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4 simple but effective ways to enhance your next animation

Animation and infographic projects can be as simple or as complex as you need, to illustrate the narrative you’re trying to tell. You also don’t have to be an expert to master the process of animation, thanks to online animation packs. But here a few tips I’ve learnt that add that extra element to your animation, to take it to the next level.

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BlogSean O'Gorman
Telling the story of comprehensive care: a CHS case study

Our second favourite thing at Newcast is telling stories – our favourite thing is having a brief that allows us the freedom to be creative. Canberra Health Services are a longtime client of ours, and came to us recently for a new video project: a short film that tells the story of comprehensive care, following a patient's journey from start to finish.

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BlogSean O'Gorman
5 steps to producing a social media promo from start to finish

We have a lot of businesses contact us to produce promotional material and have questions about the video production process from start to finish. We were contacted by Queenies, a newly-opened bar in Kingston, to produce a short video for social media promotion. We thought we’d show off our shiny new video we produced for them, while taking you through our production process.

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BlogSean O'Gorman
Live streaming VS video conferencing: what's the difference?

With the event industry still in lockdown, COVID-19 has thrust day to day business into the virtual (streaming) world. From board meetings and AGM’s to industry briefings and virtual events, it’s all online. Today, even the smallest event is being delivered virtually via our configured studio. However, when potential clients contact us there seems to be some confusion between live streaming and video conferencing.

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BlogDamien Maher
5 steps to a simple but great looking website

Web design and development is a huge industry that from the outside can look overly-complicated. And sure, it can be. A lot of websites do need the technical know-how behind the scenes to make them operate the way they need to, especially if they're having to run huge amounts of data or support thousands of unique visitors at any given moment.

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BlogSean O'Gorman
Case Study: A website for the Winter Solstice Nude Charity Swim

What to do when you need a revamped website in a tight timeframe – and don’t know where to start? Come to Newcast. Recently, Newcast was engaged by the Winter Solstice Nude Charity Swim, an organisation that runs an annual event on the Winter Solstice where a bunch of people jump into the icy cold waters of Lake Burley Griffen to raise awareness and funds for mental health.

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BlogSean O'Gorman
Introducing the Lonsdale St Studio, your new creative space

It’s difficult to find a dedicated space in the city to shoot video, photography or podcast…until now. Our sister company Lonsdale St Studio is a 8.5x4M block out, acoustically treated space perfect for interviews, green screen shoots, webinars, photography and podcasting. It’s equipped with fully configurable lighting and there are professional-grade video and audio production kits for hire, so you can either BYO gear, or use our professional crew and equipment.

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BlogSean O'Gorman
Case Study: Aspen Medical's Corporate Animation

Creating your brand identity through bespoke animation. Aspen Medical is a provider of global healthcare solutions. As a rapidly expanding business with a global presence, Aspen Medical required a unique corporate animated explainer that would translate across multiple markets and continents.

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BlogDamien Maher
Celebrating 8 years working with TEDxCanberra

Since 2012 Newcast has been the video production partner of TEDxCanberra - our city’s very own entertainment, design and ideas forum. TED.com has strict guidelines on how video content should be captured for every TEDx franchise and if a talk is deemed noteworthy, the content is sent to TED.com to publish on their global network.

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BlogDamien Maher
How does Newcast produce a video?

Producing a video is an exciting process and we want to take you on the journey with us. Production Logistics: once your quote has been approved we schedule the job for production. If we need any specialised contractors, we book the right people for the project as soon as possible.

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BlogDamien Maher
How to produce a video when you're starting with nothing

It may not seem feasible, but you can actually produce a video when you have no content. All you need is an idea. We can do the rest with stock footage, a voice over and branding. And make it look incredible. Only recently, Newcast Studios was approached by one of our clients Aspen Medical to produce a video to promote a product for their Chinese market.

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BlogSean O'Gorman
Facebook versus YouTube live streaming: which is best?

Until only recently, broadcasting an event required a huge outside broadcast truck, 100’s of meters of cable and a crew of 20…oh and a TV channel to broadcast on. I’ve been involved in live broadcast for 20 years and the live streaming industry since 2006, working as Executive Producer of video production at Fairfax Media.

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BlogDamien Maher
Does online video advertising actually work?

Last week a client contacted us at Newcast Studios to discuss an online video advertising campaign. They had tried advertising in local newspapers (to the tune of $10,000) but saw no one extra customers and they weren’t keen on radio advertising or TV. So they asked us; does online advertising work?

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BlogDamien Maher