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Presentation Filming – How many cameras do you need?

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Hi. When creating presentation videos, you often have the opportunity to assign multiple cameras, so we thought we’d use some recent conference footage to show you the pros and cons of different camera setups.

Firstly, one camera.

Every conference video is going to need at least one camera and therefore camera one does most of the heavy lifting. It can be set up in different ways.

Option one is to simply stick it on a tripod, aim for a wide view and record everything.This works well when there are multiple people on stage and no presentation slides, but it isn’t particularly engaging to watch as everyone is so small in the frame and there’s no variety in the visuals.

Option two is our preferred approach for one cam shoots. We capture a close up of the speaker and then combine it with the presentation slides in post-production. You can then get three views for the price of one in that you can cut from a full screen close up of the presenter, to the slides full screen, to a picture in picture view of both. Offering your audience some variety and thus keeping their interest.

When you add camera two, you add more variety to your video and this dramatically increases watchability, with cam one capturing a reliable angle, cam two can roam free, allowing you to get some different views like a bit of audience reaction.

If you had a third, fourth, fifth camera, you’re amplifying the variety of views, upping engagement and delivering a premium feel, more along the lines of, say, a TED talk.

Obviously, adding cameras generally increases costs, so you pay for that extra variety, but this is offset by greater audience engagement and more successful productions.

Thanks for watching.

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Capturing Culinary Chaos: Behind The Scenes Of An Explosive Cheesecake Video Shoot

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At Dead Ready Productions, we work with a range of clients, on a variety of projects and some of those projects are more unusual than most.

Chris Tongue, Creative Director at Dead Ready Productions, takes us behind the scenes of one such client project that literally blew up! And explains why our creative approach to the brief led to it winning an award. The content of which can be found below.

Hello, today I thought I’d share with you one of the weirder briefs we received during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Mainly because it was unusual, but also because our response to the brief resulted in our client being named Winner of Best B2B Campaign at the Independent Agency Awards 2022.

The brief came from our friends at Jellybean Creative who were looking to produce a disruptive campaign for their client, Mondelez International, who wanted to reignite the chef’s love of the Philadelphia Professional range.

Research had proven that Philadelphia was a well-respected and highly regarded product, but its versatility was generally overlooked by the target market, meaning it was only being used in a limited range of recipes – namely bagels and cheesecakes.

The client therefore set two principal goals – inspire chefs to use Philadelphia in more recipes and to do so by disrupting their scrolling on social platforms with something attention grabbing…

So, we blew up some cheesecakes!

We shot using a specialist Phantom camera to capture the action in super slow mo (call out 1/1000th of a second) and had to be careful to protect it, the studio and ourselves from the very real danger of explosive pyrotechnics.

But once our special effects team from ForceFX had given us the all clear, the small charges placed in the cakes from under the table were remotely triggered from outside of the room and things got messy

The final video combined the high speed footage with dynamic shots of Philadelphia being used in all sorts of different contexts to first challenge chefs to think beyond the product’s standard use and then inspire them with some examples.

Audiences were then funnelled towards downloading a Philly recipe book, helping them to find easy ways of using the product and encouraging sales.

The ‘You Don’t Know Philly’ campaign proved to be a huge success – it doubled foodservice sales and recruited a new audience of chefs across five key sectors.

The Independent Agency Awards judging panel also commented on the entry;

“The campaign was really grounded in insight, it was strategic, it was thoughtful. The creative was memorable.”

So it was a bit of an unusual one, but a really fun (messy) shoot with a fantastic end result for the client and their agency – and we’re proud to be a part of it.

See you next time!

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