3D Reel – Version 2
Our latest 3D showreel is featured here in old-fashioned anaglyph; to view you’ll need some red and blue glasses ….
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Melbourne’s New Home
Shot entirely on DSLR over a period of two months up to the opening. Directed by Dennis Keighron-Foster with Ian Sandall
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SPL Showreel
Here’s Ian Sandall’s 2010 showreel containing a wide variety of work for SPL Communications. This includes TV commercials, corporate and sales videos and much more. This will be updated in February 2012.
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Innovation!
One day we were asked to make a training film – but with a difference! Normally when we get asked to make training films it’s for something technical that requires lots of complex shooting. But this one was different!
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Davies Paints – Walls in Fashion
This TV and Cinema commercial was made specifically for The Philippines and was shot and post-produced in Manila.
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PZ Cussons 125
A 22 minute film to commemorate the 125th anniversary of the founding of PZ Cussons plc – most famous (in the UK) for its Imperial Leather soap.
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Knowsley Safari Park
The Monkey Jungle at Knowsley Safari Park holds a lot of baboons. Also many parts of cars that have been removed by those baboons! So how do you intrigue and motivate
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Gilmore Roberts / Fleetwood Fair
Gilmore Roberts are leading the ‘new wave’ in folk and this track is off their second album ‘Up From the Deep’.
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Melbourne ‘Ten Reasons’
Testimonials sell! No matter how stunning the graphics, how convincing the voiceover or how artistic the pictures, people really don’t believe what they’re being told unless they see someone (just like them) telling it to them on screen. That’s what we at SPL Communications have been banging on about for years and our clients are [...]
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Melbourne Server Hosting
This short piece was designed for playing at exhibitions and conferences where the sound is often muted so using real people talking is not very useful. Using testimonials from clients is always a great way to give yourself the credibility you need and in this case the quotes are powerful and persuasive.
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PZ Cussons in the Community
PZ Cussons is a North-West based company and its new head office opened in 2010 at Manchester Airport. This programme was made for the opening and details all the support The Group give to local organisations and charities. Using some footage from previous films, SPL Communications shot new interviews to show the scope and breadth [...]
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Kids@Play – Ride on Daleks
Our first reaction at SPL Communications when someone says Daleks is to hide behind the sofa! However the first ever ride-on Daleks are rather less frightening (a) as we’re older and (b) as they are brought to their full size by pumping them up! Kids@Play asked SPL Communications to produce a web / exhibition promo [...]
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Seashell Trust Fundraising
This film was made to raise awareness (and funds) for The Seashell Trust in Cheshire. The Seashell Trust is a wonderful organization dedicated to looking after children, young people and adults with some of the most challenging disabilities and learning difficulties. Although there are around 100 pupils there are over 500 staff and volunteers so [...]
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Des Horsfall
Des is an old friend of ours and we had fun making this piece both in his amazing retro recording studio (all analogue) and in Hebden Bridge one cold afternoon. Using DSLR cameras we were able to get into the tightest of corners to get the shots we needed (and Des’s studio is not especially [...]
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Vimetco China
Vimetco are a major manufacturer of aluminium. Based in Europe they have operations in Romania, Africa and China. Our brief was to document the Chinese operations so that analysts in the US and Europe could learn more about the company. The facilities are all in Henan Province in NW China. Using a combination of UK [...]
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