Sony f800 and EX3 shoot in Germany 21. February 2012
We sent a 4 man crew to Würzburg in Bavaria for one of our regular clients, the mulinational pharmaceutical research organisation Parexel. It was a 2 camera shoot for a medical instruction video to aid in the treatment of patients suffering from muscle dysfunction. We shot XDCam HD and EX.
Camera Crew from Switzerland filming in St. Moritz 20. February 2012
Our Zurich based camera crew travelled to glamorous St. Moritz to shoot the spectacular White Turf horse racing and skijoering on snow. We shot XDCam EX for London based SNTV and TransWorld Sports. After the event the crew uploaded the footage onto our server for a fast turnaround.
Fixing for Channel 4 in Frankfurt 15. February 2012
ITN London requested a bilingual fixer to research, coordinate and translate for a report they shot about the bailout for Greece. Apart from arranging interviews we had to dig up a cartoonist to illustrate Aesop’s fable of the Ant and the Grasshopper, which had to be shot on the freezing banks of the river Main in Frankfurt. Our fixers cost 350 Euros per day and they are invaluable because of their local knowledge and translation skills.
Hewlett Packard shoot in Nuremberg on the pdw 700, then edit and upload 14. February 2012
HP in Spain requested we shoot an event near Nuremberg on XDCam HD and then edit a 3 minute piece from it. We sent our Nuremberg crew to shoot this and we edited it back in frankfurt. The client got a great film without having to travel. All corrections and editorial input were done online. Easy stuff and very low cost. The client got a bargain for 2,500 Euros.
BBC Culture Show and Imagine shoot in Frankfurt 12. February 2012
One of our Frankfurt based crews spent 3 days shooting for the BBC on 2 separate projects; Glasgow Artists and Ford Madox Ford. Alan Yentob interviewed Gordon Douglas and we shot XDCam HD with the PDW 700.An HD crew with all the bells and whistles comes in at a round 1500 Euros per day. The client saves travel and accommodation costs and a free translation service.
Hamburg film crew for TV shoot. 12. February 2012
Florida based Mindclay requested our services for a shoot in one of Germany’s major ports, Bremerhaven. We filmed for 3 days on the Disney Fantasy cruise liner, which has just been taken into commission. We sent our Hamburg based crew there, which consisted of Gaffer and Grip with full lighting and grip gear, sound recordist, tele prompter operator and PA. We shot with 2 Canon 5d’s, a lightweight iPad tele prompter and the Prosup lightweight jib.
Legal videographer in Kaiserslautern, Germany 12. February 2012
We regularly provide certified Legal Videographers for U.S based law firms and Court Reporting agencies. We recently had a last minute request from a client in Puerto Rico to record a deposition in Kaiserlautern. Our Frankfurt based legal videographer travelled down there, recorded the deposition and afterwards the clients hitched a ride with him back to Frankfurt.
XDCam HD shoot near Bochum, Germany for Parexel 2. February 2012
Uk based Parexel requested 2 pdw f800 crews for a pharmaceutical shoot in Northern Germany. We found a location for them, sent our crew up from Frankfurt and spent a long day shooting medical demonstrations.
BBC HD shoot in Nijmegen, Holland 2. February 2012
Our Cologne based crew travelled to the Radbound University, Nijmegen in the Netherlands for a BBC shoot for the popular science programme “Bang Goes the Theory”. We shot XDCam HD with the pdw 700. We had to use litepanel led lights in the fmri scanner room because the powerful magnetic field generated there prevents use of regular film lights. We didn’t want our lights to go bang too!
4 EX3 HD crews and jib for Black Keys in Berlin 30. January 2012
We supplied 4 Berlin based Sony EX3 crews and a jib arm to MTVnews for an interview shoot with the US rockblues band Black Keys. We shot it just before their recent concert appearance in Berlin’s concert venue The Arena. Our PA captured these set up shots with his rather hazy mobile phone.