Nokshi Indian Restaurant Promotion

Nokshi Indian Restaurant Promotion

Towards the end of last year I did a video promotion for a lovely Indian restaurant called Nokshi which is in the town of Moycullen in Galway. They do really good food with great prices and friendly service. The shots that I filmed in the restaurant were mostly food being served, drinks being poured and people enjoying the spicy cuisine. I also got a few close up shots of the menu with the logo plus some street views of the outside showing the sign and the location. But there was something missing. I knew that I needed something else to add a personal touch, something that would make this promotional video special for the restaurant and that would connect the viewers with the experience of visiting there.

The person meeting and greeting, showing up to our table and looking after the restaurant was a lovely man called Rubel who was very smart and well presented so I thought the shot that would really make it would be a simple face to camera one where he says something as if we are walking in and being greeted by him. I put it to him that we needed him to be the face for the video and to say a few words and he was very nervous but agreed to give it a go. I had a zoom stereo voice recorder with me and, with the help of my assistant Tadhg, we arranged to swoop the camera in towards Rubel while at the same time bringing the voice recorder into range just out of sight of the camera, then cueing Rubel to say his lines and wrap it up. We did a couple of takes and he was very quiet with the voice so I was worried that there would be more background noise than speech, but after about the third take he did a really good one with just the right expression so I listened back to the zoom recorder to see if we had the voice and it was there, clear and with not too much background noise from the restaurant. It was a wrap!

Later in the edit it became clear that the romantic low lighting of the restaurant did not translate into instantly usable video so I had to do a lot of post production to brighten the footage up using some plugins in Final Cut Pro especially one called Shadow Highlighter which did a great job. To bring a smoother look I then added some vignettes and some blurring around the edges, focusing towards the centre to showcase the good food. There were a couple of improvised slide moves where a drink was being poured that looked good with the Cobra logo on the beer and the bubbles rising. It was all coming together.

For the music I had some fun recording tabla sounds and adding some sitar and other suitable sounds until there was a music bed that seemed to work. The next step was to work on the all-important script to get something to hang the video onto. I came to Rubel’s part and found that the swooping in part was too quick to match the feel of the rest of the video, so I had to play around with the time, stretching it slower right up until the moment he speaks then back to normal with another slowing down at the end to capture the smile and to extend it slightly. With everything ready the edit came together because of the planning and the video sweetening. There was a shot with red wine pouring into a glass which I sent off to another program to get a super slow motion effect then imported that back into the main program. With a few credits at the end it was all done and ready for release. The clients were very happy and I think that Rubel has built up quite a fan base after his video appearance!

Nokshi Indian Restaurant, Moycullen

Fancy a good curry? This is the Galway News Restaurant Review: Nokshi Indian Restaurant, Moycullen, Phone 091 556 544 or 091 556545

Posted by Galway News on Tuesday, 24 November 2015
Andy Reynolds

Andy Reynolds

iProVid

Videographer, Multimedia Creator, Composer, Lyricist, Song-Writer and Script-Writer

New Acupuncture Website

New Acupuncture Website

iProVid is working on a new website for local Galway alternative health practitioner Denise Delaney who runs a clinic in the city. Denise offers acupuncture, acupressure, reflexology, massage, lymphatic drainage and Chinese herbal medicine. The site brief was to be fresh, clean and modern with a responsive design that would work on laptops, tablets and smartphones. There was a lot of technical information that needed to be available to visitors to the site without overloading the reader. We approached that through the use of an FAQ section as well as a comprehensive list of ailments and conditions that her therapy is aimed at.

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Visit her website here: www.denisedelaneytherapy.com

We also set her up with a new Twitter account which you can follow here : www.twitter.com/delaneytherapy

Christmas Pop Up Shop

Christmas Pop Up Shop

Before Christmas 2015 a pop-up Christmas shop appeared upstairs at Texaco in Spiddal County Galway. This was run by Emma Allen who put together a collection of gift, decorations, art work and jewellery for the Christmas market. She made the place look very inviting with lots of Christmas decorations.

For the video promotion first of all I did some outside shots on a very cold wintry day then moving towards the front entrance and the stairs finally arriving in the shop itself. This was later edited to compress time showing the location and the way upstairs to where she was. I then started to film the items for sale using panning, monopod and sliding techniques. At one stage I tried to do a jib shot without actually having a jib with me. This was done using a monopod on extremely long extension lifting up as if it was the jib. It worked quite well. Emma herself was suffering with a bad cold but she managed to do a couple of lines saying welcome to the shop. I found a few items with suitable shapes to cross fade through and that was it.

For the edit it was, as ever, all about the script which was a brief sales pitch for the shop. Emma’s bits were put in at the appropriate places and with a few titles and some original music with sleigh bells it was completed and delivered.

Spiddal Gift Shop

Looking for that last minute gift? Check out the Spiddal Gift Shop above Texaco in Spiddal and you are sure to find what you need. Galway News meets up with Emma Allen.

Posted by Galway News on Thursday, 17 December 2015
Andy Reynolds

Andy Reynolds

iProVid

Videographer, Multimedia Creator, Composer, Lyricist, Song-Writer and Script-Writer

Green Energy for Ireland

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