I’ve been investing in Live-Streaming equipment in the last year or so. That seems to have paid off as Covid19 has caused many business to cancel their in person presentations, conferences, and product launches. I now have two full sized cameras that can stream independently to the internet via Wifi or Ethernet, and I also have a multi camera streaming setup for up to 4 video sources.
Get in touch to discuss live-streaming your event…
I was asked to film timelapse of the Nightingale Harrogate hospital being fitted out, an impressive build with a huge team of people working around the clock . I installed four cameras in the roof spaces, and also used a tripod based camera when I was on site myself.
The footage ended being used by dozens of websites as well as ITV and the BBC, both local and national:
Britannia Living needed videos for their social media channels to promote their installation service. Filmed in Kentish Town, London.
This video shows the installation process:
They also promote a ‘try before you buy’ service where you can rent the property and try the oven for yourself:
Soon afterwards they starting releasing the many food specific videos that I made, but there’s too many to show here…
The White Rose Shopping Centre has commissioned these amazing autonomous self driving vehicles. They must be real… right?
I’ve recently filmed the launch of a unique art and retail project in the Trinity Shopping Centre, Leeds.
The launch night was great, but there was much more to my involvement. From late 2018 until mid-January I documented the artists painting and spraying the walls and ceiling in trinity. I filmed with a range of cameras and techniques such as time-lapse, motion time-lapse, tripod, pole gimbal and 360 video as well as interviewing the artists involved in the project.
The filming started once the mall was closing, with shoots often finishing around 4am. It was a good opportunity to try out a few different filming methods on a single job. The gimbal and a6000 worked well on a monopod, allowing me to crane from ground level, right up the the artists working at the ceiling. The motion control slider was a tricky setup because the artist may have started working in a certain direction, you place the camera rig to match and 10 minutes later they’ve changed direction or moved elsewhere. That meant stopping a move before it had finished, but fortunately there was enough material to make the finished videos.
Here’s a slight reworking of an existing format for the lovely folks at UMPF. And this time, for a new client: Virgin Trains. Hopefully we’ll see more work from them in the future…
Day One of the World Travel Market 2015 exhibition in London.
MONDAY
Every day this week I am producing a video showing the social media impact of this massive conference.
I re-version the edit with different numbers and quotes, then encode an mp4 for final upload.
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
Another year, another record breaking Toolbank ‘Real Deals for You’ campaign: The Christmas Collection.
This year’s design included present boxes wrapped in shiny foil, which I built as 3D models in Cinema 4D.
Then creating various coloured versions as looping quicktime files, converting them into particle effects in Motion and making them fly towards camera. Also I built custom box transitions in Motion with full rigging into Final Cut Pro X. This meant I could change the direction and colour of the box wipe transition using just a simple pull down inside FCPX.
After three days of workshop filming back in April, I started putting the main campaign video together, which at over 30 minutes long is versioned in two currencies – Sterling and Euros.
We also filmed over 60 Social Media product demos which are presented ‘to camera’ by Andy or Nigel from Toolbank. These get embedding in the product pages on the Real Deals website
Then, in August I filmed the TV commercial at Prime Studios in Leeds. This time filmed as a chromakey.
Using my new JVC LS300 I fed an SDI picture to my 23 inch location monitor, and also streamed a Wi-Fi video feed to a laptop for timecode logging. Our great pal Vic McCullagh was on hand to light the set and provide his unique perspective on proceedings.
Love that guy!
