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.

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.

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

Nokia Ovi Maps Demo 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:

SD clip

HD clip

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.

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.

So, we’d like to welcome a new staff member to the Fixation Team. This staff member will mostly be sitting there, being green, and upright, and well lit. We’re going to call him Kermit, I think.

Since neither of us fancied clearing a room in our house to paint one wall green, we’ve gone and got ourselves a studio/office/HQ/somewhere to sleep when we’ve locked ourselves out our respective houses, which is awesome. Kermit is an important addition, as it means we can now get on with experimenting with some pretty cool shit, without having to worry about booking someone else’s studio space. So, I guess this is one of those alluding, pipeline-type posts, which are particularly annoying to read. Sorry about that.

In more concrete news, we’ll be at the Consumer Electronics Fair in Las Vegas from 4th-10th January, filming for a variety of clients. If you’re there, and fancy meeting up to crash a networking event with free booze and food, let us know. We are ALWAYS on board with those schemes.

That’s why we’re offering a special CES package, creating short videos for those exhibiting at CES, which you can then load on a USB stick as part of the press pack, put onto YouTube ready for bloggers to embed or use on the stand itself.

We recently produced Sony’s product demo videos for IFA ‘09 and they ended up embedded in places like Engadget:
Sony Walkman S Series puts on its game face for video promo

The deal is this: we’ll come and film a demo of the product using a company spokesperson, edit together a 2 minute video and hand you over the file - all for £450, which is 25% cheaper than our standard rate for product demo videos.

For a bit of extra money we can do all this in a studio, provide a presenter and put together some whizzy graphics for the start and end slide, so if you’re after something a bit more slick, get in contact. We can also do package deals if you have several products you’d like to film.

We like to think of this as our Early Bird Special, so if you’re interested drop us a line: hello@fixationvideo.com

Fixation Video started work Monday, before the doors opened, and delivered ten product demonstration videos that were online two days later ready to tie in with Sony’s press conference.

A full 45 minute version of the press conference was available within the hour, as well as a two minute edited highlights package online later that evening.

In addition, the press conference was streamed live, in high definition, to a separate screening room for viewing by internal Sony staff. We also produced several messaging videos, providing further visuals and content around Sony’s key messages.

All content was delivered in high definition and, as time was of the essence, everything was filmed, edited and uploaded onsite. The videos were available on the Sony Europe Press Centre for download, on the official YouTube channel for Sony Europe for embedding by media and also available on Sony’s internal resource site for use in future campaigns.

Susi: this? [AUDIO]

Will: that sounds a bit intense and spooky

Susi: 80s woosh? [AUDIO]

Will: It reminds me of Rentaghost

I’m thinking maybe something tinkle-y? perhaps?

Susi: what about a boing/doing/spring? Sadly, tinkly woosh has no results.

Will: hmm, maybe somesort of ding?

Susi: something like this: [AUDIO]

Will: could we play this through out to lift the mood: [AUDIO]

Susi: that is charmingly low rent jack johnson

Susi: i’m into power ups [AUDIO]

Will: I think you’ve already sent me that one

Susi: gah

Susi: Alien wookies, heaving breathing, having sex. Made by human voice. [AUDIO]
CAN WE HAVE THIS??

Will: I don’t even want to look at your search history

There was VV Brown, fairground rides, Florence, Machines, some awesome dancing from the other festival-goers not to mention ambience. Lots and lots of ambience. The video was produced in association with leading music blog My Chemical Toilet, where it was posted to give readers a taste of what they’d missed.