New ideas are coming thick and fast here at Fixation Video and the latest is to make it so that you can stay in the office, while we go out and capture footage from London-based press announcements.
Our test piece is today’s Nokia announcement that it’s releasing Ovi Maps with turn-by-turn navigation for free on all its devices. We’ve got both the full ten minute presentation by Anssi Vanjoki, Executive Vice President at Nokia, and a ten minute demo of the new app in action available for download as both standard and high definition B-roll footage in MPEG2 format. We’ve also got an audio only version too, if that’s more your thing.
If you want to kick the tyres first, here are preview versions of the presentation and demo you can view in Quicktime:
Nokia Ovi Maps Presentation preview
And if you want to see exactly what the full quality is like, you can grabs these short test clips of the standard and high def versions:
And the best bit is, as it’s just a trial you can have them for the low, low price of free. You can cut them up, edit them down, splice them into your own material or just sit back and watch them in full and it won’t cost you a penny. We still retain the copyright on the material, but you’re free to do what you want with it - you don’t even have to attribute the footage to us, although it would be nice. Just saying.
The SD ones are just uploading now and the HD and audio only versions will be available once they’re done. If you’d like the full clips, simply email us at hello@fixationvideo.com specifying which ones you want and we’ll send you the links so you can download them. Can’t say fairer than that.
We see no reason to be precious about our new greenscreen - in this Fixation utopia, we share (for a very reasonable fee).
That’s why we’re offering our studio space to you (as long as we’re not using it). It’s set up as a greenscreen, but we’ve got a white background, should you want something more… blah. If you don’t have your own lights, we can even supply those, for a little bit more money.
And because we’re not a dedicated studio rental company, we think you’ll find our fees cheaper than most other spaces in London. We might not have a perky receptionist or lay on breakfast, but we’ve got space, a kitchen and a slightly temperamental shower, and most importantly in these credit crunch-y times, we’re… cheap. Sorry, I mean value-riffic.
You can find out more on our special new page here.
It’s the middle of January, and that can mean only one thing - Fixation Video is jetlagged up to the eyeballs, thanks to returning from Vegas, and the Consumer Electronics Show. Just over a year after our ‘ok, yes, let’s DO THIS’ business start-y conversation, we were at the show working for a variety of clients, showing off both our video and our incredible scheduling skills.
We put together video for UK Trade and Investment, talking to the companies that won a place at CES Unveiled and generally finding out what people thought of the UK technology industry (they think it’s awesome).
We filmed videos of the hottest new gadgets announced at CES for top technology site, Reg Hardware, bagging the best hands-on with products like the Lenovo U1, the new Google Nexus One and the Eee Keyboard. Views for those videos are at 36,000 and counting…
Finally, we worked with Telecom TV to film the wonderful Leila Makki discussing her picks of the show. After we filmed the footage to their specifications, we sent it over to their in-house editing team to produce the finished video - just another service in our multi-faceted-online-bank-of-services-service-portfolio.
And when we weren’t doing any of this, we were either asleep, dancing on podiums claiming to be made of gold, or whizzing round on a scooter. Phew.