Review your colour grading toolset - tv-bay magazine article

This month Mark has found his work in print yet again, having previously been publish in the IOV magazine on a number of occasions. This time Mark's knowledge has been put to paper in the tv-bay magazinein an article about using Da Vinci Resolve colour grading software as part of the ...

Conference & workshop filming + highlight videos for BP

We have just spent 4 days filming in London with BP. We were contacted by North Devon based Tinder-Box who were organising the conference for BP and had some pre-workediting short films for the conference. Our first job saw us spending 2 days at the BP Faculty conference, filming intervie...

Entrepreneur First promo filming green screen horse

Wow this was an interesting challenge. We were contacted by Seb Agertoft who had applied for the Entrepreneur First programme. In order to make his application stand out he wanted to make a short film in a similar style to the Old Spice ads a few years ago. The aim was to create a seamles...

Finishing touches & web conversion for Mr Pickles

Mike Stocks (AKA Mr Pickles) and his monkeys are back with another video - this time to support Movember, a yearly event for men to raise awareness of prostate and testicular cancer. Mike has created the film for a competition in which entrants had to create an original film promoting the...

Grading and VFX for Mike Stocks' new Music video - Black Heart

Mike Stocks (AKA Mr Pickle) has been working with his monkeys again on a follow-up to his successful video - Dreamin' This time Mike has used his monkey puppets to re-enact the famous 'Its Alive' scene from Frankenstein (where Dr Frankenstein animates his creation using lightn...

Actavis Garden Party at Woolhanger Manor

The Actavis Garden Party was an invitation only event for staff, held to thank them for another year of dedication and hard work. This year the event was held at teh recently restored Woolhanger manor in North Devon. We were invited to bring along our cameras by Zoe from Actavis following...

The Reverend is available to buy on DVD

The Reverend is finally available to buy on DVD The film received some great reviews when released in selected cinemas in February and now you can see it at home. DVD extras include a making of documentary with interviews with cast and crew members. The DVD is available on Amazon now - ...

Colour grading for short film Worlds Apart

Worlds Apart is a new short film by Sara Barbas, a story of love, alienation and self-discovery. Sara contacted us for help with the final grade on the film and we were happy to assist her in getting the project finished. Mark from Maniac took on the task with gusto and has taken the raw ...

Maniac Films goes solar (powered that is)

Here at Maniac we have always tried to be as green as possible, although difficult when running computers all day! We try to keep paper usage to a minumum and recycle as much as possible. We have now taken a huge leap to reducing our carbon footprint by installing 2 banks of solar panels ...

The Muddy River Band live videos now on YouTube

Now available to watch on YouYube are our live edits of The Muddy River Band performing 'Brownsville Blues' and 'You Can't Catch Me'. We filmed the full live performance by the band back in August. We also created a live DVD, fully edited from the 5 cameras that we use...

Advert created for the 2012 Springboard conference

We have just finished work on an advertisement for the upcoming Springboard consultancy training conference to be held in Milton Keynes in 2012. The footage was filmed at last years conference by Mark Brindle from Maniac films using a couple of Panasonic Af101 and a canon 7D. See the Spri...

Basils Balls Up Blues Band live videos now on YouTube

Now available to watch on YouYube are our edit of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'The Singing Nun' performed by Basils Balls Up Band. In August we filmed a full live performance by the band and within a week we had provided them with a copy of the live audio on CD to choose tracks t...

Roll the credits, The Reverend is complete!

Its been a long road but with the arrival of the credit roll and animated opening sequence, The Reverend edit is complete. Now time for the premiere! Having received and added the audio (in both stereo and surround) last week, we took delivery of the animated opening title sequence and a ...

Grade & VFX for The Reverend nears completion.

We have been working on the grade for The Reverend and have already finished the trailer, sent the audio to the sound designer and nearly completed 98% of the main film. With only the end credits and final audio mix to go on the main edit, we feel pleased with how the film looks! One of t...

Pickup shots for The Reverend filmed in North Devon

When shooting a film, inevitably some shots will not be filmed. This can be due to time, location issues or host of other reasons. When this occurs, it is necessary to film 'pickups'. For The Reverend we only needed two extra shots for the film, both of which were filmed by Maniac...

The Reverend grade and vfx begins at Maniac Films

Fresh from the edit suite, the final cut of the new Neil Jones film, The Reverend is now being graded by Maniac Films. We will also be adding additional visual effects and cleaning up shots to finish the featire film. We are also working on the trailer, grading and cleaning up the shots r...

Live video editing and CD & DVD authoring for Steve Tucker

Steve Tucker, frontman for Steve Tucker's All Star Jazz Band, brought us a pile of tapes containing live recordings of two recent band performances. Our task was to create a live DVD from these tapes and also encode individual tracks for Youtube As part of the project we visited Ilfra...

Mobile edit suite hire & editing assistance for Martin Cassini

Martin Cassini's campaign for traffic system reform - Equality Streets (formerly FiT Roads) - continues. His latest project is a series of films for Cheshire East Council about the biggest shared space (no traffic lights) scheme yet seen in the UK. It's at a major junction in the ...