Directory: FILM & VIDEO PRODUCTION

 
     _{FILM MAKERS}

::  Purple Rage Video Productions - BBC award-winning production team, based in Stoke-on-Trent.

::  LenZflare - producing solutions for clients looking for high-quality & creative films. Based in Stoke-on-Trent.

::  The Maclagan Men Ltd. - a video production unit based in Stoke.

::  McGovern Productions - video producers based in Newcastle-under-Lyme.

::  Inspired Film And Video, a video production company based in Stoke-on-Trent.

::   Visual Fusion - film editing, post production & duplication services.

::   Reels in Motion, a video production company from Stoke-on-Trent. (Flash-only site, for broadband users).

::  Nameless Productions - a film production company based in Stoke.

::  Tunnel Vizion Media - worldwide multi award-winning film & music-video producers.

::  Viva Film Productions - making short issue-based films. Based in Stoke.

::  inSignificant Productions - based at Keele. Interactive-video authoring.

::  HH Films, Stoke-on-Trent.

::  Ray Johnson - Ray has been making films in the area since 1972, with documentaries broadcast on TV channels and many now on DVD. He also founded and runs the Staffordshire Film Archive, and is on the Board of Screen West Midlands.

::  Stoke Cine and Video Society - a long-standing group, which puts decades of practical experience to use in regular film productions.

::  Last ATAK Pictures - film producers and organisers of the Student Screen late-night screenings at the Odeon on Stoke's Festival Park.

     _ANIMATION

::  SMA Studios - a highly-experienced character-based animation studio, creating work for commercials, TV, and features. Based in Longton, Stoke-on-Trent.

::  Koko Digital are one of the UK's leading digital marketing specialists, strategically located in Stoke-on-Trent.

::  Chris Salt & Oblong Pictures - Oblong is Chris's own stop-motion animation studio, making hilarious animations featuring Lego characters. Chris's work has rapidly gathered a cult following around the world, and is profiled in the November 2003 edition of the cutting-edge Wired magazine.

::  Daniel Baddeley, a 3D-character creator and animator, based in Stoke-on-Trent.

::  no.ground.processes - a co-op for experimental music + filmmaking, and also interested in DJ's/VJ's, interactive-media artists, photographers etc. The main web-master lives in Stoke and works at the University, but other members are based all over Britain.

::  k4design, Stoke-on-Trent.

     _{CREATIVE SERVICES:}

::  Model & Scenic Solutions are professional model, set and prop builders based in Bignall End, Stoke-on-Trent. Their clients include major software companies, advertising agencies, political parties, and design / production houses throughout Britain.

::  Steve England is your voice-over expert, with his own specialist studio.

::  All4One Music - provides production music for film, TV, video productions and websites.

  Direct Dogs - based in Stone. Supplies and trains dogs for films, TV and advertising, and can also supply facilities for still photographs for print adverts using dogs. Recent filming includes Brookside and BBC Six Nations Rugby.

     _LOCATIONS:

::  Screen West Midlands, the regional film & video development agency can help with finding locations for feature-films and TV.

::  Stallington Hall Farm provides a specialist Tudor/Georgian film-shooting location just outside Stoke-on-Trent.

::   For areas to the north of Stoke and in adjacent Cheshire/Crewe, try the North West Vision agency.

     _EXTRAS:

::  Stoke Gothic, "the website for goth, cyber, industrial and darkwave scenes" in the area, and can provide extras from your horror film or music promo.

::  Stoke Repertory Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent

::  Circuit Personal Management , Stoke-on-Trent.

::  Stoke Film Theatre is Stoke-on-Trent's long established 212-seat 'art-house' cinema, with good links to local art cinema fans.

     _{ARCHIVE MATERIAL (for documentaries, etc):}

::  Staffordshire Film & Multimedia Archive

::  Midlands Moving Image Archive.

     _TRAINING

(See Creative Stoke's Courses page.)