Welcome to Inspired Film and Video

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And as if that wasn't enough there is the chance to appear in an infomercial with a top celebrity.

Over eight consecutive weeks starting in October, Skinbase will be providing completely free microdermabrasion treatments once a week to a small group of people – the usual cost for receiving these treatments starts at £40. The total cost for having the full course would normally be a minimum of £320. The treatments will be taking place at the luxurious boutique venue, The Manor in Hanchurch, Stoke-on-Trent and will start on Saturday 9th October.

To help celebrate the success of the treatments Skinbase are teaming up with award winning film production company Inspired Film and Video to produce a film which will feature the experiences of the recipients as they go through the 8 week course.

The film will capture the journey of each of the people receiving the treatments culminating in a live TV style show presented by a national celebrity. Skinbase treatments can have potentially life-changing results and this will be captured on film.

Inspired Film and Video are inviting anyone who would like to know more about how they can receive the series of free treatments to contact them to register their interest.

Microdermabrasion is a system that uses ultra fine crystals to rejuvenate the skin. If you experience any of the following skin conditions Skinbase can work for you;

Pigmentation problems, acne and acne scarring, fine lines, dull and dry skin and body stretch marks can all be successfully treated.

For further information please contact Daniel Stubbs on 01782 613675 or daniel@inspiredfilmandvideo.co.uk

There's lots happening at Inspired HQ at the moment and below is a quick update.

Our documentary about the North Staffs Hospital, If Wards Could Talk has now begun. We're really looking forward to working on this film as all members of the Inspired team have had the pleasure of visiting the hospital at some point and some of us even had our sons or daughters delivered at the maternity unit. You can read about the project by following this link

We're also producing a documentary about authors and writers who are either from Staffordshire or inspired by Staffordshire.

Elsewhere we were on Midlands Today talking about our work on the Think About England video. Follow this link to watch Laura's piece. This has been reproduced with kind permission of the BBC.

As well as producing films we also produce interactive brochures and we've finally had the time to produce one all about Inspired. You can find out about our work and the Inspired team by following this link

You can follow our thoughts, new videos and general comings and goings on Twitter and Facebook by following the links below.

Follow us on Twitter by clicking here

And follow us on Facebook here

We also have a You Tube page which we update regularly and you can take a look at that by clicking here

We have recently completed a series of films for a local engineering firm - Xtrutech. You can watch the film - in HD - by clicking here

Xtrutech supply a wide range of screw elements across Europe and the films were produced in several languages.

Take a look at the French version by clicking here

It's just under a month till the world cup kicks off in South Africa and we have been busy producing a video for the song 'Think About England' by local group 'Head The Ball'

The song will be released on June 6th along with the full video but you can take a sneak preview by clicking here

We've had a great start to 2010 and we're currently working on a host of interesting projects and films.

We're producing a series of web virals for an internet security firm which we're all very excited about - we'll be able to reveal more next month once we've been in the studio but they will feature a very famous face.

Elsewhere we are working on a DVD for a local housing association about the importance of gas safety in the home. These films will act as an important safety guide for tenants in their properties and will be supported by the HSE.

With the world cup just around the corner Inspired have been doing their part by producing the video for local band Head The Ball. Their world cup anthem 'Think About England' is already a cult hit and it now looks set to be a genuine Top 40 contender when it's released in June. We're currently putting the finishing touches to the music video which should be completed early next month.

Staffordshire County Council asked us to produce a short film for the shop local  scheme in Newcastle-Under-Lyme. It was a pleasure to work on this film as it's our local town and you can watch the film by clicking here.

We've settled into the new office suite at the Keele Science and Business Park and already we're seeing the benefits of having more office space....

Pride In The Pits is now finished and has been sent to be duplicated. It's the biggest order we've placed as it will be given away free of charge with the March issue of The Way We Were. The film is a tribute to the mining industry in North Staffordshire and will be out on March 3rd. The film will be shown at the Film Theatre in Stoke on the same evening. Admission is free so please come along.

You can watch the trailer for Pride In Pits by following this link. 

We've also completed a new edit of our documentary about the Potteries dialect 'May Un Mar Language' The first edition has completely sold-out so we used this as an opportunity to shoot some new features and include more Potteries. You can buy a copy from the Potteries Museum, Webberleys in Hanley or The Country Larder at Trentham Gardens, alternatively you can phone us. If you'd like to come and see the film for free then we'll be showing the film as part of the first ever film-night at The Greyhound in Penkhull on February 9th.

