New Season Kick Off

We have kicked off the new premiership season with a bang filming an all new live show for

Manchester City Football Club.

After a very excitable Open Training Day at Manchester City stadium revealing the all-new kit, the blues had a roaring success in their opening friendly against Valencia at the beginning of the month with a 2-0 win. Our next day at SportCity saw the spectacular 3-0 win between MCFC and Liverpool, and in the Europa League, a 2-0 win against Timisoara.

We’ve been dashing around the stadium with a team of RF radio cameras providing Live coverage for City’s brand new Live Show at each Home Game with Presenter pieces and celebrity interviews – in addition to the match coverage experience that is! And, our very own sparkling new EX-3 has been filming the well-loved Golden Seats Winner sponsor films for each Home Game, where a lucky fan is whisked off by the Etihad Airways Taxi to the grounds where they enjoy all of the perks, star hospitality treatment and top-notch seats at the match. This is an ongoing popular feature at the club and an exciting opportunity for the doting fan.

With the season off to a winning start we are feeling very optimistic about the Cup returning to Manchester at the end of the season, come on you Blues!!

Willis V’s Jolie

Willis V’s Jolie

Remember that iconic moment where a greased up Bruce Willis battles his way through a ventilation system in Die Hard with only a Zippo lighter to guide his way, well we decided to recreate this scene with a twist and our very own Angelina Jolie look-a-like, and a more contemporary look.

How we set the scene:

With a long metal tube and a right-angle bend section, we blocked this up in studio. With some carefully placed lighting and special lighting fixtures we were ready to shoot.

The photographs were taken with a Canon EOS-7D and professional L-Series Lenses.

We filmed the scene on Digibeta and incorporated the rushes into FCP via ProRes422 codec.

EX Wins Through

EX Wins Through

The EX Format continues to be a worthy addition to xdcam HD. So much so that with the increasing demand from our clients we just had to invest in a brand new EX3 Camera Kit!

File-Based Media Shooting can be so simple, and has advantages of being readily available to edit.

Whenever we film for you on the EX format, we can arrange to transfer the footage to a portable external hard drive of your choice. Job done!

Lloyds TSB Corporate

Lloyds TSB Corporate

The Lloyds TSB banking group have been holding regular summits including two conferences at Halifax and Hull, which we travelled up to film for them.

The National Mortgage Managers Conference in Hull featured presentations from the nations top mortgage managers.

The Halifax conference was held and presented by Mark Fisher Director of Group IT and Operations at Lloyds Banking Group plc. Bankers from all over the UK within the group attended this prestigious event.

Brewer’s Fayre

Brewer’s Fayre

Brewer’s Fayre restaurants are creating a whole new menu and this is how we helped…

During a two-day shoot at their Flagship High Wycombe restaurant, chefs eagerly prepared their new menu for unveiling to our cameras. Their new range of buffet food is set to be unveiled in the autumn and our brief was to film the in-house commercials for their campaign. The commercials will be rolled out to various key sites and shown continuously on plasma screens.

We chose to shoot the project on Digibeta to capture the texture of the foods, and we employed our specialist lighting skills to enhance the appetising nature of the food

Tech Specs

Tech Specs

By Robert

File-Based Workflow

Although Tapestock and Optical Disks often offer the most convenient storage mediums still, we can offer a range of file-based rushes transfers on hard disk from XDCAM HD, EX, Digibeta, HDV and DVCAM delivered as QuickTime files at ProRes422.

When we provide this service, for your peace of mind we’ll keep a backup drive or the original material for you for a limited period.

Back to School

Back to School

Teachers TV

We have been busy filming around the UK with Glasshead for a new Teachers TV Programme on Great Lesson Ideas in Science. The focus was on practical and inspiring science demonstrations and experiments as they discussed the trials and improvements of teaching practices.

Chemistry, Biology and Physics are certainly getting a big makeover in the classroom.

We are really proud to regularly work on a wide variety of Teachers Television educational programmes it certainly keeps us top of the class!