Our new film 'Why Study Architecture - The Role of the Architect' is
to be launched at the RIBA on 31st March 2015 after which it will be available
here, on Architecture.com and on the RIBA's You Tube channel. The 30 minute
film aims to inform school leavers about a career in Architecture and
the degree course ahead.
| Short Films |
The King James Bible and Hatfield
House
We were commissioned by the British Council, who with the King James
Bible Trust were celebrating the 400th anniversary of 'The King James
Bible' and its impact on the English Language. Robert Cecil, 1st Earl
of Salisbury was one of the Privy Councillors who received a copy
of the bible from King James and it is the only original Privy Council
one to survive to this day. This is its story and the connection to
Hatfield House, which also celebrates 400 years. Filmed in SD, with
1 camera and using just a basic tripod dolly for the tracking shots.
Everything was kept as simple as possible with minimal kit. Our thanks
and appreciation to our client, the British Council, Hatfield House
and the Marquess of Salisbury. Other films and lectures created by
Video Productions for the King James Bible at Hampton Court Palace,
St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle and the English Speaking Union
- http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/king-james-bible
An introduction to the celebration lecture at Hampton Court Palace
-http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/king-james-bible/lord-salisburys-introduction-quattro-centenary-lecture
The Windsor Castle lecture by Adam Nicholson - http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/king-james-bible/lecture-adam-nicolson
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The Language of Charles Dickens
One in a series of 10 short films to celebrate the 200th anniversary
of the birth of Charles Dickens and his impact on the English language.
Filmed for the British Council, on whose website the series can be
seen at;- http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/dickens
including a musical celebration concert of his talent.filmed by ourselves
which was also live streamed. With thanks to the British Council and
Lucinda Hawksley. Full credits at the end of the film. Filmed in HD
using a Sony EX1 XDCAM. |
Charles Dickens - Miss Havisham
One in a series of 10 short films to celebrate the 200th anniversary
of the birth of Charles Dickens and his impact on the English language.
This film explores one of his characters by experts in their field
in a category of Heroes and Villans. Filmed for the British Council,
on whose website the series can be seen at;- http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/dickens
including a musical celebration concert of his talent, filmed by ourselves
which was also live streamed. With thanks to the British Council and
Lucinda Hawksley. Full credits at the end of the film. Filmed in HD
using 2 Sony EX1 XDCAM's with tracking equipment. |
A Charles Dickens reading
One in a series of 10 short films to celebrate the 200th anniversary
of the birth of Charles Dickens and his impact on the English language.
This film is about a series of short readings from two of Charles
Dickens stories, by his great-great-great grand-daughter Lucinda Hawksley.
To break up the film we used images and scans of text pages from his
original books, that is the published first books not the magazines
in which they first appeared. Filmed for the British Council, on whose
website the series can be seen at;- http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/dickens
including a musical celebration concert of his talent.filmed by ourselves
which was also live streamed. With thanks to the British Council and
Lucinda Hawksley. Full credits at the end of the film. Filmed in HD
using a Sony EX1 XDCAM and Cannon 650D |
Jubile Sailing Trust
A really old film we made way back in the early 2000's (4:3 and SD
- yuck... ! ) but there is a really good message and story. We gave
our time to film, edit and produce a short story about a typical JST
voyage, how disabled people sail specially adapted tall ships and
live a 'normal' life. Some powerful comments from all involved and
the only film I have made where emotions needed to be controlled.
Storms and plain sailing, nothing like a wind jammer .... at the mercy
of nature, but beautiful sunsets and dolphins. Jubilee
Sailing Trust |
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Interviews
Charles Correra interview
At the opening of the RIBA exhibition and season of events to celebrate
Charles Correra, RIBA President, Angela Brady interviewed Charles
in the exhibition space. We filmed this using 4 cameras, 2 x EX1's
and 2 x Cannon DSLR's - a 5D and 650D on a Pico dolly to create
the movement. As soon as the interview finished we had 20 minutes
to re-setup our equipment in the lecture theatre to film his lecture.
