Video – Blackball Media

Motors.co.uk picks Blackball Media for video production

Blackball Media’s rapidly expanding video department has been signed up to produce a series of videos for Motors.co.uk during 2014.

The classified car website, which has recently relaunched with a new look and fresh logo, will be working with Blackball Media during 2014 to create bespoke video content.

Last year, we produced a number of car reviews, advice videos, motor show reports and a series of unique Will It Fit films, designed to show car buyers what will fit in their prospective new cars.

Motors.co.uk’s Stephen Jury said: ‘We work with Blackball Media because they’re great at sourcing cars from manufacturers, finding industry experts to comment on topics, great at logistics and planning pre-shoot and on the shoot day. They’re very professional.

‘The videos have performed well for us and as Motors.co.uk enjoys a new look, video will form an important part of our offering. We’ve got some exciting videos planned with Blackball Media and we’re looking forward to releasing them over the next 12 months.’

Motors.co.uk videos include a series of car reviews, car buying/selling and ownership advice pieces with a number of experts, plus a few fun videos created along the way. You can see examples of our work for Motors.co.uk below.

If your company needs video, get in touch with the team on (023) 9252 2434 or contact us via email here.

Motors.co.uk 90 Second Review

Motors.co.uk Will It Fit

Motors.co.uk Frankfurt Motor Show Review – Nissan X-Trail

Motors.co.uk Quickest Lap

Blackball Media films at the British Comedy Awards for Suzuki

They say this job isn’t all about the glitz and glamour, but sometimes it really is.

In early December, Blackball Media was booked by Suzuki to film and photograph the blue carpet arrivals at the British Comedy Awards, held at the Fountain film studios in north London.

It was a night that saw a host of high-profile comedy A-listers including Jonathan Ross, Will Ferrell, Harry Hill, Eddie Izzard and Paul Whitehouse take to the stage in recognition of their comedy greatness.

Under the shadow of Wembley Stadium, the blue carpet was a hive of activity, and because the awards were being filmed live, it certainly proved a challenge filming around multiple television crews who were also getting shots of the arrivals.

Nigel Swan, Head of Video at Blackball Media, said: ‘There were a lot of challenges to the shoot. Not only was there a lot going on, there were the circus acts and film crews, plus celebrities mingling with fans. Also, the cars were arriving during rush hour so you never really knew when another car would arrive.

‘Nevertheless we got some great stuff. The pictures were delivered the same day and a fully edited video by lunchtime the following day.’

Suzuki laid on around 30 cars to ferry stars to and from the show in a mix of S-Cross and Kisashi models, plus one Grand Vitara was wheeled out to carry 6ft 6in Greg Davies.

Alun Parry, head of Press and PR at Suzuki, said: ‘Being a live show it got a bit frantic at times with our 30 cars but we got everyone in on time and home again. The images look great and we are very pleased with the video for social media.’

If your company needs a video to showcase a product, get in touch with us for a competitive quote via email through this website or call (023) 9252 2434.

Video praise email – and Ford’s response – will warm your cockles

When you produce videos for internet consumption you’ve got to be prepared for a little bit of abuse.

And of course, by a little bit, I mean a steady stream of bitter, angry, twisted comments from keyboard monkeys the world over.

However, every now and again, something happens, something that makes all the abuse worth it.

And that’s exactly what took place over the Christmas break.

Checking my emails, I found the following from a YouTube viewer who had tracked down my email address to send me this:

Shocked and delighted at someone taking the time to send us a positive comment about a video we produced, I sent it on to the Ford press office.

I was sure they’d like to see that it was worth letting Jon and I play around with my XR2 and their new ST at the launch of their new car for a video after all.

A few hours later came the following reply from the Ford team – maybe it was the festive spirit, maybe it wasn’t, but whatever it was it was still a thoroughly nice thing to do.

Here’s what they said:

I emailed Tim today (my first day back in the office) to thank him for getting in touch – and I told him how unusual it was for someone to send us a nice comment.

I explained the move by Ford was a very unusual one and he should snap them up on their very generous offer.

Turns out he’d already done exactly that…

In a world where internet commentators are so ready to dish out abusive comments, a story like this one makes a nice fuzzy-feeling change.

Here’s the video Jon and I produced of my Fiesta XR2 and the Ford Fiesta ST last summer. Apologies in advance for the mad hair… I was overdue at the barbers by about three months.

Enjoy.

Blackball Media’s video team are available to hire. Contact us on (023) 9252 2434 or email us here for a bespoke quote and some friendly advice.