Boat Stories Premiere Screening Event

On Friday 4th September, the Maniac team attended a premiere screening of all 10 films in the Boat Stories series. The event was held at the Landmark Theatre in Infracombe and was attended by the filmmakers and stars of the films. The event featured two film premieres, one of which was our recent film 'A Life in the Day of a Young Fisherman, ', which was filmed & edited in August and finished just 3 days befdore the event. The event was a success and another is scheduled for 16th October in Bideford, see the Boat Stories website details.

CD Replication for Small Town Jones new album Sky Down

We have just taken delivery of 1000 copies of the new album 'Sky Down' by Small Town Jones (aka Jim Jones) which have been replicated in time for the album launch date. Sky Down is due for release on 6th November 2015, but we have replicated the album with plenty of time to spare to allow Jim to concentrate on promotion and marketing. The artwork was prepared by Jim and passed to us for checking/layout tweaks before it went to the Printers. The final album has been released in a card digisleeve with a 4 page booklet inside along with the CD. Check out his website for tour dates and more info on the album release date - www.smalltownjones.net.

Live Event Filming for Mole Valley Farmers Catwalk Event

Mark has just returned from the Mole Valley Farmers, Joules Autumn/Winter clothing catwalk show The shoot was a multi camera shoot with Phil Saunders Creative. The live footage was broadcast onto the big screens at either side of the catwalk, and we also recorded the live footage for editing by Phil after the event. For the event we used a number of cameras, the ABC minicrane and also a few new pieces of equipment, indluding our new Blackmagic ATEM vision mixer

Second Shoot for New Boat Stories Film - Lifeboards & fishing

We have been back in Ilfracombe filming our latest installment in the Boat Stories project. in the afternoon Stu joined 17 year old Ben Bengey, as he skippered a charter fishing trip on his boat. The hour long trip gave us a chance to show off another facet fo Ben's work. Following this Stu was joined by Mark and we filmed Ben as he handed the boat over to his dad, while we followed him to the LIfeboat station in preparation for exercises. In the evening, Mark joined Bens dad on the boat as they filmed Ben taking part in Lifeboat training exercises.

DVD Authoring & Duplication - The Legend of Frankel

We have just finished authoring The Legend of Frankel for Oxford Scientific Films Recently broadcast on Channel 4, the documentary follows the stopry of legendary racehorse Frankel and the charismatic man who trained him, Henry Cecil. The OSF provided us with imagery and the HD film, from which we created a manu, disk artwork and encoded the final film. We were also asked to convert the film to NTSC for playing in America. We provided copies in both formats with a printed disk and pre-packed in cases. The cover artwork will be printed and inserted elsewhere