On The Fly with Jon Gill

OnTheFly podcast with Jon Gill [S4 Ep1] Character artist and sculptor, JASON FREENY Welcome to another OnTheFly Podchat with Jon Gill, where we dissect the minds of creative geniuses, one conversation at a time! Today, we’re peeling back the layers—literally—with the incredible Jason Freeny. You’ve seen his work, where childhood nostalgia meets anatomical curiosity, but today we’re going deeper th...

Welcome back to On The Fly with Jon Gill – this is a special episode with helicopter stunt pilot Fred North. Fred has so many amazing stunt credits to his name which include Bond movies, Mission Impossible, Fast and Furious and a slate of collaborations – and in the interview you here how collaborative they are – collaborations with Michael Bay including this months “Ambulance” with Jake Gyllenhaa...

Welcome back to On The Fly with Jon Gill – this episode sponsored by FiLMiCPro ! ..which is very exciting because two years ago this month I had a film in competition at FiLMiCFest as did my guest for this episode SJ van Breda with her film Jane Digby which is stunning. SJ is a filmmaker from Durban, South Africa who specialises in short films captured using mobile phones. In this episode we pick...

Welcome back to On The Fly with Jon Gill – the first ever sponsored edition no less. Polaris Publishing have sponsored this episode – they are the publisher of this episode’s guest Jonathan Melville who has a new book out, A Kind of Magic [“an engrossing read” – Total Film], a behind the scenes look at the ’85 sci-fi classic Highlander . I first met Jonathan 10 years ago – and the great thing abou...

Karen is no ordinary music teacher from the South of England – she’s done a very simple but very clever thing. She lined up twenty creative , innovative , entrepreneurial people.. interviewed them about their winning formulas for success.. and put it all together in a book. Oh.. and they all just happen to be dyslexic ! Thank you for downloading this podcast.. I’m Jon Gill.. this is On The Fly, an...

Hal is an Animation Supervisor at Hollywood visual effects study Industrial Light and Magic and in part one you hear about his journey to ILM via Cal Arts , Will Vinton’s Studio and Pixar ! Thank you so much for downloading this podcast, I’m Jon Gill and this is On The Fly , this episode is the second and final part of my chat with Hal Hickle . I’m very grateful to Hal for his time and a lot of ti...

Hal is an Animation Supervisor at Industrial Light and Magic , the visual effects company founded in 1975 by George Lucas to accommodate that doomed space opera called Star Wars that never went anywhere… Hal has a refreshing philosophy of the movie business – positive, pragmatic and down to earth. This is the first of two episodes where Hal talks about his influences (Ray Harryhausen, Universal’s...

Eleanor Mannion is a journalist, writing, shooting and editing stories and reports for the web, social media and broadcast TV & radio. Based in Dublin, Ireland Eleanor works for RTE, Ireland’s national TV and Radio broadcaster. Oh, and the film work, the editing… all done on a smartphone. In fact, in 2016 she made the first TV broadcast documentary in Europe to be shot on a smartphone. Eleanor...

Nicki Fitz-Gerald from the UK is an artist and genuine pioneer iPhone videographer/photographer. She literally wrote the book (or at least co-wrote the book) on iPhone photography: The Art of iPhone Photography. Currently she shares her knowledge through extremely popular online courses (the Long Exposure Course mention in the chat is due later this year) as well as writing for her website and Mob...

Thank you for downloading the pod!  This is On The Fly , I’m Jon Gill and this is part 2 of my chat with my Episode 3 guest Christian Payne aka Documentally . If you haven’t heard part one then please do – it doesn’t matter what order – just know that we start this episode with number 4 and 5 of his favourite things… (1, 2, and 3 being on part one) – No.4 is “documenting” and news on an amazi...

Thanks so much for downloading On The Fly ! This is episode 7 with Sarah Gershman – you’ll notice she doesn’t zone out once during this pod chat! And that's because she is an Executive Speech Coach and Presentation Skills Trainer in Washington, D.C. You can find her online here: https://www.greenroomspeakers.com/ No matter who or where you are right now, a big chunk of the last few months has prob...

Thanks so much for downloading On The Fly ! This is episode 6 with Rob Fitzhugh – Director of the Dublin Smartphone Film Festival You can find him online here: Website: www.dublinsmartphonefilmfestival.com Instagram/Twitter/Facebook: @dubsmartff Rob is brilliant at getting people to market their films and market them well for film festivals. I contributed to the 2019 festival and for the first tim...

Hey, thanks so much for downloading the Podcast, I really appreciate it. After a few weeks off were back with some great new episodes and this one is no exception. OnTheFly is about creative, inventive people who innovate in some way using technology. Now this pod is an OnTheFly extra – and it features my guest from episode 4, SJ van Breada a filmmaker in South Africa who, like me, specialises in...

Hey, this is On The Fly with Jon Gill... where I speak to Inspiring, creative, inventive people pushing the boundaries of creativity and technology. This is episode 5 with English YouTuber Robbie Cumming! Robbie has been documenting his narrowboat life on the canals of the UK for several years. He captures everything on his mobile phone and edits on a tablet and posts to YouTube where he currently...

Hey this is On The Fly with Jon Gill Where I speak to Inspiring, creative, inventive people pushing the boundaries of creativity and technology. This is episode 4 with South African filmmaker SJ van Breda   Film school trained in Vancouver, Sarah has produced amazing work using traditional camera but also works on many personal projects using mobile. In this episode we talk about her creative...

#OnTheFlyPodcast [Compilation No 1]  The first in an occasional series of compilations with snippets from a variety of podcasts. The first three here are already live and available for download. Part two of the Christian Payne episode will follow soon as will the new Robbie Cumming and SJ van Breda episodes. Please subscribe, like, comment and share. Find out more at www. MadeOnAMobile.co.uk...

Hey this is On The Fly with Jon Gill Where I speak to Inspiring, creative, inventive people pushing the boundaries of creativity and technology. This is episode 3 with Christian Payne aka Documentally He’s got a very varied background – He was in a band, he was a press photographer... and he’s travelled… a lot..! Now He’s settled into an equally diverse mix of journo-documen-technologist, particul...

Welcome to episode 2 of my "On The Fly" podcast This episodes guest is Ireland based photographer Tim Bingham , who specialises in street photography. He uses both a Fuji mirrorless and a Samsung 9S. By his own reckoning 80% of the time it's the phone.  I highly recommend you check out his Instagram feed as well as his website for further visual stimulation. But if you're here to rest your ey...

Welcome to my podcast... "On The Fly" It's been a long time coming, but I bet you never gave it a second thought! My first guest is one of the first people I stumbled across online who helped me realise that using a mobile phone for photography or filmmaking was legitimate. I'd been using my mobile in this way for 5 or 6 years at this point and Jack's Twitter feed and e-news letters were an oasis...

Today (Wednesday 13 May) should have been #MoJoFest in London as part of the The Media Production & Technology Show ...   So, the time was right to reach out to some of the folks I met last year and help bridge the gap between the mobile community and everyone else who also owns a phone or tablet.   Week one is J ack Hollingsworth , pro photographer of 40 years. Almost 10 years...