HD Today Stories Archive
The Job Lot, ITV1. Arri Alexa
Category: ALEXA
VMI supplied equipment for Big Talk’s series The Job Lot for ITV1, a 6 x 30 minute situation comedy from Big Talk Productions for ITV; about life, love and long-term unemployment. It is also a great example of best practice in...
Midsomer Murders 16, ITV1. Arri Alexa
Category: ALEXA
VMI are supplying equipment to the 16th series of Midsomer Murders for Bentley Productions. This is the first series of Midsomer since it was first aired in 1997 to be shot on ARRI Alexa and Zeiss UltraPrime lenses and the double Alexa camera...
Our Girl, BBC1. Arri Alexa
Category: ALEXA
Little is beyond today’s large sensor cameras. But making Leighton Buzzard look like Afghanistan proved quite a challenge for the Arri Alexa and Canon EOS C300 hired from VMI for the shooting of "Our Girl". “That...
Marple, ITV. Arri Alexa
Category: ALEXA
VMI has supplied equipment on the latest series of ITV’s “Marple”. A double ARRI Alexa shooting kit shooting with Cooke S4i prime lenses and Angenieux Optimos and ARRI Aluras for a ‘period’ look. Marple is...
Delicious, The Film. Arri Alexa
Category: ALEXA
“Over the past two years, everything has changed. Now we find ourselves using the same cameras and lenses whether we’re producing a TV comedy or an independent feature film. And it also happens to be the same equipment they used to...
Poirot Series 13, ITV. Arri Alexa
Category: ALEXA
VMI are currently supplying a double Alexa Package with Cooke S4i Primes and Optimo zooms for the 13th and last series of Poirot staring David Suchet for ITV's flagship Period Drama. VMI was the equipment provider chosen to supply a dual...
Threesome, Channel 4. Arri Alexa
Category: ALEXA
In the days of the Two Ronnies and Tommy Cooper, shooting a comedy sketch show was comparatively uncomplicated. Today's directors, however, seem to be influenced more by the great film directors than by early pioneers of TV comedy and place...
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High Speed ALEXA for Formula 1
Category: ALEXA
"The ARRI ALEXA and Formula 1 cars were both built for speed -an ideal combination." Jonathan Jones, Ember Films Says Jonathan Jones of Ember Films. The British DP used an early beta version of the ALEXA soon after its launch...
Victory in Austerity. Bert & Dickie shot on Alexa
Category: ALEXA
As we approach the 2012 London Olympic Games, the UK's focus on this great sporting event is intensifying. Countdown clocks, announcements about the torch's route, ticket sales, policing tactics: the country's media channels are awash...
Delicacy shot on Alexa
Category: ALEXA
On the film festival circuit, there are countless boy-meets-girl stories and explorations of grief and alienation. The short film Delicacy is quite different; it is a story about an extreme culinary connoisseur and an expert chef obsessed with...
Alexa Goes Blue Chip
Category: ALEXA
When a blue chip corporate client commissioned a new TV commercial, shooting the country's leading athletes, the ARRI Alexa was the camera of choice. For producer Tim Wright of the production company Bruizer, the camera selection called...
Power, Precision and Panache - Rolls Royce/Alexa
Category: ALEXA
The new Rolls Royce costs 2p per mile to run. But don't get the wrong impression: Rolls Royce is not going down market. The prototype Phantom model shown this March at the Geneva Motor Show costs an estimated £1 million pounds. But...
