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Videographer Video production for swindon

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.

Watch the film here

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.

Swindon(/ˈswɪndən/(listen)) is a large town in the ceremonial countyof Wiltshire, South West England, between Bristol, 35 miles (56 kilometres) to the west, and Reading, the same distance to the east; the town is 71 miles (114 km) west of London. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 182,441.[1]The Town Development Act 1952 led to a major increase in its population.[2]

Swindon railway stationis on the line from London Paddingtonto Bristol. Swindon Borough Councilis a unitary authority, independent of Wiltshire Councilsince 1997. Residents of Swindon are known as Swindonians. Swindon is home to the Bodleian Library'sbook depository,[3]the English HeritageNational Monument Record Centre, the headquarters of the National Trust, on the site of the former Great Western Railwayworks, and the Nationwide Building Society, and a Hondacar manufacturing plant, which is due to close in 2021.

History

The Wilts and Berks Canal near Rushey Platt

Main article: History of Swindon

Early history

The original Anglo-Saxonsettlement of Swindon sat in a defensible position atop a limestonehill. It is referred to in the Domesday Bookas Suindune, believed to be derived from the Old Englishwords "swine" and "dun" meaning "pig hill" or possibly Sweyn's hill, Sweyn being derived from the German word „Schwein“, meaning pig.

Before the Battle of Hastingsthe Swindon estate was owned by an Anglo-Saxon thanecalled Leofgeat.[4]After the Norman ConquestSwindon was given to Wadard, a knightin the service of Odo of Bayeux, brotherof the king.[5]

The Goddard familywere lord of the manorfor many generations, living at the manor house, sometimes known as The Lawn.

Swindon was a small market town, mainly for barter trade, until roughly 1848. This original market area is on top of the hill in central Swindon, now known as Old Town.[6]

The Industrial Revolutionwas responsible for an acceleration of Swindon's growth. It started with the construction of the Wilts and Berks Canalin 1810 and the North Wilts Canalin 1819. The canals brought trade to the area and Swindon's population started to grow.

Railway town

Former lodging house in the Railway Village, now a community centre

Between 1841 and 1842, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's Swindon Workswas built for the repair and maintenance of locomotives on the Great Western Railway(GWR). The GWR built a small railway village to house some of its workers. The Steam Railway Museumand English Heritage, including the English Heritage Archive, now occupy part of the old works. In the village were the GWR Medical Fund Clinic at Park House and its hospital, both on Faringdon Road, and the 1892 health centre in Milton Road, which housed clinics, a pharmacy, laundries, baths, Turkish bathsand swimming pools, was almost opposite.

From 1871, GWR workers had a small amount deducted from their weekly pay and put into a healthcare fund; GWR doctors could prescribe them or their family members free medicines or send them for medical treatment. In 1878 the fund began providing artificial limbs made by craftsmen from the carriage and wagon works, and nine years later opened its first dental surgery. In his first few months in post the dentist extracted more than 2,000 teeth. From the opening in 1892 of the health centre, a doctor could also prescribe a haircut or even a bath. The cradle-to-graveextent of this service was later used as a blueprint for the NHS.[7]

The Mechanics' Institute, formed in 1844, moved into a building that looked rather like a church and included a covered market, on 1 May 1855. The New Swindon Improvement Company, a co-operative, raised the funds for this programme of self-improvement and paid the GWR £40 a year for its new home on a site at the heart of the railway village. It was a groundbreaking organisation that transformed the railway's workforce into some of the country's best-educated manual workers.[8]

The Mechanics' Institute had the UK's first lending library,[9]and a range of improving lectures, access to a theatre and various other activities, such as ambulance classes and xylophonelessons. A former institute secretary formed the New Swindon Co-operative Society in 1853 which, after a schism in the society's membership, spawned the New Swindon Industrial Society, which ran a retail business from a stall in the market at the institute. The institute also nurtured pioneering trades unionists and encouraged local democracy.[10]

