HD Today Stories Archive
Scar Tissue
Category: XDCAM EX/HD
Filming a Chiller - a tale of the unexpected The feature film Scar Tissue has recently completed production using Sony's PMW-F3. It was not all plain sailing. Written and directed by Scott Michell, the story explores the science of...
Stephen Fry's Planet Word
Category: XDCAM EX/HD
The BBC 5-part series, Planet Word, takes the viewer on a global tour of language and different forms of human communication. The presenter, Stephen Fry, wanders amongst the Turkana people of Kenya, mingles with evolutionary experts in Germany,...
Seeing Heaven
Category: XDCAM EX/HD
VMI are delighted to have supported director Ian Powell on his first Gay Feature Film ‘Seeing Heaven’. The film is beautifully shot by DoP Alessio Valori using a Sony EX3 Camcorder supplied by VMI. Powell is delighted with the results...
Polar Bears in Trafalgar Square
Category: XDCAM EX/HD
An initiative was formed to create a life-sized ice sculpture of a polar bear in Trafalgar Square and then in a number of major cities worldwide. These will be powerful, iconic, emotive events which bring home the beauty and fragility of the...
Churchill's Supreme Fantasist on XDCAM
Category: XDCAM EX/HD
Marbella Productions has chosen XDCAM EX as the format to shoot a 60 minute drama on Churchill using the Sony EX-3 hired from VMI. One of the strangest men in Politics, a fantasist and compulsive liar, father of modern financial journalism,...
Raising Awareness
Category: XDCAM EX/HD
Keep a Child Alive (KCA) is a charity dedicated to stopping the awful carnage that AIDS is inflicting on families, and specifically children, where in Africa alone it has created 13 million orphans over the past few years. Raining awareness is a...
On Thin Ice
Category: XDCAM EX/HD
The PDW-700 XDCAM HD Camcorder stood up to the challenging conditions when filming Two Four's documentary series, "On Thin Ice". A hardwearing camera capable of captuing crisp images, such as the PDW-700, was required when...
