Although we’ve had an enjoyable break from the discos and live events, Sounds Fishy have still been busy since Christmas working on corporate video presentations. We made two motion graphic driven videos for an international, FTSE100 company to be used this week at their big meeting in Milan.. and also created Spanish, German and French translations of a training support video for one of the World’s biggest aircraft manufacturers.

For the motion graphics videos we worked with an amazing Voice Over artist and not only produced the entire “movie trailer” style soundtrack – but also created the key animations to bring the video to life and really capture that movie trailer theme.

More corporate sound work is coming up for us too.. we’re looking forward to working with the UK’s biggest theme park to update all the guest information audio for the monorails and cable cars.

Thanks to Julie, The Wedding Genie, for another great wedding at Wroxall Abbey – full write up and pictures.. here

Last Sunday the sounds Fishy team installed our state of the art sound and lighting system in The Hamilton Suite at Drayton Manor. Toby & Katie won a free wedding with Heart 100.7 and we were asked to supply the disco for the evening celebrations. Dan, and all his team at Drayton Manor were great to work with and it was a great night.. even for a ‘school night’ !

Last week the Sounds Fishy team were down in Windsor working on a corporrate video for a FTSE250 international company. As well as the shoot, we completed the edit and are delivering the finished product in 12 different subtitle languages including Chinese, Korean, Spanish and German.

Working with Sarah our makeup artist, and an autocue/prompt system we shot the video in just a couple of hours.. here’s some behind the scenes pics…

That’s not a set… that’s the real Royal Windosr Castle in the background!

We’ve made marryoke style wedding videos.. like this and this but here’s a video that’s a little different – shot on the wedding day, we then tracked in a selection of the official photos to create a giant “ipdad” to be passed amongst the wedding guests !

You can view the video by clicking here

Have a look below at a selection of photos in video form from the last few months of Sounds Fishy activity..

Blimey.. I’m a little behind on updates.. August has been crazy busy.. and September is looking the same. Not that any of us at Sounds Fishy are complaining, it’s all good fun – it just makes it hard to get around to things like updating the website !

So, at the start of August it was our great pleasure to provide the evening entertainment for Sarah and George at The Granary.
Sarah used to work at Heart FM with me, as a roadshow dancer. Sarah, not me. I can’t dance at all. That’s why I dJ.
Anyway, Sarah worked on the Heart roadshows many years ago.. and wanted to have the same team that handled the heart roadshow provide all the equipment and expertise for her wedding… and here is what she said on our Facebook page.. after the celebrations…

Ian, It was absolutely amazing! We had a wonderful day, and the evening was just fantastic. Thank you so much for playing fab music all night, for making the room pink! For creating a fab atmosphere, and for playing the roadshow classics. I did say before the wedding, if people wanted to speak to me on the night they would find me on the dance floor. I didn’t lie did I?! I do have a slightly sore hip from all the dancing and swirling of my dress! But it was so worth it. Thank you so much again! xxxxx

The wedding was, as should be expected by anybody who knows Sarah, pink themed and with a princess & castle fairytale wedding cake.. so we used our intelligent lighting system to light the whole of the room up in a deep pink as the guests walked in, and for the first dance. Sarah never left the dancefloor all night, from first dance through to a special “last dance” moment to Take That’s “Never Forget”.
We should have some photos from Sarah and a full review very soon.

It’s a busy time for the Sounds Fishy team at the moment ! Right now we’re having lots of building, electrical & IT work done at HQ making our edit and office factilites even more efficient – but that means that whilst the tradesmen are in, all the kit has to be packed up and dust sheeted to keep it safe. SO.. in addition to working on some cool parties and events the rest of our time is spent trying to find all the things we packed away under a fine layer of plaster dust, and a not so fine layer of rubble, cable cut offs, power tool batteries and lots and lots of empty mugs.

We recently worked at The Granary for Sarah & George’s wedding… Sarah sent us a great message on Facebook the very next day, and we’re hoping to have a testimonial from her once she comes back from the honeymoon.

Our advice is getting picked up and passed on… which is great ! The latest to do so are.. english-wedding.com

Without doubt, the question we get asked first.. and most often is….
“What’s the cost ?” Not really suprising.

For people who understand the importance of high production values, reliability and a great reputation our answer usually doesn’t pose a problem! But for the people who got their other quote from “Shaky’s Good Time Roadshow”* … the answer can be something of a shock. So here’s how I attempt to put the cost of professional entertainment into context… in this example… for a wedding reception…

Based on the quotes you’ve had from DJ’s .. calculate the cost per head for your evening entertainment.
What’s the cost per head for your evening buffet ?
Out of those two things… which is the part of the day that guests look forward to, remember and talk about.. ?
Out of those two things… which is responsible for entertaining your guests for the longest time… ?

I could go on.. but most people have got it by now ! With about 100 guests, at the sort of venues we are normally booked for, we cost about half what the buffet costs. And that seems like really good value…. although we’re not as tasty as a good bacon roll.

If you’re looking for some budgeting help… get some free advice from a professional.. you’ll find loads of info over at The Wedding Genie

*no similarity to real persons intended.