That version was distributed on DVDs, and shown in public places.  It caused a fair stir within the Council, as we’d produced the kind of product that they never thought they could have achieved.

The full original piece is viewable below:

Yes, we began filming at 6am on freezing cold weekends in October, and yes there were still people around whom we had to keep out of the camera’s sight….

I got a parking ticket too, from the Council, who we were working for, which was nice! Actually I still have some official Birmingham City Council branded industrial rubbish bags (new) in the boot of my car to remind me of the fun and frolics we had during those days!

Not content with getting their work on national television (with 1.5 million viwers) before they’d even finished getting the company incorporated (3 years ahead of that particular goal), the boys at Brace recently completed a project which will be shown in cinemas soon in 2008!

The job, completed in November 2007, means that Dom and Paul’s goal of getting work into cinema within 10 years of starting the company has been utterly obliterated – by a 7 year margin!

The anti-drink drive project, which came from video company ST16, had already been graded once (see other blog posts) and exported by our team for use initally on youtube, and was highly rated there too. All the filming was done in High Definition, so it was pretty close to the resolution required for film.

We played with the colours a bit more, and made all the text as sharp as possible, before we exported the whole thing, ready to go to film.

Below are some frames from the piece in HD:

For those people in the Lancashire area, we hope you enjoy this as much as we enjoyed working on it!

And in the video below, you can see the Before and After of what we were given and what we did:

This was a job where, once again, @Warblefly Productions came to us at Brace with some rather nice looking footage (shot in DVCPro50 – for those who care) and asked us to edit together a promotional video.

Initially expected to be an 8 minute video, it quickly grew into a 20 minute corporate video, due to the volume of information and footage within! We spent a lot of time getting the edit just right, and during some of this period, the end client was enjoying the experience of sitting in our studio on sofas viewing the work as it was made on a large HD screen. After this, we then set about giving the film a bit of a Top Gear look through careful colour-correction and grading. The guys at Warblefly expressed how pleased they were with how much more depth and richness the finished footage had compared to the already fairly tastey original source video.

At the same time as the video was being edited, we were also working on the DVD menu and rough authoring in parallel.

Once everything was approved, we then pressed 2,000 copies of the DVD, with full-colour print, full colour case inlay and full colour 16 page booklet, and shipped them to the client just 7 working days after the master had been approved!

 










Needless to say, the client was extremely pleased with the quality of the finished product, and that it arrived 1 day before a big event they were going to attend.

Below is the complete video rather than just snippets, if you fancy a watch: