The Good Earth – views from space

Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by Richard in Video

We did the full production on this one from concept to final file compression. Beautiful views of the Earth and original music make for inspiring four-minute journey. Note also the special “flat 3D” technique we use on some shots to add perspective and movement. (more…)

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The Saints reformed

Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by Richard in Video

On news sites everything is always a rush job. We had to edit a slab of video into a sharp three to four minute interview, cut in some archive material, edit out the interviewer, and do some major work on the audio track. "And we need it this afternoon". No problem ! (more…)

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Mars & the power of audio

Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by Richard in Video

How does audio affect the story ? Here’s an example. Take one NASA video of its Mars lander program and add a new soundtrack – a little mood music and excerpts from the original “War of the Worlds” radio broadcast, and suddenly you’ve got something quite different. We made this one just as a bit of fun :-) (more…)

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Marque – week 2: no video !

Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by Richard in Video

What do you do when the client wants a video, but doesn’t give you any video footage to work with ? Worse, all they offer as source files are a series of low-resolution PDF page proofs. (more…)

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Marque Magazine

Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by Richard in Video

We were given a few minutes of raw video and some low-resolution PDF proofs of the magazine and given just two days to come up with the launch video. The result is a fast-paced one-minute promo video with music we wrote specially for the magazine launch (including a synthesised voice saying "Marque"). The sales team liked it so much they played it before every meeting to get them revved up ! (more…)

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Dark Cosmos – discoveries in the infrared

Posted on 02. Sep, 2009 by Richard in Video

Deep space imagery from NASA combined with original music. (more…)

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