Maniac Films Post Production Showreel 2019

See our latest Post Production showreel with clips from some projects we have worked on in the last few years from documentary editing to feature film colour grading and visual effects. We have worked on a wide range of projects from music videos, live events and corporate presentations an...

Bridgwater Carnival 2018 live event editing

On Saturday 4th November, we spent the day filming Bridgwater Carnival from 10:30am until 11:30pm to capture the events leading up to, and then the main Bridgwater Carnival procession. The next three days were spent editing the footage for the DVD & releases. Mark edited the 2+ hour ...

Post Production for Prison Workshop films for Stand Against Violence Charity

We have been finishing editing some Prison Workshop Films for Adam Fouracre, the CEO of Stand Against Violence, a Somerset-based charity founded by Adam in 2005 in the wake of the tragic murder of his brother Lloyd at the age of 17 while out with friends. In July this year Mark travelled ...

Edit for Keith Chivers Personal Film

We have finished editing a short documentary film about Keith Chivers, ARCM, the talented Barnstaple music tutor who has been teaching violin for many years and whose students keep gaining distinctions in their exams. We were approached to piece together material that Keith's close fri...

Closed Caption Creation for HOUND movie

We have been creating new closed captions for the UK gangster movie HOUND, for online streaming platforms including Amazon. Mark has been brushing up on his Punjabi swear words with a little help from the Director Simba Masaku and some slang words with a few tips from Rasta Mouse!   ...

Colour Grading and VFX work on HOUND Feature

We have been busy sprucing up the Independent UK feature film HOUND by Simba Masaku and Jimm Stark ready for distribution by Three Wolves. Along with the sound cleanup we have been colour grading and colour matching scenes and doing some light noise removal using the original camera files ...

Sound mixing for HOUND feature film

We have just completed the sound mix for a new feature film called HOUND, directed by Simba Masaku. The film tells the story of Andy, one of many tortured souls living in the shadows of sunny London suburb, Hounslow. An introverted, alcoholic loner, Andy is forced to witness his only frie...

Admissions Video for Bristol University CDT-Comms

The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Communications at Bristol University offers a 4-year PhD for the next generation of communications engineers. Through the programme, postgraduates will have the chance to collaborate with industrial partners in a state-of-the-art environment for tr...

Two more video teasers for Billie's Kid Adoption Book

We have put together two new Facebook video teasers for Steve Tucker to help advertise the true story of his adoption and his search for his real parents in his book Billie's Kid. Both videos have been created using old Cine film supplied by Steve - one video has a Christmas ...

Triple-F DVD Authoring & Replication for Absolute Dogs

Filmed back in January 2017, Absolute Dogs Triple-F DVD is now finally off to the factory to be replicated. The film was put on hold by the AbsoluteDogs team for a few months while they worked on some other projects and releases. The footage was filmed well in advance and we have been work...

Realm of the Damned now on Amazon with Closed Captions

The full on black metal animated motion comic 'Realm of the Damned' (Tenebris Deos) featuring a heavy metal soundtrack from 'Sons of Balaur' has finally made its way to Amazon Prime with a little help from the Maniacs here in Devon. We created Closed Captions (Subtitles) fo...

Fuel Tank Inspection Video for Greenergy International

The first in a series of short 'behind the scenes' videos we are producing for Greenergy International is now online on their YouTube channel. Greenergy supply more then a quarter of the UKs road fuel, supplying to oil companies and supermarkets and are a branded wholesaler to Esso...

Engineering Nonlinearity videos now online

We have created a series of short films from the Engineering Nonlinearity (ENL) Conference held at Southampton University earlier in the year. The main project overview film (click on the link above or watch the ENL project video on this link) explains what this 5 year EPSRC-funded project...

Halloween trailer production for Billie's Kid Book

We have been working on a spooky new trailer for Billie's Kid, just in time for Halloween Written by Steve Tucker, who was adopted as a baby, Billies Kid is the true story of his search to find his biological mother and to discover where he came from. Better known as the frontman for ...

My Honor Was Loyalty feature film colour grading for Netflix

We have started re-grading the Independent feature film My Honor Was Loyalty. Set in World War 2 this is one soldiers story of the conflict and its effects on him. We got involved in this project last year when we created a DVD and Blu-ray version with multiple subtitles of the original fi...

Mass Product Photo Cloning & Re-touching for Google Shopping

We have just finished re-touching and uploading literally thousands of product photographs for online surf fashion retailer Genesis Surf Shop in Ilfracombe to allow them to comply with the latest Google Shopping channel requirements. We have been removing all watermarking and brand lo...

More VFX cleanups for Devon feature Scareycrows

We have finished another three Visual effects shots for Devon Independant feature Scareycrows - these were all 'clean up' shots to remove unwanted reflections in mirrors in a scene inside a Hairdresser salon. One shot had what looked like an XLR audio cable in shot in the mirror pl...

Sapphire v9 upgrade for Davinci Resolve

We have just upgraded our older version of Gen Arts Sapphire to the latest cross-host version 9 to run in After Effects, Premier Pro and Davinci Resolve. This version of the software works with any OFX application and so will work with Blackmagic Fusion Studio too. We first started using ...