Video Production Estimate
If you're new to video production and need to get an idea of how much it costs, use this calculator.
Broadcast Ready
Every camera has a native format that they encode the video with. Most consumer cameras now are high definition but encode all the files in a highly compressed format called HDV. With this amount of compression, something has to be sacrificed. Image quality and colour range suffer. For this reason HDV doesn't meet many broadcasters’ specifications. We shoot and edit using the DVCPRO HD format. This is a professional format that has a data rate four times higher than HDV and is approved by broadcasters.
Jib
The jib is one of many tools to help produce smooth and different shots to those taken on a tripod or on the shoulder. Along the same lines as the stabiliser, it produces super smooth shots but rather than being attached to a person, it is mounted on a tripod or dolly.
Small Cameras
Sometimes a big broadcast capable camera’s limitation is its size and weight. We have cameras as small as 2cm square and although the quality is not as good as the larger cameras, we can do some great stuff with them.
Trade Show DVDs for Screen Content
So you have your stand designed and you have one or two shiny new flat screens to attract people. But what do you put on these screens? Your logo, a powerpoint show?
We'll listen to your message and create a film or presentation using dynamic motion graphics, sound and imagery. Or, to really engage with your audience we can utilise our experience producing interactive games and applications to produce changing content based on audience participation, making it easy to promote your business.
Studio Facilities
For filming presentations, a controlled environment is needed. Our studio offers a city-centre location but is quiet enough to record narration. Green-screen projects and high-key backgrounds all need carefully controlled lighting. Our light booms and paper backdrops allow clutter-free setups that enable us to quickly create clean, professional shots that can then be mixed with computer generated content, motion graphics or whatever the project requires.
Colleagues can sit comfortably and watch what the camera sees on the large format monitor, making sure the presentation is perfect as we shoot it.
Swap the video lights for some flash heads and we have a great area for still photograpy of products or portraits.
Video Interviews
Need to interview a senior executive? Maybe you write notes but you can't decipher them back at the office. Or, maybe you use a dictaphone but can't hear due to the poor quality. Even if you can there is something that gets lost in the translation - body language, facial expression, the environment.
Video the interview and you have all the information as if you were there. Edit to suit your needs, adding graphics, music and titles. Deliver it on DVD, memory stick, the web or insert it into a PowerPoint presentation.
Conference/Event Filming
If you organise conferences or events, you’ll know they take a lot of time effort and investment. Maybe some people could not attend or maybe you want to recall what exactly the MD said on stage. We can not only film all the sessions but produce a summary video for the whole event.
Video montage while you wait - We shoot on an entirely tapeless system. Getting the footage from camera to computer is fast, so fast we can shoot things during the morning and edit a video while the attendees are having lunch and play it in the afternoon session. Alternatively, if it’s more than a day we can edit the evening before the end of the event and playback the final morning.
About Us Videos
The phrase ‘corporate video’ conjures up an eighties cliché of cheesy businessmen, hard hitting ‘power’ music and lots of fake smiles. We’ve come a long way since then and videos are used for much more than being played constantly in a reception area.
There is a convergence between corporate video and other forms of media communications, and the equipment we use is the same spec for both broadcast and corporate videos.
Remote Presentations
By setting up a portable green screen on location or in the studio, it's possible to give a presentation where the viewer can see the slides and the presenter at the same time. This is a great way to reach a large audience by sending them the finished video presentation on memory stick, dvd, or online.
The presenter would give his presentation to camera using his powerpoint slides for support. Then we can generate a false backdrop using the slides, adding graphics and titles needed.
“Sorry I can’t be there” Videos
It’s sometimes hard to balance a busy work and home life and we can’t always be at that important conference or meeting.
But you can still contribute to the event by recording a message to camera. Even have some fun using green screen.
Mood Films
Making sure everyone is in the right frame of mind for a meeting or conference is key to getting your point across.
Sometimes we can be so close to the product or sevices we offer that we lose sight of how those products and services affect peoples’ lives. Just as TV advertising sends out happy images of people enjoying their products, so too can you remind colleagues of the joy your products bring to people.
Studio facilities
Our studio facilities offer ultimate control over the look and quality of any piece to camera.
High-Key White
High-key white background videos are contemporary and look great inside presentations.
The background is overexposed so it is completely white. The viewer has no background distractions so they concentrate completely on the subject.
Green Screen
Shooting against a properly set up green screen enables us to extract the subject and place it on a diferent background. This could be a photo of a different place, a video of somewhere else or a completely computer generated environment.
