Cinematography & Videography
We have everything in-house to take most projects from conception to
completion.
We have a director, cinematographer, and photographers in-house each with their own techniques suited to a wide array of projects from Music Videos to Feature Film to Advertising small and large.
If you were looking to replicate an existing style of work or recreate a scene for pick-ups we can cater for many different
cinematic/media looks, moods, or types for example:
- "The Look" coined by Luc Besson or any look of any particular style of film, or generic tropes/well established expected film looks;
- Broadcast TV style, documentary stlye, fly-on-the-wall, interviews;
- Product centric advertising and/or advertising for services,
- Niche styles: 16-35mm film, social media segments, aerial photography, "found"/stock/background footage,
All are easy possibilities.
There are some examples and extracts from recent work available in the gallery.
Music Video & Audio Production
We have adequate software and facilities for audio recording and mastering along with arranging videography for music videos. We also hold a small supply equipment to create soundscapes, generate original sound effects, and lay down basic background music.
Advertising & Social Media
The most cost effective method for advertising in the digital age is considered to be short format clips and digital posters published on social media and/or between streaming content. Quick, punchy, and factual often has greater success in finding an audience over the elaborate narratives and production of traditional TV commercials. We can help create ads from the ground up to suit a product/service or work within the visual design of an existing campaign.
Corporate & Workplace Video Services
Be it health&safety protocol in a steel foundry, managing legal compliance at a private bank, or the basics of how to operate a microwave, engaging and informative internal media can be delivered competently and inexpensively.
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Fabrication & Construction
Part of any creative ethos is being able to redesign or rebuild things that aren't working.
On many occasions, off-the-peg hardware
is either not available or not suitable to do the job in hand.
Cranes, jibs, sliders, and other rigging may have to be built around the constraints
of existing sets, locations, and budgets. To this end, we have a workshop with the capacity to
build and rebuild equipment and cameras to specific needs.
Our moving rigs, dollies, and cranes are all built in welded steel as it
provides greater rigidity and stability than aluminium though at a cost in weight.
Software & Computing
Recent advances in CPU and GPU design have significantly reduced the systems cost and time associated with editing, colouring, and compositing, high resolution HDR RAW footage.- Our network of editing stations and server cluster run AMD RYZEN THREADRIPPER and INTEL XEON processors respectively.
- Our suite of software includes all the popular plugins for; Adobe Premier Pro, Davinci Resolve, Blender, Photoshop, Lightroom, FSpy, Audacity, Reaper, etc
We are working with Meshroom, 3df, and other photogrammetry plus Gaussian splatter tools to build textured 3d meshes of sets and objects from Lidar and photo-scan data. This allows for the creation of digital sets and props without having to start from primitives. Coupled with DaVinci Resolve Fusion, Blender, and other open source tools this makes sophisticated CGI now much more attainable for small productions. Examples will soon be available in the gallery.
As AI tools emerge, we are experimenting with various plug-ins based on neural networks such as language and diffusion models that allow rapid drawing and prototyping of pre-production work and claim to shorten work-flows generally.
(Caveats include: This technology is still developing and often breaks. It is sometimes difficult to use, provides varied or inconsistent results, and can be capriciously incompatible with certain hardware accelerators seemingly at random - Nvidia/AMD-Radeon/Intel.)
On-site storage servers with dedicated JBODs are available 24/7 to provide terabytes of redundant storage space to retain large uncompressed video files and to provide transcoding.
Production
We have the facility to produce shorts, modest features, documentaries, high quality advertising & commercial media, etc.
- For projects of higher budget and scope, we have experience collaborating
with other production companies in various capacities.
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The studio floor space provides decent room for up to three interior sets with good distance for long lenses.
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We have our own supply of pro-lite trussing for the building of customized lighting, flying rigs and other load-bearing equipment.
Second Unit
We can operate as a second unit for interviews, documentary coverage, cutaways, or whole scenes here in the UK for international productions in scenarios where it would be prohibitively expensive or difficult to send the first unit; i.e. BREXIT.
B-roll, pickups, stock footage, & commissioned work
We can, within reason, create specific scenes and/or vignettes to order. Examples would be; A missing pickup, linking segment/transition(physical or in software,) practical effect (on green-screen), substitution, or a sequence/clip not available in stock archives.
Miscellaneous Development & Work-shop(p)"ing"
Need help with a ... script, soundscape, effect, background art, reworking, rewriting, tweaking a performance, anything? It costs nothing to ask; we might be able to help or know someone else who can.
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