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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Corporate videos & Marketing films