Scottish Chamber Orchestra

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra (SCO) is based in Edinburgh and is internationally celebrated.  They aim to provide as many opportunities as possible for people to hear live orchestral music by touring the length and breadth of Scotland and worldwide as proud ambassadors for Scottish cultural excellence. In recent years, the SCO has travelled throughout Europe, the Far East, India and the USA.

STROMA Films & The Scottish Chamber Orchestra

We were delighted when the SCO commissioned us to create a profile film to introduce their new principal conductor, Maxim Emelyanychev. We met up with him as he prepared for his debut performance of Haydn’s The Seasons at the Usher Hall.

After that film, we went on to create a further 2 featured artist films about François Leleux and Pekka Kuusisto.

The films can be viewed on our website or on the SCO's website - Max Emelyanychev.

Artist Films by STROMA Films

If you would like to meet us to discuss creating an artist film for yourself or your organisation, please do not hesitate to get in touch. We are independent filmmakers who have experience working with artists, designers, musicians and makers. 

 

 

Firefighter Ian's Story

Scottish firefighter, Ian McDonald had been with the fire service for 10 years. He was taking part in a training exercise in March 2014 when his hand was pierced by a high-pressure jet of hydraulic fluid.

He had 40 operations after the toxic liquid destroyed the tissue in his right hand but after a 4-year battle doctors were forced to amputate.

This film tells the story of how the amputation impacted Ian’s life and the part Digby Brown played to help with his recovery.

Ian’s Story — Digby Brown

Fashioned From Nature

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London, otherwise known as the V&A is the world’s leading museum of art and design. It's permanent collection consists of over 2.3 million objects that span over 5,000 years of human creativity.

A current exhibition 'Fashioned From Nature' will run until 27 January 2019. The V&A states that it is 'the first UK exhibition to explore the complex relationship between fashion and nature from 1600 to the present day'. We have had the pleasure of producing 3 videos for 'The Future of Fashion' which is part of this exhibition. The Future of Fashion explores how the fashion industry uses vast quantities of natural resources, and meets some inventors, designers and companies that are making sustainable and environmentally friendly fabrics.

Pulp-It

This video gives a fascinating incite into making a new fabric based on paper that is both sustainable and environmentally friendly. It has been created by scientists and designers in Sweden and the UK.


Fashioned from Nature - Pulp - It from STROMA Films on Vimeo.

Bolt Threads

Bolt Threads is a company based in California. They have developed a fabric that mimics the structure of spider silk. It requires neither the polluting chemicals of petroleum-derived materials nor the land, water and pesticides of conventionally farmed fibres.


Fashioned from Nature - Bolt Threads from STROMA Films on Vimeo.

Diana Scherer

Diana Scherer is an artist, designer and plant root weaver from The Netherlands. She trains the roots of plants to grow in intricate structures, creating a 3D textile. When the roots are fully grown, she removes them from the soil and cuts off the plant stems. The pieces produced are not yet suitable to be worn, but hint at a potential, more sustainable future in which we grow our own fashion in the ground. This will completely change how you view plant roots.


Fashioned from Nature - Diana Scherer from STROMA Films on Vimeo.

These films have been produced by Rapid Visual Media. If you would like to find out more about our work or commission a film, please do not hesitate to get in touch. 

Rapid Visual Media's portfolio of videos.
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St Mary's Music School, Edinburgh

Practising and Composing - 2 Films From St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh

We were invited to St Mary's Music School in Edinburgh to produce 4 short films about the talented students, practicing their instruments and composing new music. Here are 2 of those films.

St Mary’s Music School - Practising

Four pupils describe what music means to them and how passionate they feel about their daily practising, leading up to live performance.

"It is not only your fingers that should know your pieces."

St Mary's Music School - Practising from STROMA Films.

‘Composing’ Advice to Young Musicians

Leading Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan, a regular visitor to St Mary’s, shares his composing expertise with a 17 year old pupil in a new film which highlights the personal achievements and frustrations encountered by the young composer as he develops as a musician.

'Composing' Advice to Young Musicians from STROMA Films.

Detailed information about the films can be found on the St Mary's website.

If you are interested in finding out more about our videos and what we can create for your organisation, school or business, then please get in touch to discuss your ideas and wishes.

Drawn To Light

Drawn to Light was an event to celebrate the 150th anniversary of The McManus. The McManus is an Art Gallery and Museum that tells the story of Dundee and gives visitors an insight into it’s fascinating history.

The McManus — Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum

Two of Scotland’s leading young artists, Duncan Marquiss & Jonnie Common, were commissioned to create 2 new artworks for this event. We were delighted to meet and interview both artists, and have produced a short video about each artist where they explain a little about how they have approached this commission.

Duncan produced a video installation that was played on the exterior of the museum building. The video represents the museum and included many of the museum’s collection of objects and artworks.

Drawn to Light - Duncan Marquiss from STROMA Films on Vimeo.

Jonnie is a musician who composed a new piece of music to represent The McManus and has included sounds from the museum itself.

Drawn to Light - Jonnie Common from STROMA Films on Vimeo.

Benefits of Online Video

The Importance of Video

Watching a TV programme, film or video allows us to gain a vast amount of information very quickly and marketing companies know this.  One short advert with a good tune and a clear message stays with you long after you have seen the advert.

