75% of the State has now been declared a disaster zone – a land mass five times the size of Texas. Lives have been lost. 200,000 Brisbane homes and businesses, devastated. Estimates to re-build run as high as $15 billion. Many of our foundation Clients, and our great mates, are in Brisbane. Mark Williams (CBD), …
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Crowd Accelerated Innovation
In the last few years, we’ve seen an explosion of online video. The world now watches 80 million hours of YouTube every day. Cisco estimates within four years, more than 90 percent of the web’s data will be video. Chris Anderson, Head of TED – the global conference on Technology Entertainment & Design – wrote …
2,971 Propvids shot in a Year
Today, we started launching the final Propvids to YouTube for 2010, bringing the total content upload to 2,971 films. All these films are already streaming from this site – as first and foremost, we offer Agents a proprietary streaming solution. Since 2004, we’ve developed and refined and our own proprietary streaming system, allowing our Clients …
A Response From Steve Jobs
And what did Steve say in his reply. One word ‘Yep’. But at least Christian Fitzpatrick got a reply back. Here’s the email Christian sent to sjobs@apple.com. “Steve. I just wanted to say, I love Apple. We are a small business around 15 machines and derive our income from the use of FCP mostly. My …
New Site Humming on iPad
On Wednesday, December 22, 2010, we launched the new front end to our system. We’re now in live test mode and as of today, December 29, almost all bugs have been sorted. The major change? Some serious work on SEO and preparing for sub-domain sites for Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast, Miami (Florida) and Canada. This …
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 …
Casa Albero – The First Platinum Film
Dave Adams was a natural on camera. One of those rare comedic talents. Dave, from Ray White Broadbeach, swore by real estate video and we’d made some great ones. He wouldn’t list a home without a budget of at least $2,500 for propvid. I’d visit the property. We’d bounce some ideas around. Then I’d write …