Compass Video winning SME News award
Compass Video are winning an award from SME NEWS UK 2020 ENTERPRISE AWARDS for Best Digital Content Production and Training Company. SME News is a quarterly digital publication aimed at those who own, run or assist in the running of small and medium-sized businesses...
Compass Video delivering free training for local businesses
Compass Video has been asked to deliver a series of free training online workshops for Mendip and Dorset council. Compass Video has developed a series of training packages to help our clients to keep pace with the new content demands that are expected of modern...
Compass Video is committed to being COVID-19 Safe
Compass Video is committed to being COVID-19 Safe As part of our continued commitment to operating as safely as possible during the COVID-19 pandemic, Keith has completed the Scree Skills, Coronavirus basic awareness on production training course. The Scree Skills...
COVID 19 UPDATE Safe Sets™️ Certificate
Compass Video's Covid 19 Update - We have been awarded Safe Sets™️ Certification from Safe Sets™️ International to ensure we can keep our team and yours safe when we are filming on your premises The Safe Sets Certification is offered by Safe Sets International and...
Upskill your Staff or Team with Compass Video
Compass Video can help you ‘Upskill your Staff or Team’ and create your own content Compass Video regularly deliver Smartphone Video Training workshops. We also offer YouTube Channel Management, Open Source Software tutorials (how to edit video and images) and...
Motion Infographic Animation
Now is the time to create Engaging Motion Infographic Animation to keep in touch with your audience Auditory, visual and sensorial means are the three ways we process information, with visual being the most effective. The human brain can process an image quicker than...
Google EAT and YMYL
Google EAT and YMYL Have you heard the term E.A.T? Do you know how this affects your SEO? These are important new changes that Google has unleashed that will affect how your business ranks online. If you’re sharing information on a subject, particularly...
Top Tips For Social Media Video Content
Top Tips for social media video content The ever-changing content marketing landscape means that you can not afford to rely solely on photography to get the attention of your audience anymore. YouTube is the internets second biggest search engine and...
Top interview tips for your video project
our Top interview tips Research & preparation Good research is the key to getting a great interview. Anticipate what direction you’d like the interview to go – do research on your interviewee and be well versed on the interview’s subject matter. Though your...
Compass Video can help you win Business Awards
Compass Video can help you win Business Awards ! Get an advantage over your competitors Is your organisation a leader in customer service? Are you a innovative leader? Perhaps you are a great employer or a successful entrepreneur? No matter what your business...
Do you want to know how to improve internal communications?
Would you like to know how to improve internal communications? Compass Video can help you be more engaging and deliver more results. Also, we can help you save money utilising digital media effectively in your training plans and internal communication campaigns....
Compass Video supports a Charity Event
Event Photography for a Charity Event Somerset Chamber are hosting its 13th Annual Charity Golf Day in to raise funds for charity We Hear You. Compass Video are proud to sponsor ‘The Longest Drive’ and support the Charity Event with photography. We are also offering a...
Putting Google Earth Studio Footage against Drone Footage Side by Side – A bit of fun
Since the release of Google Earth Studio there has been a lot of content made. We previously posted about the launch here. As we were out and about using a drone over Somerset for a client project, we thought that we would compare footage. See what you think? If...
Compass Video to deliver services to film, live stream and post-production for TEDx Sherborne 2019
Compass Video to deliver services to film, live stream and post-production for TEDxSherborne 2019 Compass Video will work with TEDxSherborne (with some help from budding young videographers at local schools) to capture, edit and upload our 16 amazing speakers onto the...
Tap to advance – The rise of vertical storytelling
Vertical Storytelling is here. Google has predicted that in 2019, on average, users will spend more time online than in front of the television. Much of this time will be spent viewing online videos via mobile devices in a vertical format. This means websites will...
We love Google Earth Studio for flyover drone video
Would you like some drone video for your internal communication or newsletters? Google has released Google Earth Studio for you to try and we thought we would try it out with some beautiful flyovers of some of Somerset’s best-known landmarks. If you would like to chat...
Top reasons why creating video from your event is important
YouTube is the second largest search engine on the web, which says a lot about what people are looking for. Therefore, while video marketing may be something you are thinking of doing eventually, you should consider making it part of the plan sooner rather...
Compass Video teaches Film & TV at Wiltshire College
Compass Video is delighted to announce that Company Director, Keith Seward, has taken up a part-time lecturing post at Wiltshire College this year. Bringing to the table his expertise and extensive experience in filmmaking and video production, Keith will...
New Way of Working with Video for 2019 – Internal Communications
The Status Quo Imagine you are head of HR at an enterprise sized company and you want to inspire your employees. In 2019, you have many ways to do this especially if you are lucky enough that your company has embraced video technology. Services like Yammer and Slack...
Infographic – What is a video view on social media
"YouTube has shifted its focus away from the number of "views" that a video attracts to overall "watch time". Video-makers are now encouraged to produce longer videos that keep viewers on the platform for longer." BBC When checking your video analytics, have you ever...
More Smartphone Video Training Feedback
We are delighted with the recent Smartphone Filming Training feedback we have been getting from our recent trainees who have been attending our courses. So much so that we even remembered to record them for posterity. So a huge thank you to www.lovesail.com...
Unleash the power of your smartphone to make videos
As you must be aware by now, most of us carry a pretty serious piece of camera equipment in your pocket. That is unless you are worried about the gamma rays and Bluetooth frying your innards. Your smartphone gives you access to a load of features...
Manufacturing video production ideas
As we all know the manufacturing industry in the UK is pretty unique and something to be savoured by all. With a history of making high-end products in our own backyard, sometimes we can be the envy of the world. As such we as a country must ensure we promote...
