Category: video

Filming for pleasure!

After an incredibly busy year we made sure that we had a few days off over Christmas and the New Year. We had planned to hole ourselves up and just eat and drink / hibernate, but because of the mild weather the urge to get out and do something overtook us. On our doorstep is…


Videos for Exhibitions – Aganto Ltd

Aganto had been wanting to complete a timelapse of the build process of one of their temporary buildings, but the weather and the build schedule never co-incided!  Welcome to Great Britain… Because they had plenty of decent photographs, we decided to create the building layer by layer in After Effects, and then use the photos…


Bobsleigh Futures Programme – get a gold at 90mph!!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU18JFjvAzY[/youtube] Big Ant were delighted to be asked by the Bobsleigh Futures Programme to come up with a short promo that integrated footage taken on an iPad, footage from competitions, and some footage we filmed last year at the Bath push track, and get across a message to young teenagers about the upcoming search to…


Marks & Spencer at Castle Donington and Big Ant Video

We had a tight deadline request from M&S for an event where they were celebrating the progress they had made with their incredible distribution centre in Castle Donington. With only 5 days (including the weekend!) we had to come up with a design, convert and embed miles of timelapse, film in the warehouse, and then…


Christmas is on it’s way!

I know it’s only August, and most of us are thinking of sunshine and beaches, but one of our forward thinking Clients has already has their Christmas video card filmed! It may seem a tad early to be filming for December, but last year we struggled to get all our Clients filmed and edited in…


Mackney Photography Makeover and Sheila from Big Ant Video

Steve is our normal blogger, but this time you’ve got me – Sheila! Back in April as a birthday present I was given a voucher for a make over with Simon Mackney from Mackney Photography in Darley Abbey Mills. I had met Simon before and knew of his work both by seeing it and by…


Sapphire Events, Hills Motors, Liverpool Football Club, JCB and Big Ant Video

We were approached by Sapphire Events to cover a two day event, so off we set last Friday in the pouring rain to Liverpool and Hills Salvage and Recycling Ltd,? one the UK’s leading vehicle dismantling and recycling specialists, where part of the event was being held on behalf of Round Table International and two…


Working with Motor Plus Motorhomes in Derby – dealers for Elddis, Mercedes and Auto-Sleepers

We’ve had a lot of fun filming with Motor Plus Motorhomes in the heart of Derby. We met first with John, Brian and Tim and decided that their video requirements were quite complex: They wanted an online introduction to their range of Autosleepers and Elddis motorhomes, but also wanted the personalities of the business to…


High Growth Academy and Big Ant Video

Had a great afternoon filming Stuart Ross for High Growth Academy. The High Growth Academy works with the most ambitious and fastest growing companies across the world providing the skills, knowledge and discipline to achieve and sustain high growth. The real strength of the academy is that the knowledge is delivered online and through tailored…


Penny Power – Digital Youth Academy, Theo Paphitis and Big Ant.

With the Big Ant mobile loaded up, I set off to Wimbledon to assist Penny Power (co-founder of Ecademy) and her daughter Hannah, capture an interview on behalf of Digital Youth Academy with Theo Paphitis. Digital Youth Academy’s aim is to bring together two groups of people in an initiative which will combine skills to…