Our films support Hall Hunter Partnership

Our videos for the Hall Hunter Partnership are helping to bring their new website alive.

Just take a look at their stunning new web design by clicking here

From humble beginnings, when were were asked to produce a simple short film, highlighting the work of one of Britain’s leading soft fruit growers, who supply most of the UK’s leading supermarkets, including Waitrose, Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s…we are now partnering with them on everything from recruitment videos to supermarket presentations.

Open Farm Sunday is another area where we have helped their business to promote their role in the local community and recently, during the Covid-19 pandemic, we featured some of the new UK pickers who had joined the business while on the furlough scheme.

Hall Hunter is a family owned business and has a much respected role in their local communities, working alongside schools and charities to ensure that they operate a sustainable corporate social responsibility programme in the areas where their farms are situated and beyond.

 

Sri Lanka Award winner features on BBC

Congratulations to Sri Lankan veterinarian, Dr. Tharanga Thoradeniya for being asked to feature on the BBC’s World Service after they saw her featured in one of our latest videos.

Dr. Thoradeniya was named as one of the winners of the 2020 World Veterinary Association Global Animal Welfare Awards, supported by our clients, Ceva Animal Health.

The Awards celebrate veterinarians, veterinary technicians, student and vet colleges from around the world for going ‘above and beyond’ in the field of animal welfare over the previous 12 months.

After the video we made in Sri Lanka, went live on social media this week, Dr. Thoradeniya was contacted by a correspondent from the BBC’s World Service, asking to feature open their news programmes. We look forward to hearing her interview but if you would like to see her in action:

Click here to see our video report:

Australian veterinarian scoops 2020 Global Welfare Award

Professor Paul McGreevy shortly after receiving his medal at the University of Sydney

Congratulations to Professor Paul McGreevy who is the Australian winner of a 2020 World Veterinary Association Animal Welfare Award, supported by our clients, Ceva Animal Health.

We filmed Paul at his beautiful Hunter Valley home in New South Wales, Australia, for this year’s awards. The filming was completed before the Covid-19 lockdowns were introduced and this Autumn we put together a dynamic online awards ceremony which highlighted all the winners of the 2020 Awards.

Paul is one of Australia’s leading veterinarians and advises many different groups including the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Australia). He has been working with the group on the use of the whip in Australian horse racing. Horses are close to Paul’s heart and during our visit to the Hunter Valley we were able to film him with several of his own horses and use our drone camera to capture him on horseback in his own dressage arena which is on his homestead plot.

Here’s the film we made in Australia:

New Podcast

Our podcasts are proving popular and illustrate another dimension to our business.

Our roots in broadcasting for BBC Radio and Television mean we are experienced interviewers and it’s been great to get to some long format broadcasting on a variety of different subjects.

 

Our latest podcast highlights previous winners of the World Veterinary Association Global Welfare Awards to tie in with this year’s event. As you will see from this website, we are running a series of video reports highlighting the winners of the 2020 awards.

You can access the Ceva Sounds podcasts on any of your normal podcast platforms or simply:

click here

Enjoy

Volition RX – Capital Markets Day video

We helped our client Volition RX, a multi-national epigenetics company developing simple, easy to use, cost effective blood tests to help diagnose a range of cancers and other diseases in both humans and animals, to stage their Capital Markets Day by generating a dynamic video presentation.

To see the video, click here

Volition CEO, Cameron Reynolds at the Wall Street Stock Exchange

The presentation focused on new data and the launch and commercial roll out of the company’s first product, the Nu.Q™ Vet Cancer Screening Test, which is on target for a launch this year. The presentation also provided an update on recent developments and Volition’s activities, including new and ongoing clinical trials in blood cancer.

Commenting on the event Cameron Reynolds, President and Chief Executive Officer of Volition said, “We were delighted to host a busy virtual capital markets event yesterday and would like to thank all of those that joined the event live. This is an exciting time for the company as we prepare for the launch of the Nu.Q™ Vet Cancer Screening Test later this year. I am equally delighted to share a video of the presentation and Analyst Question and Answer session so that those unable to attend can view in their own time.”

We have been partnering with Volition for several years and work with them to produce their regular financial results.

2020 Global Welfare Awards – big success despite Covid-19

We were so proud to work with the World Veterinary Association and our clients, Ceva Animal Health, to successfully stage the 4th Global Animal Welfare Awards, celebrating veterinarians, veterinary technicians, students and the Vet College of the Year.

Despite the onset of Covid-19 lockdowns were were able to film all of the winners on five different continents and thanks to our colleague, Colin Dames of the South Africa-based company, Digineering , we were able to bring you the winner from that country too.

