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...

At PVS we're all about helping people to shoot high-quality video! Luckily for people who are complete beginners, with the excellent smartphones currently on the market shooting video on your phone couldn't be easier! We want to help people use the technology that's already in their pocket to take their video capabilities and their business to the next level. Here are our top five simple tips that you can follow to drastically improve your videos! Tip 1: The rule of thirds Whether you're first learning about photography, video or art, one of the most basic principles of composition you'll always come across is the rule of thirds. To explain it, we really like the definition by the blogger  Grace Fussell : "Imagine a 3×3 grid on top of any image. You should align the key elements in the image according to this grid — at the “power points” where the lines intersect, or along and within the vertical and horizontal lines. You can also combine these two a...

A frequent question we get asked here at PVS HQ is who are the biggest influencers on the way we run our business and our philosophy general. If you asked either of our managing directors, the name they both frequently drop is Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary V  is a successful entrepreneur and businessman and  is a digital marketing expert, but he's much more than that. He offers inspiring entrepreneurs practical advice on not necessarily on how to become rich; but rather, a blueprint on how to live their lives on their own terms and be successful in business.  If you had to read one book by Gary V, we'd recommend Crushing It! Another inspiring figure that everyone in the team can relate to is Sir Richard Branson  — the owner of the Virgin Group. His philosophy is based on simple principles. They are: 1) Take care of your employees If you take care of your employees by giving them the tools to do their jobs, you treat them well, care about their wellb...

Happy Belgian National Day to all of our friends, family and clients in Belgium! Or as they say locally, Nationale feestdag van België / Fête nationale belge! Earlier this year we collaborated with The European Copper Institute in Brussels to produce five short films with overlay animation for use as part of a Twitter campaign in conjunction with the 2019 EU Elections. We couldn't have been happier with the result! Especially as the films had over 100k views on Twitter! Given that it's Belgian National Day, we thought it was only appropriate to share a couple of the videos! To find out more about how Property Video Solutions can help your business please visit our  website .

On Tuesday and Wednesday of this week, Chris and Matt were in Westminster filming for Steven Herd from My London Home ! The guys always love heading down to London to film, but when the weather is as perfect as it was, it makes the work that much sweeter. Over the two days our glorious leaders shot ten short films, two market updates and a development film. On the first day they shot in the St George's development by the Thames (which was gorgeous!) and on the second day they shot films highlighting Steven's top ten streets in the SW1 P postcode area. Below are a few behind the scenes snaps captured by Chris (which unfortunately means he doesn't feature): The PVS team is now hard at work editing the footage that we shot and we can't wait to see the final result! To find out more about how Property Video Solutions can help your business please visit our  website .