The Mourne Seafood Cookery School is a new cookery school situated in the town of Kilkeel in the Mourne Mountain area of Northern Ireland. Â They needed an added presence on their website to help entice people to sign up for the courses they have on offer and decided that video content was the way forward to achieve this.
Some of the videos produced were cookery demonstrations with local celebrity chefs.
While in Slovenia I had a some spare time and put together a few short videos of my own. Â Honcho Designs has producer accounts and contacts with all the major extreme sports video websites. Â This means the videos were featured on home pages and viewed by thousands of people just a few hours after the event.
The samples that were uploaded were the top three viewed videos of the week after the race on sites freecaster.tv, MPORA, and Pink Bike. Â This represents an excellent opportunity for anyone wishing to market to the extreme sports demographic.
Check out the sample video and some of the stats below.
Andy Yoong – Honcho Designs
Careful consideration was given to the functionality of the new site. Â For example, most of the important information is presented on the home page or is only one click away. Â A blog allows staff to keep content fresh and potential customers interested and coming back for more. Â All the menus and special offers can be viewed with a maximum of two clicks. Â The site is also integrated with other social media providers such as Facebook.
The site features full stats/tracking system and also includes a search engine optimisation system so that the owners can easily find out what their viewers are interested in and also helps them tailor content to suit.  Check out ampmbelfast.com to see everything in action.
Honcho Design is always a the front of the latest developments in video production. Â This latest video was produced as a test for a new camera. Â http://www.vimeo.com/9686067
A short video produced during snow fall in the Mourne Mountain area of Northern Ireland. Â Testing out some equipment. http://www.vimeo.com/9625322
Civic Leader provides accredited training programmes for students across Northern Ireland. The training aims to enable young people to access opportunities for public service.
The idea of Civic Leader was created but branding was needed to give a face to the name. Â Civic leader approached Honcho Designs to create a company logo, website, email marketing material and printed marketing material.
World class downhill mountain biker rider and personal trainer Colin Ross needed a presence on the web for his 2010 team ‘Rosco Lines’. Â Honcho Designs created and designed a custom WordPress installation to best suit his needs. Â The site will help Colin keep fans updated with the latest team news and offers from his personal training business. Â The WordPress system allows team members to easily post their own news to the website without the need to pay a web company to manage and keep content updated.
The Rosco Lines website allows for multiple plug-ins to be added to give increased functionality to the site. Â At the moment some features include a new-post subscription service, easy sharing to social network sites like Facebook, and advanced site statistics.
Colin is the current Irish downhill national points series champion and has just taken on youth development rider Jonny Charters. In 2010 they both aim to race and dominate the Irish race scene.
In 2008 Honcho Designs also produced an award winning video for Colin Ross at Cave Hill, in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Break the Cycle gives an insight into the life of these Irish downhill mountainbikers, while also showing off the amazing scenery and trails Ireland has to offer. We have also teamed up with bands from Ireland and beyond to provide an amazing soundtrack, from the punk rock sounds of ‘Rigger’ to the chilled out vibes of ‘The Frames’.
The DVD is available for sale internationally directly through Break the Cycle web site, and should also be available at all good bike shops.  If your local store doesn’t have it in stock ask them to get it in! X-treme video have took on European distribution so if you’re looking to stock BTC in your shop get on to them asap!
A premier was held at The Movie House cinema, Dublin Road, Belfast which was a huge success.
Said to be one of the world’s greatest team challenges, Oxfam Ireland’s TRAILTREKKER is a 100km trek for teams of four people to complete in 30 hours. Participants need a mixture of stamina, dedication and determination to reach the finish line.
But it’s not just a physical challenge: teams also raise money to help overcome poverty and injustice around the world. Â The 09 Trailtrekker took place around the Carlingford area. Oxfam Ireland contacted Honcho Designs to create a wide range of branded material for the event including trail maps, participant guides, roll-up banners, and event branding.
Honcho Designs video created by Andy Yoong was voted as the second best video of 2009 on Canadian Mountain bike website Pink Bike at the Breaker Breaker event in Las Vegas during Interbike. The video was of top Irish downhill rider Colin Ross and shot near Belfast in Northern Ireland.
The event held a premier of Aaron Larocque’s What’s Next? video.
Check out the Honcho Designs video here:
What’s Next? produced by Aaron Larocque
Freecaster.tv was at the 2009 MX of nations in Italy, the biggest and most exciting MX event of the year. Freecaster commissioned Honcho Designs to shoot and edit a few short videos to add to the live coverage available on the freecaster.tv website.
The MX GP series has moved on to Latvia. Below are two of the four videos produced on the weekend for Freecaster.tv. The first video shows some of the action and lifestlye from Saturday. The music at the start was recorded at a famous Medieval restaurant in Riga which we visited on Friday night.
The second video is a race round up of the MX2 category with interviews and action from the top three riders in their class.
Video put together for Freecaster.tv from the MX GP in Teutschenthal, Germany. Shows the action, and lifestyle from day 1 of the event. Shot and edited within one day.
It was important for team manager Alistar Beckett to be able to update the site with ease while on the road, whilst having all the features of a powerful site. Support was built in for search engine optimisation, web analytics, video & photo content, and Google calendars.
There is also a mailing list database system built into the site which automatically updates subscribers when new content is published. Â Check out their adventures at the Just Reid site
Honcho Designs was at round 3 of the Nissan UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in Andorra to produce videos for factory teams Specialized and Santa Cruz.  The two teams have the best riders on the scene, with Santa Cruz Syndicate rider Steve Peat claiming victory at the weekend, and also setting the world record for the most World Cup wins ever.  Specialized rider Sam Hill was nearly two seconds up at the split before crashing hard near the top of the course.
The riders were not the only ones who had to go fast. Â The videos which were shot on a Sony EX1 camera were, edited, and uploaded to the team sites one day after the weekend.
To see more of what happened at the weekend check out Specialized and Santa Cruz Bikes