Rwanda Filming For Reprosymp

Good Call Media has been filming in Rwanda, Africa.

The remarkable economic turnaround of Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide that divided the nation, was the backdrop for our project filming for the Ceva Reprosymp event.

We used our drone to capture the big group shot

Kigali, capital of Rwanda – African economic powerhouse

We filmed in the conference chamber but also at a series of workshops held on a working dairy farm for the project, which included key opinion leaders, experts in reproduction, ministry officials and veterinarians from many regions of Africa. Our drone was also in use at the farm used by the conference to illustrate the latest thinking in reproduction methods.

With an African population expected to grow from 1.3 billion inhabitants in 2018 to 2.7 billion by 2050, improved methods of livestock production are considered one of the major levers to answer the food challenge this continent is facing.

It is in this context that Ceva Intertropical Africa organised its first forum which aimed to share experiences from initiatives accross Africa with various stakeholders. The REPROSYMP brought together to Rwanda more than 60 opinion leaders coming from 18 countries across Intertropical Africa.

 

 

Our pride – 2019 Yorkshire Property Awards

We are proud to announce that we have again been selected as the video partners for the prestigious 2019 Yorkshire Property Awards  which attract over 1000 of the region’s property professionals to a glittering event.

The event is organised by the team at Variety the Children’s Charity and the real bonus is that it helps to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for direct support and projects that improve the lives of children and young people through the county who face various challenges in their everyday lives.

The Chocolate Works in York

In recent years we have worked closely with Variety on a number of different programmes and in 2018 we also attended the Yorkshire Property Awards, held each year in the beautiful surroundings of Rudding Park in Harrogate, and broadcast interviews with winners and sponsors as they came off stage on the big night.

You can see examples of the videos by clicking here.

We have also developed a highly successful brand with Variety, called ‘Game Changers’ which features videos that celebrate the best of Yorkshire property development over the last 12 months. These have included major developments such as Kirkstall Forge on the outskirts of Leeds, The Chocolate Works in York and the ongoing development of The Fruit Market on Hull’s waterfront.

Hull’s Fruit Market development

We also film with various young recipients of Variety’s funding and their parents to demonstrate the incredible impact of the fund raising that takes place at the charity’s events, which also include the Yorkshire Residential Property Awards held in September, and the annual Yorkshire Business Awards held just before Christmas each year.

Kirkstall Forge – a new dawn for the former ironworks complex

The 2019 Yorkshire Property Awards have already sold out and there are no tables left at the event but we look forward to visiting the region and highlighting the very best of design, support and development in the industry over the last 12 months.

Looking across the UK, Yorkshire and Humberside saw 5.8 percent annual house price growth in the third quarter of 2018, making it the strongest-performing area.

It was the first time since 2005 that Yorkshire and Humberside had been the top-performing region. At the other end of the spectrum, the North East of England saw a 1.7 percent decrease in house prices.Some parts of southern England, including London, also saw house prices fall annually in the third quarter.House prices in the capital have fallen annually for five quarters in a row – although the latest decline is “modest” at 0.7 percent, Nationwide said.

Property values in London are only 3 percent below a record high seen in 2017 and still sit more than 50 percent above their 2007 levels.

In the air above Rwanda

We used our high definition camera drone to shoot some amazing footage on our latest assignment close to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.

Click here to see the latest shots

We were taking part in the Reprosymp forum organised by our major client, the worldwide veterinary health company, Ceva Animal Health, which was designed to bring leading international experts, politicians, farmers and key opinion leaders together for an event that would help boost livestock production in Inter-Tropical Africa.

Our DJI Mavic Pro takes high definition 4k footage and photos

The Reprosymp team in the field

The event was held at a convention centre close to Kigali’s downtown area but also on a working dairy farm around 20 kilometres from the city where a series or workshops were held for the delegates to show them the latest techniques in livestock reproduction, tailored specifically for needs in this are of Africa where new sources of dairy, meat and protein are badly needed to feed a rapidly growing population.

While we were filming on the farm we were able to use our drone to film cattle being brought in from the surrounding fields. “The drone actually proved to be quite a useful tool for helping the herdsmen and women to muster the cattle because they moved forward steadily towards the working area when the drone came up gradually behind them,” said Good Call Media Co-owner, Nik Wood, who was in charge of the filming project.

Farm workshops

“It was amazing to see such dynamic workshops proving so popular on the farm,” said Nik. “With over 60 delegates taking part it was an excellent example of organisation by the Ceva team.”

With an African population expected to grow from 1.3 billion inhabitants in 2018 to 2.7 billion by 2050, improved methods of livestock production are considered one of the major levers to answer the food challenge this continent is facing.

It is in this context that Ceva Intertropical Africa organised its first forum which aimed to share experiences from initiatives across Africa with various stakeholders.

The various technical sessions were an ideal opportunity to understand the need for a global zootechnical approach to reproduction. The speakers showed different technical solutions adapted to the different specificities of this zone. Guy Charbonnier, a consultant at Reprotech, pointed out, “It is impossible to implement the same methods of breeding livestock in Europe to Africa”. He was leading one of the practical workshops held during the event on a dairy farm in Kigali.

