Recent Projects

iStyle Hair and Beauty - A web commercial for a new and exciting salon based in Newbury.

 

The Living Leader -A video promo for leadership training company which is headed by Penny Ferguson. Formed part of an exciting rebrand and launch into America.

 

Bicycle Helmet Initiative Trust - Joe a short film produced to encourage children to wear bicycle helemts. www.bhit.org

 

Dancing for Dollars - promotional music videos filmed during a recording session.

 

CEMEX - Lock out procedure. Series of seven cartoon style training videos showing the lock out procedures when working on plant machinery.

People of the pier - Opening sequence from a documentary on Swanage Pier. Produced by George Paine for their Appeal 2011 fund raising campaign.

In your hands - A short drama featuring Gordon Kennedy and Lesley Nicols (Credits include Downton Abbey and East is East)- two well known TV and movie actors . Written by Debbie Manship and Directed by Paul Clayton the drama shows the possible dangers of self administered drugs following surgery.

 

 

Gordon Kennedy - In your hands in production

RADIOTHERAPY TIMING COMPARISON AND SIDE EFFECTS

MRC Clinical Trials Unit

 

Clip from RADICALS radiotherapy timing comparison patient information DVD. Features Professor Lesley Fallowfield, Dr John Staffurth and actor Peter Symonds. Directed by Tim Paine www.radicals-trial.org

 

Mineral Products Association Showcase 2009. -Presented by Krishnan Guru Murthy and featured Kate Humble who presented a programme taking a look at biodiversity in quarries. 2 camera location shoot, filmed in Lancashire, written by Barrie Hedges and directed by Tim Paine.

 

Kate Humble

 

Opening Sting Showcase 2009

Actibreathe Workout - by Powerbreathe - Produced by Richard Simons and Directed by Tim Paine and presented by celebrity Trainer Jon Trevor. The first in this series is a trilogy of ActiBreathe™ Body Conditioning workouts designed to be used in small places, with travel in mind each system is supplied with equipment and DVD workout, the programme is also time flexible so workouts can last for 10, 15, 20 or 30mins, giving that ActiBreathe™ lift anytime, anyplace, anywhere.

 

A day in the life of a patient taking warfarin - Short film with Dr Sarah Jarvis about a sufferer of Atrial fibrillation (AF or afib). Directed by Paul Clayton.

 

 

Thrive- One of a series of clips to encourage disabled people to use gardening as therapy. www.thrive.org.uk

 

 

Mineral Products Association - Concrete feature

 

Gentle Yoga Exercises Following Breast Cancer Surgery - Commissioned by Cancer Research UK, a double DVD covering 18 different postures designed to help improve mobility folowing surgery.

QPA Showcase 2008 - Krishnan Guru Murthy took the reins from Fiona Bruce to present the show. The theme this year was sustainable construction which included a documentary on how the UK's top utility companies are helping to reduce their carbon footprint and as they repair and expand their infrastructure by using sustainable construction techniques. We also produced a programme starring Keith Chegwin to be used in schools which was previewed to the audience of over 500 people.

 

Skills for Care - Presented by Maggie Philbin this series of five studio based programmes documented the work that SECAS - South East Care Advice Service - has carried out in the care industry over a three year trial period. Featuring reports filmed on location across the South of England and studio interviews in our green-screen virtual studio.

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Penny Ferguson Ltd - 2 camera shoot filmed at the Ritz Hotel featuring Olympic Gold Medalist Ed Moses

Sealy Beds - Short in-store point -of sale promtional video sequences.

 

Lehel - Promotional DVD for luxury horsebox manufacturer Lehel. Filmed in their factory in Hungary and locations across the UK. Features testimonials from world class eventers and dressage competitors - Clayton Fredericks, Robert Smith and Vicki Thompson.

PICS -Instructional DVD to accompany a driveway enhancement product for the DIY market.

BMAPA/The Crown Estates - Munitions Awarness: It is estimated that more then 80,000 tonnes of munitions were dropped on Britain during the last war, more munitions were fired in defence of our country but not all exploded, many of which ended up on the seabed where they lay to this day still potentially lethal... This DVD for the marine aggregates industry ihas been created to increase awarness of this potential hazzard. Using blue screen technoogy to create a virtual studio, presented by Paul Clayton, written by Barrie Hedges and assisted by the Hampshire Police and Military Bomb Disposal.

Breathe - Once again working with Director/Actor Paul Clayton and acclaimed writer Debbie Manship to produce a drama style programme about multiple myloma. Filmed in our studio with four professional actors - with many tv credits - the DVD was created to increase awareness of this crippling disease.

Viking Direct/3M - Working with e-marketing company Purestone with our tongues planted firmly in our cheeks, the brief: to produce 20 short clips based on scenes from iconic movies using stationery as the cast. The clips form the basis of a quiz on www.stationerytv.com. Using a mixture of stop frame, live action and computer animation techniques.

