Piranha was commissioned by Kingfisher Digital as part of Kingfisher Plc to populate their website with new office photography and video interviews.

The company is on the forefront of coding and innovation, for their flagship stores.  They provide consumer facing software to aid and simplify the online shopping experience.

The photographic brief was to provide very contemporary and fresh images.  The pictures highlight the working environment within the offices which have a lively atmosphere.  There are inspirational leaders and the company is a fun place to work.

The photographs captured people, from the start of the day during the ‘stand ups’ review and planning meetings, through lunch, which is often themed, to staff in technical briefings and coding. The images help to recruit the growing need for quality staff, so as to achieve great things for the Kingfisher Group.

Here is a showreel of the corporate videos Piranha has carried out for a variety of businesses both in the UK and abroad.  Some of the pieces were talking heads when company directors described what work their organisations were carrying out.  Other footage is from company events and parties, and sometimes conferences in London –

Piranha Video Showreel

If you would like to hear more about how we can help you with your video or to discuss your ideas for filming, please do get in touch.

Piranha has been helping many clients with their corporate videos over the past year. These include interviews where companies use online media to describe their companies strengths and areas of business, this also allows for the use of video cutaways to illustrate the day to day workings and bring the interview to life through the personalities of the directors themselves.

The events covered are varied from the Oil and Gas Year evening at the Dorchester, through to presentations at Downing Street and Conferences in London and abroad.

Showreel – Corporate Videos for Companies –

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Showreel – Event Video for Businesses –

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Video overview of the Oil & Gas Year Book evening event filmed at the Dorchester in London –

We  wanted to share with you a recent email from one of our private equity clients after their recent investor presentation, when the videos Piranha had worked on and produced with them were presented –

Dear Sam, Douglas and Adrian,
 
Last week’s investor meeting was the ‘best one yet’ in Simon’s opinion and we certainly received really great feedback from our investors. One chap from the states complimented us on the quality of our video editing. 

Thank you – we get very stressed, we ask for lots of last minute changes and you always deliver a great product and we’ve very grateful.
 
Lunch soon?
 
Kind regards,
Rachel

Marketing Director, Inflexion Private Equity
 
PS. We will soon turn our attention to editing the remaining videos we shot at the end of the year so we can get them onto the website.

A short corporate video introducing London based investment management firm.

This required filming 4 interviews and then editing the footage to produce a piece for the companies forthcoming conference and another for use on their website –

Creating a successful and relaxed corporate video requires two people

The photograph shows a typical setup by our videographer. Douglas (on the right) is art directing to ensure that the speaker feels as relaxed as possible and to help guide the person being filmed.

Having a two man team on location works very well, as one can focus totally on the technical aspects and the other ensure the subject is pronouncing words correctly, not repeating or deviating from the message, this is very important as often left to their own devices a subject can speak too quickly on a familiar subject or place an emphasis on the wrong words, or in a flat voice which wont hold the attention of the audience for very long.

Article in the Spring 2014 edition of HDSLR Moviemaker featuring Piranha Photography’s corporate video offering and discussing the equipment and techniques required to get the best from a corporate video.

Audio, accounts for about 60 -70 % of the watchability of a video or film. A poor video quality with excellent sound is bearable, poor sound but with great video clarity is switched off after 30 seconds.

In recent years small digital and very portable audio devices have made great strides in improving audio on location and are a great improvement on the widespread use of microphones attached  to the top of cameras, and some even allow professional XLR inputs from broadcast microphones. However there is a limit to the benefits such devices can bring. The pre amps that magnify the sound from the mic should have little or virtually noise and the tonal range should be wide, and we decided that in order to improve our video offering by leaps and bounds, we would upgrade our audio recording capability.

After a lot of research, we purchased a new Tascam PD-H6 solid state broadcast audio recorder, only slightly larger in physical size to the typical device,  it offers a recording quality that has to be heard to be believed, using the same microphones as before this recorder can deliver a rich clear audio track to any corporate or business video, with so much clarity you can almost hear the interviewee’s watch ticking, all saved to solid state disks at a resolution way over CD quality.

With a series of corporate projects to shoot and complete before Christmas, we look forward to producing the highest quality audio and video to our clients.