James Cole

 
Name: James Cole

Age: 32

Profession: Writer, Director, Editor


About Me: I am a Writer, Director and Editor in the film industry. I have also worked in the past as a Producer, Sound Designer, Visual Effects Artist and pretty much every other job related to film making at some point or another...


Based in Melbourne, Australia, I established Hysteria productions in the mid 1990's and launched into making music videos fresh out of RMIT. Working mainly as Director of photography, Editor and Visual Effects Producer I completed 10 music videos for both local and international artists such as Nox 'Leaving', Fragile 'A Million Shivers' and Valanti 'Minute On My Mind'. I also produced and directed the pop group Invertigo for their clip 'Man Enough', Marie Wilson in 'Rescue Me' and Russian rock band Bi-2 in 'The Aqua Wedding Song'.


Two years into Hysteria Productions I teamed up with Chris Daniels and began working to produce our first large-scale production, the concept Feature 'Lost- Black Earth'. Co-writing the script with Chris, I went on to direct, co-produce, edit, create the visual effects and produce the sound design, which eventually won 'Best Sound' award at the Melbourne Underground Film Festival.



My photo albums


Movies




Digital Art


 
I have now worked across a wide range of over 150 projects in various roles including, music videos, award winning short films, television commercials for clients such as Nissan, Ford, Toyota dealers, RACV, and Metal Corp among others. I have also worked on several Feature films as the second unit director of photography and visual effects supervisor on 'Reign in Darkness', Digital effects artist on 'Edge of the World' and Editor and visual effects supervisor on 'The Gates of Hell', which is currently in post-production. I've also made a few corporate productions (when cash got tight), but we wont talk about them.. I have also accumulated a rather large assortment of fairly useless awards.


In my spare time, which seems to be getting less and less, I like going out on photography trips and then getting into Photoshop to create digital artwork. I also love writing music with fellow muso and best friend Mark Bullen, who I've been getting into trouble with since high school. We've called our band C.E.E.D for reasons that can't be explained and will hopefully have our first album out within a year.


I have passion, fascination and a thirst for creating and learning. I live by the philosophy "Honour the past - Live in the present - Create the future" Think on it...