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WA Innovator of the Year Awards Video Production

Saturday, November 17th, 2012

The WA Innovator of the Year Awards is one of Western Australia’s most prestigious business and innovation awards programs.

We were selected to produce 9 creative and informative background video stories for each of the finalists. This was broadcast on the awards night as well as used to further promote the finalists achievements to an international audience online. The production included the express turnaround of the videos (production taking place between the finalist announcement and event date) and also included the video graphics production for the multimedia display at the event.

Category winner Kanopy receiving their award. You can see the Master of Ceremonies - Susannah Carr off to the side

Category winner Kanopy receiving their award. You can see the Master of Ceremonies – Susannah Carr off to the side

The media area for the Awards presentation. Kristen at the ready!

The media area for the Awards presentation at Crown Perth. Kristen at the ready!

As entertaining and amazing as all of the finalists were, I won’t go into detail about all of them, just my favourites!

Finalist – Wireless Underwater Communication System

Interviewing Paul from L3 Nautronix about his underwater communications technology

Interviewing Paul from L3 Nautronix about the underwater communications technology his team created

Working with Paul at L3 Nautronix in Fremantle, He has recently returned from Hollywood director, James Cameron’s Deepsea Challenge dive to the earth’s deepest point. Paul’s team created the underwater communications technology here in WA to survive the 11km decent to the ocean floor! James Cameron’s 3D documentary about the dive should be out early next year.

Finalist – A Floating Droplet Solution to Oil Spills

Filming Dr Chi working on his solution to break down oil spills

Filming Dr Chi working on his solution to break down oil spills at Curtin University

Dr Chi & Prof Moses from Curtin University have invented a solution to break down oil spills in the ocean which is environmental friendly compared to the current use of solvents. It makes water droplets float on top of the oil which capture the sunlight to degrade the oil. Go WA innovations!

Finalist – The HIVAP Airconditioning System

Interviewing Graeme who has invented over 80 things in his lifetime!

Interviewing Graeme who has invented over 80 things in his lifetime!

Who remembers the DirtSurfer? (Pictured Bottom Right, in the above image) It made world news and was invented by Graeme here in the late 90’s. We discovered this when filming his new high efficiency evaporative air-conditioning system, HIVAP. Turns out he has invented over 80 things including a lot of well known windsurfing and surfing technology. What an inspirational conversation… and guy! Kristen had to drag me away to the next shoot in the end.

Winner – Novel Treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy

Professor Steve Wilton from the University of Western Australia has developed a novel treatment for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy – a genetic disorder that affects boys and results in muscle degeneration and eventually death. A very humbling and awe inspiring interview. A very worthy winner.

To watch all the finalists and winners click on this playlist.

Do you know how to maintain your car? Host training videos

Monday, October 29th, 2012

host training video How Do I Maintain My Car

Recently we were hired by Evolve Curriculum Development & Training / Department of Education to create a short car maintenance video. This video actually features Craig as the host who not only acted as the presenter but also educator on how to top up the oil in your car right through to changing a tyre.

How a host can help:

Using an engaging host in a training video is a great technique to make the information you wish to impart memorable. They will help the viewer’s attention span remain focused as the host is talking directly to them.

I thought Craig did an amazing job. Who would not benefit from watching this?

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Craig volunteered to be host in this video

Electronic tablets sure make in car camera monitoring a lot easier now days.

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Craig doing his piece to camera, while driving, while videoing himself. Who says men can’t do two things at once!

How we had to mount the camera in order to get the in car stuff (upside down!)

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The camera rigged up to some suction cups, on camera light and a wide angle lens

Hilarious fun fact;

I videoed and edited this segment myself and then a couple of months later, I had to watch it back on my smartphone via youtube when my mum’s car tyre needed changing. I did it solely on watching the video and it was the first time I had ever changed a tyre!

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Changing my first ever tyre and proudly showing off my dirty hands!

Narrative role play training video

Wednesday, October 17th, 2012

Narrative role play in a training video is such a powerful technique that is both engaging and memorable. We were hired by Evolve to produce a scene which was to be acted in two different ways to be used as a training technique.  These two different scenes are meant to show the difference on how the main character “Fazio” can be more assertive in getting her point across to her friend and driving instructor without being rude.

Dave our audio guy finding the edge of frame

Dave our audio guy finding the edge of frame

Director and Audio guy taking 5

Director and Audio guy taking 5

This video was produced in conjunction with other supported material so as a stand alone video it may appear a little obscure. However you can still see how engaging professional actors can be in a training video.

