Why NOT YouTube for business? At PlatinumHD Propvid, we’ve invested a few hundred thousand dollars over the years in designing, building and constantly refining our own video streaming system designed specifically for the real estate industry. Its called TSR (The Screening Room). We continue to evolve it. Soon, we’ll launch TSR4. We chose to develop …
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Beechwood Close & PlatinumHD’s Five L’s of Film-Making
Platinum’s five L’s of Film Making 1. Light – you need to control it, and pack it. 2. Location – the place you’re going to shoot has to tie in with the L approach. 3. Lenses – without a serious set of fast primes, you’re restricted. 4. Look – the style, feel and genre you’re …
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Time To KILL Real Estate Cliches
When dealing with a medium as relatively new to real estate as ‘video’, it’s application demands a big re-think around dialogue. Take ‘You see’. Viewers ‘can see’ it is a kitchen. There’s no point in pointing it out to them. “As you can see, I’m in the kitchen.” Yep. We kind’a guessed that. The fridge …
Towards the Holy Grail – HDR-3D
Towards the Holy Grail of HDR 3D Video The later part of 2011 could see ‘real estate video’ surpass ‘real estate photography’ in it’s one area of weakness. That of Dynamic Range. The technology isn’t available to ‘commercialise’ it for property just yet – the operative term being ‘yet’. What we’re talking about here is …
The EVENT 2011
We’ve just wrapped production on what is, arguably one, if not THE, biggest in-room Auctions in Australasia – The EVENT of 2011, for Andrew and Greg Bell’s Ray White Surfers Paradise Group – the No 1 franchise in this global brand. The EVENT is a milestone on the Australian property calendar. There’s absolutely nothing quite …
The 19 Binda Place Bombshell
It made national news on Nine and Ten and by February 15, claimed the No 2 spot on The Today Show’s ‘Most Clicked On’. It was featured on all the free-to-air news bulletins plus A Current Affair and Today Tonight. And we received a bomb threat from a feminist group. Media Hunter said “Holy cow, talk …
Lucas Wilson – Centrepoint First National
This is Centrepoint First National‘s Lucas Wilson‘s debut PlatinumHD video on the Gold Coast, on the sub penthouse of Circle on Cavill We’d just got our hands on the Canon 7D which punches out some slow-motion and with Lucas in tow, we had the creative freedom we needed to lay down something special. The idea …
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Reflections – Penthouse Tower II for Neicon
We shot this on the Sony PMWEX3, with an interchangeable lens mount, allowing us to put some old Nikon prime manual glass on the camera for the first time using a strange contraption called a Letus adaptor. This finally gave us the depth-of-field we’d been searching for in video cameras. The Canon 5DMII, teasing interchangeable …
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Shooting Oracle I & II – The Power Up
We were honoured to be chosen by Neicon Developments to lens Towers I & II of The Oracle at Broadbeach, for a film and photographs. It is a multi-faced project. The first stage saw PlatinumHD Crews shot both buildings during what’s called a ‘POWER UP’ for over two nights, using seven cameras. The lights in every …
Health William’s H-House
Heath Williams is as much of an artist as he is an Agent. Passionate about design. This passion came through in his pitch to us on what he wanted to see in H-House, which opened with a tracking shot across the Story Bridge, in peak-hour. Production notes: We sandbagged a high-hat and geared head in …