The original awards were planned to take place at the WVA’s Congress, in Auckland, New Zealand, which had to be cancelled because of the pandemic. We therefore edited all the films and opened to launch the virtual ceremony as part of the WVA’s global webinar on the effects of Covid-19 on the veterinary profession.

It was a big success and you can see the ‘ceremony here – watch out for our videos highlighting the individual winners which are being released on various social media outlets in coming weeks.

Volition RX update

As our client Volition RX, listed on the New York Stock exchange, gets closer to producing a simple blood test for cancer keeping investors abreast of key developments has been vital.   Good Call Media’s studio has ensured that we could keep producing our regular financial quarterly bulletins but we have also been busy with other regular news
updates.

For example Volition presented three abstracts at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) 2020 annual meeting with three films produced to accompany each
paper.  

To see one of the films  a short video produced to accompany the lung cancer abstract click here:

And with a growing German investor audience all our quarterly results films can now be seen with German subtitles. 

Second Quarter 2020 Results and Business Update from Volition on Vimeo.

Socially distanced interim results

We created a socially distanced studio in the offices of UK company XP Power to help them announce their 2020 interim financial results.

Socially distanced studio for XP Power results

XP Power’s Vietnam production facility

CEO Duncan Penny told us that “Conditions have been unprecedented and challenging and we’re really pleased with what we have done…

XP have manufacturing sites in China and Vietnam but despite the Chinese factory being shut down at the end of January, February and the beginning of March the company managed to keep their products going out.   

“The guys in the supply chain have done a remarkable job actually getting product to customers and keeping things moving in this difficult period”.

As a supplier of products for 60 different ventilator products Covid has brought XP benefits and  demand on the healthcare side of the business has been strong. Click here to see the results interview.

XP Power units are used in hospital ventilators

Volition developing Covid-19 triage test

Our client Volition RX may soon be helping in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic.

Excitingly Volition have discovered that the patented technology behind their cancer tests may well also be used to develop a COVID-19 Triage test.  It is hoped that this test will tell doctors if a patient with Covid is likely to go on and develop serious symptoms or complications.  Further trials are continuing with the aim of producing a CE-marked product for this by the end of 2020. 

We have been helping them update their investors and the world at large about the possible breakthrough.

Commenting on the results, corresponding author Professor Stefan Holdenrieder, Director of the Institute of Laboratory Medicine, German Heart Center, Munich, Germany said, “We tested two independent cohorts of COVID-19 positive patients with quantitative nucleosome immunoassays and found that nucleosomes were highly elevated in plasma of severe COVID-19 patients relative to healthy control subjects and that both histone 3.1 variant and citrullinated nucleosomes increased with disease severity. Given that the highest levels of nucleosomes were found in patients requiring artificial ventilation or extracorporeal oxygenation, we believe that nucleosomes could serve as a guiding biomarker for disease severity in COVID-19 positive patients.”

Cameron Reynolds, Chief Executive Officer of Volition commented, “Nu.QTM has shown correlation with more severe COVID-19 cases implying strong prognostic potential, and we are now focused on the completion of larger longitudinal studies that would be needed to support a potential COVID-19 product launch. If we continue to see positive results in these longitudinal studies, we aim to have a CE-marked product available on multiple platforms in 2020 and will look to launch a low-cost product that could be used in any laboratory worldwide as soon as possible thereafter.”

To read more about it and see our film click here.

Videos for pitches

We’ve noticed an increased demand for our dynamic videos to support online pitching for new business during the Covid-19 period.

Online pitching is a very different medium

Video assets are a useful tool for presenters

We are limited in the amount of detail we can give about these assignments because presenting for new business is obviously a sensitive and confidential area but we have had an extremely positive response to the work we have carried out so far. We can say that the latest assignment involved a series of bespoke videos for presentations by a client to some of the UK’s leading supermarkets, including Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer and Waitrose.

In addition we have also seen requests for videos to explain plans for new business growth and building developments for presentations to planning authorities and interested groups locally.

“The increased amount of working from home and the limits on face to face meetings means some presenters feel restricted by the limitations of Zoom or Google Hangouts,” said Good Call Media co-owner, Fiona Molloy. Having a carefully targeted video that covers all the points of a presentation can be a useful addition to a pitcher’s toolbox and it can show the audience areas that they cannot normally see from a traditional presentation.”

Once a video has been shot, it is often a simple process to make small edits to bespoke the film for different outcomes. While video can never replace the role of the human presenter it can clearly complement their presentation and help to win valuable new business.