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Video is really popular now and a great way to communicate your products or services. While it has become a great deal more affordable and accessible, there are a number of firms that choose to 'go it alone' for corporate or promo videos, without access to professional equipment or skills. This blog explains why that…

When people are asked whether they are considering video content for their business, the instant thought is "what can I film to show off my business". Well there are a number of other ways to represent your product or service using video and it doesn't always have to be what we call 'live action', which…

For many companies putting together a video is a fairly major project, either because of the budget required to do it properly or the resource that is required to make it happen. To get a great outcome, you as the client, need to be really engaged throughout and help with the technical and industry knowledge…

You can create the best video that anyone has ever seen, but if the sound is rubbish, it brings the whole thing down. We've all seen it before, a great looking video but there is background interference, white noise, or the voices sound really 'tinny' bouncing off every wall in the room! It's really important…

Square Daisy is a major sponsor of Esher Cricket Club. As part of our deal we have been busy supporting them with some additional video production to publicise the bi-annual 'City Lunches' which raise a huge amount of money for the club, along with a quirky production to celebrate the end of the season.

There are lots of agencies out there that have access to professional recording equipment and some serious skills in terms of capturing great shots of the location that they are filming at. The game changer now is how to make a video production stand out from the crowd using advanced 'post production' (editing) techniques. As…

One of our longest and best clients, the International Institute for Strategic Studies runs two annual conferences - one in Singapore and one in Bahrain. They are called dialogues and designed to bring defence and foreign ministers, top military personnel and heads of state together to discuss the pressing geopolitical issues in the Asia Pacific…

As an agency we do a few event videos for various clients that are on our books, however recently we have acquired the technology and the expertise to take event filming one stage further in a really efficient way. Used for the first time during the recent EU referendum debate with senior politicians, we used…

In this post we will see how we can use Adobe Illustrator for 2-d Character Development which can be exported into a program like After Effects where they can be brought to life. One video where we demonstrate this is Shippo video. Before an animator can do their work they need something to work with,…

One of the most exciting developments that we have seen in the video world is that of aerial filming. With drone technology becoming cheaper and more affordable, the ability to weave in aerial videography from drones into 'normal' edits is becoming more prevalent and can really help to make it stand out against the competition.…