With an office and studios in Exeter, The Company provides television and video production to clients throughout, Devon and the rest of the UK. Established in 1993 the 'Company' has many years experience in the Film, Television and Video sector.

Pre-production services include scripting and story-boarding. Production delivers extensive filming and crewing. Post-production services include editing and mastering to uncompressed SD or HD for promotions and broadcast advertising. Authoring services include CD/DVD/Blu-ray for promos and retail.

The team at The Company delivers comprehensive digital media production solutions to businesses and television, which can be designed to suit any budget for the corporate, educational and broadcast sectors. With extensive studio crews and facilities, the business also has expert staff enabling clients to increase their revenue through DVD, internet and television marketing.

The Company truly is a one stop shop for production, from scripting through to filming, editing and delivery. The Company also provides a wide range of additional CD / DVD duplication services and marketing workflow for retail media products POS digital marketing systems.

With a large team of in house and freelance staff, enthusiastic crews, The Company has a highly respected long established group of, qualified broadcast proven and degree qualified colleagues working day in day out to provide competitive media workflow in this ever changing media landscape.

The Company

The Southwest Video, DVD & TV production company

No 1 Southernhay West, Exeter, Devon EX1 1JG

01392 495778

General Information

Here is some general data about our video, DVD formats and facilities based in Exeter, Devon The Southwest, Westcountry (West country) and the rest of England. Location: While we are a video production company in Exeter (called The Company), we have video, filming, duplication, editing and full production facilities in Exeter, Bristol, Birmingham and London. Generally our business centres around Exeter in the Southwest (south west) of Devon, England, UK. Production facilities; DVD authoring, Blu-ray authoring, corporate video production, digital video production, video post production, video production services, location lighting services, film and video production, promotional video production, video production for presentation screens in business, historic / historical video production generic to Exeter, Cameraman, freelance cameraman, lighting cameraman, video cameraman, camera crews, television cameraman, OB cameramen, tv cameraman, high definition ( hd ) crewing, video production formats inc. DVD & CD media production, dv, dvcam, digital betacam, betacam sp, hddvd, hd dvd, blu-ray, blue ray, blueray, blu-ray, hdv, hdcam, hdcam-sr, dvcpro hd, hd editing, hd, hdv, filming, grading, color. colour, 1080/60i, 1080/50i, 480/60i (NTSC), 576/50i (PAL), 1080/60i, 1080/50i, 480/60i (NTSC), 576/50i (PAL), 480/60p, 576/50p, HDW-750P, DVCAM, DVD, DVD-R, DVD+R, CD, CD-R, disc, disk

Services Page Content

R&D, Storyboards & scripting

Crewing and live transmission

DVD & Blu-ray production

Television acquisition, production and delivery

SD, HD, SR, Prime Lenses, tracking, cranes etc...

Advert and programme 'digital stream' delivery

News packages for SAT. uplink

Hi Def (true uncompressed 1080) video production

HD or SD Editing, grading, encoding and mastering

Easy to use client FTP portal

Blu-Ray, DVD and CD replication & packaging

Plus usual: Design and internet services

Team Page Content

The Company, founded by Rick Cresswell pioneered digital animation and authoring for many video businesses in the Southwest in the early 90s using Lightwave, Cinema 4D, D-Paint and Scala on the very same computer platforms used in the films Jurassic Park and Babylon 5.

After commissioned to set up many studios with this then new wave of technology Rick spent much of his spare part-time lecturing on BA and MA courses in Devon universities, colleges and Art Centres and helping PhD students with their media/art degrees. Seventeen years on The Company’s passionate team comprises a highly gifted, established crew of specialists in the creative arts, media and broadcasting; providing services from scriptwriting, through to filming, animation, editing, DVD authoring and television.

Reputation page content

“Rick Cresswell is 100% reliable, delivering content to us for five years now, never missing a deadline; naturally we continue to use him each year for sports broadcasting”.

