Archive for October 2009
CASEBOOK: More from the Information Technologists
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Focusbiz produces video material and podcasts it for some quite unexpected organisations! For several years The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists has used Video Podcasts produced and hosted by Focus Business Communications to keep their wide membership ‘connected’ and up to date. The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists is the 100th Livery Company of the City of London, and their members are all senior IT professionals who joined the Company in order to give something back to the IT sector and the wider community.
Charles Hughes is the new Master Elect of the Information Technologists’ Company. He has been a Freeman of the Company since 1996, has chaired several committees, and is currently leading the team seeking a Royal Charter for the Company. His theme for the year will be “professional values”. The is the second video podcast from Charles as he becomes the new Master.
CASEBOOK: One man with a Passion
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Our challenge this time was to help one guy with a real Passion to start building support for an event that he hopes will take the City of Southampton by storm in 2011.
Into our in-house studio came Neil Maddock, pioneer of Passion 2011 in Southampton. Using some tricks of television we filmed Neil in the studio as he very skilfully presented his case. It’s a great talent for Neil to make it look this easy – not many people could sit in front of a camera and be this convincing.
Over the next couple of days Ian Williamson, who’s become a master of special effects, edited the sequence that would promote the Passion and get people involved ready for Good Friday 2011.
Neil will be sending DVDs to churches and organisations across Southampton to promote the event and seek volunteers to get involved.
Nice job to do and a great project. Well done Neil. (Oh … and well done Ian!!)
CASEBOOK: Voices in the Studio …
It was another busy week in the studio …
Dervla Kirwan returned for another helping of M&S Foods over ISDN to Grand Central in London. Dervla is famous for roles in British television shows such as Ballykissangel, Goodnight Sweetheart, and the Doctor Who Christmas special!
Then we had Jack McKenzie recording a promotion relating to next year’s 150th Open Golf Championship at St Andrews. Jack gave us his mellifluous Scots and he was directed remotely by the client in the US. Our thanks to Wessex Translations, for whom we’ve produced many similar multi-lingual projects. The transition from US English to Scots still presents a few linguistic challenges!
Jack is a Scot from Edinburgh who was Cal Alder in ‘The Empire Strikes Back‘. He’s been ‘murdurred’ three times in ‘Taggart’, and appeared in ‘Gandhi’, ‘A Bridge too Far’, ‘Secret Army’, ‘Sweeney’, ‘The Professionals’, ‘Blake’s 7′, ‘Quiller’, ‘Emmerdale’, ‘Heartbeat’, ‘Sharpe’, ‘The End of the Affair’ … whew! Oh – ask him how he helped Mickey Rooney to get to meet the Queen … !
Meanwhile in our London ISDN studio, Soundtracks, Martin Glynn Murray delivered his gentle Welsh English for a project linked to the Ryder Cup, just held at the Celtic Manor Resort. Again it was directed from the US. Tracks were finished in our sound studio and uploaded via our client area to a video suite in the US.
Martin Glyn Murray appeared in ‘A Very Social Secretary‘, ‘Heartbeat’, ‘Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life’, ’Captain Corelli’s Mandolin’, and ‘Enigma’.
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