Fabulous feedback from the NHS
Last week the team from Compas Video was at Dorset County Hospital training the communications department, showing them how to make the most out of their smartphones to create video content. The attendees included staff from the comms team, Human Resources and Charity...
We love client feedback – Google Review
Our latest video production, to promote the sixth form at the Gryphon School in Sherborne has received some great feedback. none more so than Holly, the Marketing Manager. "We are delighted with the first video Compass has produced for the school, so much so that we...
Infographic – 5 Reasons you should be using video for you internal communications
School Promotional Video – Working with Students
Last week we completed our first School Promotional Video on behalf of the Gryphon School in Sherborne. It proved to be a really exciting project for us as a company, not just the chance to try something new but to put into practice our theory about a different way of...
How to get a transcription of you video from YouTube for FREE
In order to get the most mileage from your videos, you want to ensure that they can be found in search results. One of the simplest ways to do this is to ensure the description is as completely filled in as possible. Rather than spend a long time thinking about what...
Compass Video win video tender to work with the NHS
We are very excited to announce a new partnership with The Dorset Care Record to film their latest video concerning the consent options for the Dorset Care Record. We were awarded the tender against stiff competition at the end of last week and will begin filming as...
How to remove suggested videos when YouTube video finishes?
When you embed a video onto your website, it can get quite annoying at the end when YouTube shows suggested videos to your viewer that take them away from your website. It has long been a headache of mine and one I thought needed a complicated coding solution. Well,...
Video Marketing – Golden rules of adding your corporate video to YouTube
Using video for marketing? There are now 1.5 Billion Youtube users, that is now equivalent to over a third of all internet users alone (source: Techcrunch). Topping that stat is the 300 hours of video being uploaded every minute by users. Yes, that makes Youtube both...
How to add your own subtitles to your YouTube Videos
Useful YouTube Tools Did you know that YouTube has a lot of very useful tools that you can use for free? One of these is the ability to add your own subtitles to your video. If you did not know this already YouTube creates a transcript of your video for you (i'll deal...
Apples and Pigs – Compass Video Join Visit Somerset as Official Video Partner
We are delighted to announce that Compass Video have just become members of what we consider to be one of the South West's greatest local championing organisations, "Visit Somerset". The Somerset Tourism Association (Visit Somerset) is a Community Interest Company,...
Our Top 5 Talking Head Corporate Videos
In this blog, we want to share with you a Top 5 Talking Head Videos list of 5 corporate videos that feature talking heads that we think are great Probably the oldest format of a corporate video is to have one person talking directly to the camera without any other...
5 Reasons you should embrace video for your corporate communications
If you are looking to making a step change in your corporate comms to video then we have some evidence that may help you persuade you or your budget holder to get a wiggle on. As part of our own education we have spent hundreds of man-hours trying to understand just...
Improve your internal communications with video
Using video for your internal communications will save your company time, money and improve the performance your employees. Is there anything you would like to hear more than those words if you are an employee engagement manager, other than will you marry me or you...
Free Tracking Tools for your Video Marketing
Measuring the ROI of your Content The need to ensure you aren't wasting time, effort and money with your marketing is essential and being able to measure your success or failure even more so. Before the advent of marketing automation, tracking your outbound efforts...
We love working with the NHS
Over the past year, we have been helping different trusts achieve their communications goals with the use of video. The NHS is as we all know a huge organisation, at last count, it was the 8th biggest employer in the world. That is behind the likes of the US Defence...
5 Golden Rules of Permission for Corporate Video Production
We are half way through summer now and you are starting to create your marketing plan for the September to Christmas period. Hopefully, August allows you a little fresh air and time to breathe, while your customers are on their holidays. So what better time to...
Video Lets you Pitch Perfect Every Time
Video as a sales tool in the sales process Let us assume your company has a team of sales people around the globe, these might be direct employees, partners or part of a distribution network. Whatever the channel they will all be required to deliver a...
Internal Communication and Customer Feedback Videos
Today we were booked to attend a customer feedback event for a client in the north of England. This was more of a forum than your traditional corporate event, with a round table setting. Our customer informing their clients of what's' happening to their product and...
Customer Reference Video – Make it personal
We get approached by a lot of companies that want to use video to create customer reference stories. The majority of these have been using more traditional methods like written case studies and infographics, they now want to take it a step further. The only hold up...
How to Match your Video Content to your Buyer Personas
Video is no longer the emerging trend in digital marketing, it is now the must have piece of content for all serious marketers. If you want to improve the engagement levels of your website creating video content is one of the best ways forward. There are of course so...
How to Improve Employee Engagement Using Video
Successful employee engagement is one of the dark arts of the business world. Known by few, hidden from many, it can, however, have the biggest impact on your staff and therefore your customer. We are lucky to have met a few of the more senior members of this...
Quick Guide to Running a Succesful Customer Reference Programme
Where is the best place to find new customers? We think it will be your current customers and if you agree then we have created this quick guide to help you get the most from your current customers. Goal Setting Before you move any further, we should select a goal/s...
Storytelling – The Rule of Three
The Rule of Three If there is a single guiding principle for storytelling that has been around for millennia it has to be the rule of three. Did you know this? If not then let's start at the beginning, move to the middle and finish with the end. OK, that may be too...
We Love Customer Video Feedback
We asked our latest training client The Royal Bournemouth Hospital what they thought of our Mobile Phone Video Training Day. Here's what they said. If you would like to find out more about our training days, contact us today.
Why Customer Reference Videos are Awesome
Customer Reference Videos You may be considering how and why you should be creating a series (or just one) of customer reference videos for your company. The "how" is a little more complicated than the "why" but if you need help with you ideos or just some...