Shot Blast Media Vlog

During 2022, we worked on some phenomenal projects, with some incredible clients! Our team at Shot Blast Media are so proud to be able to share these favourite video projects with you in this blog! Towards the middle of 2022, we produced a brilliant corporate brand launch video for Swift Fibre Yorkshire. Swift Fibre is a telecommunications and broadband company, and the video showcases their new business launch in the rural Yorkshire area. We also worked on a corporate video project with Ardagh Glass Packaging during 2022, showing the businesses sustainability strategy. Shot Blast Media used exciting graphics, as well as video shots on their site, to show their fully recyclable glass. A project that we really enjoyed working on was the football World Cup themed subscription video for Foregale. Byron Sheldon, our camera operator and editor for subscription videos, shot and edited this project on their site in Leeds, and it’s a charming promotional video to showcase ...

​​What and when is National Popcorn Day? National Popcorn Day is a celebration held on January 19th every year. It is a day dedicated to celebrating the delicious snack that has been around for centuries.  The holiday was created to recognise the history and cultural importance of popcorn and to encourage people to enjoy it in all its forms.  The history of popcorn is incredibly interesting. It dates back to ancient times, as early as 5,000 BC, and is believed to have originated in Mexico and Peru, where it was used as a food source by the indigenous people. Popcorn was also popular in Europe during the Middle Ages, and it eventually made its way across the world. Today, popcorn continues to be a popular snack enjoyed by people from all walks of life. From movie nights with friends, to family game night, popcorn can be enjoyed in many different ways.  What else do we associate popcorn with? Popcorn is often used as a metaphor for suspense or excitement, or eve...

Promotional marketing video content is so important for businesses today.  So much content that we see is video, meaning that if you have a video produced for your company, it needs to stand out from the crowd. This type of video is all about creating a ‘movement’ and engagement in your brand. Themed around a topic this video should educate and inspire. This type of video should engage the viewer and make them central to the story to ensure your message has maximum impact. Marketing and promotional videos should use good emotional storytelling techniques, to help start good conversations and engagement in the brand. But how do you make a stand out marketing video? The first step is to find out what your audience wants to see. What could bring them value? Then, you need to create a story that your audience will be emotionally invested in. If there are no emotional aspects to the film, and the audience feel like it isn’t relatable for them, they won’t enjoy it. You need...

Shot Blast Media provides a video production subscription service that means we create unique video content for businesses every month. With our video subscription package, you will gain memorable and effective videos, based on unique ideas to represent your business and brand. Our new video production subscription service works best for short promotional marketing content and internal communications topics that can be packaged into 60-90 seconds. But how do we create these exciting videos every month? Our simple template structure makes commissioning monthly video very simple: STEP ONE: Decide and plan when you’d like our filmmaker to come to site for that month. STEP TWO: Agree with us the focus for the video that month and supply us with your brand assets, including logos, fonts and brand colours. STEP THREE: Capture the footage on site. Either filming sound bites or b-roll or both. STEP FOUR: Edit the footage together in a short video and supply a first draft. STEP FI...