Elsewhere we've just completed an interactive training DVD for a local housing association and we've just embarked on a series of films for a local engineering company. These films will be delivered with several voice-overs in foreign languages. To find out more about our work with international marketing you can visit this website http://uk-export-marketing.co.uk/

After another great year Inspired are moving to larger premises this Christmas.
Having been very happy at our old offices we made the difficult decision to move on in order to give us more space for the production team and new members of staff.
As of the start of 2010 we will be based in IC2 at Keele Science Park so please feel free to pop in and have a look round any time.

We will be having a new office phone line installed sometime soon so the old number will become obsolete. If you have any trouble contacting us during the crossover all of the emails will remain the same or you can ring these mobile numbers:

Chris: 07859 067563
Mike:  07703 735517

Hope to see you all at the new offices soon.

Inspired are delighted to announce that our next feature length documentary will be given away free of charge with The Sentinel.

 

“Pride in the Pits” is an exploration of how mining has shaped the lives, values and communities of those who worked beneath Stoke-on-Trent. We will produce the DVD to go alongside a special mining edition of “The Way We Were” which commemorates the twentieth anniversary of the end of the miners’ strikes.

 

This is the first time in their history that the Sentinel has distributed a film free with the newspaper and is a landmark deal which means the film will be seen in twenty thousand households across North Staffordshire. Keep your eyes out for build up to the giveaway over the next few months with the 27^th February being the scheduled release date.

Staffordshire University commissioned Inspired to produce a film highlighting the benefits that the new University Quarter will bring to Stoke-on-Trent. The film is an emotive look at how this education led regeneration project will change the lives of all those involved with any of the partner organisations and the positive effect it will have on local communities and Stoke-on-Trent as a whole. We are proud to work on such a prestigious and important initiative and the completed film is now being used by UniQ officials to promote the project to stakeholders, funders and future partners.

 

The film continues our working relationship with Staffordshire University and is another great example of how film can document change and regeneration.

We've been very busy lately and have neglected the news section a little bit so we thought it was time for an update on what we've been up to.

We're currently working on a number of big projects -you may have read about some of them in the local press. We're producing a documentary about the redevelopment of the Chatterley Whitfield site for Birse. This film will chart the progress of the redevelopment of an old colliery waste tip into a heritage country park. It's a great film to be part of and we're really proud to be doing it especially seeing as some members of Inspired had grandparents that worked at Chatterley Whitfield during its heyday. The film will not only show the progress on site but will also document the impact it has on the local community.

We've also been working on a series of films for local training provider PM Training, a promotional film for Leek College, a documentary for minerals company Sibelco UK and a series of films for Puttalite - a device designed to help your putting on the golf course.

So it looks like it will be a busy summer here at Inspired but we're always keen to hear from companies and organisations keen to exploit the many benefits of films so please feel free to give us a call.

 'Pride in the Pits' is a new documentary by Inspired Film and Video and they would like to hear from ex-miners and colliery workers across North Staffordshire who have a story to tell about their time working in the pit. Inspired are keen to interview former mining employees about their time working in the coal mining industry and are particularly interested in talking to former miners that were working in the industry in the 1980s.

 

The importance of coal-mining across North Staffordshire cannot be underestimated. It provided a livelihood for tens of thousands of people and was essential in the development of other industries across the area. North Staffordshire was rich with coal seams but what was more important than this was the richness of the people and the communities that drove the industry forward.

 

Pride in the Pits features contributions from historian and Evening Sentinel columnist Fred Hughes, Richard Stone – author of ‘Collieries and Coalminers of Staffordshire’ Paul Deakin – underground cave and mine photographer, former North Staffs NUM secretary Joe Wills, The Friends of Chatterley Whitfield, John Irwin – lecturer in trade union studies, Brenda Procter from the North Staffs Miners Wives Action Group and John Lumsdon of the North Staffs Mines Resource Centre.

 

It also features the memories and reminiscences of former miners and people involved in the mining industry.

 

The film will be completed in November 2009 and will be shown at the Apedale Colliery Museum in Newcastle-under-Lyme and the Brampton Museum in North Staffordshire. It will also be shown at a number of schools and businesses in former mining areas.

 

 

Building upon the interactive reporting service we offer (see www.interactivereporting.co.uk) Inspired can now offer the page turning software it uses to deliver these reports as a separate service.

We can turn your PDFs into sleek digital brochures that can be held online for your customers to view and can be supplied as a CD Rom.

These can have all manner of files held within them including video if you wish. This is a very cost effective alternative option to printing and distributing publications or can be used to supplement current methods by giving them an online presence.

For more information on this service please contact Mike on 01782 563988.