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VSB Video

Andy — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:50:20 +0000

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VSB - Voluntary Service Bureau, has been operating for the past 40 years and helps promote volunteering within Northern Ireland. Their volunteers work on a wide range of projects, from helping the elderly redecorate their homes, to restoring transportation ships that were part of the Titanic.

Vsb asked Honcho Designs to produced a short 3-5 minute long video for distribution on the web with the aim of encouraging more people to volunteer.

The VSB video was shot on our High Definition camera with 35mm lens adaptor giving a ‘film like’ look. This look, combined the soundtrack and interviews from a mix of volunteers were added together to produce the final video. We also interviewed the Lord Mayor of Belfast as a separate video to appear on the VSB website.

The VSB video was shot over two days. One of those days was the ‘International Older Peoples Day’ with a range of activities happening. The video was then edited together and made ready for distribution on the web very quickly.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer please visit the VSB website for more information. If you are interested in speaking with us to see how we can meet your video production needs please get in touch

Break the Cycle film

Andy — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:15:58 +0000

Break the Cycle is a film about downhill mountain bike lifestyle in Ireland. It gives an insight into how Irelands top riders experience with their bikes have allowed them to break the cycle of everyday life.

Break the Cycle is being produced entirely by Honcho Designs and is due for release in Spring 2009. To give you an idea of what it is about you can view the HD trailer below

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MotoX of Nations

Andy — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:16:48 +0000

Honcho Designs was brought in at short notice to provide coverage of the biggest MotoX event of the year for Freecaster.tv. The event took place at Donnington park in England. MotoX of nations is an annual event that sees the worlds best motox riders battle it out to find out who is the best in the world.

The schedule was extremely busy. We had to get footage of the action during the day and then edit together three videos to be distributed online on the same day on both Saturday and Sunday

This kind of event shows how a short quality production can be put together of your event in a super short period of time. Event highlights bring more attention and get the messsage out there to your target audience, sometimes even more than the event itself. In a short period of time there were over 35,000 hits on the six videos produced.

Check out some of the action from the weekend below…

First test of 35mm adaptor

Andy — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 21:20:28 +0000

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We have just got our new 35mm adaptor and had to go out and get some test footage. Basically the adaptor helps create the look of film using video. The benefit of this is not only much nicer looking footage but also huge cost savings over traditional film cameras.

We tried this out in a forest to see how the adaptor and lenses would work in places that are not that well lit. I have to say that I am pretty impressed with the results. The edit was thrown together in under an hour with no colour correction or grading at all.

With the adapter the colours have come out more natural and organic than ever, and you can see the shallow depth of field (main subject in focus while other things out of focus) that can be achieved.

We also added an external monitor and follow focus to help with manual focusing. This will take a few shoots to get used to as you can see form the video but from the first test it seems like this will take no time at all. I’m looking forward to future projects using this piece of equipment!