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Our clients publishing huge video production projects in late 2024
We've been working hard in recent months on some hugely rewarding video projects, working with organisations that we believe really do and will improve people's lives. Rob at Snappy Ads and Orfactor Productions and Sean are proud to be working with them all.
We created two films for our long-standing partners at the University of Worcester's Association for Dementia Studies, promoting their ground-breaking research project "Crossing the Line". It gathers together real-life advice to help families living with dementia, with practical tips and FAQs on every aspect of their day-to-day care.
We also hugely enjoyed making a brace of films with Vincentian Care Plus in London to celebrate their 20th anniversary of providing domestic care in the Westminster. We've never worked with a more passionate or positive group of people (and the anniversary bash at the House of Lords was a lot of fun too!)
We recently flew to Dublin with our established partners SWL to film testimonials with renowned retail leaders on the company's ground-breaking anonymous customer tracking technology. "Customer Census" is a powerful AI tool, providing uniquely detailed data on customer footfall. We can't wait to share this with you!
In addition, we're on the verge of launching a massive joint venture on a series of videos aimed at giving older people and their carers a chair-based exercise programme that should transform their lives. It's called Healthy4Longer, whose website will be published in late November.
Macreavy Media continues its successful partnership with Snappy Ads and Orfactor Productions
Rob and Sean have met with so many new clients since Snappy Ads' overwhelmingly successful appearance at the Entrepreneurs Circle Convention in Birmingham in September. Many of them are now booked in for video shoots between now and next summer. It'll be busy and very exciting. This summer and autumn we've taken part in an extraordinary range of projects, from educational courses, mentoring networks, van sales, physiotherapists, coffee filters and "Days in the Life" films on locksmithery and bee rehoming!
TO SEE SOME EXAMPLES OF OUR MANY, MANY PROJECTS, JUST CLICK ON THE PINK & BLUE SCREENSHOTS BELOW
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Celebrating with members of 10cc Mk II and Dorking Museum at the unveiling of Strawberry Studios South blue plaque
What a joy this was! We were so proud to have been asked to capture this wonderful celebration. And it was *really* fun to make! Thank you, Dorking Museum at https://dorkingmuseum.org.uk/
Five of our tape baking and restoration projects to be released via record companies next year
We continue to attract more and more customers with our tape restoration business. This year, we've worked with five record companies on reissues and new recordings for release on vinyl, CD and streaming platforms. Every other day brings another project more fascinating than the last. Recently we've worked with over forty tapes from the 1970s and 80s in the fields of film soundtrack, Electronica, Reggae and Dub and even Cardiff Glam Rock! Stevie from the band City Kidds and Sean had a wonderful day playing freshly-restored master tapes for the band's forthcoming compilation album on Steelheart Records for Cancer Research UK.
AVAILABLE NOW: Our full-length production of Alcester Male Voice Choir's stunning 50th Anniversary concert at Ragley Hall on Sunday 21st April 2024
The concert film runs to over two hours, and is now available as a 2-DVD set or a digital download. It features performances from the choir, led by Judith Land and accompanied by their performance pianist Irina Chagunava, with cornet solo by Ian Rochester, tenor and bass solos by Brett Elesmore and C F Cheuk, and incredible classical guitar playing by Gary Ryan and Craig Ogden.
Digital video and/or DVDs are available on this site via our shop. The link is below: just click on the green button. Alternatively, please email us direct at sean@seanmacreavy.com
We've included a short promo here as a taster.
An incredible "reverse-engineered" tape mastering project for Kōya Belharra's wonderful 2024 EP
You know that studio masters used to be mixed from tape onto tape, right? And that now masters are made from digital to digital? But what about if we master from digital to tape and back again to capture some of that indefinable magic that tape brings?
This was a wonderfully enjoyable mastering project for the marvellous four-piece band Kōya Belharra. Their new EP is delicious. And a perfect contender for analogue! We're praying for this to come out on vinyl. 😲🙏
A new promotional and information video for Alvechurch Village Hall
We so enjoyed working with Alvechurch Village Hall in March on a new video promoting its wonderful spaces and facilities. It's a gorgeous venue. (And our Sally's voice-over isn't so bad either. 😉 )
Huge thanks to Jan and Andrea for making this project such an enjoyable breeze!
Macreavy Media partner with University of Worcester's Association for Dementia Studies with four films on Extra Care Housing
Rob and Sean have recently had the pleasure of working again with ADS over the last few months. The DemECH project is a major piece of research, focussing on many aspects of the impact that Extra Care Housing has on people and families affected by dementia.
Our travels took us to housing schemes in Oxford, Croydon and Birmingham, and the process of editing down 18 long interviews into three short films was a proper mission! Extra Care Housing is something incredibly special, and has hugely improved the lives of all the residents we met.
Our very own BSL interpreter Sally signs for headline acts at the Big Feastival!
Such a fun and proud weekend! Sally Macreavy and her fellow interpreter Rachel Tipping stormed their BSL signing turns at Alex James from Blur's Big Feastival in Oxfordshire. They interpreted kids' bedtime stories, celeb cooking demos and the three headliner sets by Sigrid, Tom Grennan and Blossoms. It was a massive thrill to experience the final day at first hand from backstage!
