New Website for Dream Fishing Holidays

New website design for Dream fishing holidays (formally known as Dream Breaks) has just been finished – the site is constructed on our Simple Content Management System with a couple of bespoke features making the web site a wealth of content and interactivity with the customer.

 

The web site was built to display off the beautiful videos of all the locations DF has to offer – this means the surfer can see the resorts and lakes straight away along with all the relevant data, with very quick access to reserving and contact details.

Already the site has had a tremendous response from the directed market here is what one of the Lake Manger had to say...

"Absolutely brilliant, it's very impressive indeed. The videos and commentary are excellent - all we need to do now is to update the text! ...and now even I can sort that out!

Once again - congratulations on an excellent job"

Have a look around the website? And if you are into sport fishing you may even fancy a little break. Check it out now: www.dreamfishingholidays.co.uk

Princes Quay Christmas TV Commercial

Classlane (film and television company) contacted Surrect to help with creating some 3D Graphics for a TV spot for Princes Quay Christmas publicity. We were asked to create 3D Christmas baubles which would have the 13 main shops animated and composited in to the live action footage.

We were on shoot location inside Santa’s grotto (somewhere in Wakefield) to help make sure the shots were within the brief and take some photos - which would make up the HDRI photo we use to add reflections and lighting in to the 3D scene.



After modelling and creation of the Christmas baubles and textures when then needed to track the live action plate, which gives us the angles, camera setup and movements – which are then replaced with little x’s when then line up our 3D models and extra shapes to make sure we are casting shadows that may cast in the “real world”.

We then created the textures for the animated logos and added these to the baubles textures! A few test renders and then we let the renders go...here are a few photos and test renders...The advert is airing on ITV during Coronation Street and "This Morning" - right up until Christmas eve, so hope you catch it! ...here is the online version!

The Talks Music Video

Surrect helped "The Talks" a Hull band deliver to great videos to the world of music. The first video "Picture this" - we organised and produced the complete video, it was based on the popularity of karaoke but the downside of the inervability of a bands track ending up being sung in a dark ally pub.



The video was broken down into two sections, first part was filmed at RD&D photography studio on a fantastic white backdrop - and enough space for our 6 meter boom/jip to capture some great shoots of the band playing the "Picture This" tune. This part of the video will be the karaoke part we composed the words to the song over this sequence along with making the footage appear on a TV.

The second part of the video was filmed in the "Queens Head Pub" on Princes Ave in Hull, this was the setting for the karaoke sequence, showing random people singing there hits song. A select few fans and friends were invited to help and star in the making of the video - as you can see a lot of fun was had by all.

"Killer Sinner" the second of the music videos we helped them with was filmed and edited by the band themselves, we were asked to add some post-production - the flares, tweaks and colour correction - along with making sure both music videos were prepared and converted to DigiBeta for distribution to the music channels.

Alternative to Flowers? Send a Framed Gift - Gift Philosophy

Wahoo, we have just completed the long awaited online shopping store for Gift Philosophy - Beautiful personalised frames, delivery to your door – Super stylish frames, sent direct to your loved ones door step, all gift wrapped and personalised.

Surrect Media developed the Gift Philosophy brand, then we created the custom e-commerce store with some major additions. The user can customise the chosen frame by adding a photo to their cart, crop it and save it for the photo to be inserted before sending out. Want to send the same frame, photo and personal additions to more than one person? No problem, just duplicate the product in your cart and add the additional delivery address...no constraints!

This is a sexy, elegant site with an easy to use system which lets the user quickly and effortlessly make a very bespoke gift purchase online very quickly, we hope you like the site and maybe even next time you need a gift delivering - this site will be on your list!

360 Golf Course Virtual Tour - Anyone?

Surrect's photographic company - 360 Digital Imaging has just finished test photos at "Los Naranjos" Golf Club Marbella - The idea is to allow the golfers to VIRTUAL inspect and "walk-through" the course.

This will be a service that will be offered to any golfer around the world that wants to have a look at the featured golf courses on the coast line of Spain. The idea is to put the virtual tour(s) on a touch screen system in a golf shop/golf organiser and allow the customer to pick the coruse they would like to play, this then could be transferd on to a USB pen - by the club, golf organiser or both for the customer to take away with them.

The world be comes very small with the addition of digital media - I hope we can work with the Spanish golf clubs to make this a great option for the golfing fraternity.

Here are the test photos for the first hole! 360 "Los Naranjos" Golf Club Marbella
So what do you think to the idea? Let me hear your thoughts!?

PicFree - Free Business Stock Photos

This is a newly released project developed in conjunction with Darrin & Paula Stevens, Zack Brown and Graham Barlow helped to create this simple online stock photography website for business and students. All developed in FLEX – this is a new type of Flash site, updateable content on the fly, search facility and payment connection...super sexy!

The site offers free (800px) photos for anyone to use within any production/material – if you want a high resolution image you can purchase it for a one off fee, all images are the same cost – this then goes to the running costs of the servers and equipment.

I think there are some fantastic photos on the site – certainly some will appear on some of our work/presentations and will be a valuable source of photographs and inspiration for us...I hope it makes it in to your helpful resources bookmark.

Check out the site at www.picfree.co.uk and hope you find that photo you need.

First Blog Post! Welcome to the New Surrect Blogger Blog!

Welcome to Surrect Media's new blog! formerly known as REAL DESIGN - we are a cutting edge design and video company in the North of England (Hull, Yorkshire).

We have worked within the digital media industry for over a decade, producing everything from web site design and developments, corporate branding, search engine optimization (SEO), viral videos & campaigns, video/film production and traditional print.

This is a new blog to help publisise our work and our clients sites - please have a look around and all comments are welcome! Thank you for stopping by!

Breon Snowdon
Surrect Media, Director