The interview is located on Architecture.com at http://www.architecture.com/WhatsOn/RIBATrustProgramme/CharlesCorreaandOutofIndiaseason/Biographyandtimeline/BiographyofCharlesCorrea.aspx
The lecture is located at:
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Angela Brady in conversation with
Sir Terry Farrell
Video Productions filmed this short interview between Angela
Brady, President of the RIBA 2011-13 and Sir Terry Farrell in the
ground floor cafe at Sir Terry's studio. We used 3 cameras, 2 x Sony
EX1's and a Cannon 650 DSLR with 30 mm f1.4 lens on a dolly to create
the tracking shots. Edited in FCP |
Stephen Hodder in conversation with
Daniel Libeskind
This was a short conversation we filmed for our client the RIBA. Prior
to being interviewed by the BBC for their Dream Builder's series,
Daniel Libeskind was in discussion with the RIBA President Elect.
Featured on architecture.com (with some of our other interviews) at
http://www.architecture.com/WhatsOn/RIBATrustProgramme/DreamBuilders/DreamBuilders.aspx.
This was filmed with 2 cameramen with 4 cameras, 2 x Sony EX1's, a
Cannon 5D mark 3 and a Cannon 650D on a Pico dolly to get a feeling
of movement. |
Renzo Piano in conversation with RIBA
President Angela Brady
Prior to being interveiwed by the BBC World Service one evening, Renzo
Piano kindly agreed to talk on camera to Angela Brady, President of
the RIBA. Video Productions was asked by the RIBA to film this and
place it on line as soon as possible - It was ready by the morning.
We prepared the room, lit it with 2 redheads and gels then filmed
using 2 cameras, 1 Sony EX1 and a Cannon 7D. |
English Pen at the London Book Fair
English Pen host a literary cafe at the London Book Fair each year
where amongst other things authors are interveiwed. We filmed 9 of
these interviews for 2 days featuring Will Self, Lionel Shriver, William
Boyd and Turkish writers Elif Shafak, Ece Temelkuran, Oya Baydar and
Murathan Mungan. www.englishpen.org and http://www.youtube.com/user/englishpen1921
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Award Ceremonies and Events
Restaurant & Bar Design Awards - Summary
The Restaurant & Bar Design Awards, held at the iconic 1930's art
deco RIBA in central London on the 6th September 2012 presented
us with the challenge of capturing not just the awards, but the
fantastic structures that were erected the preceeding 24 hours in
the home of Architecture and Design (providing a great backdrop)
and how guests and the party related to them - which was basically
our brief !! The client did not want any narrative, just music,
preferring to let the images speak for themselves. The structures
wwere built especially for the event by the French Group and Nicholas
Alexander with lighting by Firefly Lighting Design. Those fabulous
cocktails by Shaker and great waiting staff with superb uniforms
and the designed serving trays from Ampersand. We were assisted
in filming by MB Films and media partner Gearing Media who created
the party video https://vimeo.com/49392064 We hope you enjoy our
interpretation of the structure, its build and the fabulous party
afterwards, we could have made it 5 or 10 minutes long, but if you
are a designer, then go next year.. Filmed using 2 sony EX1's, Cannon
5D, 7D, 550 and 650, plus a Jib and lots of timelapse photography.
Thanks to Ed, James and of course our client Marco.
Links to each of the actual sections of the award ceremonies are:
Part 1 - https://vimeo.com/49621871
Part 2 - https://vimeo.com/49642243
Part 3 - https://vimeo.com/49638088
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LTA Awards 2011 - Summary
A short summery taster for the LTA Awards 2011 held at the Hilton
Park Lane. Our brief was to capture as many people as possible and
create around about a 5 minute summary of the evening. Here it is
.... Shot using 2 Sony EX1's and 2 Cannon 7D's with a slider and crew
of 3. |
ERF Awards 2013 at IATEFL
We we commissioned by the ERF to film their award ceremony in Liverpool
at IATEFL 2013 and have it online the next morning. It was a simple
setup 2 cameras (EX1's) one on wide the other close as well as a Gopro
Hero 3 on a wide behind the action looking out to the audience filming
1080. A slightly different awards as it featured a wonderful performance
by Steve Bingham and Jeremy Harmer. Any copyrighted material has been
removed.
