggy and cold and…

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Helmet

Boooooo! I'm not proud of this film, thus has not released it. This was for a 48 hour film challange. However the script was thrown out and one guy kinda derailed everything then dipped on the editing section. The whole film is an audiatory-messy dissaster.

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A Lovely BBQ

Masked people holding paper plates

Wanting to make use of leftover by-products from casting faces in resin, I came up with the idea of his film 'A Lovely BBQ'. The film was shot entirely on a DJI Mini camera, giving it a somewhat surreal feeling due to the wide angle…

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Fictus Medicus

Two actors and two crew filming outdoors

The idea of doing a historical piece had been on my mind for a while. This script had quite a few superficial changes throughout. It had been envisioned that the plague victims were initially knights instead of peasants and the whole piece was supposed to…

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The Mimic: Another 48 hour film challange

I have once again taken part in a 48 film challange. To date, this is the only one I'm been proud enough of to show to the public. He worked for the first time with excellent actor 'JD Justice' and offically started dating mt costar…

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