Marketing communications - Chessington

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To help publicise special opening hours scheduled for the Christmas holidays, Chessington World of Adventures commissioned VisualMedia to take pictures of their new tiger cubs born at Chessington Zoo recently and their ever popular Gorillas. Great coverage was achieved in national newspapers and with the extended copyright licence, the shots can continue to be used for any marketing purpose.

Video - Various Projects

Video is a large part of what we do and in the last few weeks of 2006, assignments we were asked to undertake included:

		programme content for ABN Amro's Traded Markets TV channel
		Arriva's Chief Executive, David Martin as part of its induction programme
		Investcorp's investor relations' roadshow
		InterContinental Hotel Park Lane's refurbishment filmed over a period of time and cut together into a one-minute time lapse piece

Media relations - eBay

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Dudley man Chris Foxall paid £1,550 on eBay.co.uk to purchase a White Christmas for his family. SNO!Zone, the UK's premier indoor REAL snow slopes delivered 23 tonnes of snow to his house, along with decorations, lights, a snowman and a hamper of mince pies. eBay's PR agency, 77pr needed visuals to help sell-in the story and coverage was achieved in national newspapers on Boxing Day.

Aerial photography - Laing O'Rourke

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At 18:30 one Wednesday evening, we received a call from Madano Partnership asking for a proposed development site to be photographed from the air in time for Laing O'Rourke's Board meeting at 09:00 the following Monday. VisualMedia's crew 'flew into action' and by close of play on Friday, a 4' x 3' aerial photograph was printed, laminated and couriered to the client - "The answer's yes; now what's the question??

Corporate collateral - Sellotape

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With 6 million rolls of Sellotape sold in the run-up to Christmas, parent company Henkel wanted to make the most of their Dunstable production lines being in full swing. VisualMedia were commissioned to take photography of the production lines at all stages of the production process and the images were then used for PR and press purposes.

Annual reports - InterContinental Hotels Group

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Producing photography for the IHG annual report for the second year running, we flew a team of 4 (2 photographers, an assistant and art director) to Tokyo just before Christmas in order to take pictures of 5 key properties in the group's portfolio. The team are also in Boston, USA this week to do similar work and selected pictures will be used in the annual report. Others will be printed on canvas and hung in IHG's Windsor headquarters. (Pictures shown are from last year's assignment.)

Fashion - Everything But The Music

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With VisualMedia's retail clients including such names as Debenhams and Selfridges, online fashion company Everything But The Music knew we were best-placed to create images designed to attract the attention of fashion and business journalists. The clothing is inspired by rock acts and their fans with its website generating 200,000 hits last month alone!

And finally?

From 1 February, our business development director Diane Garfield is moving into a non-executive role leaving her free to explore some fresh challenges. We wish Diane all the best for the future and look forward to her continued involvement in VisualMedia as a valued consultant.