Penny Ferguson Ltd - The brief: Capture a 3 day leadership programme for a new training DVD.The result: 3 cameras, recording over 50 hours of material, 16 channels of digital sound recording. more than 35 digital tapes and culminating in 15 days editing. www.pennyferguson.com

Quarry Products Association Health & Safety Awards - This year ECP Video produced 13 short films covering innovations in Health & Safety throughout the quarrying industry from Devon to Yorkshire. Tarmac, Aggregate Industries, Lafarge, WBB Minerals, CEMEX and Hanson all commissioned ECP Video to produce short programmes on their award winning enrties. www.safequarry.com

CIH - Euronics - Coverage of the Euronics trade show at The NEC Birmingham. The DVD follows the frantic behind the scenes build-up of this high profile show through to the graceful opening. Featuring interviews with representatives of major electrical manufacturers -Sharp, LG, Samsung, Electrolux, JVC...

Quarry Products Association - Showcase 2007 presented by Fiona Bruce.  A conference produced in the style of a news magazine TV programme with live interviews and video reports presented by Duncan Duff and Paul Clayton. Filmed the length and breadth of Britain covering all aspects of the industry from the 2012 Olympics to marine aggregates.

 

This year we also featured the views of the bosses of five of the biggest quarrying companies in the country and how they see the the industry in 2017

The QPA Showcase has been an annual event for many years and over previous years has been presented by George Allagiah, Peter Sissons and John Craven. This year saw Fiona Bruce return for the third year running. www.qpa.org

Wiltshire Wildlife Trust & Hills - A short documentary about the restoration of Lan ford Lakes nature reserve near Salisbury

CEMEX - Slips, trips and falls... a 10 minute computer generated animation for health and safety applications.

 

Private party - Palma Majorca was the location and singer-

songwriter Gerard Kenny was the star.

Bayer - A dual purpose DVD. Ad via Centaur CP diagnostic machine, for promotional and training purposes.

BrainStorm - A play about epilepsy written by Polly Toynbee and directed by Paul Clayton. Recorded at our own facility using state of the art high definition video cameras the programme was premiered at the World Congress of Neurology in Australia - Nov 2005

Esprit - A DVD filmed on location in over 8 days in Amsterdam to provide a global training solution. Distributed worldwide.

 

PGL - "Overseas adventure" filmed in several locations in France and Spain portrays the fun and excitement of a PGL holiday. This DVD was followed by PGL UK Adventure which highlights the activity and education courses offered in the UK and so far over 12,000 DVD's have been produced for distribution. (using our in-house DVD duplication facility)

 

UCB Pharma - "Could do better". A drama written by Debbie Manship and directed by Paul Clayton covers the subject of living with ADHD. This was acted out by 5 actors who played the parts of children as well as adults - a complex, interesting but fun programme.

Star Energy - "One Mile Down" A fascinating programme presented by Lisa Hazelhurst, all about oil production in the UK.

CEMEX - "Fuels for the future" Filmed in Germany this documentary explains how household refuse is being transformed into a new fuel for cement kilns.

CEMEX - "The history of Rugby Cement"  Historical documentary tracing the history of the famous Rugby Cement works.

Alphason Designs - A series of QVC style product orientated programmes - with QVC presenter Nick Alsbury - to launch a new range of furniture for home entertainment equipment at their annual product launch  -  Abama Resort in Tenerife.

Also on-site filming and editing at Abama to produce a location report for their web site as well as souvenir DVD for the delegates. Delegates were amazed to see the edited programme at the gala dinner which even include them arriving for that evenings event.

Apax Partners - Location:The Old Vic... 40 people split into 3 teams, each with a professional director, choreographer and music by one of the west ends leading musical directors, the teams were set the task of producing their own performance for that evening. We followed the days progress using 4 cameras to produce a DVD  and photographic record of the event.

Microsoft Software Asset Management - An in-depth case study of WPP and how they manage the software on over 65,000 PC's worldwide.

Vodafone - Interactive training DVD introducing segmentation to the sales force. Using actors to explain the segments in a series of interviews the DVD also includes an interactive quiz.

Hills Homes - Property developers Hills commissioned this DVD and web streaming video to attract buyers to their development in Swindon. Subjects covered include: Company background, a tour of the development and interviews with the architects. www.hills-homes.co.uk

From The Archives...

Consumers' Association - Behind the scenes look at how they test products for Which? magazine.

Papworth Hospital - To promote their thoracic surgery facilities, this video included scenes of an actual heart operation.

Trimble Navigation - The early days of GPS technology. Filmed just after the 1st Gulf War "Operation Desert Storm" this promo was produced for Trimble and showed how for the first time in a major conflict GPS was used. Presented by Maggie Philbin who suggested that "one day this technology could may even be used in cars".