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Like all consultancies, it can be tricky to work out what we actually do.
Here’s a sampling, but it’s not a strict menu. Chef is perfectly willing to cook something up that’s more to your taste, particularly if it involves these sorts of ingredients. Or a strained metaphor. Either way.
Executive production
We’ve worked with the biggest names in broadcast, making sure their programmes reach and hold the attention of huge audiences. If your films are lacking a certain something – that something could be us.
Consulting
We know far more about all aspects of video than is strictly healthy, heaps about science communication and public engagement, and have an extensive network of collaborators and associates. Need help? Hire us. Easy.
Project Management
We occasionally deliver longer-term consultancy, more akin to project management. For example: coordinating the Beacon universities’ interaction with BBC 1’s Bang Goes The Theory, over three series. We love getting our teeth stuck into juicy projects, particularly if we can help define them first.
Training
Our training days and short workshops have been delivered to hundreds of participants, to great acclaim. Off-the-shelf, we can offer introductions to science communication; writing for public audiences; video production; presenting and voice skills; lighting for video; web media for STEM engagement; and others.
Contact us for details, and to discuss your precise requirements.
Video production
We offer a full service from project outline through research and writing, camera scripting and pre-production, through to filming and editing. We’ve managed everything from corporate interviews and promotional packages, to engineering challenge shows and long-running formatted series. Our clients have ranged from universities and websites to the BBC and Channel 4.
Video equipment, operators, and post-production
If you know what you want and just need a crew or editor, give us a call. We love making films, and if we’ve spare capacity we’ll drop everything, grab the camera bags and lights, meet you at location, and craft you a work of beauty.
We shoot 1080p high-def video on Panasonic and Nikon camcorders and DSLRs; record sound using Sennheiser and Røde microphones, and light with Dedo, Photoflex and LitePanels fixtures. We offer post-production services on the latest Final Cut studio systems, including a mobile editing station, and deliver to a range of formats. Web video encoding a particular speciality.