Introduction

Who are you?

Toasted Productions is a media production company. We specialise in moving image.


Where are you?

We have offices in London and the heart of Media CityUK, Manchester. We work everywhere - nationally and internationally (from the Australian jungle to North Wales).


What do you do?

In short (words of two and three syllables) we produce and develop media for the arts to corporate business. For TV and video. From full length programmes to promos, viral campaigns, trailers and a whole lot of other things in between.

If you don't find what you are looking for - ask us - we are always happy to talk.

All questions welcome - small or big.

Why would you want media production?

In today's fast moving and ever-changing, headline grabbing world - marketing your product to stand out from the crowd requires eye catching and engaging use of visual media. We are sure you will agree that television and video provide the most powerful and effective communication tool in history. A video sent to a prospect makes sense on many levels.

A recent study carried out at New York University found that whilst people retain approximately 20% of what they read, they remember 80% of what they see. A powerful communication tool, cost effective and your product and services to life - the visual image allows you to engage and communicate with your target market. From promotional to training videos and DVDs to send to your target or end user.

Contact us today to discuss how we can help you your brand rise to the top of the pile.

For those of you who do like to - read more...

The Benefits

Sum Statistics

Did you know 75% of website visitors' click off and onwards after less than 30 seconds so they haven't read much about your business or explored the text on your website?

However, 33% of website visitors will watch an online video to the end.

So for every 100 visitors to your site - 33 will stay with you for a 3 minute video.

For every 1000 visitors to your site (imagine if you have your promotional video on Google Video or YouTube) that is 333 people staying for 3 minutes!

In those three minutes those visitors can take away the facts and information about your business even more effectively than reading this!

People remember approximately 20% of what they read but 80% of what they see. (Advertisers have long been aware that a large percentage of the population would rather watch information presented in a commercial format rather than read about it. Obvious really when you think about it!)

Google now features 'universal search' as its results, mixing maps, video and images where appropriate.

Youtube

A repository for free video content YouTube is the third most visited website in the universe.

Whilst searches for promotional video based information rises rapidly, text based website content remains fairly static. A promotional video - posted on YouTube - communicates your business to a potential larger audience in a more compelling way and - in the all important search engine - more likely to be found on video than a couple of lines of text which is buried within millions and millions of results. YouTube is already ranked highly on search engines and is now the second most popular search engine after Google.

Video media vs Text

Your business brought to life in three dimensions with energy and movement Engage personal interest by creating movement for the viewer Using editing techniques, sounds and music creates an atmosphere Combinations of the varied forms of media from moving picture, audio to animation (And remember that people tend to remember 80% of what they watch -vs- 20% of what they read.)

£££

Cost effective
Resourceful
Great first introduction to you and your business
Time saving
Convenience
Time = £
Consistency and precision (Once completed, a video never has a bad day.)
Attention

Video & TV Production

We co-ordinate all aspects of the production process from conception to delivery. Starting with the Treatment (bring us the back of your sweet wrapper) and script. We take charge of the production management, crewing and budgeting. The latter being particularly crucial in the current climate. We ensure your budget ends up where it belongs: on screen.

We can provide large or small fully equipped camera and sound crews together with voice-over artists, translators, presenters and actors. In fact, everything and everyone necessary.

We develop visual and audio content for most:

  • Entertainment
  • Video for Web
  • Live Events
  • Promotional
  • Training Aids
  • Viral campaigns
  • Documentary/Factual
  • Video for Podcasts
  • On Location
  • Marketing
  • Presentation videos
  • Multimedia/DVD
  • Video for 3G mobile phones
  • In the Studio
  • Electronic Press Kits
  • Video News Releases

We can do the whole shebang or you can involve us to complement your own in-house team.

Post Production

Using the latest up-to-date hardware and software for editing, animation and graphics, we edit and deliver creative broadcast edits in various formats (HD, DigiBeta, XD Cam, DSLR, HDV, DV Cam, etc..), offline to online.

  • DVD Authoring
  • Encoding for web
  • DVD
  • Mobile phones
  • Subtitles
  • Multi-language audio

Graphics or multimedia required?

Our designers work with 3D modelling (Apple Motion, Cinema 4D, Adobe Flash, Shake) Multilingual web design and development Viral marketing Advanced Powerpoint presentations Visual installation and walls for exhibitions Audio visual aids at conferences Training aids


Check out what we have made so far

Sound Design

You have vision - we have sound. We have a fully equipped recording and mixing studio ensuring industry standard facilities as well as mobile ENG recording services. From highly experienced sound engineers to composers, musicians and producers. We work in/with pro tools, digital performer and Sibelius.

We can provide you with a whole range of audio services including:

  • Music - composition, arrangement and recording
  • Jingle writing
  • Voice-overs
  • Audio Editing prioritise
  • Audio Forensics
  • Audio batch processing
  • Large-scale data management
  • DVD authorings
  • CD mastering
  • Archive system management

Interactive Panoramas

Ever wished there was a way to capture the experience of being somewhere, just as you see it when you're there? You know, all the eye-popping details, how things sit together in a scene? Whether it's a stunning tourist destination, or a key business location, being able to visually demonstrate this, taking your audience right into the scene beats a written description any day.

Normal photography or even video only has the ability to show you so much at any one time, but 360 degree panoramic photography excels, creating expansive, immersive and interactive user experiences. So if a picture is worth a thousand words, a panoramic picture is worth even more. Click on hotspots to navigate round the space; zoom in and out, and look anywhere in remarkable detail

Whether it's driven by the requirement to show the relationship between different facilities and services in a location; to showcase a location which is difficult or restricted access; or to show off different options so you can easily compare them side by side, interactive panoramas are the perfect solution.

What makes this tool even more exciting for your audience is the ability to add different media as part of these virtual tours. We can create a richly immersive media experience; adding video, additional photos, links to online content, interactive objects and much more. This can be used for marketing, sales, creative visualisation, staff education and many other uses.

We're highly experienced in preparing a scene, skilfully shooting the viewpoints and processing 360 degree viewpoints: in tremendous detail and definition, using the very latest technical advances to make sure what you see is what you get. We're also highly experienced in seamlessly integrating computer generated elements into existing real-world scenes, meaning these 360 degree views are a powerful and cost effective way of visualising different options without costly in-situ product or set mockups.

You can view these virtual tours in a web browser (both desktop and mobile versions to get to the widest possible audience, wherever they are) and the detail of these multi-megapixel panoramas also makes them ideally suited for large format prints.

Translation

We speak in tongues. Well we don't in the office - mainly English and very occasionally gibberish - but we do have a network of 6,500 highly experienced and qualified translators and interpreters. We provide a fast turnaround in translation services whilst ensuring a careful match with experience your specific market sector. We also use industry software, TRADOS, to reduce word count and translation costs.

Clients include the UK government departments, Media City and many more.

What do our translation services cover? Well - just about everything:

  • Translating text - including web page translation
  • Proof reading
  • Interpreting
  • Voice-overs
  • Telephone interpreting
  • Bilingual employee placement
  • Desktop publishing and typesetting
  • Printing