Mission


Yesterday (2018) Working Title, Universal Pictures Director: Danny Boyle


Cinematographer: Christopher Ross BSC On Set DIT: Thomas Patrick Digital Dailies Operators: James Ian Gray, Niall Todd


Fleabag (2019) Two Brothers Pictures, BBC, Amazon Studios Director: Harry Bradbeer Cinematographer: Tony Miller BSC On Set DIT: Al Marshall


Mark Purvis, Managing Director (MP) “There are many excellent finishing houses but only one starting house. There is no other company as committed to or as heavily invested in this service as we are. Mission’s whole business model revolves around protecting your media from the point of capture, distributing it and giving the director and cinematographer choice over those later creative services. Rather than starting with the finishing in mind, we’re coming at the same process with the start in mind. We’re autonomous. We’re there to ensure that the artist can walk into any finishing house in the world looking at a starting image that reflects the story they have in their mind.


“Everybody in the production process is a stakeholder. We’re there to uphold the cinematographer’s vision. And that cinematographer’s there to capture the images that best reflect how the director sees the script. Our ultimate stakeholder is the script and how that script is realised. When the cinematographer sees the monitor with the day’s rushes, they see pictures that reflect their vision of the script.


Cats (2019) Universal Pictures, Working Title Director: Tom Hooper


Cinematographer: Christopher Ross BSC On Set DIT: Thomas Patrick Digital Lab Operators: Alec Garner, Patrick King


Behind Her Eyes (2021) Left Bank Pictures, Netflix / Director: Erik Richter Strand / Cinematographer: Felix Wiedemann BSC On Set DIT: Patrick King, Ash Daniyan, Korsshan Schlauer / Digital Lab Operators: Niall Todd, Jerome Smith, Ken Robinson


“When you look at a land mass a river can divide two communities, but a bridge can bring them together. We see ourselves as the bridge between set and post production and ensuring that what happens on set is communicated throughout the post production process.”


From Humble Beginnings


Tom Mitchell Technical Director, Mission “We started what was then Mission Digital in a room no bigger than my childhood bedroom with one desk, one chair, a telephone, three desktop computers, a laptop, and three founders - Jody Neckles, Mark Purvis and me. There was no investor or bank of mum and dad and no access to bank loans (as it was just after the financial crash). We pooled the resources we owned


and the savings we’d built up from freelancing, but it wasn’t going to go far.


“I can vividly recall our first days having to sit on the floor as there were no seats left sweating as I took my first workflow call for our first big job while chasing after trade credit references we just didn’t have to even do business with kit suppliers.”


Samantha Arlow Director, Adamantean “Mission was still in its infancy when I first met Mark and Tom. They were seeking finance for Colorfront Software, which presented some underwriting challenges in terms of both the nature of the proposed


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