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...

Gimbal operator for Pages of the Sea on Saunton Beach

Sunday 11th November 2018 say the 100th anniversary of the end of World War 1. As part of the events to mark this anniversary, on 32 beaches across the UK, giant sand portraits were created of some of the men & women who lost their lives during the war. The portraits were created by vo...

Live Filming, Vision Mixing & live streaming at Bridgwater Carnival 2018

On Saturday 3rd November 2018, we arrived at 9am to set-up our gear for the 2018 Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival, the largest illuminated procession in Britain. Maniac Films were back on location with a 7 person crew to document the event from 10:30am until the finish at 11:30pm. Although t...

Inglorious - Where Are You Now - music video lighting & jib hire

Back in August 2018 we hired our Losmandy Porta-Jib, Arri and Ianiro lights, Sachtler tripod and a camera rig to Nathan James, lead singer of rock band Inglorious to shoot two new music videos for their upcoming 3rd album. The first music video has just been released in advance of the a...