This should have been posted A-GES ago, but [insert any excuse you'll accept] here. We filmed for Sony in Madrid, to celebrate the Premier World European Football Cup Final. A wonderful company called NuFormer designed the 3D-ness, which had the buildings of the Plaza Santa Ana interacting with the football. Check it out - we are hella proud of the whole thing.
Frackulous is a daily app show produced by us here at Fixation Video. We look at the hottest apps for all phones, covering all platforms from BlackBerry to iPhone, Android to Windows Phone. This is the teaser we shot to build anticipation around the show. Read more
When Will and I started Fixation Video, we spent a lot (seriously. A. Lot.) of time dreaming up all the weekly video shows we’d launch. And then we took the plunge, started the company, and realised we needed to make some money, and fast. We put the weekly stuff on hold for a couple of months whilst we worked on some really big projects for some really excellent clients. And we had so much fun doing that, suddenly it was July. 2010.
But finally, we’re launching the show we’ve always wanted to make. Frackulous will be a weekly show about mobile apps, and it’ll be the kind of show that both Will and I would delight in watching, subscribing and interacting with. And if you see either of us in the next few weeks, you can guarantee it’s all we’re going to want to talk about.
We’re launching on Monday 19th July, but in the meantime, check out the video below for a taste of what’s on the horizon.
We’re convinced about the nature of online video, but that’s probably because we sit here, eating it, breathing it and swapping video links all the live long day. You, for instance, might have other things going on in your life - Powerpoint, say, or the need to find somewhere to host 50 thirsty and particular journalists tomorrow night.
So let us pour our knowledge into your ears, with an Online Video 101 Visit. We’d like to pop in for half an hour, and take the opportunity to explain to you, your colleagues and the cleaner why online video is so important, what it can do for you, and even what it can’t do for you (I believe that’s called transparency. Or reality). We’ll cover:
- the kinds of videos that work for various projects
- where you can host video, and the advantages and disadvantages of each
- how you can maximise views
- any other areas you’d particularly like to discuss
Best of all, we’ll do all this for no more than a couple of cups of coffee and a couple of biscuits. We won’t give you the hard sell, but we will leave you our business cards, in the hope that if we’ve convinced you about the awesomosity of online video, you’ll consider us when it comes to putting those videos together.
If that sounds like a nice way to spend half an hour, email us at hello@fixationvideo.com.
We love it when people ask our opinion, and we love telling people about why we’re the awesome-ist, so when Ranieri PR asked us to do both we jumped at the chance. You can read our interview here, which features secrets of the past, some self-congratulatory hair talk and political satire. Kind of.
This was on BoingBoing today (via @rich_trenholm) and has successfully blown the Fixation Video hivemind. We won’t be good for much this afternoon, as we’ve been left with no real faith in reality. Sorry about that.
Samsung wanted a number of videos made at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow in Barcelona. These ranged from demonstrations of new products, to interviews with key executives, to a highlights package of the press conference. Read more
One girl.
One green t-shirt.
One Friday afternoon.
I love this so much I’m going to insist we use a version of this in our forthcoming showreel, but this was just messing around procrastinating.
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.
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