Actavis Garden Party at Woolhanger Manor

The Actavis Garden Party was an invitation only event for staff, held to thank them for another year of dedication and hard work. This year the event was held at teh recently restored Woolhanger manor in North Devon. We were invited to bring along our cameras by Zoe from Actavis following...

The Reverend is available to buy on DVD

The Reverend is finally available to buy on DVD The film received some great reviews when released in selected cinemas in February and now you can see it at home. DVD extras include a making of documentary with interviews with cast and crew members. The DVD is available on Amazon now - ...

Colour grading for short film Worlds Apart

Worlds Apart is a new short film by Sara Barbas, a story of love, alienation and self-discovery. Sara contacted us for help with the final grade on the film and we were happy to assist her in getting the project finished. Mark from Maniac took on the task with gusto and has taken the raw ...

Maniac Films goes solar (powered that is)

Here at Maniac we have always tried to be as green as possible, although difficult when running computers all day! We try to keep paper usage to a minumum and recycle as much as possible. We have now taken a huge leap to reducing our carbon footprint by installing 2 banks of solar panels ...

The Muddy River Band live videos now on YouTube

Now available to watch on YouYube are our live edits of The Muddy River Band performing 'Brownsville Blues' and 'You Can't Catch Me'. We filmed the full live performance by the band back in August. We also created a live DVD, fully edited from the 5 cameras that we use...

Advert created for the 2012 Springboard conference

We have just finished work on an advertisement for the upcoming Springboard consultancy training conference to be held in Milton Keynes in 2012. The footage was filmed at last years conference by Mark Brindle from Maniac films using a couple of Panasonic Af101 and a canon 7D. See the Spri...

Basils Balls Up Blues Band live videos now on YouTube

Now available to watch on YouYube are our edit of 'Long Tall Texan' and 'The Singing Nun' performed by Basils Balls Up Band. In August we filmed a full live performance by the band and within a week we had provided them with a copy of the live audio on CD to choose tracks t...

Roll the credits, The Reverend is complete!

Its been a long road but with the arrival of the credit roll and animated opening sequence, The Reverend edit is complete. Now time for the premiere! Having received and added the audio (in both stereo and surround) last week, we took delivery of the animated opening title sequence and a ...

Grade & VFX for The Reverend nears completion.

We have been working on the grade for The Reverend and have already finished the trailer, sent the audio to the sound designer and nearly completed 98% of the main film. With only the end credits and final audio mix to go on the main edit, we feel pleased with how the film looks! One of t...

Pickup shots for The Reverend filmed in North Devon

When shooting a film, inevitably some shots will not be filmed. This can be due to time, location issues or host of other reasons. When this occurs, it is necessary to film 'pickups'. For The Reverend we only needed two extra shots for the film, both of which were filmed by Maniac...

The Reverend grade and vfx begins at Maniac Films

Fresh from the edit suite, the final cut of the new Neil Jones film, The Reverend is now being graded by Maniac Films. We will also be adding additional visual effects and cleaning up shots to finish the featire film. We are also working on the trailer, grading and cleaning up the shots r...

Live video editing and CD & DVD authoring for Steve Tucker

Steve Tucker, frontman for Steve Tucker's All Star Jazz Band, brought us a pile of tapes containing live recordings of two recent band performances. Our task was to create a live DVD from these tapes and also encode individual tracks for Youtube As part of the project we visited Ilfra...

Mobile edit suite hire & editing assistance for Martin Cassini

Martin Cassini's campaign for traffic system reform - Equality Streets (formerly FiT Roads) - continues. His latest project is a series of films for Cheshire East Council about the biggest shared space (no traffic lights) scheme yet seen in the UK. It's at a major junction in the ...

MIA nomination for North Devon Movie Bus DVDs

We are excited to announce that Maniac Films have just received a nomination for an award at the Media & Innovation Awards in the Installation/Exhibition/Live Events category. We helped with some of the editing and post production work on the DVD movies that play in the cinema inside t...

Risen gets US premiere & more screenings

Since the World premiere of Risen: The Howard Wintsone Story in Cardiff, the director and producers have been working hard to promote the film across the world. Risen will have it's US premiere on January 21st as part of the prestigious New Jersey International Film Festival and Direc...

Updating promo film for Bristol Univeristy Engineering dept

In order to help promote the courses and teaching methods at the Engineering Department of Bristol University, we have just finished editing an old promo film for them. We were sent a low-resolution rough edit with mono(left channel only) sound. The film had been made by cutting up a lon...

Spanish subtitling for Mexican premiere of Risen: The Howard Winstone Story

Mexico City will soon play host to the Mexican premiere of the biopic movie Risen: The Howard Winstone Story. Director Neil Jones asked us if we could apply Spanish subtitles to the film. The translations were carried out by staff from the WBC Mexico offices and sent over to us. We then a...

New trailer for Risen: The Howard Winstone Story online now

The latest trailer for the biopic movie, Risen: The Howard Winstone Story is now available for viewing on YouTube. This is the 1st trailer to be released since the knockout premiere in July and director Neil Jones has added quotes from reviews to the trailer. Here at Maniac Films we clea...