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CASEBOOK: Green screen rocks …

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The Brief was to build a green screen space from scratch in several European cities.  We were to meet certain people in each of those cities and they would perform for us.

But lighting and shooting green screen is an art-form.  Here, Andy on camera and Dave on lights put on a show of their own.  But then, they’ve done it once or twice before.  So naturally it all worked beautifully.

If you want to shoot green screen – call the boys.

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’.

PORTFOLIO: Our Studio

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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.

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