posted 11 August 2010

Cisco TechWiseTV tips: business video production

Posted by Mark in General video production info | tips | suggestions

Robb Boyd, Managing Editor of Cisco Interaction Network’s TechWiseTV makes a few useful points about effective video production here.

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posted 6 August 2010

Camping – 21st Century Utopia?

Posted by Mark in CreationVideo | video production news

It’s about 23:00, the sky is full of stars and satellites, and I’m sitting outside my family tent in a campsite in the Loire valley, France.

I just saw a hedgehog scuttle by, my 5 year old daughter loved the Camping Kids talent show tonight and my wife came back from the same event brimming with pride at one of the UK ‘entries’, a Sri Lankan boy of 8 rapping without music, brilliantly.

I can hear an English family making friends with a Dutch couple, their kids all asleep now; I heard two families from Yorkshire discover they have the same local haunts and the French woman with Touretts who is one of a group has stubbed her last cig and gone to bed.

This site, very family-focussed, is expensive at ďż˝35 per night – so most families can do this. Everyone is elbow to elbow regardless of class when they do the washing up, and by virtue of the physical proximity and willingness to rough it to varying degrees, people are keen to be friendly.

So I’m wondering if camping – that I grew up with as a child, reconnected with in a cidery sort of way as a ‘beatnik-punk-hippy’ in the late 70s, and have just returned to as a Dad – is our only remaining modern Utopia?

Definition of Utopia: an ideal community or society possessing a seemingly perfect socio-politico-legal system. (OK, the legal bit’s not relevant here)The word was invented by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean.

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posted 28 July 2010

the original ipad?!

Posted by Mark in CreationVideo | video production news

Saw this today in Najac, a medieval village in France – hopefully this won’t lead to a legal battle with Apple!

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posted 26 July 2010

NHS Direct webcast live today

Posted by Mark in CreationVideo | video production news

Our webcast for NHS Direct will be live today at 1030. Click the image above to visit NHS Direct to view it.

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posted 15 July 2010

Scrubbed Up Nicely

Posted by Mark in CreationVideo | video production news

Inevitably, if two blokes who do not normally wear scrubs – the outfit required in operating theatres – are required to do so by the fact that they’re filming a training video, the regular nursing and surgical staff will have quite a good laugh at them and insist on taking a picture – here’s ours, yesterday at Barts. I think David looks slightly more daft than me.

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posted 14 July 2010

Our new RNLI Video Series: 10 Safety Tips

Posted by Mark in CreationVideo | video production news

We just completed a Video Series of 10 Safety Tips to appear throughout the summer on ChiswickW4.com: Staying Safe On and Around The Thames – Chiswick RNLI station manager Wayne Bellamy’s top tips… click here to see the first one

Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/ChiswickW4/statuses/18501086280

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posted 13 July 2010

NHS Direct webcast

Posted by Mark in CreationVideo | video production news

Webcasting @ NHS Direct

Today Ian, David and I were at NHS Direct in London SE1, demonstrating our webcasting solution – we’ll be webcasting the NHS Direct AGM on July 26th.

Our Akamai-hosted webcast solution includes 3 remote-controlled cameras and a template-based system that enable the viewer to see the slides of a Powerpoint presentation alongside a live mixed video from the 3 cameras and a pre-recorded video input.

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posted 13 July 2010

Capital Motors – first local business video ad

Posted by Mark in CreationVideo | video production news


Here’s our new film for Capital Motors, featuring actor Richard Briers CBE – our first local community Business Video ad, heralding the start of our local business video offer, in conjunction with local community website ChiswickW4.com

Thanks Capital Motors – for both commissioning this film, and for looking after the CreationVideo-mobiles over the years!

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posted 30 June 2010

Filming ELT lessons at IH London

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Filming at IH London

Today we’re back at International House London, the world’s leading language school, filming lessons for an online training resource.

It’s a two camera shoot; the audio comes from a Sennheiser radio mic and a pair of Sennheiser ME66 gun mics. We’re using our two JVC GY-HM100s and some great new Lilliput HDMI monitors – these can also be used with an HD-DSLR if it has HDMI input.

See our Education page for details of the original Teacher Training DVD series

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posted 28 June 2010

“The Peak and the Pit”

Posted by Mark in CreationVideo | video production news

“The Peak and the Pit” is David Lee’s new short film, currently in post-production.

Synopsis:
A writer throws himself from his hotel window far from home leaving only a telegram with a cryptic message scribbled on the back. Decades later, three people are each inspired by his death in very different ways. Prepared to change their lives because of it, which of them has grasped the true meaning of his final message?

More coming on David’s film…

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