The different feedback presented by local stakeholders, brought more light to the key points of success for the implementation of a sustainable genetic improvement approach in Intertropical Africa.

Ceva Intertropical Africa and Good Call Media, especially wanted the partners, IMV Imaging, IMV Technologies, Coopex and Illumina. Their participation in this seminar allowed everyone to share their internationally renowned expertise in breeding and genetic improvement.

Attracting New Recruits

Statistics show that as far as corporate online videos are concerned the highest levels of engagement (opening of videos and time watched) are from potential recruits to a company. Certainly at Good Call Media we are finding our clients are using video more and more to help them with their recruitment processes. It is an incredibly powerful way of informing and attracting appropriate talent and can be a way for companies to save money by recruiting themselves or providing agencies with a clearer insight into the way they work and their culture.

Our longstanding client, power convertor company XP Power, who has been successfully growing as a company for many years, asked Good Call Media to produce a film targeted at potential recruits. What is it like working for XP? What kind of culture exists at the company? Are there opportunities for development? Is it a fun and welcoming place to work? Will I be valued?

We interviewed employees at every level, right across the company and in the different departments; engineers, finance, IT, sales, customer service, HR and marketing. It provided a good understanding of the various roles, positions and benefits; helping XP to ensure they attract the best and most appropriate people.

The filming itself was great fun involving many members of the current team and XP were very happy with the end result as staff clearly expressed their commitment and respect for their company. To quote Andrew Carter their Northern European Sales Manager, “What makes this company an amazing company is the people that work very closely together. We’ve got an awesome amount of talent.” And XP’s Engineering Manager, “This is a really exciting company and there are terrific opportunities. We’re growing fast and it is a terrific place to build your career.”

Click here to hear more from the XP team.

2019 – Another Record Breaker?

2019 is already shaping up to be a Happy New Year for Good Call Media.

In 2018 our company broke all its previous growth records for the 10 years we have been operating and, without tempting fate of course, the next 12 months is already promising further success with a strong pipeline of work from our existing customers and a string of assignments from new clients.

We have just produced a fast turn around video trailer for the World Veterinary Association (WVA) 2019 Global Animal Welfare Awards which we will be hosting together with our major patron client, Ceva Santé Animale, the worldwide veterinary health giant that is now a €1 billion company operating in over 40 countries of the world. Good Call Media’s Co-owner, Nik Wood, hosted the highly successful 2017 and 2018 awards in Incheon, South Korea and Barcelona, Spain, respectively and will also be on stage to host the 2019 awards in Costa Rica at the WVA’s annual congress.

Click here to see the video

The project will also involves us filming in five different continents in early 2019, as we gather video assets from each of the winners of the Awards to be shown at the event.

In the UK, our new relationship with the Hall Hunter Partnership will see no less than 15 videos appearing in 2019 as we help the company deal with recruitment following whatever Brexit agreement is eventually signed, if one is signed, of course! The videos have been recorded in various different languages including Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian and English and will be used throughout central Europe and the UK to show what working with he Hall Hunter Partnership is like.

We have so enjoyed working with Variety the Children’s Charity in Yorkshire in recent years and their use of video has become increasingly innovative, ranging from appeal videos, highlighting the amazing work they carry out with young people and their parents in the region, to light hearted videos to be shown at various awards ceremonies together with winners videos highlighting amazing work in the Yorkshire property and general business sectors.

We are therefore delighted to have started a new relationship with Variety in London where we partnered with the team on the recent Variety Catherine Awards. We have worked on various appeal videos with the London office but this was the first major event that we have covered and involved uploading winners videos and a general roundup video virtually as the Awards ended at the Marriott Hotel in Central London.

We will also be flying across ‘The Pond’ to New York to work alongside another major partner client, Volition RX, who are doing amazing work to pioneer the development of an accurate, cost effective technique of detecting and predicting a range of cancers using small samples of blood. We already work with Volition in the UK and from their impressive facility in Namur, Belgium, where they are analysing the results of trials held in various areas of the world.

We have worked with the quoted company, XP Power for several years, highlighting their excellent financial performance at interim and full results times during the financial year. That work has also expanded to the production of a series of videos aimed at recruitment in the UK and also the markets of the US and Asia where they manufacture and sell their products. We look forward to working on new assignments with them in 2019 as well as continuing to feature their financial results which are reported through their investors’ website and on further internal and external video reports for the XP group of companies.

Finally our media training capability is being used by more and more companies as they face up to the fact that 80% of all internet traffic will be video based by 2019. Food for thought for many people as we enter into an interesting New Year.

An early but very Happy New Year to you all.

New video highlights Dogs for Good work

Our major client, Ceva has continued its work in the area of human, animal interaction by sponsoring a series of high profile events staged by the UK-based organisation, Dogs for Good.
 
The ‘Power of Dogs’ events were held at various UK locations and included a series of inspirational speakers giving different insights into the behaviour of dogs and all that they bring to us as humans. Good Call Media were there to film one of the events.
 
