A blog about our adventures in film, useful video production guides and tips and tricks for making great videos.
As a leading video production company in the UK we know a thing or two about putting a great video together. The steps behind making a great film are actually really simple, and over the years we’ve found that films…
ByEd Smit
Last year Here Now Film Cornwall teamed up with environment influencer Sophie Hellyer and explorer Anna Blackwell to launch Kathmandu’s new Autumn range to the UK outdoor market. The mission was simple, test Kathmandu’s new range across 3 different environments…
ByEd Smit
Why would you hire a professional drone pilot? Today, drones are everywhere. It feels like every tom, dick and harry has one and they all look the same. If that’s the case, why would you bother hiring a video agency…
ByEd Smit
This July Here Now Film Cornwall spent time with Clayworks as we created a number of explainer videos for their range of natural clay plasters. With projects across Cornwall and Bristol, Clayworks is a growing star in the eyes of…
ByEd Smit
It was great for Here Now Films Cornwall to be invited to C Space, Newquay, last month as Celsius – the world’s first geothermal made rum – launched its first crowdfunding campaign to the world. C Space is a brilliant…
ByEd Smit
It’s no secret that Bristol is a hub for all things film and video, it’s the UNESCO city of film and is home to some of the world’s greatest video, film and tv studios. The BBC Natural History Unit is…
ByEd Smit
People Power Sometimes the best video production projects are those that come along and give you a good dose of hope, Here Now’s most recent fundraising video with Yealm Community Energy did exactly that. Imagine a world where every house,…
ByEd Smit
Filming Mission Ocean How do you get the most powerful people in the United Kingdom to accept they’re in an Ocean Emergency? You get 10 ten year olds from local plastic free schools to turn up at their front door…
ByEd SmitFilm Background Why do some businesses make you really want to go back? As a video production company in Cornwall, we meet a lot of companies who are taking a big step to invest in telling the world about who,…
ByEd Smit
Film Background You walk into the doctors and start to tell them you’ve been feeling a little anxious recently, you mention how work has been getting on top of you and that you’re finding it difficult to sleep. After a…
ByEd Smit
AimHi Earth is on a mission to transform global understanding of climate and nature and boy do they mean it. As a team of scientists, creatives, teachers, and general outside-the-box thinkers the team spends their time coming up with imaginative…
ByEd Smit
“Heavy winds and torrential downpours across the south-west tomorrow afternoon in what might turn out to be Cornwalls wettest day on record”. It was an uneasy forecast to hear as we packed our bags ready for the following morning’s ascent.…
ByEd Smit
In the run-up to the G7 Summit in Cornwall, we had the pleasure of catching up with Origin Coffee’s, Andy Philip’s (Operations & B Corp champion), and Freda Yuan (Head of Coffee & global coffee influencer) as we explored whether…
ByEd Smit
Charlie Smith is one of the UK’s leading young explorers. His day job as a graphic designer has enabled him to reach some of the wildest and most remote regions on the planet. It was an ordinary Cornish February, heavy…
ByEd Smit
Today, like most days as a filmmaker in Cornwall, we were playing make-belief. We were to be north Cornish crab fishermen spending our days on an open deck collecting and loading pots in secretly guarded wreck and reef sites across…
ByEd Smit
The air hung thick with a lazy summer haze as a deep swell met with the North shore. From the shade of the Jubel Land Rover, we looked over the beach. White sea spray slowly drifted up a shoreline filled…
ByEd Smit
Wellies on, jackets zipped and camera in hand we walked. Robin Hanbury-Tenison, walking stick in hand, led us across fields, through woods and to the top of a forested granite tor. We sat there together for a while, soaking in…
ByEd Smit
Clara Jonas stood on an empty beach, board in hand, looking straight down the barrel of the lens. Her shoulder length hair was blown to one side from a gentle cross shore breeze. It was five am in the morning,…
ByEd Smit