Property Video Solutions

Summer is officially in full swing, so we at PVS want to offer you four useful tips for beginners to help you make professional-looking videos. Without further ado, here they are! Tip #1: Pick the right background When filming, selecting the correct or relevant background is essential to setting the visual scene so it's important that you pick something that's appropriate to the messages you're delivering on camera. It sounds simple, but it's shocking the amount of people who get this wrong! For example, if you're talking about the affordability of three-bed homes in your local area, but you're filming inside a pizzeria with a pizza oven behind you, it probably isn't appropriate. But if you were talking about the abundance of high-quality restaurants in your local area, the shot makes much more sense. Tip #2: Filming shorter takes The advantage of filming short takes is that you'll have fewer things to try and remember when you're shooting ...

It's been a busy week for the entire PVS team as we've been filming A and B roll for the Mercury Business Awards 2019! On both Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, we were at Greetham Valley interviewing 27 different businesses across 10 categories all fighting it out for the chance to take home an award on Friday the 20th of September. At PVS we're ecstatic about the awards as we're also an official associate sponsor of the event and we couldn't be prouder! Below are a few behind the scenes pictures from our two days of filming: Today the team is out of the office again and scattered around Stamford collecting the important B-roll footage we need to complete the films. To all of the finalists nominated for awards, best of luck on the night! We hope that you enjoy the films!

Are you familiar with the difference between A-roll and B-roll footage? If you're new to filming or you've commissioned work before, you may have heard these terms being thrown around. Simplistically, A-roll is your principle footage, which is usually used to tell a story. For example, if you're shooting a head-ups interview with someone this would be your A-roll footage. But if this interview only consisted of someone speaking to camera for five minutes straight, there's a strong chance that the video would quickly become boring and the viewer would not remain engaged. B-roll on the other hand is supplementary footage that is used to support or add depth and context to A-roll. Using B-roll footage helps break up a common A-roll interview shot, making the whole thing much more engaging. For example, if the interviewee is talking about the housing market in a particular town, the B-roll footage could be scenes of typical houses in the community or even shots of key...