Shooting in India

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We have recently returned from shooting in India for a new corporate client.  It was an amazing experience in a fascinating and varied country. 

We stayed in New Delhi and spent two days of our schedule filming a range of interviews with key personnel and the day to day activities in our client’s hi tech offices in a business park in Noida.  In marked contrast for the remainder of the shoot we ventured out into the streets and markets with our cameras to capture the spirit and cultural flavour of a truly extraordinary location. 

The fruits of our labour can be seen in the corporate section of this web site in a few weeks time.

Pirelli Calendar – 50th Anniversary

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This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Pirelli Calendar.  Having worked on this project for the last 20 years we were commissioned by Pirelli Milan to produce a compilation film charting and defining the ‘evolution of an icon’.  Our 50th Anniversary film provided a complete history of the development of the Calendar from the first shoot in Majorca on 1964 right up to the present day.  We also produced a short film to present and ‘un-veil’ The Pirelli Calendar for 2014 – a compilation of black & white images originally photographed by Helmut Newton in 1986 and retrieved from the archive to provide the perfect unique gift for Pirelli’s key customers.   The 50th Anniversary event was held in a dramatic venue in Milan last November and both of our films were the centre piece of the evening’s audio-visual entertainment introduced to a discerning audience by the compere – Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey.

Both of our 50th Anniversary films can be viewed in the ‘Pirelli Calendar’ section of this web site.

Our drone arrives, and the only way is up!

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Utopia Productions have recently acquired a bespoke custom built hexacopter for high quality aerial filming. 

Our ‘Vulcan Hex’ comes complete with a gyroscopically designed and balanced camera gimbal with full control over pan, tilt, roll and pitch as well as the remote control functionality of the on board camera to facilitate the zoom and to place the camera in and out of record mode.  

With a portable battery charger and 3 sets of lithium polymer batteries we can can provide multiple flights within the same day (providing  the weather conditions remain favourable).  A single set of batteries keeps the UAV safely in the air for up to 20 minutes. 

We have a license and a permit issued by the CAA who now regulate the commercial use of all UAVs in the UK and we have started using our hexacopter for a number of different applications in the commercial sector with amazing results.   We can shoot at full HD 1080 25 or 50p and can then edit down the footage and convert it into any delivery format including Blu Ray and SD DVD or more popular ‘web’ friendly file formats such as H264 quicktime or Mp4 for instant viewing on line via vimeo or for more formal presentations.