As the cannon of clients at Waterloo Film Studios grows, we are seeing more and more talent from the music video-production industry using our space to conjure their magic.

Box TV is just such talent. Producing an exciting mix of the very best music videos, talent-led charts, live concerts, exclusive interviews and the finest comedy shows from the C4 stable, it was a pleasure to watch them in action.

Our largest and most impressive studio was blacked-out in its entirety in preparation for the shoot. Using 20ft x 20ft black velvet drapes and painting the floor TV black, the main studio was completely transformed into a dark, moody space.

Box TV arranged two contrasting studio productions for their day at the studio. The morning setup being the backdrop for an Asian Music Show Pilot, and the second was a showcasing space for the latest recruit in Kanye West’s label G.O.O.D MUSIC. This American rap artist - Big Sean - is a very talented young man and it was a pleasure to watch him collaborate with Box TV on their video production.

Shot on Sony F3’s with prime lenses, multifarious director for Box TV – Roman Green – created an interesting set using unconventional lighting techniques.

It was a pleasure for us to house the collaborative efforts of Box TV and Big Sean, and we wish them both the very best in their future endeavours. With a little luck, we will be seeing them at Waterloo Film Studios again.

Filmmaking is never simply a day-job for the team at Spectrecom Films. Though creativity is an integral part of the rumble and tumble of corporate video production, it is also something which is honed and nurtured during our spare time too.

The latest short film in a highly successful web-video series entitled Bloody Cuts; ‘Prey’ is the newest effort from some of the most talented people our company has to offer. The film is co-directed by Jonny Franklin and Ben Kent, and produced/edited by Ben Franklin. Shot entirely on the Red Epic, ‘Prey’ is a film which plays upon the conventions of the male-female dynamic in horror. To say any more would spoil the surprise.

Though this is just the latest in what is set to become a much larger anthology of short horror movies, I can’t help but feel particularly proud of the boys for this latest effort. ‘Prey’ marks an evolving maturity in the series which is refreshing to witness, and carves an entirely new dimension of storytelling for the team which can only get better as the series progresses.

The Bloody Cuts series is exemplary of the unparalleled culture of filmmaking which flourishes at our facility, and ‘Prey’ leaves thousands of followers on YouTube, myself included, wondering which direction the boys will choose next. Dim the lights, crank up the speakers and enjoy.

Would you like the very same team to bring their creative flair to your short film? Check out our rates today.

We’ve had leaked web videos, we’ve had spoilers, were they released intentionally or is the excitement surrounding the final Batman film of Nolan’s trilogy just that big? Either way the actual studio released viral content has been released this week.

Dr Leonid Pavel is the subject of the viral content that consists of a CIA document profiling the mystery nuclear physicist as well as a transcript of a conversation between the agency and an unknown militia contact.

The documents don’t shed much light on things but do reveal the Doctor is on the run, but from whom? Bane or Batman…or Catwoman? It’s time to start combing the Internet for more clues:

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Filmmaking history has been bartered off to a phantom menace lately, with a camera used to shoot ‘Star Wars – A New Hope’ (1977) being auctioned for a record-breaking $625,000 in Beverly Hills, California, to an undisclosed buyer.

The Panavision PSR 35mm camera, which was owned by Hollywood actor Debbie Reynolds, went during the auction at Reynolds' film memorabilia collection. The Oscar-nominated actor, who is the mother of Star Wars' Princess Leia, Carrie Fisher, decided on the sale after plans to open a museum went over to the dark side.

Sold by Hollywood memorabilia dealers ‘Profiles in History’, the fully functional camera went for more than three times its $200,000 estimate and broke records for both Star Wars memorabilia and vintage Hollywood film studio cameras sold at auction. The lot also included accessories and a photograph of George Lucas filming with the equipment on the Star Wars set.

The previous record for an item from Lucas's cash-cow film production series was $402,500 in 2008 for a miniature TIE fighter model used in the first film. A Darth Vader helmet from 1980's The Empire Strikes Back went for $70,000 in 2003.

The camera's high sale figure suggests interest in Star Wars remains high more than three decades after the release of the first film in the series. By comparison, another Panavision camera owned by Reynolds and used during the filming of Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was sold for $70,000 at the same auction. A much older camera from 1918, which was once used by Charlie Chaplin, failed to sell after buyers balked at the minimum $200,000 price tag.

Machinima is one of the top web video destinations on YouTube and the rest of the Internet. They have been providing us with video games news, reviews and fun since 2006. In amongst all the trailers and regular video game content is of course the “machinima” web videos themselves, these are films made using captured footage from video games, an incredibly cheap way of creating sometimes interesting, often hilarious web videos without the need for pesky actors and camera gear.

They have just announced that in the month of November the channel received a billion views as well as a total of 116 million unique visitors. To be slightly critical of Machinima they do adopt the quantity over quality approach when it comes to video production and if you become a subscriber, you will be hit by a barrage of videos, but there are some gems that regularly appear in the scheduled content.

Even if video games are not your cup of tea, the numbers aside what Machinima has achieved is pretty astonishing. They are true innovators when it comes to YouTube and online video and are often a great company to look at when considering best practice for your own video output. Specifically their use of annotations is very impressive in its subtleties.

If you want to succeed with online video production and YouTube why not get in touch.