I just love working with such talented Perth actors. They were a dream.

evolve hail

The beauty of shooting outdoors – dealing with the weather!

This hail turned a 3 hour shoot into a 7 hour shoot! It was a terrific day though and it was awesome to meet some great people.

Working with Microsoft in Perth – Partnership Video

Saturday, June 30th, 2012

We recently were asked to produce a video detailing one of Microsoft’s partnership success stories in Perth. The production required close attention to matching the existing visual style and theme of the current videos in the USA. This was to provide clean continuity when the videos went live online and were used within an international conference.

As much we looked, for the entire Microsoft shoot, we did not see one i-pad or i-phone…strange…

From June 22, 2013

“Great job on everything – your support footage was beautiful!
Thank you again for your help with this.”

Sam McJunkin
Touch Worldwide

Australian and New Zealand College of Anesthetists annual Scientific conference

Thursday, May 24th, 2012
Day 1 of ANZCA conference

Day 1 of ANZCA conference

The international ANZCA conference required high quality video interviews, photography and audio coverage over the duration of the 6 day Perth event. All media was captured and edited on location and available via their newsletter daily. Don’t you just love technology?!

The photographic and video updates informed their international audience of the days events and upcoming attractions. The photography captured was also used in additional media after the event for publicity and promotion of the college via their website.

Day 3 ANZCA conference

Day 3 ANZCA conference

This pic was taken on Day 3 of the ANZCA conference, during this interview I (Kristen) pronounced the conference as ANZAC instead of ANZCA. We had to stop the interview and start again from the top. Whoops! Faux Pas!

Grabbing a quick lunch in an elevator!

Grabbing a quick lunch in an elevator!


With so little free time we had to grab a quick bite of lunch in the lift!

Media area ANZCA

Media area ANZCA

Other than capturing material, we were handling daily post production of video, photos and audio. In the photo, you can see captioning, newsletter and related writing is happening to the right and in the background, speaker media preparation is happening. It was a very intense, stressful 6 days but it was one of the best work experiences of my life.

A big thanks to Kirsten from Compose Photography who took these awesome pics of us working.

Do you share books with your child?

Sunday, January 22nd, 2012

This instructional video and booklet that we produced with Noah’s Ark is all about sharing books with your children to both promote the benefits of book sharing with kids of all ages and educate parents on the specific techniques of interactive book sharing.

Produced and refined over a period of 2 years the video makes use of real life book sharing example scenarios with children. As you can see we not only produced this video but also starred in it! With Jasmine and myself actually making the front cover of the booklet.

We were lucky once again to receive some wonderful feedback at the completion of the project.

“I’m over the moon having looked this morning at “Booksharing” – The book and DVD are simply fabulous. It’s thrilling, beautiful, accessible, needed. And it belies an enormous amount of work, thought, pleasure, intelligence, love and experience.”

Winthrop Professor Stephen Zubrick
University of Western Australia
Centre for Child Health Research
Telethon Institute for Child Health Research

Thinking of starting a business in the tourism industry?

Friday, September 30th, 2011

Tourism Boost main Thumnail

The Small Business Development Corporation “Tourism Boost” program is aimed to help motivate and educate people starting a tourism based business in WA. The online video component of this program features the stories of 6 real WA business owners who share their experience in a range of areas including motivation, cash flow, marketing and business planning.

Filming an interview with Adam from Adam's Coachlines

Filming an interview with Adam from Adam’s Coachlines about how to stay motivated in business

Craig filming the tourists arriving by ferry at Penguin Island, Western Austalia

Craig filming the tourists arriving by ferry at Penguin Island, Western Australia

We loved being part of this project. It was so motivating talking to other business owners and listening to their struggles and how they overcame them. Definitely a watch if you would like to hear what it is really like owning a business, especially in the tourism industry.

Filming the penguins at Penguin Island, Western Australia

Filming the penguins at Penguin Island, Western Australia

We were lucky enough to receive this wonderful feedback from Kym regarding this project.

“Thank you so much!!!!! I have just viewed the video and absolutely love what you have done. It flows so well and is interesting to watch. It is exactly what we were after.
I can’t thank you enough, it is of such a high quality and you were great to work with.
You really have a wonderful talent. I’ll definitely continue to recommend you to whomever needs videos!”

To watch all 6 videos on operating a business in the tourism industry click here