Final green screen pickup shot for Wookey Hotel Advert

We've just finished a short pickup shot for one of the Wookey Hole Hotel adverts we filmed with Colour247 at the end of last year. We built a small bedroom set in our studio to film a green screen shot of a 'magic duvet' being pulled up - you can see the string but you wont see...

Video filming crew for Autosport International NEC 2019

We've been up to the NEC in Birmingham at the Autosport International show for a few days providing camera equipment and camera crew hire to The Event House eSports stand who were showcasing linked electronic car racing and motorcycle Virtual Reality gaming. The show was on 10th - 13th...

Maniac Films Video Crew Showreel 2019

Here is our new Video crew showreel for 2019. This is a collection of video clips from projects we have been involved in as crew up to the end of 2018 - some older and some newer. The clips range from crew on short and feature films, TV adverts, training films, sporting events, music video...

Genesis Old Guys Rule product photography

We have been busy editing a range of new product photos taken for www.genesissurfshop.com. We were photographing a new line of t-shirts from popular mens brand 'Old Guys Rule' which will be sold on the Genesis online store. The t-shirts were modelled by Robin, the owner of the sho...

Gimbal operator for Pages of the Sea on Saunton Beach

Sunday 11th November 2018 say the 100th anniversary of the end of World War 1. As part of the events to mark this anniversary, on 32 beaches across the UK, giant sand portraits were created of some of the men & women who lost their lives during the war. The portraits were created by vo...

Live Filming, Vision Mixing & live streaming at Bridgwater Carnival 2018

On Saturday 3rd November 2018, we arrived at 9am to set-up our gear for the 2018 Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival, the largest illuminated procession in Britain. Maniac Films were back on location with a 7 person crew to document the event from 10:30am until the finish at 11:30pm. Although t...

Christmas TV Advert Filming with Colour247

We have been filming near the Brecon Beacons with Colour 247 for a series of Christmas TV adverts for a shopping Centre in Cardiff. We filmed the majority of the footage in the home of the family who will also star in the adverts and filmed one additional shot on the drive of another hous...

4K advert filming at Wookey Hole with Colour247

We've spent two days filming the various types of accommodation at Wookey Hole with Director Colin Martin from Colour 247 for a series of upcoming Web adverts. Mark did some camera tests in advance of the shoot to check the dynamic range and gradability of the Sony Slog2 mode on the A7...

Film crew hire for interviews in London

Mark & Stu have spent a day filming in central London for GSL Media. Usually Ben from GSL is the one manning the camera on these shoots with Stu providing audio services, but on this occasion Ben was unable to make it so he asked Mark to go along with Stu to take care of the filming. ...

Sound crew hire for major supermarket shoot

Back in the office after a 4 day shoot in London & Brighton, Stu has been recording sound on location for a series of e-learning videos for a major supermarket chain with GSL Media. The shoot took place in 4 of the supermarket chains stores, ranging from small 'local' convenie...

Video Playout Crew for Cornish Ice Cream Commercial

Mark has been down to the lovely Hayle Beach in Cornwall as part of the crew for the latest Kelly's Ice cream commercial 'Beach Huts' by Director Alex Turner from Fat Lemon tv. Shot on the Arri mini Alexa with anamorphic lenses on a beautiful sunny day in April, Mark was tasked...

Sound crew & teleprompter hire for hospital training film

We sent Stu down to London for a day with Ben from GSL Media. Ben had hired Stu in as a sound recording crew for a training video shoot in a major London eye hospital. Stu also took along our iPad Teleprompter system which Ben had hired for the shoot. Stu was part of a 4 person crew, work...

Sound crew hire for shoot in Geneva

Stu has just returned from a short corporate shoot in Geneva, Switzerland for GSL Media. Stu was part of a crew who were filming 6 interviews with some of the top people in a major inspection, verification, testing and certification company. The interviews will form part of a new online ...

Product advert filming for the Gro Company

We spent a day in a studio near Exeter working with the Gro Company to film a web advert for a new product which will soon be launching in Australia and will also be launching here in the UK later this year. Gro tend to shoot a lot of their web videos in house, but for larger launches the...

Sound crew provided for shoot with major internet company

Stu has just returned from a 1 day shoot in London at the London HQ of a major internet search company, where he worked as a location sound recordist for an corporate training film with GSL Media. As mentioned, the shoot was for a very popular internet search company at their London HQ. T...

Live Event Kit and Crew for Mole Valley Farmers Dairy Conference

We've had a busy November with another Live event kit and crew hire this time for Phil Saunders Creative at the Haynes Motor Museum in Somerset for the Mole Valley Farmers Diary Conference. We did a full equipment pre-build and setup our ATEM 4K vison mixer kit and multiple 4K cameras ...

Live Filming & Vision Mixing for Bridgwater Carnival 2017

Saturday 4th November and we were up early to set-up our gear for the 2017 Bridgwater Guy Fawkes Carnival, the largest illuminated procession in Britain. Once again Maniac Films were on location with a 7 person crew to document the event all day and night. It was rather cold and we had a f...

Sound recordist & camera hire for charity film

Stu has just returned from a two day shoot in London with Ben from GSL Media as a sound recordist. Stu also took along a Sony a7s II 4K camera to allow Ben to shoot in 4K video. The team were filming a series of interviews for a major charity. All of the interviewees suffer from various t...