Archive for July 2009

CASEBOOK: Seafarers die during Lifeboat Drills

When we were asked by Headland Media in Liverpool, new owners of the Walport Training Library to produce the first of a new series of safety training DVDs, our brief was to work with Headland to make a programme about safety during Lifeboat Drills. Read the rest of this entry »

PORTFOLIO: Our Studio

(video)

Focus studios make extraordinary things happen!  Great audio, exciting pictures, creative post-production.

Our audio studio facilities are used for recording English and Foreign voiceovers for video, reading to picture or wild, or recording dialogue for Podcasts and training.  We edit ‘live’ (using SADiE) at the same time as recording so there’s not a lot to do when the session is over. We use ISDN to record live at full quality from or to another studio. And we often use phone or Skype to connect to clients anywhere in the world who listen in to the session down the line.

The video studio is great for shooting voice links and presenter pieces.  It’s soundproof and therefore QUIET, so no interruptions from phones ringing or people talking in the corridor, the things that drive clients mad when we shoot interviews in their’ boardrooms. But it’s not big – just right for a piece to camera or 1×1 interview.

It may not be huge but we have green screen (or Blue or Black or White) and that means the studio can be as big as you like and become anywhere you like – New York, underwater, the moon … you get the idea.

There’s a lighting grid and talented lighting guys who can make you look great on camera.  Green Screen techniques rely very heavily on good lighting.  We normally use Arri or Kino Flo lights.

Built-in Autocue makes it easy for even quite inexperienced people to amaze everyone with confident pieces to camera.

Oh … and to bring ideas to life we have really nice creative people behind the cameras with years of experience and real talent (but don’t tell them I said that!)

Contact us to discuss what we can do for you.

Green Screen – Autocue – Lighting – Sound proof – Air conditioning – Cameras – Voiceovers – Live voice editing – Presentations – Interviews – Media training – Viewing rooms – Control Room – Vision mixerEncoding for DVD, Web, Podcast & PowerPoint: Virtual Studio.

Focus Studios … Bringing your ideas to life.

PORTFOLIO: Mithril Racing

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These guys are definitely Licensed to Thrill! Enjoy this piece put together for the client by one of our producers Andy Goode. Another great use of video on the web to show what printed brochures couldn’t.

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