Journal
Thinking out loud, on the record.
Essays from Quiet Eye Productions on quiet eye theory, endurance, performance under pressure and the craft of sport and adventure documentary. Written by the people who shoot the films, not by a marketing department.
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What is 'feel' between a horse and rider in eventing?
Balance was about what you can see. Feel, our next film at Scone Palace, is about the part of eventing that never shows up on camera.
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9 pieces- What does grit look like on the Cateran Yomp? 54 miles in 24 hours for the Army Benevolent Fund. I asked people about grit at mile seven and got noise. I asked again in the dark and got something else.
- How do you film sport and adventure in the dark? Two and a half hours up Ben Hope before any light, then golf at Durness with almost none left. What filming in the dark costs, and what it gives back.
- How we made Balance across four days at Scone Palace Four days of eventing at the 2025 Scone Palace International Horse Trials, filmed without following one horse and rider, cut into a ten minute film about balance.
- Where in Scotland do we film sport and adventure documentary? Ben Hope in the dark, Durness on the shortest day, Scone Palace, the Cateran Yomp at Blairgowrie, and the Great Glen Way in September.
- Why is Danny Mavor doing the Great Glen Way in a wheelchair? Seven years after the crash that changed everything, Danny is going coast to coast across the Highlands. We are filming the attempt.
- How we made Chasing Light in a single day of failing light Our own film. One winter solstice, the UK's most northerly Munro in the dark, then a race to play golf at Durness before the light was gone.
- What does a scientist's eye bring to sport filmmaking? Two decades behind the camera, and years before that reading landscapes and race data. Here is what the science leaves behind.
- What quiet eye looks like from behind the camera The research tells you where an expert looks. This is what that changes when you are the one deciding where to point the lens.
- Why does endurance make the best documentary subject? Long events strip a person down to what they actually are. That is where the film is.