VIDEO ADVERT OFFER

With the advent of greater bandwidths video is increasingly being used to promote businesses on websites. Don't be left behind. We can shoot a video of between 30 seconds and a 1 minute for use on your website or a promotional DVD from just £500. So what do you get for your money? We will visit your premises to discuss the style and content of the advert and subsequently write an outline script that describes what we will actually shoot. If you are happy with this we will arrange a time to return and actually shoot the advert. A few days later we will return to show you the completed advert, which will be very close to the agreed outline. Assuming you are happy with the advert we will ask you to sign the paperwork and we will deliver the completed advert in whatever format(s) you require. Some examples of adverts we have shot can be seen below: What's not included? At this price there is a limit to what can be done. If you want professional actors/models in your advert this will incur an additional charge, the exact amount dependant upon the rates for the actor or model. We have a number of local actors on our books with prices starting from £50. The same applies to voice overs. If you want a professional voice over artist this will cost extra. Again we can help source an artist if required. This need not be limiting. Many of the adverts we have shot used employees as actors and/or for voice overs. There is a strict limit on how long we can spend filming - up to four hours - so the advert must of necessity be reasonably easy to shoot. Once the advert is shot and edited only minor changes can be made (eg. the wording of captions). If you want any changes requiring a significant amount of re-editing an additional charge will be made. All prices quoted are exclusive of VAT.

LIVE AND DANGEROUS
Live & Dangerous 2007 is a learning experience that Year 6 pupils will really enjoy. Held in a safe environment, a wide range of road safety issues come alive in exciting presentations that will get them involved. It's focus is introducing pupils to the dangers they may face on their journey to their new school in September. We shot a short film that will help set the scene at the start of the day which involved a morning simulating a call out in Leamington Fire Station and a very wet afternoon shooting the sort of thoughtless behaviour that children get up to that can all too easily end in tragedy. Live and Dangerous takes place between 12 and 15 June 2007.

SPIRIT SALSA
	Learn the basic salsa rhythm then practice the basic moves like Side Step, Back Step, Cuban Turn, and Cross Body Lead. The intermediate DVD adds more steps and shows how to put them all together on the dance floor. These discs are currently only available from Spirit Salsa but will also be available from our own online shop once it is up and running.
This is the first of a series of special interest videos to be shot and edited to hit the shelves later this year. Watch this space for further announcements. In the meantime the overhaul of this site will include the creation of an online shop to carry these and other items as they become available.

BRUMMIEWOOD - ARRIVALS

Paul has been working over in Birmingham recently. Best to let him explain in his own words: "A couple of years ago, I was invited onto the Brummiewood scheme, run by Dreamfinder Productions for the Birmingham School of Acting (BSA). The basic idea is this: drama students spend a lot of time learning how to act for the stage, but giving them experience of screen acting tends to be a little more difficult. So every year, a group of talented local filmmakers are rounded up and thrown in the general direction of final year students at the BSA. All we have to do is make a little short film with the actors, with all our technical needs paid for and a little bit of extra money to spend on anything else we might need. The first time round, I made a film called "Bunny's Job", which followed a day in the life of an imaginary friend. This time I went a bit further with a film called "Arrivals", which shows a counsellor helping the newly dead prepare for their new existence in the afterlife. See? Cheerful all round..." "As before, I was given to a group of five actors. Essentially my job was to give them a learning experience, and learn they jolly well did. Having never been on set before, they all needed a little help dealing with the fact that the audience weren't several miles away in the stalls, but they picked up the principles pretty quickly and soon realised that the audience could be as close or as distant as the director chose, because the director enjoyed making their lives interesting." "Filming took place on a happy day in March. The script called for something that looked a lot like a hospital, and, as fortune would have it, the University of Central England - the parent body of the BSA - trains nurses as well as actors, and has a brand new facility for this purpose just beyond Five Ways. So we got to run around and play with lots of medical equipment that made the whole thing look a lot more interesting. One of the actors had the fun experience of spending half the afternoon in makeup being smeared with molten gelatine to create the effect of third degree burns. When he turned up on set, he was bright pink - but in the black and white of the monitor, he looked distinctly charred." "(that's a little trick for saving time, by the way: don't bother with any time-consuming lighting and turn the whole thing black and white to conceal the lack. It's not as good as lighting properly for back and white, but it looks pretty damn good anyway, and most of the audience think you made an artistic decision rather than a practical one...)" "And now it's all over and the film's done. We screen for cast and crew on the 23rd of May, at which point I find out what everyone thinks, and what all the other groups were up to. It's been hectic, stressed, insanely demanding but somewhere along the way it was a lot of fun as well. And who knows, maybe they'll ask me to do it again next year..." Expect to see Arrivals in film festivals around the Midlands over the summer and autumn.

Burns make up..

THE LIBRARY You really don't want to borrow any books from this library...
	The Library is the HQ of the Ministry of Secrets and its role is the investigation of all supernatural, paranormal and extraterrestrial activity. All knowledge and artefacts acquired in these fields reside therein. This shady and often deadly world is the brainchild of regular collaborator Huw Bowen and Chris Kelly. The original script dates back five years or more and has been greatly developed in the interim but a spin off that came out of script development was the notion of the Library Film Unit - a 100 year old organisation like this would have its own film unit making training films for new employees and so ten short film scripts have been written teaching operatives effective strategies for dealing with vampires, resisting mind control, identifying UFOs and so on.
To date principal photography is complete on four of these shorts, with another couple part shot. Leofric Films have been heavily involved, taking on much of the production work, providing the bulk of the equipment and even writing a number of the scripts. As Chris says "These shoots are great fun. It's not often you get to destroy a vampire or decapitate a zombie. A far cry from the more serious work we do". The films will ultimately be used as a marketing tool to raise finance for the feature.

END OF AN ERA The demolition of Highfield Road

April 2005 saw Coventry City thump Derby County 6-1. It would be the last game at Highfield Rd, the home to the club for the past 108 years. The game was witnessed by the Coventry Sky Blue faithful and the young fans who helped make this short documentary. End of an Era is about the demolition of a stadium that was at the heart of the community. Made by Richard Wood and the young people of Coventry City FC Partnership Centre. Edited by Richard Laker. Music provided by local Coventry band Windsock and up and coming punk alternative rockers from London 'Clarky Cat' with Sightlines. Picture is of the demolished main stand, photo R. Wood.

GHOST TOWN

Ghost Town is a short documentary about the legacy of the iconic 2 Tone record label and is now being supported by the British Council to enable submission to international short film festivals. This short documentary was directed by Richard Wood and made by the Godiva Youth Gay and Lesbian group under the supervision of Paul Hardy. The project was funded by First Light Movies and Coventry City Council. The concrete streets of Coventry will be gracing international cinema audiences soon. This town is no longer a Ghost Town, so watch this space. For further info on British Films http://www.britfilms.com/