More Puppy Course filming for Absolute Dogs

Stu has been a half day of filming with AbsoluteDogs for a their ongoing puppy course. This was this 4th of 12 shoots, which will take place once a month over a 12 month period. The online video training course will follow 2 pups (and special guest pups) throughout the year and document th...

Sound and Camera Crew Hire for White Screen Video shoot for UK Manufacturer

We have recently been engaged as lighting, camera and sound crew for a corporate video shoot for a major UK company for their internal e-learning group. We supplied a 3 meter wide white vinyl backdrop system with heavy duty light stand supports, LED lighting for the backdrop and the people...

K9 First Aid filming with Absolute Dogs

Stu has been back to Okehamptonto film a live K9 First Aid event for the AbsoluteDogs dog training company. Despite the freezing weather, students gathered in the indoor training centre (sadly not heated) to learn the basics of canine first aid from a visiting Australian vet who had trave...

Bridgwater Carnival 2019 Filming Crew Live Stream and DVD production

We have been back to Bridgwater again on 2nd November 2019 for our 8th successful year filming the fabulous Bridgwater Carnival with a live mix for the big screen and Live Streaming again this year to YouTube. The Carnival was a fantastic spectacle and a great success for the organisers. W...

Super Trainer Live 2019 filming for Absolute Dogs

Stu has returned from 5 days of filming with AbsoluteDogs at Clinton Hall near Okehampton in Devon. He was there to film two events, the 3 day long Super Trainer Live 2019 event and a 2 day event titled Pro Dog Trainer. Super Trainer Live is a yearly event, which has grown from 30 attende...

Slimmeria Retreat Devon Promo Video now live

The new promotional video for the beautiful Slimmeria Devon Retreat has been signed off and has gone live online. The video was filmed during the summer of 2019 over a couple of Saturdays to allows us free access to the location at Merlin Court in Ilfracombe. We filmed some new scenic shot...

Filming a Puppy Course for Absolute Dogs

Stu has just returned from a 2nd half day of filming with AbsoluteDogs for a new puppy course. This was this 2nd of 12 shoots, which will take place once a month over a 12 month period. The course will follow 2 pups (and special guest pups) throughout the year and document their progress -...

Camera Crew Hire for Global Media

Global Media, the company behind radio stations such as Heart, Classic FM & Radio X also provide marketing campaigns for companies across the UK. We received a call from Globals regional head of video last week with a request for a camera operator to visit a local Care Home and film a...

Nikon Primes Cine Kits Added

We have just equipped some of our most popular Nikon manual focus primes with P+S Technik lens gears, ensuring that they are ready for any shoot. The lens gears feature an industry standard 0.8 pitch and should work with virtually any follow focus system. We have created 2 kits using the...

Aputure c300d Mk II LED lighting now in stock

We loved the Aputure LS C300d LED light so much that when Aputure announced the new Aputure LS C300d mk II, we just couldnt resist! Aputure took everything that we loved about the mk i and improved on that base. The new and improved 300d Mark II is 20% brighter, more durable, more portabl...

Scenic 4k Filming in and around Ilfracombe

Phew, what a scorcher! Yesterday Stu spent one of the hottest days of the year capturing scenic shots of some of our beautiful North Devon Costline. Stu ventured out into the heat and first began by climbing HIlllsborough in Ilfracombe to capture shots looking down over the harbour. He th...

4 days of live filming with Absolute Dogs

Stu has spent he last 4 days in Okehampton, filming 4 days of live teaching events with the AbsoluteDogs dog training company. The 4 days all fell into themes, such as Calmness and Gundog and were aimed towards owners who need help with certain types of struggle that they may be facing wi...

Putsborough Holiday Cottage Films Updates

Back in 2015 we created short promotional films in and around three holiday cottages in the beautiful hamlet of Putsborough and a fourth in Croyde, North Devon. Fast forward 4 years and we have been back to the cottages, taking photographs and new footage to update the videos after the co...

The Day My Life Changed Edit for SAV

Mark has been working on the edit of 'The Day My Life Changed: Jays's Story' - a true story of violence and its consequences. This is the final short film for Adam Fouracre of the Somerset based charity Stand Against Violence (SAV) that we have created from a series of intervie...

Training Academy filming for Absolute Dogs

Stu has been back to Okehampton to film for 4 days with the team from Absolute Dogs. They were runnung a 4 day course for students to come along with their dogs and pick up some of the newest games and training techniques. Stu was on hand to film the sessions and captured over 50 lessons w...

Video production starts for Slimmeria Retreats Ilfracombe

Mark has been busy filming a new business video for Slimmeria Retreats in Ilfracombe to showcase their fabulous Victorian property above Tunnels beach. The retreat runs as a weight loss and detox centre with fitness classes, yoga and walking options and would like to increase their presenc...

Advert & content filming for Absolute Dogs

Stu has just returned from a day & a half of filming near Okehampton with AbsoluteDogs. He was there to film a series of promotional adverts for new online courses and a new book. He also filmed the content for a 14 day online course which will launch this year. The footage was shot i...

Live Event Crew for eSports Car Racing Event

We've been down to Mercedes Benz World with The Event House for the finals of the eSports Racing Championships (Project Cars 2) with a three person crew filming the car racing and the live commentary as well as interviewing the drivers and generating material for future promo films. Se...

Domestic Violence films for Stand Against Violence Charity SAV

We have been editing three more Domestic Violence videos for the Somerset-based charity Stand Against Violence (SAV), founded by Adam Fouracre in 2005 in the wake of the tragic murder of his brother Lloyd at the age of 17. The series of films on Domestic Violence have been created from int...

Ronin-S 3-axis 1-handed gimbal stabiliser

New in from DJI, we now offer the DJI Ronin-S 3-axis gimbal stabiliser, designed to be used one handed with DSLR & Mirrorless cameras. The Ronin-S is a lightweight and versatile solution which is idea for cameras such as the Sony a7s II and Canon EOS 5D. For video demos and tutorials ...

Final green screen pickup shot for Wookey Hotel Advert

We've just finished a short pickup shot for one of the Wookey Hole Hotel adverts we filmed with Colour247 at the end of last year. We built a small bedroom set in our studio to film a green screen shot of a 'magic duvet' being pulled up - you can see the string but you wont see...

Video filming crew for Autosport International NEC 2019

We've been up to the NEC in Birmingham at the Autosport International show for a few days providing camera equipment and camera crew hire to The Event House eSports stand who were showcasing linked electronic car racing and motorcycle Virtual Reality gaming. The show was on 10th - 13th...

Video Production showreel 2019

Just like waiting for a bus - we hadn't created a new showreel for a few years and now there are three in one week! This is our latest Video Production showreel featuring work from over the years where we have been involved in the complete end to end process from planning, filming, lig...

Maniac Films Video Crew Showreel 2019

Here is our new Video crew showreel for 2019. This is a collection of video clips from projects we have been involved in as crew up to the end of 2018 - some older and some newer. The clips range from crew on short and feature films, TV adverts, training films, sporting events, music video...

Super Trainer Live filming for Absolute Dogs

Stu has just come back from 5 days of filming with the AbsoluteDogs team at Clinton Hall near Okehampton in Devon. He was there to film two events, the 3 day long Super Trainer Live event and a 2 day event titled Pro Dog Trainer. Super Trainer Live is a yearly event, which this year saw i...