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We love the chance to work with new and interesting people. And one of the most interesting subjects we’ve worked with is the artist Liz West. Liz mixes luminous colour and radiant light to create vivid environments and she does it on a big scale.So when we learned that our friends at Chester Visual Arts …
By its nature construction demands a very particular approach to film making. Capturing a project successfully over 6 months, a year or even 3 or 4 years is in our experience a highly collaborative exercise.
We have worked on a number of major construction film projects over the last 4 years and our history with the industry goes back a decade or so. In that time we’ve learned what it takes to make construction films that are engaging, inspiring and creative, so here are our top 5 hints and tips for commissioners….
Earlier this year we entered our newly completed documentary film “ICEFALL – Spirit of the Mountain” in the established and prestigious Llanberis Adventure and Mountain Film Festival and were excited when it was selected by the jury for showing. It chronicles a momentous 18 months in the life of young adversity adventurer Alex Staniforth whose two Everest expeditions have coincided with unprecedented tragedy on the mountain.
“Unsung” really doesn’t say it. The storyboard artist is so invisible he or she is practically a ghost, flitting into the production company or agency’s offices, usually at short notice and coaxing ideas that might be brilliantly well defined or somewhat less than coherent to logical, full colour engrossing life……
Our finished glass recycling web film for Sibelco deceptively simply follows the original storyboard concept, but for it to look as good as it does took a lot of hard work and patience.
High speed filming is all about capturing moments that are otherwise invisible to the naked eye – through doing this it’s possible to unearth beauty in mundane objects – like those bottles we chuck out for recycling once a week….
We’ve been working with motion control camera systems for over twenty years and our motion control crew are especially brilliant at creating shots to showcase products that would otherwise be impossible to achieve. Clients love the fact that they are seeing their own real products beautifully presented on film, without depending on CGI…..
Collaborating with imaginative, occasionally brilliant people who see and hear stuff you simply don’t is one of the wonderful things about working in the production business. We recently said goodbye to David Bowie, a peerless example of the ability to imagine the world differently and express that through music. Bowie’s influence was everywhere – possibly more than any other single artist of the last 50 years. And he loved to collaborate – in the recording studio, on film, on stage – he sought to stretch his creative impulse by working alongside people whose different horizons could expand his own…..
Design Artisans Brand Film We took a pencil sketch from our client Alan Kemp, Head of Brand Marketing at Graham and Brown and in the course of a few weeks turned it into a series of web films, focusing on the designers behind some of the best wallpaper and wall art designs around. …
It was hot, too hot. The motion control studio resembled some kind of mad professor’s lab. Various concoctions were poured, mixed, studiously observed, set up and filmed using sophisticated time lapse and motion control techniques as we searched for “the one”. Hours turned into days and after numerous experiments it was clear that recreating …
We really enjoyed working with artist and mural illustrator Lizzie Mary Cullen as she brought the history of our long standing client Graham and Brown colourfully to life in a mural created over just three hot days in Blackburn. Filmed both on time lapse and conventionally, our YouTube film has attracted lots of praise …
6 days in Herefordshire with old friends Euroheat resulted in a collection of nine web films for their new YouTube channel. Filmed immaculately on the motion control camera rig we were able to create some beautiful moves to show off the designs of Euroheat’s range of incredibly efficient wood burning stoves. By way of …
OUR PHANTOM HD CAMERA SHOOT AT THE SAVOY – A CLASSIC COCKTAIL FOR FILMING SUCCESS Take one of the world’s great cocktail bars (and bar tenders), add two carefully chosen models, a fashion photographer and the dashing designs of one of London’s rising stars of bespoke, tailored uniform – add a slice of the …
MARCEL WANDERS DESIGN STUDIO – MEETING A DUTCH MASTER OF DESIGN In Marcel Wanders’ design studio, life-sized stallions become standard lamps, chairs, giant mushrooms and even a dog are recreated in crochet and weirdly sculptural forms are modeled from, erm well … snot, basically. Wanders studio in central Amsterdam is an inspirational place, where …
For around 20 years we’ve worked alongside the guys at Manchester’s Camera Crewing Company. We’ve been to all kinds of places with them and for the past 5 years or so we’ve taken the occasional voyage together with their Time Machine. The Time Machine is a Phantom HD camera that can shoot at a …
If your grass looks miserable that’s because it’s a jungle down there. As a Chester video production company with an award winning animation team, our animators produced 30 seconds of magic for the UKs biggest, best lawn treatment people. We came up with the animated characters of “Sad Grass” being bullied by dastardly dandelions …
Behind the scenes at the Graham and Brown TV commercial shoot
We are a video production company in Chester. For over 20 years we’ve made films that tell compelling stories, from award winning TV commercials, online films, corporate videos, award winning animation, motion graphics, short films and product demonstration videos. Whatever the job we put in the same attention to detail and unique, distinctive style. …
