Articles by: Andrew Johnstone

Mastering Audio, Droning On…

It’s been a busy few months at Wild Dog & we have had our paws on various projects. First up was the annual Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival whihc was back & in full swing again after a bit of a COVID lie down. Alongside our usual highlights film, this year we packaged up daily presentations from some of the festivals star authors for ‘as live’ broadcast on the festivals YouTube & Vimeo channels. Since then […]

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Learning Avidly…

Sooner or later, it was going to happen. A client would start asking if we could cut on Avid Media Composer. Well the answer is ‘yes’ – almost… As with any piece of software there is a learning curve, but with Avid it seems steeper than most at first. The biggest issue is transitioning back from FCPX which is all drag and drop, swooshing about & cutting like the wind, to a more formal track […]

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Family Planning & Covid in Africa

Over the past 6 months we have been lucky enough to have been running the audio dubbing & post production on a series of short animated films for DMI. In January 2021, we started the audio dubbing on a series of short dramas about family planning, shot in Kenya by Kabinda Pictures. Most recently we have delivered a short film about wearing facemasks to prevent the spread of COVID-19 for TV networks in Uganda. DMI […]

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Loneliness in Exeter

We were very fortunate to be asked by Westbank, a charity based in Exmouth to produce a short film about loneliness in Exeter. The Westbank project, 100 Working Together aims to raise awareness about loneliness in the community and encourage 100 of Exeter’s businesses to contribute to a fund to support the project. Westbank hopes to provide services and support for those people suffering from loneliness, whatever their situation. Directed by Zoe Clough and presented […]

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Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival 2021 promo

Here’s another short film for the Budleigh Salterton Literary festival. This short film tells the story of how 2020’s event, stopped in its track by the COVID pandemic forced the committee to think on their feet and produce a hybrid event that saw talks delivered both on line and in certain cases to limited audiences. We produced the live streaming events in Budleigh and also shot a couple of author profile pieces with Graham Hurley […]

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In the shit for Deutsche Welle

We had a lot of fun filming ‘quite literally’ in the cow shit for German network Deutsche Welle in Hampshire. The story for Euro Max with producer Max Modler was about musician Cosmo Sheldrake who records sounds from the natural world and then plays the music back in remote locaitons – in this case on the top of Martin’s Down. Our pal, sound recordist (and fellow SAB Network crew member) Rob Kingsbury was waggling the […]

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Live Streaming from Bud Lit Fest 2020 (almost)

Another year and another Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival – but this time with a twist. The festival this year has gone online because of the COVID pandemic and it has meant that we were called into do some rather different work from usual. Our normal festival highlight package was obviously a non starter and in stead we shot a couple of author profiles with food writer Mark Diacono and novelist Graham Hurley as well as […]

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BBC Inside Out to be axed

We were shocked by the announcement that the BBC is planning to axe its regional current affairs show Inside Out and to reduce the number of regional current affairs hubs from 11 to 6. The BBC plans to introduce a new 1/2 current affairs show, but the details so far are sketchy. All we know for certain is that the BBC plans to create 6 ‘super regions’ and shift its focus squarely to the North […]

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Aerial Drone Surveys

We’re very pleased to be able to start offering aerial drone surveys for chartered surveyors and other businesses that are looking for a cost effective way to survey sites without the need to use expensive scaffolding or other site access equipment. Aerial drone surveys are ideal for: building surveys and rooves drainage surveys & pipelines coastal erosion assesments harbours & ports forestry remote access working assessments railways powerlines porperty inspections or sales. Our pilots are […]

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Lockdown Spring

I shot this short film in the back garden. Spring this year in Devon has been amazing – quote to contrast to lockdown because of Coronavirus.. Pity not to share it. Enjoy!

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