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Videographer Video production for maidenhead
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.
The antiquary John Lelandclaimed that the area around Maidenhead's present town centre was a small Roman settlement called Alaunodunum. He stated that it had all but disappeared by the end of the Roman occupation. Although his source is unknown, there is documented and physical evidence of Roman settlement in the town. There are two well known villa sites in the town, one being in the suburb of Cox Green, and the other just west of the town centre on Castle Hill. This villa sat on the route of the Camlet Waywhich was a Roman road linking Silchester(Calleva Atrebatum) and Colchester(Camulodunum) via St Albans,(Verulamium) and passes through the present town centre. Remnants of the road have been unearthed at various locations nearby, but its exact route is unclear.
Maidenhead's name stems from the riverside area where the first "New wharf" or "Maiden Hythe" was built, as early as Saxon times. In the year 870, an army of Danes invaded the kingdom of Wessex. They disembarked from their longboats by the wharf and ferry crossing at Maidenhead and fought their way overland to Readingwhere they set up camp and made it their regional power base.[1]The area of the present town centre was originally a small Anglo-Saxon town known as "South Ellington". The town would have likely developed on the Camlet Way on the site of Alaunodunum as the Bath Road was not re-routed until the 13th century. Maidenhead is recorded in the Domesday Bookas the settlement of Ellington in the hundred of Beynhurst.[2]
A wooden bridge was erected across the river in about 1280 to replace the ferry in South Ellington.[3]The Great West Roadto Reading, Gloucesterand Bristolwas diverted over the new bridge. Previously, it had kept to the north bank and crossed the Thames by fordat Cookham, and the medievaltown, later to become Maidenhead grew up on the site of Alaunodunum and South Ellington, between the new bridge and the bottom of Castle Hill.[4]Within a few years a new wharf was constructed next to the bridge to replace the old Saxon wharf which needed replacing. At this time, the South Ellington name was dropped with the town becoming known as Maidenhythe. The earliest record of this name change is in the Bray Court manorial rolls of 1296.[3]
The new bridge and wharf led to the growth of medieval Maidenhead as a river port and market town. The market was held outside the old town hall which was set back from the High Street to form the market square. Maidenhead also became the main stopping point for coaches on journeys between London, Gloucester and Bathand the town became populated with numerous inns. By the mid 18th century, Maidenhead had become one of the busiest coaching towns in England with over ninety coaches a day passing through the town. The late 18th-century Bear Hotel on the High Street is the best of the town's old coaching inns surviving to this day.
The current Maidenhead Bridge, a local landmark, dates from 1777 and was built at a cost of £19,000.
King Charles Imet his children for the last time before his execution in 1649 at the Greyhound Inn[5]on the High Street, the site of which is now a branch of the NatWest Bank. A plaque commemorates their meeting.
When the Great Western Railwaycame to the town, it began to expand. Muddy roads were replaced and public services were installed. The High Street began to change again, and substantial Victorianred brick architecture began to appear throughout the town. Maidenhead became its own entity in 1894, being split from the civil parishes of both Bray and Cookham.
Maidenhead Citadel Corps of the Salvation Armywas first opened in the town in the mid-1880s. Maidenhead Citadel Bandwas soon founded in 1886 by Bandmaster William Thomas, who later became mayor of the town.
By Edwardiantimes, nearby Boulter's Lockbecame a favoured resort, especially on Ascot Sunday, and Skindles Hoteldeveloped a reputation for illicit liaisons.[6]
Governance
The town is part of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, with an urban population of around 95,000. Currently Cllr Simon Dudley is the Leader of the Conservativeheld cabinet. It was previously an independent municipal borough.
The town of Maidenhead was formerly part of the Windsor and MaidenheadParliament constituency, a conservative safe seat. The Boundary Committeeabolished this constituency after the 1992 general election since the electorate was growing too large, splitting it into Windsorand Maidenhead.
Maidenhead has been held by the Conservative Partyin every election since its foundation in 1997. Theresa Maywas elected MP in 1997 and has represented Maidenhead ever since. As MP, she took a series of ministerial positions, and was appointed Prime Minister of the United Kingdomon 13 July 2016. May stood down as Prime Minister on 24 July 2019, but will continue to serve as MP for Maidenhead.[7]
It is today one of the safest Conservative seats in the country, with the Conservatives having a 35 percentage point lead over the second largest party (Labour) in 2017.
The mayor of Windsor & Maidenhead is CouncillorSayonara Luxton (Conservative).[8]
Geography
Map of Maidenhead from 1945
The Maidenhead urban area includes urban and suburban regions within the bounds of the town, called Maidenhead Court, North Town, Furze Platt (which in 2012 gained a conservation area), Pinkneys Green, Highway, Tittle Row, Boyn Hill, Fishery and Bray Wick; as well as built-up areas in surrounding civil parishes: Cox Greenand Altwood in Cox Green parish, Woodlands Park in White Walthamparish, and part of Bray Wick in Brayparish. Bray village is linked to Maidenhead by the exclusive Fishery Estate which lies on the west bank of the Thames. To the east, on the opposite side of the river from Maidenhead, is the large village of Taplowin Buckinghamshire which almost adjoins the suburban village of Burnham, Buckinghamshire, which itself nearly adjoins the urban area of the large, industrial town of Slough. To the north are the Cookhams, Cookham Village, Cookham Rise and Cookham Dean. To the west is the area of Pinkneys Green. These lie south of the Berkshire-Buckinghamshireborder, which is formed by the River Thames (which then bends southwards to form the Maidenhead-Taplow border). To the south is the village of Holyport. Continuing by road to the South-East leads to the historic, royal twin towns of Windsorand Eton.
Maidenhead was originally the planned western terminus for the Crossrail line (to and through London) until Readingstation, situated 13 miles (21 km) southwest of Maidenhead, was chosen.
Maidenhead lies immediately west of the Taplowridge; a wooded spur of the Chilternswhich rises dramatically above one of the most scenic stretches of the Thames. The ridge is crowned by the spectacular ClivedenHouse which can be seen from various parts of the town.
Maidenhead has a site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI)in the northern outskirts of the town called Cannoncourt Farm Pit, where the largest hand axe of the paleolithicera in Britain was discovered.[9][10]The town also has a local nature reservecalled The Gullet.[11]
On 12 July 1901 Maidenhead entered the UK Weather Recordswith the Highest 60-min totalrainfall at 92 mm (3.6 in). As of July 2015, this record remains.[12]
Landmarks
Classic Victorianarchitecture—All Saints' Church, Boyne Hill
Maidenhead clock towerwas built for Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee and is located outside the railway station.
Maidenhead clock tower outside the railway station
Maidenhead Bridgewas built in 1777.[13]It takes the A4 over the Thames to join Maidenhead to Taplow.
All Saints' Church, Boyne Hill was completed in 1857 is one of the finest examples of the early work of the architect G. E. Street. The site is also regarded by many as the premier architectural site in the town. The church, consecrated on 2 December 1857 by Bishop Samuel Wilberforce, became the first ecclesiastical parish in the Borough of Maidenhead.[14]
Boulter's Lockis a lock on the river Thames on the east side of Maidenhead. It adjoins Ray Mill Island.
In addition the town has a range of various statues which form part of a recognisable image of the town, including the 'Boy and the Boat' location at the top end of the High Street, near the Methodist Church.