I am Chelsea from Flashlight TV and this week I have been working on shooting timelapses and fast motion, as well as experimenting with the tilt shift technique. It was my aim to effectively capture London at its busiest, so I set out to some of the more crowded areas of London to film both…

Below is our glossary. The list is endless and we will be continually adding to it, so why not let us know if you have any we have not thought of yet.   A  Aerial Shot Footage that is filmed from the air. This can consist of a number of methods including Helicopters, Airplanes or Quadcopters….

Shooting corporate videos can come with a somewhat dry reputation. The connotations that generally arise with producing a video to promote a business tend to be that the video will be one or all of the following: Boringly informative Painfully self serving (non self deprecating) Stylistically sterile Out of date To use a comedic cultural…

Hidden Camera Filming Top Six Tips   Hidden camera filming can be some of the most fun, exhilarating and terrifying work you do in your TV career. At Flashlight we have filmed hidden camera. A lot. Any article purporting to be a litany of top tips for a certain genre needs at least to qualify…

Just when you thought the world of TV and video production could not possibly get ANY more exciting, here be our blog post on that most pulse quickening of production – filming permissions. Obviously being a visual medium, locations tend to be one of the more important aspects of TV and video production. The Ridley…

Flashlight TV is a versatile production company and as such we regularly work on a broad range of projects, as well as an even more broad range of creatives. From work experience all the way through to executives, TV and video production is a hugely collaborative process and as such every single person on a…

Infographics are becoming a really popular way to explain what your business does in an interesting and effective manner. An infographic is a graphic based video that can incorporate text and/or voiceover for an easy to understand video that can explain/ inform or educate the viewer. We produce infographics for our clients and decided that at Flashlight…

Hiring a camera crew in any foreign country can be a challenge.  Here at Flashlight TV we understand this more than most as we are constantly looking for crews overseas as budgets cant always get us there personally. So how can you make sure that you not only get what you want the job is…

Shooting on the Arri Alexa Plus Setup for a green screen shoot. Camera: Arri Alexa Plus, Selection of Zeiss Primes, Sachtler 30p tripod Lighting: Kinoflow 4×4 bank, 2 x 1k’s, white poly boards, x10 kino studio lights This week we had the exciting job of filming the title sequence for ITV. DOP Simon Elsbury lit and…

How to shoot / capture the northern lights.  Camera settings we used to capture the Northern Lights Canon 5D MK II 16-35mm lens. f2.8 exposure 13” iso 2500. This week our crew have been out hunting the northern lights in the arctic circle. They travelled to northern Finland, Saariselka, where the lights are visible from…