Napoleon Creative – East London corporate video production


Turn your “What if’s” into Reality by lewisdarby
May 14, 2013, 2:16 pm
Filed under: Animation Projects, Capgemini, NC

Here is the lastest animation we’ve created for Capgemini. This time it’s all about understanding how your business is performing and using that insight to drive business decisions in real-time.

We really enjoyed putting this one together. We kept things clean and simple, but brought the subject to life with neat little illustrations and lots of transitions between the different sections.



Capgemini and Windows Azure by lewisdarby
May 9, 2013, 9:51 am
Filed under: Animation Projects, Capgemini, Filming Stories, NC

We’ve been doing quite a lot of green screen filming over the last few months on various projects. It’s always a great challenge to film actors in surroundings that doesn’t yet exist!

This video is about the Windows Azure offering from Capgemini. We developed  several scenarios that show the viewers what can be be achieved by moving to the cloud and how Capgemini has the knowledge to support the transition.



Hair Meet Wardrobe by lewisdarby
March 18, 2013, 1:13 pm
Filed under: NC

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve been working on a series of videos for the Toni&Guy HairMeetWardrobe campaign.

Our challenge, to film 5 bloggers explaining and demonstrating how to achieve their individual look. We had a great day filming each of the bloggers and it was nice challenge having to squeeze them all into 1 minute edits.

We learnt plenty of styling tips along the way too. Unfortunately I don’t have much hair to style though!



Super short form video by lewisdarby
January 25, 2013, 9:47 am
Filed under: NC

Super Short

As video continues to spread through the Internet, a new form of video has emerged. Traditionally, short form video would be anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes, the kind you are used to seeing on all manner of websites.

Now though, we have super short form videos!

A new app called Vine was launched this week allowing users to post videos of up to 6 seconds straight onto Twitter.  It doesn’t seem like a long time but a lot of adverts, whether on TV or online, are a similar length, and you’ll be amazed how much you can fit in.

Another upcoming launch is the 1 second everyday app. It does exactly what it says on the tin, but the results can be stunning. With so little time, you are forced to use only those extra special moments. Check out the 1 second everyday site for a quick demo.

The need to tell stories and document events means that the longer short form video has little to worry about, but this super short form video certainly has legs and we’re sure it won’t take long for it to become another great promotional tool.



OCommerce in action animation by Gavin Ricketts
January 15, 2013, 5:17 pm
Filed under: NC | Tags: , , ,

We recently completed this animation for Capgemini all about Jacob and Emma’s experience shopping for a new tv.

It’s fascinating learning about Capgemini’s new products and how they can connect various data sources, such as social media, loyalty cards and store data, to maximise the customer experience.



Looking for a Christmas greeting for your company? by Gavin Ricketts
November 5, 2012, 12:11 pm
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Christmas Animated Greeting for just £50

If you’re like me, then it’s at this time of year that you start to realise how close Christmas is getting. And if you’re like many of our clients, you’re wondering how to send out seasonal wishes to your clients, suppliers and friends. Well, imagine if you could send out a fantastic, funny Christmas animation featuring your company logo for just £50. Well you can!

Watch our Christmas Greeting 2012:

If you’d like us to reversion this with your company logo, we charge just £50. You can then put it on your website, YouTube channel and Facebook page. We can also make further changes, such as changing the children’s clothing to your corporate colours from £100.

Christmas Video Greeting Just £500

Our other offer is to create a short greeting with you message and using your company branding for just £500. It can either be totally animation, or we can come to your office and film a short address video message and add a simple animation at the end. Just put it on your website and email it to spread your seasonal felicitations.

And a little goes to Charity…

And to spread the festive cheer a little further, we’re donating 10% of the profits from this promotion to our chosen charity this year, the Dog’s Trust. Please give Lewis a call on 020 7871 7768 to find out more.

* Please note VAT is applicable and travel costs may be added, depending on your location.



Filming on Canon 5D with Louis Molloy by Gavin Ricketts
October 8, 2012, 2:55 pm
Filed under: NC

We spent a great day in Manchester filming Louis Molloy, the tattoo artist known for inking David Beckham and starting in London Ink, the reality TV show. The film was for Forever Ink, a new cream product designed specifically for tattoo after care.

 

 

 



Dominic Campbell on Patchwork by Gavin Ricketts
October 2, 2012, 6:04 pm
Filed under: NC

I’ve just read a great article about our friend Dominic Campbell, who’s going some great work with local governments. He’s an inspiring chap, trying to make public services more effective and efficient.

His latest project is called Patchwork, a way of connecting professionals working with families. We created a video for FutureGov to explain how it works. It’s great to help the team out!



An alternative to copyright free images by lewisdarby
October 1, 2012, 5:50 pm
Filed under: Animation Projects, NC | Tags: , , , , ,

You’ve been looking for copyright free images for a new promotion, but apart from always finding the same tired and artificial look, when you do find the images you do want they’re all in completely different styles.

A client presented us with this problem. They wanted to build a narrative for the product they were promoting. Stock shots weren’t cutting it, since the shots that could tell the story were by different photographers, featured different models and, of course, didn’t feature the product. Their budget didn’t extend to booking models, choosing a set, hiring a photographer so they could create their own stills.

Our solution was to create our own animated images, based on the storyboard they’d created with stock images, all completely customised and more importantly all on brand. The clip above is a short test extract from this project, we’re now looking to make the animation more fluid. While our solution was more expensive than stock shots, it offered great value by being bespoke, on brand and telling exactly the right narrative at a fraction of the cost of shooting bespoke footage.

Get in touch if you’d like us to come up with cost effective copyright free images for your project.

 



Green Screen studio in Old Street, London by Gavin Ricketts
September 25, 2012, 11:07 am
Filed under: Filming Stories, NC | Tags: , , ,
Green Screen studio in Old Street, London by Napoleon Creative
Green Screen studio in Old Street, London, a photo by Napoleon Creative on Flickr.

We’re creating a project that has is built around some Minority Report style computer screens. As we don’t require sound, we set the studio up in one of our meeting rooms! We worked with four actors who did a great job imagining the screens in front of them, we were thoroughly convinced that they were in operating some very sophisticated technology by the end of the shoot!




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