News

Happy New Year!

2012-01-30T11:08:06Z

OK, it's slightly later than planned, but Happy New Year to all of our esteemed clients and colleagues... we hope it's a productive, exciting and positive time for you all.

We're almost through January and we've got some lovely news....

We'd like to welcome our new chap Tom Greenidge to the No Magnolia fold. He's our new camera & edit assistant and he'll be working alongside the rest of the NM team on the filming and editing side of things.

He supports Reading FC, enjoys Lamb Tikka Masala, is perplexed by onions and looks unnervingly like tennis-bloke Novak Djokovic... he'll be on a shoot near you in the near future!

We're working on some quite exciting projects at the moment that we'll tell you about soon, but right now we can't let the cat out of the bag... poor cat.

News update coming soon!

NM x

Brand New Video!

2011-11-29T16:30:18Z

A really busy October saw us working on a number of events. One of the most interesting was the Brand Licensing Europe event at Olympia.

Events company Advanstar asked us to create a video to help promote the show for next year, so we grabbed our cameras and popped down to Hammersmith, only to be overrun by giant costumed Peppa Pigs, Bananas in Pyjamas, Miffy, Daleks and the Cat in the Hat... a fairly surreal way to spend the day!

See for yourself!

NM x

48 Film Project time again...

2011-09-29T17:29:59Z

...don't these things roll around fast? Seems only a short time ago that we were making a film about two people in chicken costumes, but here's our effort from this year. We had to make a musical, featuring a collector called Alistair/Alison Sanders, a brush, and the line "should we leave it like this?" in 48 hours.

World Cup Wonders

2011-09-22T19:27:35Z

No Magnolia Productions have been working with Heineken and Will Carling to produce the online rugby series, This is the Game. Episode #3 has just gone live, and there will be an episode online each week of the Rugby World Cup. This show is shot, directed and edited by the No Magnolia team, turned around in super-quick time so that the banter is still fresh and relevant. Take a look at the latest episode below. NM

Busy Busy!

2011-09-14T13:55:33Z

Hello folks.... It's been ages hasn't it? How have you been? We've been monumentally busy these past couple of months, working with some very famous faces on some great projects. Firstly we went over to the Isle of Wight to meet the wonderful Ellen MacArthur, to make a film about the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, her new charity which promotes the circular economy in business and education. We've also been working with rugby legend Will Carling on a new series of videos produced by Heineken called "This is the Game" - a series of webcasts over the duration of the Rugby World Cup.

http://www.youtube.com/user/heineken#p/c/D80C60F796210C41/0/Au_23F8bBCE

Part of this involves interviews with some A-list 'slebs' such as Chris Evans, Rory McIlroy and Stephen Fry. Finally, Matt went over to Amsterdam to work with the superb ARRI team at IBC. Filming, editing and uploading product demos, and capturing Hollywood director James Cameron talking with the ARRI team about their new 3D camera developments. Phew! Let's not leave it so long next time.... speak soon! NM x

Scream if you want to go 3D!

2011-06-30T11:48:04Z

Interesting fact about No Magnolia #1 - Our Director and Employee of the month for September 2009, Nick, has never been on a rollercoaster. Ever.

So we set about trying to remedy this... However, with Thorpe Park being so expensive and busy, we decided to keep things a little closer to home, which is when Aidan decided to build one instead!

Using Maya, Aidan created this lovely little 3D animation for Nick... and we would love to take on more 'construction' projects for you lovely people!

Behold, a VERY cool pop-up book!

The History of the Roller Coaster from No Magnolia Productions on Vimeo.

Wills and Kate who??

2011-04-15T17:03:27Z

We're romantic souls here at No Magnolia... when we're not working we can be found gazing at clouds in fields full of buttercups or writing odes to loved ones in quaint cafes.

So when Absolute Radio asked us to produce the online video content for their 'BT - Marry Me' competition, we put down our quills and picked up the cameras!

Run by the breakfast show team fronted by Christian O'Connell, the competition was held at Golden Square where 3 couples fought for the first prize of getting married the following day at London Zoo, with dress, rings, cake and honeymoon all part of the package.

We filmed the 'reveal' of the lucky winning couple, and then the following day we set up at Regents Park and filmed the live radio broadcast of the wedding itself.

We ensured all video content was online within a couple of hours, with the wedding being available to view before the breakfast show had finished!

Raise a glass!

NM x

ShowTime!

2011-02-08T09:56:59Z

The beginning of the year is always a busy time for our friends at UBM.

The Sleep Event (the Hotel Industry trade show), just before Christmas is swiftly followed in January by the ARC show (Architectural Lighting) and Interiors 2011 (Furniture & Interior design).

It's a chance for some fantastic designers and manafacturers to show off their new products, innovations and trends... and we were there to capture the mood of excitement!

Our mobile edit suite allows us to shoot and edit on-site... the video below was shot on day 1 of the event, and edited that evening... ready to be sent out via email on the morning of day 2. A fantastic marketing tool for the show organisers UBM.

The hills are alive... with the Sond of music

2011-01-06T13:40:22Z

Happy New Year! Hugs, squeezes and a little nibble on the ear from us all here at No Magnolia.

We thought you deserved a little musical treat to kick off 2011, so here is a short film we made about the innovative guitarist and songwriter Amrit Sond. Aside from being a generally lovely bloke, he's an astonishing guitarist and one of the more unusual jewels in the avant-garde crown.

Produced, directed and edited by Matt, shot by Matt and freelancer Nick Payne on DSR570s.

Chicken Run

2010-10-28T12:35:58Z

We spent the weekend of the 23/24th of October running around Caversham with 2 people dressed in giant chicken costumes... (this is where you ask "why?")

"Why"? (Thanks for asking) Well, we entered this years London 48 hour film challenge. On Friday, at 7pm, we received our genre - ROMANCE, our prop - A BONE, our character - SAM(ANTHA) HARRIS, A RUNNER, and our line of dialogue - "I WAS EXPECTING SOMETHING BIGGER".

Despite the obvious sexual connotations of those elements (well, they seemed obvious to Matt...) we decided NOT to go down the mucky route, and instead put all our efforts into producing a short film which was a touching little love story about friendship, feelings and chicken costumes.

The film was finished on Sunday night, a mere 48 hours after the process began. Using our pool of production crew, some friendly actors and the No Magnolia shooting kit we made something we all felt proud of.

You can watch the film here:

NM xx

Matt directs actors Conor Laville and SJ Yates

DOP James Abbott frames up for Matt

Nick manages to find time for a smile during the edit