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The BNI Middle East film we made reflects not just the diversity of the membership but their interests too. Horses, Macaws, yachts and powered parachutes …. all featured in the film and made it very watchable even though it was longish – a…
As soon as we completed the video on WOW RAK’s Iceland, the largest water theme park in the region located in Ras Al Khaimah, we posted it on YouTube. Within less than a week more than 45,000 people had viewed it! It’s a month now and the…
Why do some videos fail? Although video has emerged as the most cost-effective marketing and sales tool for both online and traditional communication avenues why do many of them fail and fizzle away? Cost-effective they are. But there are…
We just completed a 3 day stint in Abu Dhabi for an international client who are shooting from Australia to Russia, UK, Europe, the Americas and the UAE producing a series of videos for their internal and external communication purposes. T…
I hope I grabbed your attention with that! It’s true and they are all in Iceland…the one in RAK. Now that I have sufficiently confused you let me explain. Iceland is the largest water theme park in the region which opened to the public rec…
Aerial shoots are always highly demanding specialised work with lots of people communicating with each other and often it is this coordination which is the biggest challenge of all. For example, the director wants a specific shot to convey…
It’s really a significant feeling when you work on a big ship but in this case what was even better is that we were working not just on a big ship but the world’s biggest LNG carrier. Yes you are reading it right…the world’s biggest! The s…
Day 3: Final day… I had a good breakfast and was excited about returning to shore, but I was still worried about the sea situation. Looking out at the sea it appeared and felt calm. When we started sailing off I was ok and felt relaxed. Th…
For Moviemedia crew shooting onshore, offshore, up in the air or down on the ground is sometimes all in a day’s work, make that a couple of days work. This time I experienced it too. I was asked to go with our crew for a 2-day off shore sh…
I already told you guys about our offshore shoot adventure… well after all the things happened there and after our editor Ramji edited the footage I can now say that I’m proud to be in that shoot… Honestly while on that shoot I…
As the skies darkened and lightening lit the sky we started showing the dineoutemirates.com introductory video . I was on tenterhooks and kept praying that the rains would hold out until the video ended since it was an open air event at th…
News Update : ” Bad weather for the next few days “ Last Wednesday, we presented www.dineoutemirates.com at the Hot Hoteliers networking evening at the Westin Hotel in Dubai. We went early to set things up as we geared up for our first pub…
A hotel in Dubai… Beautiful people, a beautiful place to stay… Dubai has 7-star, 5-star, and 3-star hotels but recently we made a film for the ALL STAR Arabian Park Hotel. ‘All star?’ you may wonder at that. To celebrate its amazing growth…
Servicing and sourcing internationally Last year ended on a hectic note and the New Year started on an even more rapid tempo. No time to pause and ponder, but some reflections are a must. When you are passionate about your work all project…
Lighting cameramen – artists in their own right Point and shoot… there are many out there who think that is all there is to camerawork. And who can blame them when digital technology has made cameras so user-friendly. When I started my car…
Focus on the message Technology drives the medium. The video medium, ie, delivery systems which carry images – moving or stills – are evolving fast. But the message people want to communicate and the impact they hope it will have remains u…
Bloggers influence expanding On the subject of blogs, it is increasingly evident that bloggers are becoming a force to reckon with. And that has meant our international clients have blogs on which they want to post video clips of events an…
