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Videographer Video production andover
Darren Vallence is Videographer, Cameraman and is very experienced for the commercial and corporate sector.
We can help film events, corporate events, team building events, conferences meetings, presentations, training videos anywhere in fact where you need filming. Of course we are not just Videographers we also edit and deliver the final video for you.
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.
We mainly work in the corporate sector with many famous brands employing us to help them with their video needs. Brands such as Vodafone, Bayer, Castrol, Tesco, Stryker, Pepsico, Grass Valley to name but a few.
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.
Please contact us today for a quote darren@kingsbridgeav.co.uk 07766 754944
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. T
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 on the overnight stay.
The customer supplied the brief and story board and directed the shoot with the lovely dog Alfie ( from Newbury ) We filmed and edited the video. Its had nearly 9000 views on Youtube so far.
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 also took B roll to help make his story.
Here we are doing some Video production in Newbury.
With this photo we were filming an 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 and Martin my customer. He's great and we often have a coffee and a chat before the shoot!
This was a 'still' taking from a film we were making for Vodafone in Newbury to help explain the journey of 2 of their 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 help with the second camera for series of interviews across Hong 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.
Its name is recorded in Old Englishin 955 as Andeferas, and is thought to be of Celticorigin: compare Welshonn dwfr= "ash(tree) water".
Andover's first mention in history is in 950 when King Edredis recorded as having built a royal hunting lodge there. In 962 King Edgarcalled a meeting of the Saxon 'parliament' (the Witenagemot) at his hunting lodge near Andover.[7]
Of more importance was the baptism, in 994 of a Viking king named Olaf (allied with Danish king Sweyn Forkbeard). The identity of that man was either Olav Trygvasonor Olof Skötkonung. The baptism was part of a deal with King Ethelred II of England("The Unready") whereby he stopped ravaging England and returned home. Olav Tryggvason became king of Norwayin 995 and tried to convert his country to Christianity before his death in the Battle of Svolderin 1000. Olof Skötkonung was already king of Swedenand became its first Christian king and began c. 995 to mint Sweden's first coins with the help of English expertise.
At the time of the Domesday Book(1086) Andover had 107 adult male inhabitants and probably had a total population of about 500. It was a relatively large settlement; most villages had only 100 to 150 people. Andover also had six watermills which ground grain to flour. The town's relative isolation implies a market for grain and flour.
Norman arch c. 1150, all that remains of the Old Church of St Mary
In 1175 King Richard Isold Andover a charter granting certain townspeople rights and forming a merchant guild which took over the governmental rights, see ancient borough. The members elected two officials, bailiffs, who ran the town. In 1201 King Johngave the merchants the right to collect royal taxes in Andover themselves. In 1256 Henry IIIgave the townspeople the right to hold a court and try criminals for offences committed in Andover. Andover also sent MPs to the parliaments of 1295 and 1302–1307. The town was ravaged by two serious fires, one in 1141 and another in 1435.
Andover remained a small market town. Processing wool appears to have been the main industry and street names in the area of the town known as "Sheep Fair" commemorate this. A weekly market, and an annual fair were held.
St Marys Parish Church
St John the Baptist Catholic Church
As well as the Church of St Mary the town had a prioryand a hospital run by monks, dedicated to St John the Baptist, and also a lepers hostel to St Mary Magdalene. In 1538 during the ReformationHenry VIIIclosed the priory and the hospital. In 1571 a free school for the boys of Andover was established in the grounds of St Mary's Church. This in time became Andover Grammar School,[8]and in the 1970s it became John Hanson Community School. The school has occupied various sites in the town over the course of its history and is currently located in Floral Way.
In 1599 the town received a new charter from Elizabeth I. The merchants guild was made a corporation and the number of annual fairs was increased from one to three. Like other towns Andover suffered from outbreaks of plague. There were outbreaks in 1603-5, 1625–6 and 1636.
18th and 19th century
During the 18th century, being on the main Exeter– Salisbury– London road, the place became a refuelling or overnight stop for stagecoachesand other passing trade. More than 30 coaches passed through the town each day. In 1789 a canalto Southamptonwas opened, though this was never a commercial success and closed in 1859. In 1836 the Borough established a small police force: for the most part two constables and a gaoler.[9]
Andover was linked to Basingstoke and thus to London on its new railway to Salisbury(shortly thereafter to Exeter beyond) when Andover junction station was opened on 3 July 1854. A railway from the 1860s ran to Southampton, built on the bed of the canal, for about 100 years, until 1964. The land, together with the adjacent gasworks and P.M. Coombes woodyards, was then sold to the TSB Trust Company who later built their headquarters there.
The population grew from 3,304 in 1801 to 5,501 in 1871.[10]During the 19th century the town acquired all the usual additions, a theatre in 1803, gas street lighting in 1838, a fire station and cottage hospital in 1877, a swimming pool opened in 1885 and a recreation ground opened in 1887. A water company was formed in 1875 to provide piped water to the town and a system of sewers and drains was built in 1899–1902. The public libraryopened in 1897. Despite this burgeoning of the amenities of the town in 1845 a notorious scandal involving the hardships endured by the inmates of the workhouseled indirectly to reform of the Poor LawAct, principally involving segregation of a now-obligatory infirmary for local people from the workhouse for the able-bodied, but also better governance. The town was one of the boroughs reformed by the Municipal Reform Act 1835.
