Well the start of the UK kite surf competition season was blessed with clear skies and beautiful warm weather – its a shame the wind and waves didn’t turn up! We were down in Watergate Bay all weekend, full report, video and photos will be online soon but for now some of our photos are on the BBC Cornwall Website here.
While in Zaafarana, Egypt, we put together this Triple S Wildcard Entry video for Dan Sweeney, the UK Junior Kitesurf Champion.
“The Triple- S Invitational is the international free ride “world championships” of kiteboarding. 2010 marks the 5th year of the Triple-S Invitational, after four extremely successful Triple-S events, this has become a highly anticipated event on the pro kiteboarding calendar. Watch the world’s best kiteboarders compete in Surf, Slicks and Sliders in Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. 7 Parties, 7 Bands!”
Watch this space to see how Dan, and the video produced by Blue Juice gets on!
It’s been a pretty hectic start to 2010, and following a trip to Zaafarana in Egypt and Les Coches in France to produce a selection of video podcasts I started to realise I had to really put some serious thought to hardware and workflows if I was to make it through an already busy year of web and video production.
I consider myself pretty technically comptent, to many I am considered a techie geek – always one to embrace the latest gadgets and push them to their full potential in my work. The last two years in particular have seen real advances in the kit and technologies at our disposal – HD DSLRs, go pros, prores, proxies, LT, quad cores blah blah blah and if we are not careful we can all be at risk of going into digital overload – not seeing the wood through the trees, the creative through the technical. Technology should help take some of the pain away to let us be completely focused on creativity, it shouldn’t dictate it.
With hardly any time to catch my breath I am already making filming and web design preperations for the Cannonball Run Europe which kicks off on 4th July and three sizeable corporate web videocasts scheduled in May. Rather than think about what technology I have at my disposal first, I am instead going to bust out the pad and pencil. (NB not an iPad!)
Great concepts and ideas come from not being tied to a gadget, so after completing this post the iPhone is going off.
We have just returned from a week away in Zaafarana, Egypt, with Kitesurf Kings – a UK based Kitesurf School that specialises in Overseas Clinics.
Situated on the Red Sea, Zafarana Beach Resort lies to the south of Cairo and the north of Hurghada. The lagoon offers both perfect conditions for beginners and experts alike, there is plenty of room for everyone and with waist deep water with only sand under your feet there is no excuse not to try those new moves!
As well as the 4 students on the intensive week long course, we were joined by Dan Sweeney, current UK British Junior Champion, his brother, Oli Sweeney and John from Stormriders. The purpose of the trip was to produce a short promotional video for the Kitesurf Kings Overseas Clinics, and podcast and still image media content for Dan Sweeney as he enters the 2010 UK competition season.
We will post the videos and pics here soon.
Over the last 6 months we have seen a notable increase in both client interest in incorporating video into their sites and online marketing solutions built and delivered through some form of video medium.
Perhaps suprisingly to many it is an incredibly cost effective and powerful method of delivering your message online, and with the success of the BBC iplayer and services such as Vimeo and YouTube, 2010 will be the year online video really comes of age and forms an important part of any web developers arsenal and many clients web sites.
Get in touch to find out more about the services offered by Blue Juice Multimedia.
Video edit and photos from Rhosneigr Park Jam now online!
Finally we have sorted a quick edit from the weekend to accompany the photos found at Craig Sawyer Photography. Check it out at http://www.bluejuicedesigns.co.uk/rhosneigr-park-jam.php
In addition to the usual traditional web design methods we use to reach your audience, video has become a strong, viable medium to communicate with your visitors.
Viewing video content streamed directly from the internet has grown in popularity, and with increases in bandwidth and compression technology, high quality, interactive video applications can be delivered right from within your website, helping you drive new levels of engagement with your visitors, enhancing key relationships, user knowledge and business performance.
Rich interactive presentations can be built cost effectively & quickly and are a unique way to deliver your message, combining video and audio with interactive screen content. Imagine this…you normally deliver your companies’ annual report through a bound paper copy or an electronic file such as a PDF which is emailed to shareholders.
Why not deliver a personal message and overview of the report, complete with interactive content as you progress through your announcement? Deliver financial reports and allow users to interact and view relevant content at the same time, and give them the ability to watch at their own pace or review content again.
Other examples could include launching a new product, explaining a service, conducting a training course or making a company announcement to your staff. And its not just about delivering a message, interactive content can be used to generate additional targeted revenue streams and attract new visitors to your site.
Video is the future of brand and stakeholder engagement on the web – contact us to find out more!