Guide to Self Management in Cancer Rehabilitation

The last few months have been spent creating a DVD for Velindre Hospital in Cardiff, which deals with the care and treatment of all types of cancer. Sue Acreman, consultant AHP for Velindre NHS Trust cancer services, wanted to use the DVD to help promote self management after leaving hospital.

As they already had a booklet, we came up with a treatment which involved filming various scenarios with ex-patients, a voice-over and music.

DVD Menu highlighting the Practical section

We then put together an interactive DVD detailing the 8 points in their care plan.

1. Physical
2. Nutritional
3. Psychological
4. Informational
5. Spiritual
6. Practical
7. Social & Relationships
8. Financial 

The project was delivered on DVD in English and Welsh, with an additional 5 minute subtitled version for use in doctors' surgeries across Wales and eventually the UK.

We'd like to take this opportunity to thank all the people involved, who helped make this DVD, especially the ex-patients and staff at Velindre Hospital, and the Croupiers Running Club in Penarth for donating some of their runners for use during filming. Thank you, and good luck to all of you.

Video Editing and DVD Authoring for UWIC

We've spent the last 5 months on a very big job for Estyn/UWIC, which entailed editing 60 x 1hr English and Welsh language lessons.

Shot on DV by Bay TV using 2 cameras, the lessons were edited here on our Avid editing systems, using the multicamera mode. The tapes were synched together in a multicamera group, then it was a simple case of choosing which camera to look at and when, just like using a vision mixer.

The lessons were then played out to DVD for appraisal, before being further edited down to roughly 1/2 hour. Some lessons also had a 'feedback' section by the examiners to the teachers.

All 60 lessons (15 English Primary, 15 English Secondary, 15 Welsh Primary, 15 Welsh Secondary) were then authored to DVD, 3 lessons per DVD, and are to be used internally by UWIC as a teacher training resource.

All artwork, printing and duplicating was done right here too, supplying UWIC with 11 copies of 20 different DVDs.

Carew Wartime Memories 1939 - 1945

We were asked to create a 1 hour Wartime Remembrance DVD for the Carew Cheriton Community Association & Carew Cheriton Control Tower Group.

These guys have used Heritage Lottery funding to renovate their control tower at Carew in Pembrokeshire. It now looks exactly as it did back in 1941, with all the paraphernalia that you would expect to see in a wartime airstrip control tower.

The DVD was to make a record of the memories of the people that lived in Carew during the 2nd World War. Viv took a camera down to Carew, and interviewed lots of the locals to record their version of events. Some were just kids at that time, others just visiting, but all had stories to tell, about German aeroplanes bombing the runway, the huge oil fires that required the London fire brigade to spend 5 days putting it out, the gunner who "had them in his sights" but didn't receive the order to fire and many more similar tales.

With over 24 hours of interview footage and over 300 photos, we edited a 1 hour documentary detailing the stories and events of that time. The artwork comprised the full colour DVD cover (pictured here) and 2-page booklet, together with onbody print, together with artwork for an audio CD compiled by Lawson Dando at Albany Studios in Fairwater, Cardiff.

The Great Pyramid Beckons

We sent a team of people out to Egypt to get some footage of the Great Pyramid for a project we are working on (more news of that later). Viv led the crew with Sheena (producer), Andy (photographer), Rob (Soundman), Danny (Producer) and Sue (publisher) and we spent 5 days shooting up and down the Nile, around the Pyramids, in the Coptic Churches and loads more. We even had time to party on the last night. The footage and photos are for a number of projects we have in the pipeline all based around the Pyramids, and involving a best selling author. Intrigued?

BSL - A Matter of Policy

The Welsh Assembly Government (WAG), through the efforts of Assembly Minister Jane Hutt, has recently announced that it is policy to translate official documents into BSL (British Sign Language) as well as the usual Welsh and English versions. It is important to understand that for some, BSL is their first language, and they may never learn English or Welsh.

We have recently finished shooting our second such DVD, which is entitled "Delivering Services in BSL". We shot everything against our blue-screen, and used an Autocue to ensure a professional delivery. The next stage is the editing, where we sit with the interpreters to ensure the document fits together in the correct order. Then its over to the DVD recorder to record the individual segments, authoring the functionality of the DVD with menu structure etc, and finally off to the duplicators for a glass master and however many copies the client wants.

Special thanks to Gloria Ogborn of Sign Solutions for translating the document "Delivering Services in BSL".

Broadstroke helps First Plus in their celebrations

First Plus - a finance and loan company based in Pentwyn, Cardiff, has won a very prestigious award - that of being the best SME in Europe to work for. Announced at the Millennium Stadium, FirstPlus were up against the likes of BMW and Siemens but still managed to come out on top. HTV recorded the event but FirstPlus wanted some internal reaction to the events and so they called in Broadstroke to film some pieces to camera and to put together a DVD to be distributed internally to the staff who had worked so hard to achieve this fantastic award.

Broadstroke also went to the Holiday Inn at Heathrow to interview one of the judges of the competition who had been flown in from Germany especially. If you've got similar needs for internal corporate video or DVD then why not contact Broadstroke to see what we can do for you.

Blaina Fire Service

Fire services do more than just fight fires, they help educate children by taking classes at local schools to raise awareness of various issues. As an aid to their presentations, we cut together a promotional piece which we delivered on DVD. Now they can show their video, which automatically pauses in the right places for them to discuss the issues raised, and then a simple click to continue provides an easy solution to presentation with video. Call us now on +44(0)2920250737 to discuss what we can do for your video presentation needs.