Case Studies

Vidal Sassoon is more than a hairdresser - he created styles that defined a generation. Craig Teper's film charts the career of the man who invented the bob-cut and, over the course of more than fifty years, created one of the most recognisable brands in the beauty business.

Royal Submarine Navy Mission followed life on board the Hunter Killer submarine, HMS Turbulent, as it travelled from the UK, via the conflict in Libya and the Suez Canal, to take up its role as the UK’s only platform for Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles in the troubled waters of the Middle East, as its crew spent 10 months away from their families, isolated underwater in a vessel bristling with hardware but seriously short of space.

This month the DAVE TV channel in the UK will see the appearance of Driving Wars, a clever twist on the car genre as remotely positioned drivers allowed general mayhem to happen to the vehicles. Making the remote interface work needed very low latency and the very latest receiver technology. For Driving Wars Procam provided a crew of four (two minicam technicians and two camera assistants) and a broad range of camera equipment including: minicams, five Sony HXR MC1P and two HXR MC50P covering the events, four MC50s inside the cars and six GoPro cameras for effect shots dotted around on the stunt vehicles, on the sets and with the drivers.

Billed as the exciting new face of British street magic Dynamo, aka magician Steve Frayne, is an unassuming illusionist with a talent for amazing everyone he meets, including the odd Hollywood celebrity. Now everyone can see the 28-year-old's jaw-dropping stunts thanks to a new four part series from Phil Mcintyre TV.

Constructed reality shows are all the rage on some of the UK's most prominent digital channels, following the success of ITV3's The Only Way Is Essex. Now its series producer Sarah Dillistone has come up with a new show focusing on the opposite end of the social scale. Made in Chelsea is an eight parter for E4 which profiles the lives and loves of an elite international set of socialites, Russian oligarchs, young heirs and wealthy playboys who comprise the Chelsea set.