St Anne's Chapel virtual tour film & website completed

The St Anne's Chapel project is now complete. The film was finished in September and we have just finished work on building a series of pages for the Barnstaple Town Council website to showcase the film and offer more information about the chapel and it's history. The new pages fi...

Maniac Films sponsor London Film Academy (LFA) Graduation Showcase 2012

Maniac Films are once again proud to be sponsoring the London Film Academy Graduation Showcase 2012. The showcase is an annual event used to show off the work of the students, with prizes and awards given for the best short film. Maniac Films will provide rental kit vouchers which can be...

Maniac Films receives 2 nominations at the IOV awards

Maniac Films have been members of the Institute of Videography (IOV) for a few years and back in 2008 we received a 'highly commended' award for our Half-Life surf film. After 4 years hiatus we decided to submit two films into this years awards and we have been shortlisted for bot...

Trenchermans guide promo filming at Lucknam Park Hotel with Michael Caines MBE

It was Monday morning and Mark and Sam were at the luxury Lucknam Park Hotel in Bath. We had been asked by Devon based Salt Media to attend a dinner which had been arranged to celebrate and promote the work of the Trencherman's Guide. This is an online guide to the best restaurants an...

Rick Turner: Are you a 2 percenter - live presentation

Marketing wizard, Rick Turner (The Big Sheep proprietor, Training Partner for South West Tourism Alliance and owner of Purple Cloud Consultancy Ltd.) talks about The Art of being Brilliant. Watch our video of Rick linked above or directly in Youtube here. Rick says, 'It revolves aro...

Live event filming for Nautilus album launch

On a Thursday afternoon in September we found ourselves standing outside a converted church in Taunton. Suddenly the doors opened and we were hit by a wall of sound. It was the sound check by Nautilus, a 4 piece band from Taunton and we were there to film the official Album launch gig. Ou...

Location filming - St Anne's Chapel virtual tour film

After months of planning the filming dates for the St Anne's Chapel film finally arrived. We were on-set at 8am to begin setting up our equipment in readiness for the arrival of our cast at 10am. Our crew was made up of Director Stuart Brennan, Stu (sound recordist) & Mark (DoP, p...

Location photo shoot for Nineplus surf company

Maniac Films have just spent an afternoon at the local Nineplus surf shop in Braunton. We were there to photograph the brands latest clothing lines, capture lifestyle shots and anything else that reflects the ethos of the company. We took along 3 Canon EOS 7D cameras, our large white viny...

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 - ...

Joined Up event filming - Mark Brindle joins speaker line-up!

As part of our ongoing commitment to film at the monthly 'Joined-Up' events in and around Barnstaple, we found ourselves back at Broomhill Art Hotel on Tuesday evening armed with a couple of Canon EOS 7D cameras. However there was a difference this time - Mark Brindle from Maniac ...

Live event filming for Eco-Exmoor and EV motion

We have just returned from a day of filming at RMB Chivenor in North Devon. The base was the location for a joint event hosted by local companies Eco-Exmoor and EV motion called Eco-Drive. The aim of the event was to promote and showcase electric vehicles and eco technology and despite th...

Live event filming - 'Celebrating Abstraction' at Appledore Arts Festival

The Appledore Arts Festival is an annual showcase of work from local, national and international artists held in North Devon. The festival hosts a number of events and this year we were contacted by Sandy who was hosting a special talk featuring a number of Abstract artists. Assisted by ...

Paul Trueman - Making Twitter work for you - live presentation

Paul Trueman, digital copywriter at Bray Leino in North Devon, talks about how to make Twitter work for you or how not to be boring on Twitter. Check out this 15 minute talk that could help your social media campaign to really take off. FIlmed and produced by Maniac films for JoinedUp net...

Martin Dorey - how amazing things can happen with good networking - live presentation

Martin Dorey, presenter of BBC's One Man and his Camper Van and author of new book, Camper Van Coast giving a talk entitled "Everybody needs friends -- how amazing things can happen with good networking" Martin shot to fame when he presented BBC2’s 10 part food and tra...

Filming students learning to use quill pens for St Annes

We were invited to join Julian Vayne from North Devon Museum on his recent visit to Newport Community School in Barnstaple - one of a number of teaching sessions in which Julian is introducing the students to artefacts from St Anne's Chapel. This session introduced the students to qui...

Nick Cooper: How to sell without doing the dreaded hard sell - live presentation

Nick is sales director at Salt Media, the design and marketing consultancy which also publishes the South West's leading food magazine and The Trencherman's Guide - a guide to the best restaurants in the region. We filmed him presenting this session to a business networking group a...

Maniac to the Elite Iron Man event at 2012 Goldcoast Oceanfest

The Elite Man/Woman event invites 24 men and 24 women to compete in a gruelling elimination event. Competitors fight over 3 legs to earn a place in the final as they take on a 3 stage course of swimming, surfboard paddling and ski paddling in each round. The event is being organised by lo...