Kevin, Author at Video Artisan | Company Film and Video Production

April 2, 2012February 28, 2018

Inspiration for the next April Fool

There were some really naff April Fools pranks going about as usual yesterday – but some really great ones too. With the advent of high speed Internet connection there’s been many great examples of April Fool Videos over recent years so I’ve picked out some of the best of the best for your entertainment below. These videos all went BIG TIME VIRAL.

Talk to Video Artisan now and we can start working on your April Fool Video for 2013 and you too could tap into this phenomenally powerful marketing tool.

March 30, 2012June 16, 2012

IOV – They came, they talked, they ate my biscuits!

Had a great night last night at our studio warming party for local IOV members. 15 videographers in total – and the evening carried on at the Gardeners Arms, Loughton once they’d had enough of my tea, coffee and biscuits. Would have got a picture of the gathering but I was too busy talking – so you’ll have to make do with a picture of the aftermath.

Hope to do some more of these this year and help Cheema (local IOV Rep) build up our area. There’s a lot of local talent and we should all be networking a little more often.

This begs a question – if a gathering of biscuits is called a packet, what’s a gathering of videographers called?

March 28, 2012

Another one in the bag!

Had confirmation about an hour ago that I’ve picked up another corporate video – with filming starting next Thursday. Can’t say too much at the moment but its another challenging one – this time taking me into the world of dance!

Will give you a more detailed update once shooting has started. But in the meantime, this is the smile it brought to my face…

March 25, 2012August 6, 2014

Stock footage sale

Out of the blue I was approached by a Japanese company last week wanting to licence my footage of Woody (our cat) pouncing after some string whilst I filmed him at 2,000 frames per second using the Olympus iSPEED high-speed camera. This was just some test footage for a review I was writing for Focus at the time.

Hi-Speed tests from Kevin Cook on Vimeo.

Anyway, after some negotiation it seems we have come to agreement on the deal, so from April onwards viewers of one of NHK’s channels (Japan’s national broadcaster) will be seeing Woody in action as a kitten as part of one of their channel idents.

A nice little surprise – and good to know we have a cat who is going to pay for his keep for a couple of years at least. The only down side is that he’s been unbearable since he found out the news. Woody – take that smile off your face!

March 22, 2012October 13, 2022

Move over bees!

I’ve had a busy morning creating a new website for my beekeeping stuff – www.beemovies.net.

I’ve owned that URL for some time now hoping one day to have enough time to make some short films about honey bees and beekeeping in general. One of the original motivations for this was to right some of the awful wrongs that were spread by Disney’s rather stupid Bee Movie. I know it was a kid’s film – but it was factually wrong from start to finish. : )

This was part of my masterplan for when I finally escaped from the IOV. Whether this actually transpires is another story as my Video Artisan work is building up quite nicely – but at least I now have a place to put all the bee stuff that was ending up on this blog. I also hope the new site will inspire others to keep bees too.

Anyway – this blog can now concentrate on the video stuff – unless of course the two worlds crash into each other!