We hope some of the things we've been doing will be of interest, giving you an insight into what we do and what makes us tick.

Lucy and Terry filming on a hazardous, derelict demolition site, in 6 degrees below zero and on frozen snow. Deadlines to meet so nothing gets in our way, but maybe boots with thicker soles would have helped. Brrr….

10 YEARS ANNIVERSARY - COMPANY DAY OUT
Great news. Tickets for British Grand Prix @ Silverstone 8th August now booked. What a disappointment that the BBC hasn't retained the live broadcast rights for the whole season. One of the very best examples of TV sports coverage and production - free to watch too!

Working with an advertising agency and entirely from graphic designs, we've just produced a nifty animated advert to explain a brand new rental concept. We're not allowed to say who it's for just yet but the launch will be quite soon. Our thanks to Michelle for a fabulous voiceover too - you nailed it !

December has involved us in more unusual projects. Ever suffered from back pain? The exercise DVD will be available in January 2012 supporting the book that's already on sale. Produced for sale in UK and USA it uses both PAL and NTSC television standards.

December kicked off with production of more in store, point of sale adverts. Client preparing for several new product launches. Our production formula generates some astonishing sales results. Despite the month being manic, we even managed to slot in an urgent web advert for Cheltenham's largest gymnasium & fitness studio - on our doorstep so nice to work locally for a change. Terry, perhaps you should return later to work off some of that excess ? ?

Events photography launched with projects for Worcestershire official tourism and also a new conference centre launch at Three Counties Showground. Lucy is our specialist and gained great client feedback.

Finally, managed to squeeze in time to update our show-reel. Susie, Lucy and Michelle introduce viewers to v-i, explain what we do, our resources and ethos. Not overlooking that it's a 'show-reel' we included clips extracted from a few of our more recent projects. Oh yeah, Terry makes a very rare appearance in front of the camera - Sorry about that viewers !

What do you do on a cold and frosty October day when the advert script calls for beautiful red tomatoes to be plucked from its plant? The answer is easy. Buy them from Morrisons and sew them on to the stalks. We had to laugh too - Mental !

Introducing a new visual background effect produced in studio as one of our regular clients launches six more in store adverts. Technically quite demanding but the effect will be unusual and stunning. Pre-production scriptwriting starts mid Sept. Excited and looking forward to the filming as we've already got another application planned for it.

Expo booked. First time for us so lots of prepartions ahead. Refreshing to try something different. Lucy and Terry both there. Should be fun. Wonder how it will turn out?

Phase two of midlands based accountants promo gets underway. Filming schedule requires mutiple locations each with portable studio kit so quite a demanding 1st couple of weeks. That should shake the holiday sleep out of us and quickly get us back in to the swing.

Looking forward to a bit of a break to re-charge the batteries. Autumn is traditionally pretty busy.

Dutch client that supplies outdoor lighting has commissioned us to produce a promo for a select range of their products. Filming all done with Lucy, Terry & Jack. Produced some neat animated graphics. Susie has done the English voiceover. We're now adding Dutch, German, French, Swedish, Finnish and Norwegian versions.

Another episode in a 6-month series of in depth production and quality control films for an electronics manufacturer.

Filming starts for midlands based group of tax advisers and accountants to produce a promo for their services. This project aims to build trust and reliability on a localised basis.

Lucy, Terry & Michelle start filming a 6-month series of in depth production and quality control films for an electronics manufacturer. A well-known brand name in their field this will underpin their position as a supplier of high quality products that are all British made. Together with these intricate films, cut down online versions are being re-mastered in a quirky style for online viral marketing.

Whilst film production remains our primary service, we launched our new product photography service. Lucy becomes Head of Product Photography along with her role as Artistic Adviser for film shoots.

Filming promo for a training organisation. Includes carefully written interview questions and natural responses from established delegates.

Lucy takes on new role as Artistic Adviser, which involves interpreting visual requirements of a storyboard through to directing some of our shoots.

Filming promo for midlands based Technology and Manufacturing networking forum. Includes powerful voxpops.

Filming yet another high calibre speaker for the online TV channel that we run, this time from Siemens. This place pulls in some of the top industrialists from around the Midlands, typically from Jaguar Land Rover, Bosch, JCB and BMW.

Several studio recording sessions for multilingual dubbing of HG induction films. Devised innovative way to handle all the synchronisations, between, English, Bulgarian, Lithuanian, Polish, Romanian and Russian. Got them all absolutely spot on so we're very pleased with how well we did. Received very complimentary feedback from client as to how effective the films were. That's always nice.

"It's a wrap." Finally finished the HG filming.

Special showing of the MBH "Overview" film @ WBBC, where LG and Terry met 3 years ago. Great viewer feedback so client and production company both well pleased.

Lucy and Terry well engrossed in the HG induction training films. Shooting 4 different films all at the same time, spread over the entire month and everything shot out of sequence means we really do have to concentrate on the filming schedules to make sure nothing gets missed and that it all comes together perfectly. Conditions at times pretty mucky so thank goodness for the 4x4. New pressure washer needed!

Lots of preparation for new multilingual project due to start in April. This is one big daddy of a job and it's breaking some new technical ground for v-i so it's very exciting.

"It's a wrap". Another one of our more lengthy productions finally finished. MBH, the children's charity that we support really deserved this to work for them. We've wanted to do one in this style for a long time so we're delighted that it came out as well as it has. It was all possible thanks to lottery funding.

Lucy, Terry and Jack filming an advert in Bromsgrove for a Dutch client that supplies outdoor lighting. Some interesting effects had to be achieved. One being where we had to get a number of shots in just the right semi dark conditions during a 20-minute window of twilight. Lighting conditions called for great camera expertise. It came out exactly as we'd planned.

