Lakelands by NEO

For those who don’t know, Neo‘s Ian Adams was a SWAT cop back in the UK. The best of the best. He has an unashamed, unabashed comedic quality about him, not dissimilar to the great Benny Hill. He can have fun with being sexist, taking it right up to the line with through self-deprecating sense …

Ballin Downs – A Testimonial

This just in from Agent Jason Savage on the Ballin Downs video – produced over three days, for $15,000 plus helicopter aerials. And again, we broke all the rules here. It is a generally accepted rule of real estate marketing that you never ever film or even associate a home-owner or his/her memories in any …

PlatinumHD Propvid Goes RED Epic

In line with our mission statement to be the No 1 property, tourism and lifestyle production network worldwide, PlatinumHD will deploy a Red EPIC on all its big signature productions from late September. The camera will be used on the Gold Coast, Brisbane, The Sunshine Coast and New Zealand, by the Network’s senior DPs. This …

Ballin Downs. A’lysee’s Story

This marks the first time we’ve introduced a real human touch to a property film. This is A’lysse’s true Story. A’lysse also brought a real vision to this three-day production, aiming for a high-end polo look in terms of wardrobe. The production, the most expensive residential shoot produced to date, included two other pieces – …

Broadcast Yourself – Your Own TV Channel

A decade ago, launching your Company’s own TV Channel would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Probably millions. Today, it’s FREE. Thanks to the giant of video streaming, Google’s YouTube – now the second largest search engine in the world. We’ve launched a few customised channels in recent weeks. There’s www.youtube.com/raywhitebulimba For Ray White …

I Love My Villa

Love My Villa. ‘Amalifi’ cost over $10 million to build. With that sort of price tag, in this sort of market, any type of marketing is going up hard against it. To add to the challenge, 50 Knightsbridge Parade East, Soverign Islands, had already been “video’d”, photographed, floor-planned, 3D whatever’d and word-smithed to death by …

No Such Thing As A FREE YouTube Lunch

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 …

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 …

Preferred Video Supplier

PlatinumHD Propvid is proud to announce it has been appointed preferred HD video supplier for Australia’s No 1 real estate portal, www.realestate.com.au. Bringing video to the Internet has been a long, hard road, which started for us back in Sydney in 2004 as a small company called SMASH POP! We then morphed into Propvid (www.propvid.tv) …

The Emperor’s New Clothes

An Emperor who cares for nothing but his appearance and attire hires two tailors who promise him the finest suit of clothes from a fabric invisible to anyone who is unfit for his position or “just hopelessly stupid”. The Emperor cannot see the cloth himself, but pretends that he can for fear of appearing unfit …