Macreavy Media working in partnership with Orfactor Productions' new venture - welcome to SnappyAds!
Our longtime colleague, the very talented Rob Salmon of OrFactor Productions, has launched his new business, and we're thrilled to be partnering with him on many of its exciting projects so far! SnappyAds is a fresh new concept in professional quality promotional video, shot efficiently and quickly by experts, and turned around in lightning speed. With huge expertise in all Video, Photography and Audio Services. The results so far have been stunning, and Rob has already attracted clients from the leisure, health, childcare, fitness, legal, business, finance and IT sectors. We expect big things!
Video and audio techniques include:
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4K Broadcast-quality video
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Ultra-smooth Slo-mo and tracking shots
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Drone footage
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Classy interviews with perfect quality audio
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Cinematic cut-away footage
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Professional voice-over
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BSL sign language overlay
Have a look at some of the many videos that have become core content on our clients' landing pages, with content ranging from explainers, 'About Us' introductions, FAQs, product ranges and more. Simply click on each company image below to see how they've incorporated our films into their branding and messaging:
We're embracing the best of AI for photography, graphics and audio
As a multi-faceted media business, we always want to stay in touch with trends in the multimedia industries and the tools that can help us to achieve great results for our clients. We've already developed advanced skills in manipulating and generating speech, images and audio using some of the incredible new AI tools, such as Resemble.ai, Moises.ai , ChatGPT, Bing AI and Photoshop Beta 'Generative Fill'. All of these applications and packages need skill, judgment and patience with the right prompting to master properly. You have to tread VERY carefully... As the age-old IT motto goes, 'Garbage In, Garbage Out'! Human creativity, imagination and skill are the key, and machine learning merely helps us to achieve details and assets that would be otherwise impossible or indeed more time-consuming (and expensive) for our clients. We're proud of our unique creative input - HUMAN INPUT! - into all of our Video, Photography and Audio Services.
We can deliver special results, whether it's restoring or expanding precious or important images - personal or corporate - or audio. Do you have old tapes for instance, where speech is inaudible or unintelligible? Or a one-off demo or live tape that was mixed poorly? Or you need a top-quality karaoke version of an old recording for live performance? Plans for a striking image that says something truly unique? We can help.
Here are some spectacular recent examples, including a synopsis for a Shakespearian play entitled 'The Tragedy of Boris and the Plague'. EVERY word was written by the new BING A.I.
Sean Macreavy Media has just won 'AV Production Company of the Year – Central England' in the national Prestige Awards 2022-23!
Sean, Rob and the team are thrilled with the award. Thank you, Prestige Awards!
Three major video production commissions from the University of Worcester's Association for Dementia Studies for promoting Meeting Centres in Worcestershire
We've had a long-standing partnership with ADS in Worcester, and this is a major project aimed at promoting and evaluating Meeting Centres – community based innovation supporting people living with dementia. The centres are truly inspirational places for people with mild to intermediate dementia to meet, socialise and engage in meaningful and stimulating activities. ADS are publishing our first two promotional films early in 2023, to be followed by videos covering far-reaching research projects looking at the development, implementation and success of Meeting Centres nationally.
SOME OF OUR LATEST PROJECTS...
Unlocking the 'Leisure Pleasure Principle' with SWL and Rivers Fitness
As part of our long-running partnership with SWL Group, we've really enjoyed our first project in the Leisure sector, producing video and photography for Rivers Fitness in Evesham and Droitwich. SWL's CCX is an innovative tool for continuous data capture for improving the customer experience.
Sean's 1994 vocal version of Brian Wilson's Pet Sounds instrumental 'Let's Go Away for a While' gets a fresh release after 27 years on a major new compilation album!
The track will feature alongside such luminaries as Fleetwood Mac, Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs, Mike Love and Bruce Johnston, Frank Black and Jan & Dean on Ace Records, 'Do It Again! The Songs Of Brian Wilson', released on October 28th. Exciting times!
Here you can get a taste for our huge range of Video, Photography and Audio Services
Find out more about our track record in video production, video editing, photography, website design and content, graphic design, tape baking and restoration. If you want a high-quality, professional AV product to be heard or seen, we've the expert team to produce it!
A busy summer and autumn at Macreavy Media!
The team have been juggling video production commissions with ambitious musical projects this year. Our musical direction and performance for the unique 50cc concert in Stockport in June was an utter labour of love, and we're delighted to share the full concert film with you right here. We've now decided to make it free-to-view from Friday 14th October. 50cc concert film.
But our core business carries on apace, with a busy schedule of graphics, website and video production work for established clients SWL and University of Worcester's Association for Dementia Studies. Plus new partnerships with the ambitious and innovative ChatChiropractic, Cognition and renowned Worcester charity Onside Advocacy.
We've also recently taken on some really exciting tape baking and restoration projects, including Netherlands 1980s hitmakers Rockaway Org and i-Scream Music. We're hoping very soon to be tackling some early recordings by one of the most famous and critically admired bands of the Punk era. Watch this space...!
We've recently joined the excellent Techhub Social instance at Mastodon, and enjoying trying to understand the revolutionary platform and its 'fediverse'! We're now verified here: <a rel="me" href="https://techhub.social/@SeanMMedia">Mastodon</a>
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