Author Archives for Fin Davies

2 days of shooting in the sun, sand and sea, featuring Mabon.

A few weeks back now we released our latest film ‘Mabon’. The story of an incredibly inspiring young eco-warrior who... View Article

The Making Of ‘Hydrotherapy’

BTS film shot in Snowdonia, Wales by Charlie Bush. Check out his work at @bushy_art

DREAM BIG featuring Mel Nicholls LEJOG Challenge

Mel Nicholls – GB Para Cyclist/Endurance Wheelchair Racer/Adventurer is embarking on an amazing journey next month and we’ll be along... View Article

‘The Florist’ Bristol – New Restaurant Opening Promotions

The Florist is a wonderful new cocktail bar & restaurant in Bristol inspired by the art of floristry. The delicate... View Article

Kickstarter campaign assets for Quoc Shoes

Quoc Weekend Shoes campaign. We were approached by Quoc to create all the media for the launch of their new... View Article

University of The West Of England image library

Six Agency Bristol came to us to cover all aspects of student life at UWE and their operations.  Tasked with... View Article

‘Behind The Scenes’ at Extreme Events’ The Battle of Lansdown OCR 2017

Extreme Events UK asked Friction Collective to cover their amazing Halloween OCR event and create sound design, graphics and a... View Article

Behind The Scenes of Tigress – Headaches

I’m Josh and I have been working as a part of Friction since the beginning. My Job Title is ‘Creative... View Article

Behind The Scenes of Decade – Turn off Your TV.

This project was an interesting story for us. Building a music video from a song that was written around the... View Article

The making of the ‘Hawks’ Video by The Greasy Slicks.

The Greasy Slicks came to us to create the video for their brand new single ‘Hawks’. We had an absolute... View Article

Boomtown 8 Secrets of the City Official Video

After the success of our 2015 District videos. Boomtown Fair 2016 asked us back to document their ‘Secrets of the... View Article

Upfest 2016

The Incredible Upfest – The World’s Best Graffiti + Street Art Festival came to us to create their OFFICIAL after... View Article

Extreme Events ‘Rood Rampage’ OCR.

After the Extreme success of their first event ‘Battle of Lansdown’, Extreme Events upped the ante and created ‘Rood Rampage’,... View Article

My Octopus Mind – ‘In the Round’ Sessions. 4K

        Earlier this year we did a test for a new music session series called ‘In the... View Article

‘Inspirit’ – Gemma Compton Documentary.

Gemma is an incredible contemporary artist with an even more incredible story. It’s inspiring, captivating, and moves you to follow... View Article

Dog Days of ’76

Dog Days of ’76 The Birth of Skateboarding in Bristol It’s strange how things sometimes happen for a reason but... View Article

Portland Rocks

On a mad day of two halves, right on the point of Portland island just off of Weymouth bay, Fin,... View Article

Forever Sports and The Speedo Fitness Assessment Stills

Forever Sports Mag asked us to shoot Thomas, one of their Journalists, progress going through his fitness test after 6... View Article

Wild West at Boomtown 7 (Official Video by Friction Collective)

We were asked by the lovely people at Boomtown Fair to video their Wild West district. This was an awesome... View Article

Revolting Revolution by Dead Royalties ( Official Music Video)

We were given the brief on the Wednesday, we shot it (with the idea to do as little takes as... View Article

Skate Park concept with Alfie Stephens

This is skate park photography done with a completely different slant. Anything you might of seen before would be black,... View Article

Melanie – photo shoot

Spoke & Stringer x Arkin

Spoke & Stringer and Friction Collective came together, with the collaboration of Arkin Supply, to create some incredible promotional imagery... View Article

Staff and operations photography for Armadillo website

Karl the MD at Armadillo had 2 requests,  make us look good and get it done fast. He wasn’t disappointed.... View Article

Dyson Christmas Party for Bright

James Dyson is renowned for being innovative, entrepreneurial and loyal to creating industry in the UK. Well his Company; Dyson,... View Article

Ovo Energy end of year event for Think Bright!

Shortly before Christmas we were invited to cover the OVO Energy Christmas party. With 2,000+ guests and two massive party... View Article

Snugs earphones

Initially we were approached by Paul Jobin of Snugs to shoot stills of models and products in and around Bath... View Article

“SEX SELLS”-Dead Royalties- Promo Music Video

We worked closely with Dead Royalties to produce their very first music video for ‘Sex Sells’. At Friction we understand... View Article

Rewind Music videos

Rewind Music approached us to film their live recording sessions at Factory Studios, Bristol. This was a real challenge to... View Article

Chris Smith Ride and Seek Feature for MBUK

Ride and Seek feature for MBUK magazine.   Chris Smith explores Frome’s countryside by using technology to hunt out new,... View Article

‘Bloody Chamber’ SFX shoot with Vanessa Budgett.

Based on the book Bloody Chamber, and the slaughtered wives locked up in a dungeon and inspired by Angela Carters... View Article

The Making of, Budada – ‘She Ain’t Blue’ Music Video.

Making this video was a LOT of fun. We had as many engineering challenges as we did visual challenges! We... View Article

Freddy Pulman ‘Two Thousand and Fourteen’

We originally set out to shoot Freddy’s end of 2013 edit to portray his skill, deft ability to eat shit... View Article

My Mountain Chalets & Samoens Tourist Board, France

Having been asked to shoot aspirational imagery for the My Mountain Chalet Company web site we also took the opportunity... View Article

Beton on Fire comp, LaPlagne.

We were asked to shoot this crazy comp for Flipside mag which takes place each year in LaPlagne, France. Skaters,... View Article

British Snowboard Championships Laax, Switzerland.

British Snowboard Championships Laax, Switzerland.

Tom Gurney: Triathlete to Ironman

It takes an incredible amount of dedication to sport to become a triathlete. Just the fact that you have to... View Article

Gravity X Project

Once an adrenaline addict, always an adrenaline addict. ‘Downhill’ Phil Hall and Tudur Booton have found the perfect sport to... View Article

Colt full Carbon MTB review for FlipSide magazine

    Having been commissioned to shoot this stonking Colt full carbon beast by Matt at Flipside Magazine http://flipside.theiet.org/ we... View Article

Promotions for Neil Davidge; Composer, Producer, Arranger, Songwriter, Musician

Neil came to us to create imagery that reflected the route of his inspiration for his forthcoming album ‘Slo Light’... View Article

Voyage of Re-Discovery MBUK feature with Chris Smith

 To sell our photographs we realised we needed to think outside the box, set our own style and run with... View Article

Hit The Road Jack MBUK Feature

Jack Gear is a newly turned professional mountain biker. He’s recently made that all-important switch from being an enthusiastic sponsored... View Article

Illuminate with Chris Smith

As we pulled into the lay-by outside the quarry we had picked as our location, the temperature slipped below zero,... View Article

Caught on Camera featuring Chris Smith

Street riding is a tricky business in the cold dark depths of winter in the midst of a heaving post... View Article

The Old Cream Shop, Croyde. Devon.

The Old Cream Shop is THE place to be by the coast this year, if you visit the North Devon... View Article