Shiremanship

A sudden influx of Yorkshire work flow has hit the edit suites at VTR North over the last week.

Countdown's Conundrum- one of our favourite jobs has been on the agenda for the last few days in our largest Smoke suite.

Yorkshire Girl Guiding, this took 2-3 days worth of Final Cut to create a nice little short film, courtesy of Screen Yorkshire.

York Museum and York Maze are two commercials we have the pleasure of working on in our Smoke studio.

We love doing what we do, especially when we can provide a post production service to fellow Yorkshire folk!

P.S We are looking forward to The Great Yorkshire Show.

Carling World Cup Ad Zips on to Screens with VTR North

CARLING WORLD CUP AD ZIPS ONTO SCREENS WITH VTR NORTH by SCREEN YORKSHIRE (18/06/2010)

Carling pulled together a specially-created ad ahead of England's World Cup clash with the USA on Saturday - thanks to the speedy production skills of VTR North. The Leeds post-production house spent Saturday handling the editing, grading, sound design and mixing of Carling's spot, which was shot just a day before in Yorkshire, so the ad could go out ahead of England's game that evening.

The ad, created by Beattie McGuinness Bungay and Big Balls Productions, showed the gang of 'mates' from carling's recent ad campaign take to their camels to deliver home draught crates to competition winners in Yorkshire.


But the winners were only announced on Friday, and their beer was delivered that day, prompting VTR North to go into extra time to get the ad ready for Saturday evening ahead of kick off in Rustenburg. Because of the speed of the edit ClearCast had to be present in the studio to approve the ad is it was being cut.


It went out on time on ITV1 before the match and you can see the outcome here.

The DRUM on Carling and VTR North

Carling World Cup ad zips onto screens with VTR North
Advertising / UK by The DRUM

Carling pulled together a specially-created ad ahead of England's World Cup clash with the USA on Saturday - thanks to the speedy production skills of VTR North.

The Leeds post-production house spent Saturday handling the editing, grading, sound design and mixing of Carling's spot, which was shot just a day before in Yorkshire, so the ad could go out ahead of England's game that evening.

The ad, created by Beattie McGuiness Bungay and Big Balls Productions, showed the gang of 'mates' from Carling's recent ad campaign take to their camels to deliver home draught crates to competition winners in Yorkshire.

But the winners were only announced on Friday, and their beer was delivered that day, prompting VTR North to go into extra time to get the ad ready for Saturday evening ahead of kick off in Rustenburg.

Because of the speed of the edit ClearCast had to be present in the studio to approve the ad as it was being cut.

It went out on time on ITV1 before the match and you can see the outcome here.

SOURCE: THE DRUM

Carling & Camels at VTR North

Saturday 12th June 2010, saw VTR North undertake the task of editing, grading, sound design and mix, for Carling's pre England World Cup match commercial on ITV that very evening.

The cast of thousands descended on Leeds' premier post production facility to prepare to deliver 100 Carling Home Draught Crates to the lucky winners of the competition announced on Friday 11th June.

Beattie McGuinness Bungay and Big Balls Productions knew who their mates were and called VTR North with their brief for this World Cup project.

They brought to Leeds, along with the Carling "Mates" in full Eastern attire; Clearcast who were in our edit suites to approve the commercial as it was being cut and two camels to deliver the beer to Yorkshire's lucky winners!

See the commercial here: www.vtrnorth.co.uk

It's a Toy Story for VTR North

Over the last few weeks we have really enjoyed using our brand new Smokes for toy commercials; including the Bakugan New Vestroia range. This involved editing and cutting footage from the Canadian pre made advert, deleting the legal captions and changing typeface for the new ones and adding new end frames. After Effects were also called in for sharpening up images and pulling the colours out, as well as creating a flickering light effect across the screen, to create and build atmosphere.Tagging (adding logos) was also done for this ad and laying audio over the top.

We have also just finished some work on the Spongi ads, which needed adapting, so a large amount of editing to get the commercial from a 30 to a 20 sec one. Grading and colour correcting, tagging, editing and then laying audio over the top of the commercial.

See these ads on Channel 4 early morning TV! All in all a great couple of weeks work, bring on the next toy story ...

FACILITY OF THE MONTH: VTR NORTH, LEEDS (12/05/2010)

"VTR North is a Post Production company based in the heart of Leeds, close to both main arterial road and rail links. They excel in high end digital editing, compositing, effects, 3D animation, motion graphics, radio commercial production and sound design. In addition they offer digital playout, dubbing, transfers, Mpeg encoding and DVD authoring and also provide dry hire for suites. VTR North is at home with both commercial and broadcast work, large or small.

VTR North has a long client list of well known brands, including: Seat, DFS, Jet2, Hilary's, Carlsberg, Allied Carpets, Channel 4, ASDA, William Hill, Disney, Dolmio.

Credits across music, broadcast and short film include: Richard Jones, James Morrison, Kevin McCloud's Big Town Plan (Channel 4) and Tiger Attack (Discovery Channel) and the BAFTA Nominated short United.

' The most hard working, dependable and adaptable bunch of individuals I have ever had the repeated pleasure of working and playing with.' Greg Clark, Creative Director, Uber

VTR North's premises offers ISDN links and high speed connection to SOHONET, meaning a more efficient connection to any portal, from London to New York. Their city centre facility has been specifically planned and built for their purposes, offering full HD post across all suites which are connected via a central machine room. The studios also boast a meeting room, Wi-Fi broadband, café area, production offices for hire and car parking.

VTR North
The Old Brewery
High Court
Leeds LS2 7ES
www.vtrnorth.co.uk

Tel: 0113 261 58 58
Fax: 0113 251 58 59

Greg Baldwin (Producer) greg.baldwin@vtrnorth.co.uk

We reversioned Shakira

The NEW! Shakira Tour sponsored by SEAT ad has just been aired. See it on E4 - one of the many channels showing it. Take a look at it, very nautical:


Watch it here

We were involved in the reversioning of it, this involved changing the ad from the Spanish format to the UK standard, including changing the small print size etc.. It took just a day, but we could have listened to Shakira's voice all week!