A stunning series of films, “A Life in a Day” is from clips filmed by people around the world and can now be seen now on YouTube
Well worth a look. This is a historic film capturing for future generations what it was like to be alive on 24th July
These are all individual stories covering aspects of each person’s life – things we couldn’t even begin to imagine.There’s a very raw emotional honesty about them. Some are purely inventive, all are creative and often highly emotive. They’re short, so dip in and dip out. They’ll take your breath away and make you marvel at the wonders of the world – other people…
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It’s one of the most frustrating and difficult issues all of us editors face. The chroma key in FCP and After Effects are basic at best.Tried them time and again. Just not good enough. There is no alternative but to invest in some dedicated software if you want first class results. I’ve tried a few, and by far and away the best and – most importantly – the easiest to use is Primatte. Not cheap but the ease of use is streets ahead of its competitors. No flight deck type control panel, this is really intuitive and just a dream to use. Take a look at the interface. Buttons like spill Sponge, Restore Detail, Foreground Opacity and so on…make it so much easier to get a flawless key. Even with frizzy-haired interviewees. All you do is click on the area in Pixel mode or drag in Brush mode. The slide…
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Discussions about certain media’s lack of scruples and their engaging in illegal phone hacking indicated the lengths to which journalists can go to get a story. All the more reason for the need for top executives to be crisis management trained.
Excellent reviews from the Executive Management team at Delifrance UK for our one day Crisis Management Course. Designed bespoke for the company, with former BBC news reporter Freddie Rostand, and former Health Editor of The Sun, Jaqui Thornton, five executives were put through their paces and taught how to handle a breaking storm. How not to dig yourself into a hole and how to get out of one! Ultimately it’s about controlling the situation, managing the information flow and controling the interviews to ensure your core message gets across.
The workshop involved live TV and radio interviews with scenarios designed with Delifrance to reflect potential real life situations…
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It takes years to build a reputation, and just seconds to destroy it. One bad interview in a pressured situation and whoomph! - your reputation goes up in smoke. So what to do?
We’ve added a new page to our website for training courses on how to deal with the media and how people can more effectively deal with each other. With the News of the World scandal exploding like a string of military grade stun grenades, no one should ever be in any doubt about the lengths to which journalists go to get that headline. And if you say the wrong thing to a journalist….well, media training should be seen as insurance against bad headlines.
Demand has been steadily growing for our expertise. We do regular training with Delifrance, Ricoh, Janssen Cilag among others. With years of BBC journalism behind us, our team of national newspaper (both tabloid…
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Back from Venezuela, filming HD documentary of The Lost World. Giant Tepuis, upon whose summits you find prehistoric life. We’re exploring the damage being caused by unregulated tourism. Access to the mountain had to be negotiated through the Director of the Canaima National Park Ingrid Martinez who demanded we pay her $10 000 US. That the film was being made to raise financial support for sustainable tourism initiatives in the Park cuts no ice. After each conversation the price went up by another $1000 US. Told her to f*** off. Key interviewee botanist Stewart Macpherson has already been arrested at gunpoint, imprisonned and interrogated for refusing to pay Ingrid Martinez bribes. Venezuela a basket case of a country. All over big hoardings with pictures of El Preidente Hugo Chavez stating “Socialismo o Muerte!” Socialism or Death.
Climbed alternative mountain, refusing to pay money that should go to the native Pemon…
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Filming for “The Lost World’ – a 50 minute natural history documentary begins in earnest on monday in The Great Socialist Republic of Venezuela. Copious amounts of dollars being taken to bribe the Guardia Nacional who fleece film crews at every opportunity, try to steal equipment etc. This trip was postponed in April when a helicopter gunship rounded up the advance party. However, forewarned, the cameraman, equipment, laptops and data were rushed off Mount Roraima before the Guardia Nacional arrived. Furious Guardia Nacional soldiers, all remaining members of our party were held at gunpoiunt for 12 hours, interrogated, accused of being spies etc. Enemies of Socialism, etc etc.
Should be fun.
Serious delays though out means a manic edit for this film production. David Attenborough is said to be keen to play a role, as the film is examining the need for a sustainable tourism programme to be developed there.…
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It’s one of the most confusing aspects of working with all the different HD formats – how on earth do you manage the workflow in post production? We offer you here a very simple and powerful solution that will resolve all your problems. This is the Apple ProRes family of Codecs.
It’s taken us a while to learn how to manage effectively and edit .mxf, .bpav, .mov, RED, HDCAM, HDCAM-SR, DVCPRO HD, D5HD, AVC-Intra, XD-CAM HD, HDV and AVCHD to name but some. These format files all have different qualities, but the one thing they all have in common is that they are all huge files and will really gum up your processors and take up massive amounts of space in your storage. We can cut that in half and speed up your workflow significantly.
How you manage your material is crucial for your workflow; time is money and you…
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One of our clients has a telling tale of how a the film they commissioned from Rostand productions has proved it’s worth. IDS Healthcare Marketing chose the medium because the standard marketing tools of PR, advertising and sponsorship just weren’t working. They wanted to boost their internet ranking and realised film was the way to do this. Managing Director, Ed Pickering, said the results were dramatic. Ed Pickering video Return on Investment click here
Google has built video into it’s algorithm. If you have video on your site – an engagement object – you are 80% more likely to convert enquiries into customers. Cisco Systems believe the phenomenal rate of growth of the use of video on the web, with the new compression and streaming technologies, will result in 90% of web traffic being video by 2014.
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“I hope Freddie’s not too cross with us! We’ve made so much money out of the film he made us that I hope he doesn’t feel he undercharged us! It was a difficult subject to make visually interesting but he succeeded in making a film that was easy to watch and very informative. The film helps our sales staff to explain to customers how much work goes into the product and service we have created. And as a result, we have dramatically increased our profit by avoiding having to give discount to get the sale. When customers ask for money off now, our sales teams now feel confidant to ask them which 10% of the product they think we should cut out to pay for their discount! So profits are up and Rostand Productions has saved me thousands of pounds! Thanks Freddie!”
Ed Pickering
Managing Director
I.D.S. UK
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“Rostand Productions produced a first class film and were a pleasure to work with – Freddie even got my staff to say what a great boss I am so I don’t know how he managed that! The film is creative and entertaining with high production values. It’s a good watch which is a feat as its about how to clean loos! Money really well spent.”
Michael Rutherford
Managing Director
Victoria Medical and General Cleaning Company
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