The African
Campaign
Comic book capers with ProHD in London
Jersey Number Nine Productions For the ambitious and uncompromising both a stand-alone movie and serial pilot, it
has recently completed shooting
videographer, JVC’s line of ProHD is reassuring to know that the GY-HD101E
its first production, The African
cameras offer professionally featured, has provided a PAL 720/25p production at
Campaign with JVC’s GY-HD101E.
full resolution progressive scans. The
the forefront of the industry.
The decision to shoot exclusively
productions that came before The African
with one of JVC’s ProHD cameras
Campaign, such as the Australian feature
Gabriel (dir. Shane Abbess) convinced
was an easy one, considering the
us of the strength of this 3-CCD camera;
nature of the production and the
when transferred to 35mm film, Gabriel
anticipated workflow. Filmmaker
impressively retained its resolution and
and actor, Jeremy Sanders Nichols,
earned theatrical distribution through Sony.
explains further.
Though The African Campaign was scripted
for a television audience, functioning as
E.ON UK’s changing energy Power to the people
Internal communications are Senior New Media Executive at E.ON, a professional, slick service for E.ON’s
important to every company,
“and we needed to project a more internal communications. A small camera
but when you’re looking after
professional image when interviewing the just wouldn’t have created the right
top executives at E.ON. We have sixteen impression when we needed to interview
media for a multi-billion pound
thousand employees in the UK alone, so one of our senior management team.”
energy company, fi rst impressions
need compelling programming for internal
are vital. That’s why E.ON’s distribution on our internal IPTV system.”
As the team were new to camera
in-house Online and New Media
technology, transitioning from poor
E.ON’s new media team decided to
quality SD to high quality HD needed
team chose a new JVC GY-HD201E
purchase the GY-HD201E camcorder,
a little training. “Dual recording’s a
camcorder for their department,
together with DR-HD100 hard drive, from
lifesaver too,” Giovanni added, “as we
ready for use at the heart of
UK dealer Digital Garage, to replace their
record onto the drive and also capture
E.ON’s corporate Changing
older equipment. They also purchased
onto tape simultaneously as a master
Energy programme.
lights, radio mics, booms, an edit suite
archive. Our team of journalists have
with Apple Final Cut Studio, storage and
also started making fi fteen-minute shorts
E.ON’s new media team, based in the monitors, and will get a KA-MR100 SxS
about the Changing Energy programme,
UK, is responsible, among other things, recorder so they can record onto cheaper
interviewing members of public about the
for updating the company’s intranet site, media cards.
things E.ON does in the community and
Portal, and also adding content to an
how it affects them. This improvement
internal video network, distributed around
Giovanni added, “Although we didn’t
programme is all about changing
the country to over fi fty locations.
need a full broadcast set-up, the
ourselves and our services, and this is
new JVC camera was an appropriate
exactly what we’ve achieved with our new
“We had old video equipment which solution, allowing us to fi lm professional equipment too.”
n
needed replacing,” said Giovanni Guarino, quality footage and therefore provide www.eon-uk.com
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