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One True Sentence: Beautifully crafted video content services where authenticity and honesty tell their own truths
Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential American writers, the wild and unpredictable life of Ernest Hemingway has always been a subject of deep fascination. Talented and troubled, he bludgeoned his way through life, destroying relationships and himself in search of the next adventure to be thinly disguised [...]
How smartphone video production caught the eye of the professionals
You've got the camera up the wrong way! It wasn’t so long ago that many ‘traditional’ camera operators were outraged to find social media reels suddenly full of people daring to film with the camera in a vertical orientation! Prioritising ‘ease of viewing’ on a vertical phone screen ahead of [...]
Channel4 Inclusion Festival
I (Stuart) am usually very close to the cameras and either filming, directing or editing. This role, producer of the 2021 Channel 4 Inclusion Festival, was a little different. I worked with project leads GroovyGecko and their production partners Zest4TV who asked me to deal with all non-technical aspects of [...]
Faith Stories
Equippers church asked me to create a series of mini-documentaries where people talked about how their faith helped them deal with challenges in their life. This was a charity project and I did it in return for a donation toGrassroots. We had filmed something similar a decade before, interviewing former [...]
Procter & Gamble Health and Safety
We spent a lot of the autumn at P&G's newly rebuilt Reading site both creating hybrid conferences - and also working though the 80 or so scenes for their new health and safety video. I was expecting to get a bit jaundiced by the filming of endless potential problems but [...]
Litter wrap
Client and life inspiration Danny Lucas of Lucas Fit Out has a thing about litter, and so do I. Britain is the 3rd most littered nation in the developed world with a 500% increase in this generation. It is, literally., everywhere. Most of you are probably like me and can’t [...]
Online Conferences
In the last few years events have become a large part of what we do but since the start of 2020 that has all changed. Physical events have almost entirely stopped and the industry has moved on-line using virtual and studio based streaming to reach delegates in their homes, and [...]
X-Ray power supplies with Gulmay
Local manufacturer Gulmay contacted us in the summer to talk about making a film for their new German office soon to open. The founder of the company had just passed away and it was difficult time there, but as my own mother was at that time in the last throws [...]
2021 Reflections & Challenges
In an industry that basically depends on people working in close proximity, the pandemic has created a number of challenges for filming. The good news is that there is a way through and we are back in action. The film and TV industry is a massive contributor to the UK [...]
Virtual Yours – Online conferences for a multinational IT brand
We’ve done some great work in lockdown and I am very proud of it, but sadly an NDA means I am unable to show you any of it. A multinational IT company for who we film a couple of events a year took their conferences online in 2020 and so [...]
Filming a ‘How To’ Training Guide with Salisbury Plain
As part of our work with the Green Lane Association the management team at Salisbury Plain the 45,000 acre site in Wiltshire that the army use for training, asked if we would be up for making a short film for them about the right way to behave on the site [...]