We have since been booked to film the 2014 awards in Harrogate and
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RIBA - President's Medals
Since 2005 we have been filming the annual RIBA President's Medals
award ceremony along with interviews with the medal winners. All the
films from each year are on their website www.presidentsmedals.com
in the gallery section. An hour long ceremony with the finished videos
split into the evening's different sections so they are 'bite sized'
chunks. The finished clips are normally online within 24-48 hours.
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The ELTons
The British Council's English Language Teaching Awards. We have
filmed these in 2011, 2012 and 2013 with 4 cameras. The last 2 years
they have been live webcast commencing with 30 minutes of Red Carpet
interviews.
The 2013 event is available online at: http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/eltons
The 2012 event is at: http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/eltons/2012
The 2011 event is at: http://englishagenda.britishcouncil.org/content/eltons-2011-communication-station-uic
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Little Britain Challenge Cup 2003/4/5/6
& 11
The Little Britain Challenge is a property and construction industry
regatta held in Cowes over 3 days every September to raise funds for
charity. Upto 240 entries from full ocean going racing boats to mid
sized yachts, serious racing to participation for fun for about 2,500
people.
We filmed the 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2011 events in order to provide
edited highlights at each evening's dinner in a large marquee for
all 2500 participants to view on overhead screens as well as providing
a live feed of events and speeches each evening on the marquee screens.
During the day we were out on ribs with steadycams and onboard participating
yachts. Footage was sent back to an editor who compiled summary video
clips to music for the screenings - morning footage at 5pm and the
full day's highlights from 7.30pm. In 2005 a multimedia disk was produced
by a sponsor containing the video which was sent to all participants.
www.littlebritain.co.uk
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The PPP PFi industry regatta
We filmed the first regatta in 2005 and again in 2006 for use as a
promotional and marketing tool. One camera on board a rib in the Solent
following yachts and a second camera on board some of the participants
boats. DVD's were produced and distributed in the indsutry's magagine. |
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Lectures, Seminars, Conferences,
Debates
Adam Nicholson, King James Bible lecture at St.
George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
This is the first 90 seconds of Adam Nicholson's King James Bible
Windsor lecture at St. George's Chapel, within the walls of Windsor
Castle, including opening establishing shots using a Cannon 5D and
slider. The full lecture and all other films in the King James Bible
anniversary series can be viewed on the British Council's Teaching
English website www.teachingenglish.org.uk/king-james-bible
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Promos
The British Council And Ecorys Lifelong Learning
Promgramme, Valorisation Conference, Summary
We were commissioned by The British Council to cover a conference
on some of the EU programmes, Leonardo, Erasmus, Life Long Learning,
Grundtvig, Comenius and eTwinning. Our brief was to create one overall
summary film plus individual films on each programming highlighting
key aspects from some of the providers and benefactors. This film
is the overall summary.
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Comenius programme for the British
Council
We were commissioned by The British Council to cover a conference
on some of the EU programmes, Leonardo, Erasmus, Life Long Learning,
Grundtvig, Comenius and eTwinning. Our brief was to create one overall
summary film plus individual films on each programming highlighting
key aspects from some of the providers and benefactors. This film
is about the Comenius programme |
Lord Bragg Hampton Court Book of Books
Lecture Promo
The promotional video for the King James bible lecture by Lord Bragg
at Hampton Court Palace, celebrating its 400th anniversary and its
impact on the English language. The full lecture and others in the
series can be watched on the British Council's Teaching English website
at http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/king-james-bible.
Video Productions Ltd filmed the lectures and added short introductory
cutaways at the beginning and end to set the scenes using a Cannon
5D and slider. |
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