Veronica Henry - Using the web to build your brand

Veronica Henry, a successful author based in North Devon provides information on using the web to build her brand.  Veronica Henry is a British writer of Romance novels, TV script writer and journalist. Find out mroe on her website: Veronica Henry This is one of three presentations t...

Paul Trueman - Making Twitter work for you - live presentation

Paul Trueman, digital copywriter at Bray Leino in North Devon, talks about how to make Twitter work for you or how not to be boring on Twitter. Check out this 15 minute talk that could help your social media campaign to really take off. FIlmed and produced by Maniac films for JoinedUp net...

Martin Dorey - how amazing things can happen with good networking - live presentation

Martin Dorey, presenter of BBC's One Man and his Camper Van and author of new book, Camper Van Coast giving a talk entitled "Everybody needs friends -- how amazing things can happen with good networking" Martin shot to fame when he presented BBC2’s 10 part food and tra...

Filming students learning to use quill pens for St Annes

We were invited to join Julian Vayne from North Devon Museum on his recent visit to Newport Community School in Barnstaple - one of a number of teaching sessions in which Julian is introducing the students to artefacts from St Anne's Chapel. This session introduced the students to qui...

Nick Cooper: How to sell without doing the dreaded hard sell - live presentation

Nick is sales director at Salt Media, the design and marketing consultancy which also publishes the South West's leading food magazine and The Trencherman's Guide - a guide to the best restaurants in the region. We filmed him presenting this session to a business networking group a...

Maniac to the Elite Iron Man event at 2012 Goldcoast Oceanfest

The Elite Man/Woman event invites 24 men and 24 women to compete in a gruelling elimination event. Competitors fight over 3 legs to earn a place in the final as they take on a 3 stage course of swimming, surfboard paddling and ski paddling in each round. The event is being organised by lo...

Jo Rees - Marketing Strategy - live presentation

Jo Rees of Salt Media giving a talk entitled "Marketing -- it's all about the strategy". Jo is and editorial director at Barnstaple based Salt Media. This is one of three presentations from the JoinedUp networking event held at Broomhill Sculpture gallery on 29th May 2012. ...

Rozz Algar - Inspirational Leadership - live presentation

Rozz Algar of Herne European Consultancy giving a talk entitled "Inspirational leadership... and how to achieve it" This is one of three presentations we filmed at the JoinedUp networking event held at Broomhill Sculpture gallery on 29th May 2012. 'Joined-Up' is a new b...

Music video Dreamin' goes live with brand new website

We have completed work on the new music video for Dreamin' by Mike Stocks. As reported in November, this video features a band made up of monkey puppets performing around Mike as he sings on stage in a custom built monkey theatre. The band has been named 'The Junk Shop Quartet'...

Filming for Mike Stocks (Mr Pickle) music video - Dreamin'

Sometimes you find yourself filming something that's...well, a little odd. Our recent shoot music video shoot for Dreamin' by Mike Stocks certainly raised some eyebrows. We were shooting in a converted loft where Mike has built a mini theatre and populated it with a chair and some...

Now online - The Bristol Uni Electrical Engineering admissions film

Earlier this year we spent some time filming in and around the University of Bristol for a new Faculty of Engineering admissions video. The video has been live on the University website and has been used by the Faculty for a few months now and we can finally present it here. The aim of t...

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...

Bristol City scenic shots for Bristol University admissions DVD

Stu and Matt from Maniac Films have have been back to Bristol, exploring the city armed with a camera and a local guide. Their task was to capture a snapshot of the local culture to finish off the Bristol University Faculty of Engineering admissions film. Filming on a Panasonic AF101 camc...

Live music filming - The Drop

For our 3rd and final live gig at Unison Holiday park in Croyde, we found ourselves being entertained by Combe Martin based band The Drop. For this performance we moved from the bar area to the much larger conference room, which allowed us to use our dolly and Porta Jib to add dynamic mov...

Live music filming - The Muddy River band

Maniac Films have just returned from filming Bideford based blues group, The Muddy River Band at Unison holiday park in Croyde. The setting was a bar/reception area on the site, an intimate venue that challenged us to fit our cameras and an audience into it. We were joined by former work ...

Live music event filming - The Basils Blues band

Filming live music can be fun, especially when the band are as eccentric and fun as the Basils Blues band. We were invited by band promoter Paul to the performance at the Unison holiday park in Croyde. Joining the Maniac crew for the night were former work placement student Tim and univer...

Filming for Actavis Pharmaceuticals at the Sunday Funday at Castle Hill

The Sunday Funday event at Castle Hill near South Molton was held on July 10th. The funday is a yearly music, dance and entertainment event held in the grounds of the mansion with stunning views and this year we were invited to the event by staff from Actavis Pharmaceuticals who had a '...