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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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

“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...

ANSWER: WE HAVE ADDED NOVO, the flagship string orchestra, deep sampled instrument to our film composition library and the NOVO material was recorded at Warner Bros. Studios' Eastwood Scoring Stage. The Eastwood Scoring Sage is in and of itself a Hollywood legend...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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'...

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...

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...