About me

Scope Films was my parents' production company where I grew up watching my dad, Edwin Scragg in the cutting room, taping together film by hand and I remember finding it very funny as he wound it backwards and forwards.  As I got older and more useful my job was to carry and clean the tripods and light stands - my first role as a camera assistant?

After completing a degree in Landscape Architecture I left Australia to explore the remote corners of the world by bicycle.  The outcome of one of this travel bug was my creating and producing my first broadcast documentary “Cycling Mongolia” with a friend, that received a pre-sale from Channel 7 for World Around Us. 

I decided maybe film was more my thing and began editing and post-production work in television that kept me busy from 2001. It included series such as “Big Brother,” “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here” and “Missing Persons Unit”.

Currently based in Lake Barrine, Far North Queensland, I continued to work on television documentaries including: “Chopper Rescue” Series 1& 2,  “Jenny the Bat Lady” and “Mysteries of Shark Coast” along with many other smaller scale projects.  In 2014 my own first produced, directed, filmed and edited project "Birdman - The Art of William T. Cooper" was screened on ABC TV and iView.  It followed the work of a local highly acclaimed artist and I received and ACS gold award for cinematography

With high-end gear becoming so much more smaller and affordable, my portable camera/sound/lighting kit has allowed me to travel and work in all sorts of remote locations. Over the past decade, I have worked extensively throughout Cape York, the Torres Strait and Central Australia.

I work extensively with Natural Resource Management groups and agricultural organisations on educational farming and environmental films in north Queensland.

I still find time to cycle tour when I can and have pedalled through India, Nepal, Tibet, China, Mongolia, New Zealand, Japan, Germany, and of course Australia.  

The production team is now growing with my partner James Leech coming on board with the drone work and filming and son Benjie who loves to create his own animations.