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VMI has made the transition to using rechargeable AA batteries and entirely stopped the environmentally harmful use of disposable batteries and shared this practice with the wider rental community.

They said it couldn’t be done but VMI’s 3 apprentices are are part of the first cohort of the Camera Technician Apprenticeship programme and are ready to start their two week boot camp at the London Screen Academy later this month.

More than 200 young hopefuls who initially lodged their interest in the new Camera Tech Apprenticeship programme, were reduced to 100 after the first sift, 56 at the second and just 42 received invitations to the activity and selection day event, hosted at the London Screen Academy on Wednesday 21 July.

VMI is the proud recipient of a Better Futures+ Green Innovation Voucher, awarded by West London Business, to help VMI to become a net zero, fully sustainable business by 2030. … Read more

Back in 2019, VMI Managing Director, Barry Bassett, first contacted the TV Industry body, ScreenSkills in order to investigate whether it might be possible to set up a formal apprenticeship standard for UK Camera Rental companies. After some false starts, we expect that the first cohort of Apprentices will start in Summer/Autumn 2021.

VMI Bristol celebrates six years since it was set up and in that time, Gary, Jon and the rest of the Bristol team have established it into a mainstream camera rental supplier for natural history and commercials/documentary productions in the South West.

For decades, there has been an unwritten convention in the UK that professional and prosumer cameras/associated equipment attracted a 4-day hire rate for a week’s hire, whilst broadcast and film … Read more

One year ago, VMI achieved formal accreditation of being a Living Wage Employer. The Living Wage foundation are the organisation at the heart of the independent movement of businesses and … Read more

VMI/VMEDIA has resumed full operations in London, VMEDIA and Bristol as of Monday 3 July with full working hours. We have implemented new comprehensive COVID-19 procedures to ensure that safety of … Read more

About 18 months ago, VMI Managing Director, Barry Bassett, first contacted the TV Industry body, ScreenSkills in order to investigate whether it might be possible to set up a formal … Read more

We have 2 posts that we are looking to fill immediately both on the rental desk and camera floor.  Do you have what it takes to join the busy VMI team … Read more

The latest annual VMI client survey had the best results of all time achieving a client satisfaction score of 4.7 out of 5 for the 5th year in a row, … Read more

VMI is a finalist in two categories of the 7th annual West London Business Awards, for “Creative/Media Business of the Year” and also the “Responsible Workplace award”.  The awards celebrate business excellence, … Read more

VMI takes its social responsibility very seriously and has initiated many strategies to reduce its impact on the environment and even won awards for it too, so it is really … Read more

VMI sponsored the 2019 Cine Circle Film Festival, a relatively new film festival designed to encourage recognition for new film makers.    Founder, Zbigniew Siwek, describes Cine Circles aims are “to connect, … Read more

8 riders calling themselves, “The Superheroes” raised £27,000 for MAG International to help make the world landmine-free by 2025 by riding from London to Bristol and London to Amsterdam in 2019 for the 3rd year … Read more

VMI has received formal recognition of its status as a fully accredited Living Wage Employer. This is the only UK wage rate based on living costs of £10.55 per hour … Read more

VMI has taken great strides to reduce its impact on the environment and continues to do so, going forward, wherever and whenever possible with a new initiative to ban single-use … Read more

VMI ran a series of 6 Phantom Super Slow Motion workshops in London in late May to teach Cinematographers and Operators how to shoot in super slow motion with the … Read more

We are so pleased that Jay Patel, who has worked with the driving team of VMI for almost 15 years, has managed to totally beat Pancreatic Cancer against the odds. … Read more

VMI hosted an Anamorphic and Large Sensor event in late January at the newly opened CVP Creative Space in Newman Street Fitzrovia, an elegant new showroom over four floors. The three-day event was well … Read more

VMI was a finalist for the 6th annual West London Business Awards, for the category of Creative/Media Business of the Year at the 2019 West London Business Awards.  The award celebrated business excellence, and showcases … Read more

VMI has been busy-busy over the past 12 months and have supplied camera equipment for 17 drama series, 5 x Natural History Series, plus several features, promos, commercials,corporates and feature films. … Read more

In December 2018, we held our 10th annual client satisfaction survey, asking all VMI clients who had hired from us in the previous 12 months exactly what they thought about … Read more

VMI has was a finalist for the 6th annual West London Business Awards, for the category of Creative/Media Business of the Year at the 2019 West London Business Awards.  The award celebrated business excellence, … Read more

VMEDIA, VMIs camera storage rental division has increased its rental range to now also stock camera batteries for hire. VMEDIA , better known for its rental stock of large CFAST and … Read more

Anamorphic is definitely here to stay. Feature Films have always had a preference for shooting in the super-widescreen format (usual 2.39:1) with associated oval bokehs, different aspect ratio and a … Read more

Barry Bassett, VMI’s Managing Director, will be giving a talk on Super Low Light Production at the Wildscreen Festival on Tuesday 16th October at 9.30-10.30am. The talk called, “A Shot … Read more

Ealing Council has praised VMI’s environmental efforts by awarding VMI with an environmental award to recognise its effort to save energy in a new IT initiative.  The project managed to … Read more