One of our favourite engagements on the calendar. Multi-camera filming in Bath where schools from across Wiltshire perform dance themes over two evenings. These kids are unbelievably talented. Some of the older ones will unquestionably go on to dance professionally. Really hope the government cut backs in schools sports don't impact on what is a truly magnificent project for these young people.

Filming in Trowbridge for the Wiltshire schools dance festival. Another very challenging assignment. These young people have severe physical disabilities so we film them at their special school. They also have a very limited period of concentration so once filming starts it has to be wrapped up within 2 hrs. Very impressed with how they conducted themselves - well done, kids. We show their performance on large screen to the audience at the live event, later in the month. It always gets a fabulous reception.

Susie and Terry on more filming for the MBH "Overview". Susie found it quite emotional, filming at school for children with special needs but we pressed on and got exactly the footage we wanted. Still loads more to do later in the month.

Snow cleared so previously delayed multi-camera shoot goes ahead with Lucy, Terry and TV celebrity chef Alan Coxon. Funded by a consortium of Local Government, Advantage West Midlands, DEFRA and others, the theme was to feature all local produce as a cookery programme to promote tourism. In addition to the filming we also did product photography. None of the crew took sandwiches that day - work it out for yourself!

Time to take another good cause under our wing. Every year we select a new venture to support alongside our ongoing support for our favourite charity. This year it's "The Box Zine", a free publication produced by young creatives helping other young creatives bring their talents to the commercial world.

First day back after the holiday. What a wake up, being on location by 8 am to film the NHS training film. 3-day multi-camera shoot with Terry on No 1, Lucy on No 2 and Jack on sound. Helped by the hospital staff we had a hilarious time producing this film in a comedy style. Plenty of laughs and some great outtakes that we'll present to the staff as a memento of the shoot.

Tasked to script write and storyboard a comedy training film for NHS. Not known for being a very good comedian Terry came up with a John Cleese styled production. This will be the first of its kind for v-i. Should be interesting.

Everybody snowed in so had to postpone the cookery demonstrations with TV celebrity chef Alan Coxon. We were all looking forward to it so disappointment all round.

Travelling light and by train with minimum equipment (just one large trolley and one wheelie bag). Filming at Chartered Quality Institute in Central London. Not very easy carting all that stuff through the underground, especially as the leg is still suffering from the accident. Thanks Alan, for being Terry's Sherpa.

Filming yet another high calibre speaker for the online TV channel that we run, this time from Haldex. Lots of interesting tips how they recovered the business. Especially like the "sales" analogy between a shotgun that kills verses a scattergun that simply annoys. How true!

Susie and Terry start the final "Overview" film for MBH, the charity that v-i supports. Funded by the lottery so everyone's a winner. Quite a complicated project ahead of us with multiple locations, shooting one continuous script running from one into the other. Should be a great effect when it's finished.

Multi-camera live relay to large screens for NHS awards. Gosh, it was cold whilst setting up until finally they put the heating on just before the audience arrived. Emma Jesson (Central TV weather girl) was there. What a nice lady to speak to! (Credit to T.T.Ents365)

Lucy and Terry filming sales conference in Coventry for Gloucestershire based, Canadian Insurances Company. 10hrs of rushes (film footage) to sift through for the edit !

After sitting around drinking endless cups of coffee until 11:30 am, the 2nd day of filming at Chateau Impney, Droitwich, had to be called off because the fog didn't lift. Fortunately, Susie & Terry got it done the following week.

4-day shoot for NHS awards. 2nd year in succession. Lucy and Terry really love doing this job so thanks to T.T.Ents365 for asking us to do the filming, once again. Went really well apart from Terry being caught speeding whilst driving from one hospital location to another. No flashing blue lights for film crews!

Rained all the way driving to and from Bolton for Susie and Terry's shoot for the ASDA store advert. Terry lost his favourite scarf at Knutsford services, but apart from that everything else was perfect.

Terry threw away the crutch! Poor impersonation of Eddie Murphey "I can walk again, I can walk again. It's a miracle". Sad, but let him have his moment of celebration.

Filming sports resource for client supplying interactive coaching to Sport England. First day @ Sunderland was 21hrs so pretty exhausted when we got back. Remaining days @ Sunderland, Slough & Wantage nearly as long. Ended up with 14 hrs of rushes (film footage) to synchronise cameras and edit. Thanks to T.T.Ents365 (colleague to Terry and another client) for helping. Lucy's first full time project as No 2 camera went well.

Follow on series of adverts agreed with gardening Tool Company. Weather looking pretty poor for outdoor filming.

Susie and Terry shooting new advert for a well known DIY Tools supplier. Looking forward to throwing away the crutch.

Thanks to Pete and Mark @ CESTAM for being Terry's chauffeurs to film Group MD of JCB for the online TV channel that we run. Yes, there was some good-humoured leg pulling about one tripod for the camera and another (2 legs plus the crutch) to stop him falling over but most importantly, the effort we made to ensure the shoot went ahead was much appreciated.

Filming at HG's Big Bank Party, where they treat all their employees to a great evening of outdoor entertainment. People must have thought Terry was mad turning up, walking with a crutch in one hand and a camera in the other. Can't let down a client though, so thanks to Steph' for lending a hand - literally!

Thought that after 8 years of film production maybe we should start a news page? Okay, let's kick off with Terry getting back into the swing of things after he came out of hospital following his impression of Rod Hull on the roof - or "off it" would be more accurate!