When tuberculosishit the new town, the Mechanics' Institute persuaded the industrial pioneers of North Wiltshire to agree that the railway's former employees should continue to receive medical attention from the doctors of the GWR Medical Society Fund, which the institute had played a role in establishing and funding.[11]

Swindon's 'other' railway, the Swindon, Marlborough and Andover Railway, merged with the Swindon and Cheltenham Extension Railwayto form the Midland & South Western Junction Railway, which set out to join the London & South Western Railwaywith the Midland Railwayat Cheltenham. The Swindon, Marlborough & Andover had planned to tunnel under the hill on which Swindon's Old Town stands but the money ran out and the railway ran into Swindon Town railway station, off Devizes Road in the Old Town, skirting the new town to the west, intersecting with the GWRat Rushey Plattand heading north for Cirencester, Cheltenham and the LMS, whose 'Midland Red' livery the M&SWJR adopted.

During the second half of the 19th century, Swindon New Town grew around the main line between London and Bristol. In 1900, the original market town, Old Swindon, merged with its new neighbour at the bottom of the hill to become a single town.[6]

On 1 July 1923, the GWR took over the largely single-track M&SWJR and the line northwards from Swindon Town was diverted to Swindon Junctionstation, leaving the Town station with only the line south to Andover and Salisbury.[12][13][14]The last passenger trains on what had been the SM&A ran on 10 September 1961, 80 years after the railway's first stretch opened.

During the first half of the 20th century, the railway works was the town's largest employer and one of the biggest in the country, employing more than 14,500 workers. Alfred Williams[15](1877–1930) wrote about his life as a hammerman at the works.[16]

The works' decline started in 1960, when it rolled out Evening Star, the last steam engine to be built in the UK.[17]The works lost its locomotive building role and took on rolling stock maintenance for British Rail. In the late 1970s, much of the works closed and the rest followed in 1986.

The community centre in the railway village was originally the barrack accommodation for railway employees of the GWR. The building became the Railway Museum in the 1960s, until the opening of the STEAM Museum in the 2000s.

Railway Townis the name of a feature-length documentary made by local filmmaker Martin Parry about the creation of the town around the railway works.

Modern period

Swindon in 1933

Swindon in 1959. Grid squares are 1km.

David Murray John, Swindon's town clerk from 1938 to 1974, is seen as a pioneering figure in Swindon's post-war regeneration: his last act before retirement was to sign the contract for Swindon's tallest building, which is now named after him.[18]Murray John's successor was David Maxwell Kent, appointed by the Swindon/Highworth Joint Committee in 1973: he had worked closely with Murray John and continued similar policies for a further twenty years. The Greater London Councilwithdrew from the Town Development Agreement and the local council continued the development on its own.

There was the problem of the Western Development and of Lydiard Parkbeing in the new North Wiltshiredistrict, but this was resolved by a boundary change to take in part of North Wiltshire. Another factor limiting local decision-taking was the continuing role of Wiltshire County Councilin the administration of Swindon. Together with like-minded councils, a campaign was launched to bring an updated form of county boroughstatus to Swindon. This was successful in 1997 with the formation of Swindon Borough Council, covering the area of the former Thamesdown and the former Highworth Rural District Council.

The closure of the railway works (which had been in decline for many years) was a major blow to Swindon.[citation needed]Because of this and the major growth in population, diversification was continued at a rapid pace and the town now has all the features of a successful urban/rural council in the Outer South East zone.

In February 2008 The Timesnamed Swindon as one of "The 20 best places to buy a property in Britain".[19]Only Warringtonhad a lower ratio of house prices to household income in 2007, with the average household income in Swindon among the highest in the country.

In October 2008 Swindon made a controversial move to ban fixed point speed cameras. The move was branded as reckless by some[20]but by November 2008 Portsmouth, Walsall, and Birminghamcouncils[21][22]were also considering the move.

