Car Crash stunt - 14-Jan-2014
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Filed under: General,Mechanical SFX,Water SFX — Darren Wallis @ 11:31 am
The Premier League and pyrotechnics - 29-Nov-2013
Following an increase in the illegal use smoke grenade and flares at football matches we were asked to assist with the launch of their anit-pyro campaign. The use of flares and smoke grenades at matches can be extremely dangerous and is illegal.
Filed under: General — Darren Wallis @ 12:27 pm
Blue Peter comes to Manchester - 26-Sep-2011
Local jobs for local people… Today saw the move of ...more
Filed under: General — Tags: 771 Sqadron, Add new tag, BBC, Blue Peter, media city, Royal Navy, Sea King Helicopter, Seaking Helicoper, smoke, special effects — Darren Wallis @ 3:45 pm
Waiting In. - 13-May-2010
As the election results drifted in and the outcome, or lack of it, unfolded I started to feel sorry for the Queen on Friday. I can just imaging her conversation with Phillip over tea at the Palace – ”they promised that a new Prime Minister would be delivered on Friday, I waited in all day and nothing has arrived. One should have been out trooping the colour and walking the corgi ...more
Filed under: General,Random — Tags: media city — Darren Wallis @ 10:39 am
Morrisons - 13-May-2010
I’m sure many of you have seen the latest Morrison’s commercial showing Top Gear’s Richard Hammond pushing his shopping trolley through various rural locations. We werent involved in every scene but the one scene we did work on is the part where he’s in the rain pulling his trolley across a cattle grid. That 10 seconds of footage took all day to film and for us, ...more
Filed under: General,Rain SFX,Random — Tags: morrisons, Rain, richard hammond, special effects — Wayne Bennett @ 9:28 am
The dog ate my homework - 15-Apr-2010
Having just had a visit from our web designers who also do all the other “techy stuff” to make sure it appears on Google, we have been well and truly told off. Being old (that is over 40) I’m still under the misapprehension that birds tweet and the news comes from Radio 4. How wrong I am, we need to twitter and the news comes from an app on your i-phone. Where is all this le ...more
Filed under: Fire & Smoke,General,Rain SFX,Snow SFX,Wind SFX — Tags: BBC, Co op, media city, Nike, Powerade, Warburton's — Darren Wallis @ 1:56 pm
Where have we been?? - 14-Apr-2010
Well, it’s been many months since we’ve posted a blog and we noticed it looks like we’ve been quiet and not done any work, which i can assure you is not the case. We’ve been busy with many TV productions and commercials since our last blog and my aim now is to try and remember what we’ve worked on and write a little about each project. So hopefully over the ...more
Filed under: General,Random — Wayne Bennett @ 2:15 pm
Is there anybody out there? - 9-Jul-2009
When we started to put this site together the web designers stressed the importance of the blog – these days you’re nobody if your not twittering, blogging or on face-book, but is anybody reading it? Clearly there is as I have had lots of feedback from well meaning potential customers offering to replace my Rolex (they must be confused as it my Plastic Casio that needs a new strap) ...more
Filed under: General,Rain SFX,Random — Tags: Add new tag, Asda, Nike, Pataks, Rain, Virgin Trains — Darren Wallis @ 10:05 am
Hollyoaks – Claires return - 21-May-2009
The big fire scene we worked on for Hollyoaks will be shown during the week commencing Monday 25th May 2009. Once it’s aired I’ll go into a little more detail as to how we achieved some of the effects.
Filed under: General — Tags: Hollyoaks, special effects — Wayne Bennett @ 2:07 pm
Virgin Trains - 21-May-2009
The New Virgin Trains ad is now being aired. We worked on the ad a few weeks ago over two days. The 1st effect was the large bonfire seen in the background during Becky’s ad. As she looks out the window there are a few “hunky” guys working in a field with a large bonfire burning away to the right. Usual stuff really, Gas fed bonfire that can be ignited and ex ...more
Filed under: Fire & Smoke,General,Mechanical SFX,Random,Wind SFX — Tags: Virgin Trains — Wayne Bennett @ 1:30 pm