CAMERAMAN READING
07766 754944
Darren Vallence is a lighting cameraman and is a very experienced for the commercial and corporate sector. We film in Reading and the m4 corridor.
With over 25 years experience there is not much we have not filmed, from open heart surgery one day, to sewage works the next, filming in helicopters over London, filming in the middle of the ocean on dredgers to filming in Hong Kong, New York & Australia.
We can offer single cameramen or larger crews as well as video editing & aerial video.
Please see below to see some of the examples of what we have filmed and how we can hopefully help you. We look forward to working with you.
We are often asked to film at Vodafone HQ in Newbury as well as their Paddington offices. We have filmed at Vodafone UK HQ for more than 15 years and have made many videos there as well as loads of highlight films of events they hold in the Pavilion. We are a preferred supplier at Vodafone Uk & Group.
Talking heads, Interviews and Piece to cameras are very popular these days. with this project we were making over 33 x 40 second films for the content for an awards dinner for the Oxford Business Awards. We also took on all the post production.
We are ofter asked to film live events, conferences, presentations etc either the whole event or to make a highlights film. If needed we can produced on site edits as well as live streaming too.
We are often on location. This time we were in Wales to make a film for a hotel called Craigy Nos. This was great fun to do, This hotel had been featured on Most Haunted TV Show so this kept us awake. The customer supplied the brief and story board, we filmed and edited the video. Its had nearly 9000 views on Youtube so far.
Thanks to Mark Bradford from Mark Bradford Marketing for asking us to be the video team.
Here we were filming for our customer and very dearest friend Deb Lester George for her annual Oxford Business Awards live awards dinner.
We loved interviewing this man, he was so inspiring with his business. We all took B roll to help make his story.
On this photo we were filming a yearly update for the ever changing health and safety for Homebase.
Homebase take `health and safety training very seriously and find video the perfect medium to cascade the messages down through the business. We really enjoy working with the Homebase team.
This was a still taking from a film we were making for Vodafone in Newbury to help explain the journey of just 2 oftheir graduates and how fast they can develop and be fast tracked through the business. Quite an incredible story.
A fast moving business with amazing career opportunity.
I was asked by a fellow producer and friend to be help with the second camera for series of interviews across Honk Kong & Sydney. This was over a 2 week period. We really enjoyed this production and the customer loved the footage.
If you would like to get a talking head or piece to camera filmed and there is rather a lot to to say, we find our simple prompter service is worth its weight in gold. This can save hours of filming time and frustration from the talent who are already very busy. Sometimes 3 minutes of dialogue sounds easy but we have learned it can be very difficult for the talent to remember. These prompters get the work done so much quicker and its "word perfect". All the pros on TV use them so why not you and your customer.
With the project below we were asked to make a promotional video for a 7 bedroom villa in Barbados to help promote and sell the property. My customer and I went over for a week to produce the film. We also offer aerial video should you require it. We really enjoyed this on location filming job.
I was born in Reading Royal Berkshire Hospital,
Here is some great info on Reading, if uni would like to now more please visit this link from wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reading,_Berkshire
Reading (/ˈrɛdɪŋ/ ( listen) RED-ing)[3] is a large, historically important town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town. It was an important trading and ecclesiastical centre in the medieval period, as the site of Reading Abbey, one of the richest monasteries of medieval England with strong royal connections, of which the 12th century abbey gateway and significant ruins remain. The town was seriously affected by the English Civil War, with a major siege and loss of trade, and played a pivotal role in the Revolution of 1688, with that revolution's only significant military action fought on the streets of the town. The 19th century saw the coming of the Great Western Railway and the development of the town's brewing, baking and seed growing businesses. Today Reading is a major commercial centre, with involvement in information technology and insurance, and, despite its proximity to London, has a net inward commuter flow.
The first evidence for Reading as a settlement dates from the 8th century. By 1525, Reading was the largest town in Berkshire, and tax returns show that Reading was the 10th largest town in England when measured by taxable wealth. By 1611, it had a population of over 5000 and had grown rich on its trade in cloth. The 18th century saw the beginning of a major iron works in the town and the growth of the brewing trade for which Reading was to become famous. During the 19th century, the town grew rapidly as a manufacturing centre. It is ranked the UK's top economic area for economic success and wellbeing, according to factors such as employment, health, income and skills.[4] Reading is also a major regional retail centre serving a large area of the Thames Valley, and is home to the University of Reading. Every year it hosts the Reading Festival, one of England's biggest music festivals. Sporting teams based in Reading include Reading Football Club and the London Irish rugby union team, and over 15,000 runners annually compete in the Reading Half Marathon.
In 2015, Reading had an estimated population of 232,662, making it the largest settlement in the UK without city status.[5] The town is represented in Parliament by two members, and has been continuously represented there since 1295. For ceremonial purposes the town is in the county of Berkshire and has served as its county town since 1867, previously sharing this status with Abingdon-on-Thames. It is in the Thames Valley at the confluence of the River Thames and River Kennet, and on both the Great Western Main Line railway and the M4 motorway. Reading is 75 miles (121 km) east of Bristol, 25 miles (40 km) south of Oxford, 42 miles (68 km) west of London, 17 miles (27 km) north of Basingstoke, 13 miles (21 km) south-west of Maidenhead and 20 miles (32 km) east of Newbury.