Wailing Banshee Corporate Video and Film Production News

Wailing Banshee is in the final stages of post production for supermarket chain Somerfield. The 20 minute film was shot over two days in store on location in Bristol. 8 actors took part in the video which is to be distrubuted to all of their 1500 stores throughout the UK. Producer Helen Fields comments “The film was a joy to make. With projects like these sometimes everything just gels. The actors, crew and clients all mentioned what an enjoyable shoot it had been and this was certainly one of those times. We shot at a really fast pace with two cameras directed by David Baumber and assistant Vicki Smith. I think shooting in store also gave the actors inspiration for their roles”.

We have completed a 40 minute film for MSC Software’s global conference series comprising a lengthy case study on a recent contract.  Within this we incorporated 3 separate talking heads each filmed in the US and transferred to our post-production office in the UK via fast FTP which we then edited into the main UK film.  Turnaround was 10 days and we worked with offices in four different time zones which involved Banshee staff being in 24 hour contact. 

Wailing Banshee has produced a sales video to launch and promote the  new Hellmann’s vinaigrette range.  Filming on location at the Unilever demonstration kitchens  in Crawley the Banshee crew filmed in Super-HD using the new Red camera system and Sony XDcam for unrivalled image quality.  Director & DOP David Baumber explained why Banshee has opted for XDcam: “It’s an exciting time for shooting crew and those in post production.  XDcam allows us to shoot incredible HD material without worrying about post-production storage and system technology.  XDcam allows us to edit on our Avid Symphony and Adrenaline systems just as we’ve always edited standard definition.   The clients see the benefit in overall quality even if our films are for presentation on the web.  There’s a fine line now between 35mm film and HD but the budget gap is huge.  HD will be our shooting format for all corporate work in the future”.

Hellmann’s will be using the film in 2008 .  Wailing Banshee has shot more than 30 films for Unilever over the past 8 years.

Wailing Banshee has been updating and filming new material to be incorporated into the latest St John Ambulance training videos.  St John’s corporate image has undergone a recent revamp and the new brand design has been translated into moving image by our graphics department.  Parts of the old footage were re-filmed at our studio in Hampshire, UK with post-production also undertaken in-house by our new animation team ‘Banshee GFX’.  The films are due for release in January 2008.

Wailing Banshee has been commissioned to produce an educational film to promote the new Agri-Food & Bioscience Institute environmentally friendly ‘green’ centre.  The centre will be a working example of how farmers can be self sustaining and provide their own power by utilising solar energy,  biofuels, heat from the earth and decomposing grasses, wood chip and willow to produce gasses.  This high definition film will be played to visitors to the AFBI centre.

Wailing Banshee are proud to anounce that our programmes produced for Torch B2B & Knorr won the Gold Award for best sales and marketing films at the Chicago Intercom Film Festival.  INTERCOM, the International Communication Video & Interactive Media Competition, was created to recognize the extraordinary talents and creativity of the agencies at the top of the ever-evolving field of communications. INTERCOM honors exceptional work in educational, corporatesponsored, industrial, and interactive productions. You can watch one of the winning films here:  Knorr film