A posh-sounding Northumbrian

I was delighted to welcome Bristol-based creative company Silicon 19 (website perpetually under construction!) Silicon 19 to the University to produce a promotional web video of our graduate degree shows.

These annual exhibitions are a showcase of the best creative talent to graduate that year, and we wanted to not only show them off but be able in future years to give people a sense of what it is like to visit a degree show. Universities are not always good at welcoming the general public in off the street, so anything that gives a snapshot of what life is like behind the walls of Higher Education can only be a good thing.

Silicon 19 have recently launched an agressively priced 'baby projects' offering for one day's filming, and one day's editing by a single multi-skilled operative. Though we upgraded slightly to a 'toddler project' with a two-man team, I think the video below shows that they are real value for money.

What I particularly like about Silicon 19 is their ability to take a brief and work in a natural, organic way to achieved the desired result. None of the interviews in the video above are scripted. They're all the result of natural conversational questioning by Greg Browning, a video producer I wouldn't hesitate to recommend to others. He's a pleasure to work with.

You can see the video in situ here, along with a photo gallery from each of the degree shows.

Their greatest hits

Other work I've seen by Silicon 19 include their videos for the Royal Society's Summer Science Exhibitions of 2005 and 2006, and rather more ambitiously the film The Full Monteverdi - a must see for fans of renaissance polyphony. Such people do exist, and I'm one of them!