The talks were chaired by Peter Gorbing, the Chief Executive of Dogs for Good, a board member of Assistance Dogs International (ADI) and founder director of Animal Assisted Intervention International (AAII), the international umbrella organisation for practitioners in the field of AAI. 
 

Dogs for Good is one of the UK’s leading practitioners of  both assistance dog training and AAI through its Community Dog programme, training therapy dogs to work with dedicated handlers and healthcare professionals in a range of community settings.  
 
Speaking at the ‘Power of Dogs’ event at the Royal College of Physicians in London, Martin Mitchell, Ceva’s Director of Group Communications, said :”We have been working with Dogs for Good for over a year now and the work they do is absolutely incredible.”
 
Part of Ceva’s sponsorship agreement with Dogs for Good is also being used to pull together all of the information that the charity has about dogs and their wellbeing.
 
“We have lots of information we share with our clients across all of our services, but  the information was not collated in a any formal way or in very useable formats said CEO Peter Gorbing. 
 
“We have now produced over 100 really useful bits of information all about dogs, dog care, building a bond with your dog and other information that will create a fantastic library. This will be really good for Dogs for Good clients in the short term, but longer term we are in discussion with Ceva about how we might bring that to the wider public as this will probably be the best library material about dogs that we have ever seen.”
 

 

 

Variety Catherine Awards – Winners

We are delighted to list the winners of this year’s Variety Catherine Awards who were honoured at an amazing ceremony in central London.

Good Call Media was there and filmed each of the winners as they came off stage. The videos were then uploaded to You Tube and shared with the audience, sponsors and, of course, the winners themselves, the morning after the event, leading to a much bigger engagement with Variety the Children’s Charity and the fantastic work they carry out to help young people and their parents who often face huge challenges in life.

To see each of the winners’ videos simply click on their name in the list below

Rising Star Award

  • Name: Temi Mwale
  • Organisation: The 4Front Project

Entrepreneurial Spirit Award

  • Name: Lara Bywater
  • Organisation: LDC Care Company

Finance and Banking Award

  • Name: Anne Boden MBE
  • Organisation: Starling Bank

Professional Services Award

  • Name: Tracey Groves
  • Organisation: Intelligent Ethics

Science and Technology Award

  • Name: Kate Burns
  • Organisation: Hambro Perks

Retail and Fashion Award

  • Name: Charlotte Tilbury
  • Organisation: Charlotte Tilbury

Inspirational Award

  • Name: Camilla Marcus-Dew
  • Organisation: The Soap Co.

Creative Industries Award

  • Name: Chi-chi Nwanoku OBE
  • Organisation: Chineke! Foundation

Women’s Empowerment in the Workplace Award

  • Organisation: Beyond
  • Organisation: The Typeface Group

Sports Industries Award

  • Name: Julia Immonen
  • Organisation: Justice and Care

Variety Catherine Awards – Oh What A Night!

The Variety Catherine Awards were a fantastic success.

Good Call Media recorded videos with all the winners immediately after they received their ‘gongs’ on stage after setting up a social mini-studio next to the ballroom at the Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square, the venue for the glittering event.

Leading women in business and philanthropy were celebrated and recognised as winners of the Variety Catherine Awards including; former MI5 boss Baroness Eliza Manningham-Buller; beauty entrepreneur Charlotte Tilbury MBE; Chief Executive of Starling Bank, Anne Boden MBE; and Temi Mwale of The 4Front Project.

Here is our roundup highlighting the main aspects of the night

Keep a lookout for our next post which will highlight the winners interviews and also the work that they carry out that helped to attract the attention of the Variety judges.

 

 

 

Jon Culshaw on Eammon Holmes

We had a good laugh while filming the results of this year’s Variety Catherine Awards at a glittering event in central London

We were interviewing one of our heroes, the superb mimic and comedian, Jon Culshaw of ‘Dead Ringers’ fame to name just one programme he’s involved with, when we had a bit of a laugh over a fellow ‘celeb’, presenter, Eamonn Holmes, who was running a few minutes late and this happened!

We went on to have a fantastic evening at the Awards and you will be able to see links to all the winner videos coming through this week – all the videos were posted immediately after the Event but we’re just too busy to post them here right now!

Our Video Trailers For Events – Growing In Popularity

 

Our video trailers are proving to be a big hit with our clients.

The dynamic short videos are being used on social media channels to publicise forthcoming events such as awards ceremonies and they are a perfect way to generate more interest in projects.

Our latest video on YouTube is for the 2019 Global Animal Welfare Awards being staged by the World Veterinary Association supported by our major client, Ceva. The video features previous winners from the 2017 awards when Good Call Media filmed in four different continents to feature the winners of the Awards. Our own, Nik Wood, also hosted the Awards in Barcelona, Spain and will host the 2019 Awards in Costa Rica.

We have also produced video trailers for one of our other clients, Variety the Children’s Charity including the forthcoming Yorkshire Business Awards that will be held in early December and raise valuable funds for the charity’s amazing work in Yorkshire.

If you want to discuss making a trailer or covering your event, give us a call or pop us an email – full contact details are on this website.