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
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
A rainy day - 13-Aug-2009
As I suspect with most other eager youngsters my view of special effects involved lots of setting fire to things or blowing them up or both. However, in reality for every caravan you blow up there are days and days of making it rain – it isn’t glamerous and you don’t get much of a smile from the crew. In fact there is a lot of water on TV that isn’t all that it seems ...more
Filed under: Mechanical SFX,Rain SFX,Random — Tags: BBC, Cutting It, ITV, Rain, special effects — Darren Wallis @ 6:10 pm