Director/ Producer and of course Managing Director, Stephen Anderson was very pleased to be consulted on the development of the Caledonia University MA International Film Business.
As Stephen says “It’s a terrific and worthwhile program which is wholly necessary to allow Scotlands film industry to become a “Film Industry”. We wish them all the best with the course and who knows I may apply myself.”
As an update to our previous post:-
“In January of 2008, Managing Director, Stephen Anderson announced that Kelpie Media would provide Pro Bono Media services for one lucky Voluntary Sector or Academic Client each financial quarter.
The Application Process is simple. Just email your proposal to probono@kelpiemedia.com and at the end of the quarter a project will be chosen, to be completed within the subsequent 3 months.
One thing to keep in mind is whether or not the project is time specific as, for example, if a project is submitted on the 1st day of a new quarter it will not go into production until 3 months later if chosen. A small price to pay for a free webvideo, conference film, CEO interview…..”
We are delighted to announce that the first project is already underway for Glasgow University and the next submission deadline is June 30th 2008 with the next dates every 3 months from then on.
As one of our favourite clients, Morris and Spottiswood always come to us with innovative ideas (which is why we like them). Kelpie completed this most recent project after over 12 months of development. Morris and Spottiswood needed to improve their presentations given at tender meetings. The old PowerPoint Presentations were looking a little dated. Kelpie produced proprietary software which integrated with existing PowerPoint (end users didn’t need to relearn any software) and designed a new presentation around this new structure. The final presentation incorporated video, sound, animation and traditional slides, all of which were updatable with only a few days notice for forthcoming presentations. We believe we’ve helped Morris and Spottiswood to improve their success rate in tender meetings, but only time will tell so keep an eye on our blog to find out more.
Royal Bank of Scotland and PR Agency Activity Mix came to us with a brief to produce a presentation for an annual conference. Having been let down by another production company time was of the essence. Kelpie produced a 3D Animation from concept to delivery within a week and the presentation was a great success. We look forward to working with both Activity Mix and Royal Bank of Scotland again in the near future.
The Designers at Kelpie have been busy making sure that the expression “Cobblers Children” has no place in our office. In order to make the Kelpie Media homepage more engaging and to give an immediate impression to viewers exactly who we are and who we work for a new Flash screen has been added. The Flash video shows logos of some of our clients past and present. We hope you like it.
Don’t forget we can do the same for you. You may be looking for a microsite design to carry some of your webvideo content or some flash animation or video for your existing site, either way we’d be happy to discuss you plans.
One of the slate of projects currenly on going within Kelpie Films has had the nod for co funding from More4. Now we need to find a co funder. It’s certainly a lot easier when you have the mighty Channel 4 behind you.
Always ambitious, sometimes succesful and never underestimated, Kelpie Films Director, Douglas Neilson has gone for gold. Gucci Tribeca provides funding for creative documentaries, so what better project than 40 Channels to go forward to Mr De Niro’s organisation for support. We’ll hear how the approach goes in a months time.
Howden Global is the Parent Company of Howden Power for whom we have produced a number of films all over the world in the past. On this occasion we were requested to produce a very high-specification interview of the CEO, Bob Cleland. There was no time to bring him to the studio, so we shot his interview in front of a Green Screen and built a studio around him. The results were stunning and we can now shoot future interviews anywhere in the world placing in Howden’s custom studio design behind the speaker in no time at all, result in huge cost and time savings.
For the second time in a year SMN (Scottish Mentoring Network) have commissioned Kelpie Media to produce a promotional training video to bring to the fore the need for mentoring amongst disadvataged groups across Scotland. This film, whose core sponsor is HBOS, is specifically designed to encourage SME’s to large Blue Chips to dedicate time to mentoring as part of their Coporate and Social Responsibility Programs.
When Robertson Construction decided that they wanted to roll out a Health and Safety film across all of their sites we were happy to oblige. Filming has taken place the legth and breadth of the UK in the last month and is now complete. When post production ends in a months time Robertson will roll out the film which covers every aspect of Health and Safety from Demolition to Decorating in all the regions of the UK again demonstrating their forward thinking attitude to Health and Safety by ensure the officially sanctioned message is heard by workers time and time again no matter where they are.