Monthly Archives: March 2012

Suttons Seeds Gets Grafted

This week Skylark Media has been filming with Suttons Seeds at the impressive Plant Raisers, the site of the largest tomato plant propagator in the UK. We filmed 3 films in the day, getting real value for money from the presenter, camera operator and location.

Suttons are adding to their highly successful library of videos to offer help and advice to their customers. These new videos are about grafted plants and sweet potatoes.

A stunning lifestyle set had been created by Suttons marketing department. Then it was a matter of conveying 10 foot mature tomato plants from the perfect growing conditions of the green house to our outdoor location. Once everything was in place and the script was agreed then filming commenced. The weather was kind to us and a warm low sun gave us direct light and reflected balance from the green house wall – perfect. As the sun set we had all 3 films ‘in the can’.

Presenter, Rebecca Morris, did a magnificent job at presenting and Luke Fleming was operating the Sony EX3 and Canon 7d. The videos will be available on the Suttons You Tube channel from April 2012.

The sexiest way to present your research?

You’ve just carried out an extensive report. You’ve got lots of lovely data to present to your customers. You want it to make the biggest impact you can. But how?

Passenger Focus, an organisation focused on getting the best deal for rail and bus passengers decided on a video, but didn’t think an interview would carry the ‘wow’ factor they were looking for. They had conducted a survey into bus passenger satisfaction taken from 21,000 responses from over 23 areas in England outside of London. The video was to present the headlines of this research to the minister for transport.

After discussion with Jo Haywood at Skylark Media, they decided that a more dynamic (and cheaper) way would be to use motion graphics. A detailed storyboard was agreed and passed over to Skylark Media’s dynamic graphics team. These masters at the highly sophisticated motion graphics software animated the research findings to presents them in a clear and manageable form, with music to set the tone.

Skylark Media’s video for Passenger Focus can be seen above. Its stylish and upbeat tone gives bus operators a clear summary of the research. Once enthused and motivated, they can get full details of their individual areas from the online report. The video has been a huge success and is now being used at presentations across the company, both internally and externally.