USA university scholarship application filming with Anthony

We have been braving the elements on the greens at the Royal North Devon Golf Club in Westward Ho! We were there to film Anthony, a promising young golfing talent who has been offered a number of exciting scholarships at US Universities - the only problem is that they need to see footage ...

Entrepreneur First promo filming green screen horse

Wow this was an interesting challenge. We were contacted by Seb Agertoft who had applied for the Entrepreneur First programme. In order to make his application stand out he wanted to make a short film in a similar style to the Old Spice ads a few years ago. The aim was to create a seamles...

Maniac Films celebrate 10 years of film making

Wow! Has it really been 10 years? We have gone from one man using a single camera and laptop to film surfing to where we are today, working with international companies, working on feature films, making award winning documentary videos, corporate promos, TV adverts and a whole lot more! S...

Product photography for Lambland

We have been walking on the wild side with Lambland in Ilfracombe. A few weeks ago Paul from Lambland delivered a pile of reindeer and cow hide rugs for us to photograph and edit to be put onto their online shop. As every cow and reindeer hide is unique we photograph every single one - en...

Filming ammo testing with Battlefield Sim & Royal Marines Commandos

In 2009 we worked with new company Battlefield Sim to create a short promo film that demonstrated the durability of their Inflatable training walls when used with various weapons training ammunition. Three years on and Battlefield Sim is growing fast and need to update the old video. Stu ...

Maniac Films wins 1st place at the IOV awards

Back in September we announced that we had received 2 nominations for the annual IOV Institute of Videography (IOV) awards. Well we won 1st place in the best music video category for 'Dreamin' by Mr Pickles. We also received a highly commended award for our 'St Annes Chapel &#...

Internal staff update filming for Actavis Pharmaceuticals

We have been back to Actavis Pharmaceuticals near Barnstaple, to record a talk given by the company directors to staff. Actavis has recently merged with American pharmaceutical giant Watson and as part of their commitment to keeping staff up to date the CEO flew over to the UK to talk to ...

Simon Daukes - How to build a successful team - live presentation

Simon Daukes owner of Ash Barton manor lets you into the three key things that will help you build a successful team. Simon Daukes has had a hugely successful career as board director of a number of large businesses including the Haymarket Media Group and is currently a director of the Slo...

Rosalie Birch - How to perform under pressure - live presentation

What business can learn from sports psychology and how to perform under pressure - a short talk from Rosalie Birch, produced by Maniac Films. Rosalie is an ex-international cricketer and now PR consultant and marketing officer for surf life saving GB. We filmed the presentations with sev...

St Anne's Chapel virtual tour film & website completed

The St Anne's Chapel project is now complete. The film was finished in September and we have just finished work on building a series of pages for the Barnstaple Town Council website to showcase the film and offer more information about the chapel and it's history. The new pages fi...

Maniac Films receives 2 nominations at the IOV awards

Maniac Films have been members of the Institute of Videography (IOV) for a few years and back in 2008 we received a 'highly commended' award for our Half-Life surf film. After 4 years hiatus we decided to submit two films into this years awards and we have been shortlisted for bot...

Trenchermans guide promo filming at Lucknam Park Hotel with Michael Caines MBE

It was Monday morning and Mark and Sam were at the luxury Lucknam Park Hotel in Bath. We had been asked by Devon based Salt Media to attend a dinner which had been arranged to celebrate and promote the work of the Trencherman's Guide. This is an online guide to the best restaurants an...

Rick Turner: Are you a 2 percenter - live presentation

Marketing wizard, Rick Turner (The Big Sheep proprietor, Training Partner for South West Tourism Alliance and owner of Purple Cloud Consultancy Ltd.) talks about The Art of being Brilliant. Watch our video of Rick linked above or directly in Youtube here. Rick says, 'It revolves aro...

Live event filming for Nautilus album launch

On a Thursday afternoon in September we found ourselves standing outside a converted church in Taunton. Suddenly the doors opened and we were hit by a wall of sound. It was the sound check by Nautilus, a 4 piece band from Taunton and we were there to film the official Album launch gig. Ou...

Location filming - St Anne's Chapel virtual tour film

After months of planning the filming dates for the St Anne's Chapel film finally arrived. We were on-set at 8am to begin setting up our equipment in readiness for the arrival of our cast at 10am. Our crew was made up of Director Stuart Brennan, Stu (sound recordist) & Mark (DoP, p...

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...

Mark Brindle - How to use video to improve your marketing - live presentation

Mark Brindle from Maniac Films North Devon gives a brief talk on how video can be used to help your sales and marketing. Mark is the director of North Devon's award winnning Maniac Films and has worked on and produced marketing films for some of the largest companies in the world as w...

Celia Delaney - How to improve your public speaking - live presentation

How to improve your public speaking by professional speaker and trainer Celia Delaney talking at Broomhill sculpture gardens in Devon Get five tips for better public speaking in this short condensed version of one of her presentations. Filmed by Maniac Films at the July JoinedUp Devon ne...