Andover workhouse
In 1846, the town came to public attention after an enquiry exposed the conditions in its workhouse. The Andover workhouse scandalbrought to light evidence of beatings, sexual abuse and general mistreatment of workhouse inmates by the overseers.
The woollenindustry had declined but new industries took its place. TaskersWaterloo Ironworksopened at Anna Valleyin 1809 and flourished. Many examples of the machinery produced by Taskers can be seen at the Milestones Museumin Basingstoke.
Modern history
Employment
The town's largest employer is the Ministry of Defence. RAF Andoverwas opened on Andover Airfield, to the south of the town, during the First World Warand became the site of the RAFStaff College.
In 1926, the Andover War Memorial Hospitalwas opened by Field Marshall Allanby. The hospital currently provides inpatient rehabilitation, day hospitalservices, a minor injury unit and an outpatient unit, and is operated by Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, with some services being provided by Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust.[11]
In 1932 Andover gained a new industry when the printers for Kelly's Directorymoved to the town. Slowly the town grew from about 11,000 and by 1960 had a population of about 17,000, because already some Londoners were being housed in the first of the council houses/flats being constructed.
During the Second World Warthe RAF_Staff_College,_Andoverwas the headquarters of RAF Maintenance Command, and gained a unique place in British history, as the first British military helicopter unit, the Helicopter Training School, was formed in January 1945 at RAF Andover. The airfield is no longer in use although the RAF retains a link to the area through the presence of 1213 (Andover) Squadron, Air Training Corps. When the RAF left the site became the Headquarters of the Quartermaster Generaland later Logistics Executive.
In 2001, the Defence Logistics Organisation(DLO) was formed and Andover became one of its major sites. Since 2012, the site has been the home of Army Headquarters. The Armed Forces Chaplaincy Centre is based locally at Amport House, as is the Army Air CorpsCentre and the Museum of Army Flyingat Middle Wallop.
Major industries include Twiningsthe tea and coffee firm, Ducal Pine Furniture (until they closed in 2003), Thomson International Publishers, who produce the Pitkin Guides to be found in many churches and other notable buildings, financial institutions such as Simplyhealthand Lloyds Banking Group, and the Stannah Group, whose HQ is also in the town. Among the proposals in the council's Borough Local Plan 2006 are plans to develop the former site of RAF Andoverto Class B1, B2 and B8 uses.[12]This site has been partially developed and is named Andover Business Park. The business park currently houses a Co-Op FoodDistribution centre, as well as a Travelodgeand the Chalkhill Blue pub
Arts
Andover has a purpose built arts and entertainment venue owned & managed by Test Valley Borough Council called The Lights.[13]This hosts professional artists throughout the year.
The venue has a 249 fully raked auditorium, a business suite, a dance studio and a craft studio. The Lights has attracted international artists including Michael McIntyre.[14]
Politics
Andover is in the constituencyof North West Hampshire, and was represented in the House of Commonsfrom 1997 until May 2015 by ConservativeSir George Young. Andover is currently represented by ConservativeKit Malthouse.
In the 1950s the Borough Council was approached by the Greater London Councilto become an overspilltown, to build houses and take people and industry relocated from the overcrowded capital. Some contend that had the old Borough Council still been in charge this would never have been agreed. But it was, and in 1961 the plan was drawn up to expand to a population of some 47,000 by 1982, with 9,000 new homes to be built.[citation needed]
The first new council houses were ready by 1954 and by 1981 the population had risen to 51,000. A bypass, industrial estates and a new shopping centre in the town centre, called the Chantry Centre, were all built and the town's character changed completely. The new council houses proved to be very badly built. It seemed that the local council would have to foot the enormous bill for reconstruction, but after starting legal action against the Greater London Councila settlement was achieved, in which the GLC paid a large sum of money to the local council, which started a programme of refurbishment that finished in 1995.[citation needed]
When the Borough Council and Andover Rural DistrictCouncil were abolished in the local government reorganisation of 1974, and replaced by Test ValleyBorough Council (which included the land down to the edge of Southamptonin the south) Andover became an unparished area, secularly, for 34 years. Andover Town Council revived in May 2010, the townsfolk electing an initial 19 members, and since 2017 has included a Town Mayor.[15]
About 1 hour 5 minutes from London by train, Andover's centre is convenient to those in the London commuter beltworking short-to-average shifts, and high property prices commanded in outlying villages reflect the way in which they serve as easily commutable for senior executives with similar shifts, many of whom retire to the area also.
The Town Museum, based in the old John Hanson Free School building (before becoming a grammar school), has a Museum of the Iron Ageadded in 1986 which houses the finds from excavations at nearby DaneburyHill Fort.
Transport
Railway
Service and service pattern
Andover has its railway stationquite centrally. It is run by South Western Railway. From here trains run to Salisbury, Yeovil Junction, Exeter St Davids, Basingstokeand London Waterloo(with a usual intermittent stop of Woking) and some stopping services as Whitchurch and smaller nearby places.
2010s rail timetabling improvements
In April 2017, The Department for Transportannounced that train times between Andover and London Waterloo will be reduced by nearly 20 per cent after awarding the South Western franchiseto South Western Railway; journey times to/from London Waterloo cut by about 11 to 13 minutes since late 2018.[16]
Roads
The A303essentially bounds the town to the south, the main London to WSW direction road.
Particularly for good links to Readingand Swindonrespectively, roads link to the M4 motorway, to the north, the shorter one by way of the A34 trunk roadto Birmingham and beyond, the other via Marlborough, Wiltshire. In 2002 the town became part of the Cango bus network.[17]