Filed under: Voice Over | Tags: Agent, Castaway, corporate video, Liz Bower, Napoleon Creative, Shoot, Showreel, voice over, voiceover
Last week we were in the voiceover studio with one of our actor friends, Elizabeth Bower. While Liz gets regular acting work, she wanted to get more voice over work. So having done her research and found an agency she wanted to impress, she asked for our help. She wanted a showreel of her vocal talent, show her range of tones, accents and character voices. She came to us with some scripts she’d written, we helped her with a few more. We went to the studio, recorded her audio, then put the reel together with music appropriate music behind each one. She’s very happy with the reel, and I think it shows her talents brilliantly!
UPDATE: 17/2/2011
We’ve now heard that the agency have accepted her! So that’s great news for her.
UPDATE: 10/3/2011
Liz’s profile is now online at Castaway, and she’s already had her first test session for a large supermarket chain. Go Liz!
Filed under: Coalition | Tags: Corporate, Filming, Napoleon Creative, Shoot, Video
Today we filmed at Coalition, a financial services company.
We’re creating two videos for them. The first is to introduce the company, the second is to help recruit analysts to the company.
Coalition are based down on Bermondsey Street, so we walked up to river.It was a beautiful crisp cold morning, with lovely low sun making everything golden.
Filed under: Animation Projects, Capgemini, Clients | Tags: Animation Projects, Capgemini, Corporate, corporate video, east, East London, Filming, HD, London, Napoleon Creative, NapoleonCreative, Shoot, solution, Video
Capgemini asked us to help them communicate their Rightshore offering and they wanted to use animation.
We spent a while getting the look right, then developed 3 sequences for them, each on a different aspect of Rightshore. We coached one of their staff to give the voice over, which was a nice touch to give the film a ‘we made this’ flavour. You can see the full clips in situ here or watch our short version below:
Filed under: Filming Tips, Grayling | Tags: Corporate, corporate video, Grayling, London, Napoleon Creative, NapoleonCreative, Shoot
On Monday we got a job to create a video for a presentation for new client, Grayling. Simple interview set up, then cut it down to a 90 sec clip. Worked well, got the clip delivered in good time, nice HD encode, taking the speaker into the presentation virtually as they couldn’t make it in person.
Then we get a call from our client from the presentation. First fear, the clip wouldn’t work for some reason. No, all went fine – in fact, can we create an wmv for the people at the meeting to take away with them?
Sure! Within half an hour we’d re-encoded the clip so it was under 5mb, the size that usually gets emails sent to spam or blocked. The client received it on their BlackBerry, and forwarded it to everyone at the meeting. Easy solution, and meant the investment they made on the clip wasn’t just spent during the presentation, but can now be reviewed by all at any time.
Filed under: Filming Stories, NC, ThemThere | Tags: corporate video, creative, East London, industries, NapoleonCreative, Shoot, ThemThere
We filmed at the ThemThere Event No 1 party last week, and pics are now coming in… this one is of us lot mid filming! Parties are always tough to shoot. It’s noisy usually with recognisable music tracks, people like the light dimmed which makes all the faces dark, and your antenna has to be twitching for all the cables and kit for health and safety and security reasons. The one advantage is that people are usually a little merry, so easier to persuade to be filmed!
ThemThere is a collaboration of East London based small businesses working in the creative industries.
Filed under: NC, Testimonials | Tags: Corporate, corporate video, East London, Filming, NapoleonCreative, Shoot, testimonial, Video
We’re doing some research in to what our customers like about our service and what we need to improve. We’ve got some really encouraging feedback so far, but this one sticks out:
“I’m impressed by the fact that you really care about the content – it’s not just the logistics of the filming. If I work with you guys I have peace of mind because I know that I’ll have an ‘ally’ in the building of the story.”
This sums up, I think, what NC is about. We like being our client’s ally, collaborating with them but still taking a degree of impartiality to make sure the client gets their story told in the best way. And caring about the content? Well you have to. If you don’t know what the project’s about, it you don’t engage and really try and understand it, then no amount of fancy camera work will save the video!
Filed under: Capgemini, Clients, Filming Stories, NC | Tags: Corporate, corporate video, Filming, Hospital, NapoleonCreative, PCT, Shoot, Video, West Sussex, Worthing
Yesterday we shot at Worthing Hospital for a piece on West Sussex PCT.
We got to film a plaster cast being sawn off, people reviewing X-rays, plus lots of very technical looking equipment. Wonder how much will make the final cut?!