Mark Tyler head of ITV Westcountry Sport

“Thanks for all your help with the Drakes Circus TV commercial:

Very impressive quality, and a proactive all encompassing service from brief through to broadcast. We have been most impressed and have enjoyed working with you”.

Stuart Devlin, Chalk & Ward Advertising

"Thanks for all your hard work I was really pleased with the result. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend you to others: a highly professional service, and flexible too!"

Gideon Bradshaw, Producer - BBC Science

“For a few years now we have used The Company to support tenders for six figure contracts, the success we have had so far gives us no reason to stop!”

Guy Eatherington – Pluss (Supplier to NHS & Social Services)

“We were so lucky to find The Company, skills, crew infrastructure and facilities seem endless delivering on time and in budget: Now we're on QVC TV and in major bookstores internationally”

Rob Rickard’s - Easy-read (world distributor).

“Thank you for making production such a pleasure and I look forward to working with you again in the future”.

David Mills, (Producer for Everyman and Panorama).

“Thanks for helping at such short notice - great job!”

Norman Lockhart - Who Wants to be a Millionaire: Celador

“I received the edit the next day, I am absolutely delighted with how it looks, it has given me a number of ideas for further development. Well done!”

Tracey Riseborourgh - Granada Learning: GL Assessment

Deals page content

Low budget filming, editing, video and DVD production, reduced for 2009

We carefully price and resource a massive range of skills sets, work-flows and equipment to create a bespoke and unbeatable offers in video and DVD production. In either standard or high definition for promotion education or advertising. All usable for web, DVD, blu-ray, television or cinema.

We can upgrade you a variety of formats for DVD, Blu-ray or Television like HDV, Digi Beta or HDCAM or add a range of different location equipment like Steadcam, track and dolly, jibs and an extensive range of sound and lighting kit from Red heads, Kino-flow up to HMIs. In addition we can modify the above 'low budget' deals in to larger director/producer led projects.

Show-reel page content

“Thanks for all your help with the Drakes Circus TV commercial:

Very impressive quality, and a proactive all encompassing service from brief through to broadcast. We have been most impressed and have enjoyed working with you”.

Stuart Devlin, Chalk & Ward Advertising

“Rick Cresswell is 100% reliable, delivering content to us for five years now, never missing a deadline; naturally we continue to use him each year for sports broadcasting”.

Mark Tyler head of ITV Westcountry Sport

"Thanks for all your hard work I was really pleased with the result. I wouldn't hesitate to recommend you to others: a highly professional service, and flexible too!"

Gideon Bradshaw, Producer - BBC Science

“For a few years now we have used The Company to support tenders for six figure contracts, the success we have had so far gives us no reason to stop!”

Guy Eatherington – Pluss (Supplier to NHS)

“We were so lucky to find The Company, skills, crew infrastructure and facilities seem endless delivering on time and in budget: Now we're on QVC TV and in major bookstores internationally”

Rob Rickard’s - Easy-read (world distributor).

“Thank you for making production such a pleasure and I look forward to working with you again in the future”.

David Mills, (Producer for Everyman and Panorama).

“Thanks for helping at such short notice - great job!”

Norman Lockhart - Who Wants to be a Millionaire Celador

“I received the edit the next day, I am absolutely delighted with how it looks, it has given me a number of ideas for further development. Well done!”

Tracey Riseborourgh - Granada Learning: GL Assessment

Contact page content

The Company,

No. 1 Southernhay West,

Exeter,

The Southwest,

Devon EX1 1JG. UK.

Exeter: +44(0)1392 495778

London: +44(0)1392 203511

Mobile: +44(0)7976 870132

Email: info@theco.co.uk

Exeter Studio

Southernhay - Exeter City Centre

Office, studio and edit facilities.

Bristol Post-Production

Ashton

Office & edit facilities.

London Consultation

St. Martin's Le Grand

Office & meeting facilities.

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