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Over a decade and a half of Production Service and dedicated support for all film, stills and other image based projects. In that time, as our client list shows, many ways of working, many cultures, many energies have passed through our doors. Competition is the basis of everything we do, and we are happy to compete with our peers and aim to give our clients everything they need to compete with theirs, based on fast feedback, thorough research, and workable solutions. Life is complicated enough without unexpected surprises on set, our realistic cost estimates protect margins and mark-ups and, where necessary, we offer creative alternatives and negotiate deals to make the production fit the budget.
From the "get go" we aim to give directors a solid creative base from which to work, to supply producers with thorough and well thought out budgets and to treat each project as though it were our own. Having been tried and tested, we are confident in our and our crew's abilities, and know that successful projects are based on the solid foundations of preparation and dialogue. We are an established enthusiastic and ready-made production team based in Cape Town able to provide full service for shoots all over Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean Islands, from prep to post our service is aimed to dovetail production as an integrated process giving the best and most creative value for your budgetary needs. |
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TWENTY10, 20-TEN, or 2010 ?
On 14th February, Valentine's Day, the Chinese Calendar marks the day the Year of the Ox gives way to the New Year of the Tiger. Yin moves to Yang, its opposite. Shade becomes light. What was hidden, becomes visible. What was latent, becomes dynamic. What was still, starts to flow. Yeaay! read more » |
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HAIR TODAY, ON AIR TOMORROW!
An intricate and beautiful concept for Shiseido out of Japan; wrangled African wildlife (zebras and eland), more stunning locations, savannah and desert dunes; researched and selected across five African countries but ultimately shot closer to home in Namibia and South Africa. read more » |
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DOUBLE VISION.
Our constant aim at The Network is to build and strengthen relationships, paying attention to each individual. It is particularly heartening when people, who started out as clients, return as friends. Heightened levels of trust and familiarity always reflect well in the finished product when everyone, involved, has taken a personal interest in the success of a project. read more » |
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FILM GODS.
Some years it's banks, others cars and this past year, perhaps to underscore some of the sagest financial advice ever given, "buy land, son, they ain't making any more of it", we have seen a substantial number of television commercials for real estate and ambitious construction projects being shot through The Network in the Cape, with clients from Hong Kong, Dubai and Saudi Arabia. read more » |
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FIRE AND ICE.
The Network, Cape Town and Saga Film, Rekyavik recognize that their production service competence, in different disciplines and from different backgrounds offer any would be client an extremely wide range of possibilities, techniques and locations. Like minded producers with over-lapping skill sets pooling their knowledge to provide a range of awe inspiring possibilities. Having worked with many clients from all over the world, The Network and Saga provide producers with a vast resource of contacts and opportunities for research well beyond the Locations on offer. |
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MIDDLE EASTERN PROMISE - MASHALLAH!
In the past year our knowledge and familiarity with the Middle Eastern Region (GCC) has increased exponentially, a production team lead by Duncan Robson, and Keith Shirlaw spent six months researching and travelling around Saudi Arabia for the Mobily Mobile Telecommunications Network. Ultimately 16 x 40sec landscape films and 5x 45sec 'people' films involving Saudi locals, were shot 120,000 kms were covered by their convoy of 10 Landcruisers and 2 Equipment trucks. read more » |
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TROPICAL FOOTPRINT - MEDIA NEWS.
Hard on the heels of the arrival in Cape Town of the ARRIFLEX D-21 and D-21HD at Media Film Service (MFS) comes news that they have opened a branch in Mauritius to service some of the most exotic tropical locations in the Indian Ocean. Media Film Service is closely linked to ARRI in Munich and fully supported by ARRIMEDIA in London. The Network is proud to have had a close working relationship with Media Film Service in Cape Town since it was established in 2000. MFS now has branches in Cape Town, Durban, Johannesburg and Mauritius where the emphasis is on world class up to the minute technology and service, in camera, lights, and grips.
For more information on Media Film Service click here » |
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