Beeston Media: Blog for Corporate Video & Luxury Property Marketing

Helicopter Summer

We’ve had a lot of fun over the summer making films for a couple of long-standing clients Honeywell Skyforce and Specialist Aviation Services.

This summer has been very academic for us with a fantastic commission to produce over 50 web films for the University of Bristol PR department. The videos cover aspects of academic research and teaching across all 6 faculties and showcase the best of what the university has to offer - everything from Engineering Robots to Theatre Studies.

Blue Light Aware

Do you really know what to do when an Emergency Vehicle approaches?

New Bath School Films

After the success of last year’s Sixth Form video, we were asked to return to the Royal High School Bath to produce two new films. Shooting took place in the Summer and Autumn terms and this time concentrated on the Junior and Main schools.

QEB Hollis Whiteman Films

We’ve finished the 07’00” launch film for top London barristers set QEB Hollis Whiteman. It features interviews with QEB personnel, happy customer testimonials from solicitor clients, all held together by Legal Commentator Joshua Rozenberg. The imagery comes from shots of the new chambers building and stylish GVs of the City.

With this phase of production complete, we have now moved on to rework the material into a number of other films.

Unity Street Photography

10 Unity Street is a large apartment development in Bristol, containing around 70 units, converted from an old university building a few years ago. It’s got a great feel to it with massive high ceilings, carved stone detailing and all this just 100 yards from the city centre.

Jellyfish Video - ten for the price of one!

Regular client top-end fish tank specialists Aquarium Architecture recently commissioned us to shoot their latest creations in Manchester. The two huge salt water tanks were made for the Chaophraya Group of Thai restaurants and are believed to be the largest private jellyfish tanks in the UK.

Beeston theRatandMouse Feature

We’ve long been fans of the London-based property blog theRatandMouse and have had several pieces in it about Beeston Media and our work. It’s a fascinating mix of expert opinion, gloss and gossip. So it was a delight to be asked to do a feature interview for a recent edition about our take on the world of the property video.

Barrister New City Chambers Video

We’re currently working with top London barristers’ set QEB Hollis Whiteman to produce a corporate video to showcase their services and pedigree as a chambers. The film also coincides with their recent radical move away from the Inns of Court to new premises in the heart of the City of London.

Loft Lifter Video Finished

We’ve completed the film (teased below) we shot in the summer for London building supplies company Lawsons and delivered it to a very happy client. Their response was “GREAT, GREAT, GREAT!!!”, which is just what we wanted to hear.

Bristol Architectural Photography

It’s nice occasionally not to have to travel too far for a project. And you can’t get much closer than the new-build apartment scheme we recently shot for Bristol architectural practice Southpoint, just 5 minutes walk from Beeston HQ.

Skyquest Helicopters USA

A long-standing client of ours, Skyquest, has recently been bought by USA technology company Curtiss Wright Controls Embedded Computing and the call came in to us for a fast turnaround film to showcase Skyquest’s Video Management System products to the USA market. It’s a great example of how a client’s existing video archive can be re-used in a fresh way for a fresh market.

Lawsons Loft Lift Video

Coming Soon… Lawson’s Loft Lifts

At the end of April we spent a day’s filming with Lawsons Lofts. This is an impressive company based on a clever idea. If you’re converting a loft, they’ll supply and deliver the entire package directly to roof height. They can do this because they’ve got a fleet of loft-lift lorries, with inbuilt cranes so powerful that they can even reach over the top of a house and into the back garden.

Beeston Media sponsors Ignite Bristol

Beeston Media is delighted to be sponsoring Ignite Bristol, organised by our good friends at Double Art. We will be providing the film crew on the night.

Stephen Ireland Fish Tank Sun Newspaper

It’s nice to see a bit of publicity for a client in the national press. In this case a piece in The Sun about Manchester City footballer Stephen Ireland’s 6,000 litre 4 metre marine aquarium, as designed, installed and maintained by our client Aquarium Architecture.

Brocket Hall

To viewers of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, the name Brocket conjures up images of Lord Charlie Brocket munching bugs and lying somewhere between Peter Andre and Katie Price (in the competition-ranking, that is). To us it means Brocket Hall, a fine English country estate run by Palmerston Hotel.

HD/SD thoughts

When we start a project, there’s always a decision to be made about what video format to shoot on – Standard Definition (SD) or High Definition (HD). SD was for many years the norm for us, shooting in DVCam, and indeed most of the films you can see on our website are shot this way. The turning point for me as a director / cameraman came when I got a phone call a couple of years ago from a client frantic that their newly-commissioned video looked “terrible” in the just-finished marketing suite…

Aquarium Film Finished

Our film for top-end fish tank specialists Aquarium Architecture is now complete (as previewed in our Fish and Footballers blog below). In total, we filmed 1x day in Manchester and 2x days in London, packing in no less than 9x fish tanks. These ranged from a small bedroom marine pair flanking a TV and a fresh water bar-top piranha tank… to Stephen Ireland’s free-standing hallway reef and an even bigger 5m long marine aquarium which takes up one entire wall of a chic Docklands apartment.

Surrey… Bali-Style

We’ve worked for the London Basement Company for over 2 years now, making 3 long films (12- 17 mins) for dvd distribution and countless shorter cut-downs / client testimonials / celebrity PR interviews for the web. We’ve also taken stills of their basement work, both in-progress and completed. We even took the company staff mug shots for their new website.

Air to Air Dream Team

In July we had the privilege of spending the day with the Greater Manchester Police Air Unit, and Flying TV’s aerial filming crew. The client was Specialist Aviation Services, for whom we’re making a 12-minute film for their 25th Anniversary. Like any profession that sounds exciting…

Celebrity Endorsement

Here’s a neat little shoot and quick turn-around job. We’ve been working with The London Basement Company for a couple of years now, and we’ve seen their marketing go from strength to strength. They are currently building basement for Channel 4 presenter, George Clarke, star of The Home Show.

L’Amandier, Morocco for MHK International

A short film to spearhead the PR campaign for this boutique development in Morocco.

If you’re connected to the property world, your inbox is likely to fill up with ‘luxury’ development mailshots. Yet there’s often not much to distinguish one from another. We got to hear about MHK’s Morroccan venture through property marketing specialists Frank & Earnest.

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