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WELCOME TO 2022

WELCOME TO 2022, AND TO MARK THE OCCASION Empathic Productions has designed and launched our own fireworks display. We selected 668 fireworks from a manufacturer's catalogue, including 66 Comet Silver Glitters, 20 Fountain Akzent Gold Charcoals, 5 Peony Red Strobes...

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WEBSITE ADDITIONS

NOW THE 5TH NOVEMBER GUY FAWKES CELEBRATIONS are over, we have redone the website landing page to include a technologies, equipment and capabilities promo so prospective clients get a glimpse of the equipment used for producing video content. It gives an eagle-eyed...

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BRIGHTON’S SECRET WAR

HAVING WORKED FOR MANY YEARS AS A JOURNALIST, both in print and video media I had an interesting question thrown at me the other day which made me stop and think. The question was 'what was the most interesting story I had worked on?' My difficulty in responding...

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AUTUMN 2021 NEWS

THE BIG NEWS THIS AUTUMN IS that Empathic Productions has completely redone our main showreel that covers most of the material that we have been involved with. It has been brought up to date by including later footage and the editing has been made little bit...

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SPRING – SUMMER 2021 NEWS

QUITE A LOT HAS BEEN HAPPENING during the last few months in spite of the effects of Covid-19. The slump in the video production industry has allowed us to look at our internal processes and get up to date with several areas that had been put off and left as ‘to...

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CINEMATIC TRAILERS FOR AUTHORS & PUBLISHERS

A GRIPPING NOVEL that will keep you reading late into the night. Make this the next book you read! writes Peter Owen Jones, TV broadcaster and author, about A Fatal Façade, the new fast-paced crime thriller by Linda M. James.Empathic Productions was...

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DAVE PROWSE – THE UNEXPECTED GUEST

WAY BACK IN THE EARLY 90’s, there still existed a certain cinema hidden in the dingy depths of King’s Cross, North London. Of notorious repute, fermenting wild tales of director excesses, audience wild excesses, smoke/booze/sex filled all nighters,...

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“THE DAYLIGHT PROJECT” FUNDRAISER

NOT SO LONG AGO, Empathic Productions was tasked with converting the back garden and interior of a property in London into a film set. We had been engaged to shoot a fundraiser for the new Daylight Project. The Daylight Project's aims are to allow bands...

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MASKED UP IN A DINGY SHED IN SEVENOAKS

HERE I AM MASKED UP IN A SHED in Sevenoaks doing a badly needed voice-over. Not my usual occupation I hasten to add as we normally hire pro voice-over actors. But since becoming a Covid-19, travel-reduced, worn-out, video producer, fearing access to the Company's...

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HOW TO STOP STARING AT THE CEILING

“Sleep! sleep! beauty bright, Dreaming o'er the joys of night” I think we probably all are at the moment at some point, aren’t we? Having trouble at sleeping that is. With very uncertain times, massive economic upheaval, and bewildering and often contradictory...

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OUR SCI-FI STORY COMPETITION HAS BEEN CANCELLED

* WRITE A SHORT STORY BASED ON OUR SOUNDTRACK * * WIN A CHANCE AT PROMOTION ON OUR SITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA * * POSSIBLE FUTURE DEVELOPMENT OF YOUR IDEAS * THIS COMPETITION HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO LACK OF INTEREST   WE LOVE A BIT OF SCI-FI AT EMPATHIC...

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A MACBETH WORKSHOP

IT IS CERTAINLY NO SECRET that Heavyocity’s prowess for creating cinematic sound design content is unparalleled in the film, TV and games music industry, and their Vocalise VST instrument is no exception.Heavyocity has combined the raw character of the human voice...

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THE SOUND OF FEAR IN A HANDFUL OF DUST

EMPATHIC PRODUCTIONS' LATEST ADDITION to their SFX library is a sample pack from Amon Tobin’s ‘Fear in a Handful of Dust’. It would be difficult to find any article about Amon Tobin where sound design isn't mentioned. Critics and fans have compared his innovative...

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SURVIVING CORONA

WE'RE FULLY OPERATIONAL having been classified by the Government as ‘key workers’ in the media industry and also having tested negative for COVID-19. Naturally everyone needs to stay alert and maintain social distancing. All businesses are going to find it a...

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BRAVE NEW WORLD

THERE IS AN OLD RULE IN POLITICS that would also be best applied as well by decision-makers in the world of business and corporate finance. "The timing of a decision is almost as important as the decision itself. Timing is everything.” The Corona virus pandemic has...

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EMPATHIC PRODUCTIONS IS NOW A MEMBER

EMPATHIC PRODUCTIONS IS NOW A MEMBER of The Smalls for commercial commissioning and submission of filming briefs. The Smalls is a global video commissioning platform, connecting advertisers, broadcasters and publishers with the global community of award-winning...

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EMPATHIC PRODUCTIONS’ WIRELESS NETWORK

THE EMPATHIC PRODUCTIONS ON LOCATION private wireless monitoring network has raised some questions from clients intrigued by the ability for them to view camera feeds on their iPhones and iPads and be in on the action as though they were part of the film crew on...

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LINKED IN NOW UP

The LinkedIn Empathic Productions site is now functional and it does look rather good. Just click the in icon at the top (or bottom) of this page to view. Their profile creation interface made a really nice job of automatically creating the account profile icon pic...

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SOCIAL MEDIA WORKING

It's working - at last!!! Thank you team for the effort. A personal shout to you all from MrWizzyWiz. But for the record I reckon I had the harder task LOL. Had to create a child theme with the relevant javascript and PHP files, then had to create an 'includes'...

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THE WAY OF THE OPUS

Q: What do you get if you put Andy Pinkney from Cheltenham Film Festival, Jessica Fox  from Calculus Capital, Vincent McAtamney from Vintec, and 35 business sector and creative sector professionals in the same room?A: The second networking event...

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AN ADVANCED PRODUCING MASTERCLASS

GETTING TO GRIPS WITH LOW BUDGET FILM PRODUCTION - AN ADVANCED PRODUCING MASTERCLASS Empathic Productions decided to brush up on their production skills by attending a seminar by established UK producer Richard Holmes. The intense advanced production one day course...

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TECH REVIEWER – OPEN AUDITION CALL

EMPATHIC PRODUCTIONS TECH REVIEWER  Audition brief  We are searching for a tech reviewer to feature on our website. The role would be on-going, ad-hoc and would involve filmed reviews of video-production-related gadgets and equipment.  The successful applicant...