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What is the Special Offer?

You can boost your sales and image by having your own company marketing video which can be shown Online, at Exhibitions/Conferences, InStore as Digital Signage or on Sales Reps laptops. Watch this short video for a better explanation of the benefits to you of video marketing.

Our quick and easy production process lets you browse 1,000's of previews of projects (see video samples below) that we can then customize to your individual needs by changing logos, text, images, sound-track, colour schemes and video footage.

 

The ‘Special Offers’ GOALS

We aim streamline the production process to give you an easy, efficient and cost effective way of promoting your business. Also to offer the latest motion graphics technology to clients at *ground braking prices.

You should know your marketing goals so we can act as a ‘production’ company and keep our involvement in planning and marketing to a minimum (hence the low minimum cost). However if we feel you are way off course we will advise you (we would rather not accept a job than produce ineffective work), our aim is repeat, not, one-off jobs.

Costs

Producing work to BBC or Feature Film standards can be a time consuming and expensive business e.g In the Night Garden childrens TV series cost £18 million to produce and Avatar production costs were about $1.75 million/per minute. Big numbers and pretty useless to the vast majority of businesses.

However falling technology prices (hardware, software and web bandwidth) and international networking of video production companies has enabled huge price cutting by using on-line libraries of editable video graphics projects, images, music, 3D models, photographs and live action footage. What this means is that it is possible to 'pick&mix' a finished video from prebuilt and changable parts.

*If you would like to compare prices then have a look at a Soho rate card. Our rate is 1/10th of this but our software and training is the same.

If you feel this basic/cut-down service isn't going to provide the results that you require then we can produce any bespoke work from scratch but at a higher price than library modified work. Please ask about the best solutions.

The ‘Special Offer’ production process-

1-Browse the online projects library to choose the video that best fits your needs.

These are catagorised as Openers/Logo Stings/Titles (which is basically the start sequence of the video showing your company’s logo) and Video Displays (which is where we show your products key selling points and photos/videos).

To refine the search you can choose from the many different style catagories. Also you can ask us to recommend what we think would be the most appropriate projects for your needs.


2-Decide on the 5-10 ‘key selling points’ (or ‘benefits to the user’) of your product and which images and music will go with these.

We assume you already have marketing photographs and other materials that we can reuse, if not then we have a tried and trusted network of professional music producers, videographers, voice actors etc. who we can recommend.

Or if you require a less expensive solution then try these links to libraries-
Music
Photographs
3D Models
Video
Graphcs

*Additional library items will be charged as extras.


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- The next step is to decide what output sizes are required e.g HDTV 1080p or 720p, PAL (standard definition widescreen TV) or web video (tell us what size), this is so that we know that on-screen type will still be visible at the smallest size.

We also need to know when the video is required i.e. the deadline.


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- Now you are ready to place an order with us, so just email the above required information and we will let you know if there are any potential problems or if extra work is required (outside of the image, text and colour replacement) which would affect the price.

 

Digital Signage

We're sure you can enough companies selling TV's but HDTV Media Players are a bit more tricky so we've sourced and tested these ones ourselves.
A USB Stick or a Flash Card holds the video file to be played.
The advantage over DVD or Blu-Ray is that there are no moving parts to go wrong (especially useful if playing in-store for 70 hours a week)


Full HD Media Player (1080p) with remote control, looping function, HDMI output to HDTV, full menu options etc. Includes cables and power supply. Supports all the latest video compression codecs. Only £80
HD upscaling Media Player (to 1080p) with remote control, looping function, HDMI output to HDTV, full menu options etc. Includes cables and power supply. Only £30

Help

If you would like to see our help videos explaning the benefits to you of using video marketing or more detail on the 3d animation production process or contact us for a DVD copy.

If you want help choosing the right project for your image you can just ask us for recommendations.

Our website also contains a detailed brakedown (especially useful if you are new to dealing with video production).

Previous Clients

We currently have our videos in the showrooms of VW, Renault, John Lewis, Marks&Spencers, Halfords, Dixons, Tesco as well as multiple web retailers. We have also produced a feature film pilot, graphics for several iPhone applications and are a BBC Approved Supplier.

Upgrade to HD

The standard video resolution we work with is 800x450 pixels which is fine for PAL DVD (standard definition widescreen TV) and most other uses. However you can upgrade to higher output resolutions.

720p HD output (1024x720 pixels)- add 15%

1080p Full HD output (1980x1080 pixels)- Add 30%

DVD Duplication

We have worked with DB Masters for several years and found there service/quality/price to be the best we have seen.