Video Production Services

Bridgwater Carnival 2024 Filming Crew Livestream and DVD production

We have been preparing kit and then up to Bridgwater, Somerset, for our 11th successful year filming the world-famous Bridgwater Carnival and parade - filming the daytime events and performances from marching bands and singers and the evening parade of amazing carts for a live stream mix t...

The Locksmith Novel Blends History and Crime with Personal Touches

Julian Poulter has turned his award-winning The Locksmith script into a full-length novel and self-published copies to sell in his shop in Devon and online.  He has been discussing the process with Devon Live again in this online article about The Locksmith novel, blending history, cr...

Security Technology Partner Conference Filming in Wales

Mark has been filming a Security Technology Partner conference at the Celtic Manor Hotel in Wales with ACF and Rob from Waggle Events. The All-day event started with presentations and talks on new security issues and technologies and sales performance information that led onto a series of ...

The Questing Beast Short filming in Ipswich BTS

Mark has been in Ipswich for a 2-day shoot of the live action elements of The Questing Beast by writer/director Joseph Brown. Mark arrived a few days early to do final camera kit preparation and to recce the outdoor locations to be used in the film. The day before the shoot, the weather wa...

Livestreaming Meeting for Global Business Update

Mark, Phil and Luke have been back to central London, to film a partner update meeting for a global Law firm using our multi-camera livestream service. The team were back working again in the head office to film and livestream a 4-person panel conversation to provide updates to the comp...

Monster Stop Frame Live Action Film Pre-Production Starts

We have started work on the pre-production planning for a new stop-motion plus live action mixed short film for first-time Director/Producer Joseph Brown, due to be filmed later in 2024. Joe has approached us for equipment and crew to work on the live action elements of the film, which wil...

The Locksmith Screenplay wins at Film Script Festivals

The Locksmith screenplay by Julian Poulter, with some help from Mark at Maniac Films, has been winning some script festivals since it was entered in February. Including the Best Historical Script award at the Oniros New York Film Awards and the Hollywood Blood Horror festival for Best...

Devon man sets sights on making the next Gladiator Movie

Julian Poulter has been in the South West England news again after winning a Hollywood script award for his debut screenplay A Call To Arms and was interviewed for the Devon Live website. Read the full article online here. Julian hopes to seek funding to produce the script into a full-on V...

Livestreaming Business Meeting for London Law Firm

Mark & Phil have just returned from another trip to London, where they were filming and live-streaming a business presentation to the employees of a global law firm near the Embankment. They only had a short time to build-in the camera and vision mixing equipment, plus a mixing desk an...

A Call to Arms Script Wins Milan and LAFA Film Festival

Local Devon writer Julian Poulter has been winning more awards for his unproduced Historical Viking screenplay A Call to Arms. Mark Brindle at Maniac Films helped extensively in the process of making the manuscript ready to deliver to festivals and to try to gain some backing for the scrip...

Surf History Documentary Film Screening for Plastic Free North Devon

The original North Devon Surf History documentary film we produced over 20 years ago has been screening again at the Croyde Deckchair Cinema as part of a fundraiser for the wave project and Plastic Free North Devon. This great community film that gained several awards at the time for best ...

Bridgwater Carnival 2023 Filming Crew Livestream and DVD production

We have been up to Bridgwater again for our 10th successful year filming the world-famous Bridgwater Carnival and parade - filming the daytime events and the evening parade for a live mix to the big LED screen and a Livestream to YouTube for the evening parade. We supplied a multi-camera c...

Absolute Dogs 2 day shoot in Okehampton

Stu has spent two days this week filming a series of videos with the team from the AbsoluteDogs dog training company based near Okehampton. Stu was there to capture two live, in-person training days for clients and their dogs. The sessions that were filmed will be turned in educational ...

Little Ships Live Theatre Filming in Exeter

In a return to his roots of filming the theatre, on Saturday Stu visited the Barnfield theatre in Exeter to film the brand-new production by director and composer Danny McAvoy  - Little Ships. "Set in 1940, Little Ships is about a West Country family at the start of World War ...

Best Historical Sceenplay Win for A Call to Arms at the Best Script Awards

In January, we reported that Mark has been working with local writer Julian Poulter to finalise his new script and get it ready for festival submissions. The dream was to get it made into a film - hopefully. We've already received some excellent feedback and won a few film competit...

Best Historical Script Win for A Call to Arms at Oniros Film Awards

In January, we reported that Mark has been working with local writer Julian Poulter to help finalise his new script and get it ready for festival submissions. The dream was to get it made into a film - hopefully. We've already received some excellent feedback and won a few film com...

A Call to Arms Wins Best Original Screenplay Feature at London Independent Film Awards

Back in January we announced that Mark has been working with local writer Julian Poulter to finalise and correctly format his new feature film script preparing it for festival submissions and even to (hopefully) get it made into a film. We've already received word that the script ha...

Rocking Romans play filming for Somerset School

Last week, Mark received an urgent message from the nearby Dulverton Junior School. They were putting on their 2023 school play 'The Rocking Romans' and needed someone to film the play for parents who couldn't attend the live event. Luckily, Mark was able to get himself prep...