But now we live in a time where video advertising is not just for the corporate companies with large budgets as even very small businesses can create a short video and promote it on their website, and other online and social media channels.

This infographic shows just how large the Online Video market has become and who can benefit from it.

Source: https://magic.piktochart.com/output/5433120-benefits-of-online-video

Online Video in Edinburgh

At Rapid Visual Media we love creating high quality, inspiring videos for our clients.  If you would like to find out more about what we can do for you then please do not hesitate to get in touch.

We tell your story.

Douglas Walker, Rapid Visual Media

hello@rapidvisualmedia.co.uk

07813 988968

The Harmonium Project – Behind the Scenes with 59 Productions

Once again 59 Productions allowed us to film them at work.  This time we were given the opportunity to find out exactly what effort goes into creating a spectacular production for the Edinburgh International Festival. 

59 Productions were commissioned by the Edinburgh International Festival to create a brand new artwork to mark the opening of the 2015 festival and the 50^th anniversary of the Edinburgh Festival Chorus.  This was not a fairly simple case of filming the Edinburgh Festival Chorus performing John Adams’s choral work Harmonium, but it was to become an amazing piece of outdoor art.

They worked in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Design Informatics to create a piece of art that examines the effects singing has on both the performer and the listener.

A recording was made of Harmonium by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and the Edinburgh Festival Chorus conducted by Peter Oundjian and while it was being played projections were made on the Usher Hall to a very large audience.

To find out more about this remarkable event and the effort required to make it such a success please spend a few minutes watching our film.

Please contact me for further information about this video, our work, or what we can do for your organisation or company.

Douglas Walker

Rapid Visual Media

hello@rapidvisualmedia.co.uk

07813 988968

Design in Motion – V&A Museum of Design, Dundee

The V&A Museum of Design, Dundee will be an international centre of design for Scotland, however the planned opening is not until June 2018.  Until that time there will be a pre-opening programme of events.  Design in Motion is a collaboration with the Travelling Gallery; a custom-built, mobile, contemporary art space inside a big beautiful bus, which brings high quality contemporary art exhibitions and events to schools and communities throughout Scotland.  The bus has been upgraded and re-designed for the Design in Motion exhibition.

All the designers featured use digital technologies to push the boundaries of their discipline.  Design in Motion has visited over 40 schools and colleges across Scotland since February this year and ended the tour outside the Victoria & Albert Museum, London.

As part of this exciting project Rapid Visual Media were selected to create 3 films. 

Geoffrey Mann – Products in Motion

Geoffrey Mann is the Programme Director in Glass at Edinburgh College of Art.  His work has been exhibited around the world including The Museum of Modern Art in New York.  Mann is fascinated by transforming the ephemeral nature of time and motion, such as the flight of a bird or the fluttering of a moth, into forms that we can see and hold using photographic and digital technologies.   To learn more about his work and the man himself, please take time to watch our video.


V&A Design In Motion - Geoffrey Mann from Rapid Visual Media on Vimeo.

‘This is beautiful and amazing!! Thank you so much’.  Sarah Saunders - V&A Dundee

Sophia George – Games in Motion

Sophia George is a games designer and artist.  She is already an accomplished games designer and has won several awards including BAFTA Breakthrough Brit (2013).  Our film allows you to meet Sophia and learn all about the making of her Strawberry Thief game. 

 
Sophia George - Design In Motion from Rapid Visual Media on Vimeo.

Travelling Gallery – Design in Motion

Our final film provides the viewer with an insight into the Design in Motion project, how students and the public responded to the interactive gallery, the new technologies, and the skills of the 7 exciting Scottish designers.  The film also includes some stunning footage of the bus travelling around the beautiful Scottish countryside.

 
Travelling Gallery - Design in Motion from Rapid Visual Media on Vimeo.

Please contact me for further information about this video, our work, or what we can do for your organisation or company.

Douglas Walker, Rapid Visual Media

hello@rapidvisualmedia.co.uk

07813 988968 

St. Peter’s Seminary, Cardross

St. Peter’s Seminary in Kilmahew on the outskirts of Cardross was completed and consecrated in 1966.  It was used until the late 1980s but is now in a dilapidated state.  

This ruin has created great interest as it is considered to be one of the most important examples of modernist architecture in Scotland.  The architects Andy MacMillan and Isi Metzstein of Gillespie, Kidd and Coia won the RIBA royal gold medal for this building.

NVA has produced an ambitious scheme to reclaim the future of this world-renowned seminary complex and its surrounding Victorian designed landscape and woodlands.  Combining partial restoration, consolidation and new design, the plans will create unique performance and exhibition spaces and establish a place for public art and knowledge

exchange in the 21^st century.

We were delighted to have been chosen to produce a short film to highlight NVA's campaign for support that will see this unique and amazing landscape re-imagined for future generations to discover and delight in.

Please take a few minutes to watch our video: NVA - A Future Reclaimed 

"This packs quite a punch in its ten minutes. Thanks again for some really fine work."

Angus Farquhar - NVA

Please contact me for further information about this video, our work, or what we can do for your organisation or company.

Douglas Walker, Rapid Visual Media

hello@rapidvisualmedia.co.uk

07813 988968