In 2001 construction began on Priory Vale, the third and final instalment in Swindon's 'Northern Expansion' project, which began with Abbey Meads and continued at St Andrew's Ridge. In 2002 the New Swindon Company was formed with the remit of regenerating the town centre, to improve Swindon's regional status.[23]The main areas targeted were Union Square, The Promenade, The Hub, Swindon Central, North Star Village, The Campus and the Public Realm.

Governance

Swindon Town Hall, now a dance theatre

Further information: History of government in Swindon

The local council was created in 1974 as the Borough of Thamesdown, out of the areas of Swindon Borough and Highworth Rural District. It was not initially called Swindon, because the borough covers a larger area than the town; it was renamed as the Borough of Swindonin 1997. The borough became a unitary authorityon 1 April 1997,[24]following a review by the Local Government Commission for England. The town is therefore no longer under the auspices of Wiltshire Council.

The borough consists of 20 parished areas. The parishes are:

The executive comprises a leader and a cabinet, currently made up from the Conservative Group. The council as of the 2016 electionhas a majority of Conservativecouncillors.[25]

Swindon is represented in the national parliamentby two MPs. Robert Buckland(Conservative) was elected for the South Swindonseat in May 2010 with a 5.5% swing from Labour and Justin Tomlinson, also Conservative, represents North Swindonafter a 10.1% swing at the same election. Both retained their seats at the 2015 and 2017 elections.[26]Prior to 1997 there was a single seatfor Swindon, although much of what is now in Swindon was then part of the Devizes seat.

Geography

Climate

Swindon has a maritime climate type, like all of the British Isles, with comparatively mild winters and comparatively cool summers considering its latitude. The nearest official weather station is RAF Lyneham, about 10 miles (16 km) west south west of Swindon town centre. The weather station's elevation is 145 metres, compared to the typical 100 metres encountered around Swindon town centre, so is likely to be marginally cooler throughout the year.

The absolute maximum is 34.9C (94.8F)[30]recorded during August 1990. In an average year the warmest day should reach 28.7C (83.7F)[31]and 10.3 days[32]should register a temperature of 25.1C (77.2F) or above

The absolute minimum is −16.0C (3.0F),[33]recorded in January 1982, and in an average year 45.2 nights of air frost can be expected.

Sunshine, at 1565 hours a year, is typical for inland parts of Southern England, although significantly higher than most areas further north.

Annual rainfall averages slightly under 720 mm (28 in) per year, with 123 days reporting over 1 mm of rain.

Demographics

The 2001 census[out of date]showed there were 180,061 people and 75,154 occupied houses in the Swindon Unitary Authority.[36]The average household size was 2.38 people. The population density was 780/km² (2020.19/mi²). 20.96% of the population were 0–15 years old, 72.80% 16–74 and the remaining 6.24% were 75 years old or over. For every 100 females there were 98.97 males. Approximately 300,000 people lived within 20 minutes of Swindon town centre.

It is forecast that there will be a 70,000 (38.9%) increase in Swindon's population by 2026 from the current 180,000, to 250,000.[37][out of date]

The majority of Swindonians (70.3%) identify themselves as Christians. This is followed by those of no religion(19.2%), Muslims(1.0%), Sikhs(0.6%), Hindus(0.6%), other (0.2%) and Judaism(0.1%). In addition, 8.0% of people chose not to answer this question in the 2001 census.[38]

In May 2007[out of date], 65.3% of households in Swindon had broadband Internet access, the highest in the UK, up 5.5% from June 2006.[39]

In 2015, Public Health Englandfound that 70.4% of the population was either overweight or obese with a BMIgreater than 25.[40]

In 2011, Swindon had a population of 182,441[41]compared with 209,156 for the surrounding borough.[42]The borough includes the town of Highworthand the large village of Wroughton. The population of the town increased from the 2001 census estimate of 155,700.

In 2011, the area of the town was 46.2 km2 (29 miles squared)[43]or 3,949 people per square kilometre (6357 per square mile).