BearJam Video Production Company | December 2022 Vlog

right what is that John says look busy well Tristan you're just on your phone in the back got quite dry lips what was I gonna say maybe I should have written this in advance can you edit that Louie okay welcome to the latest bear Jam Vlog and as you can see from the Christmas jumper it is of course December it's the year end and to do something a little bit different I thought I'd do a year-end wrap-up I've asked the team to send me questions um which I've got here let's get into it question one what's been your biggest highlight of the year the Highlight for me was when we launched the the new look bear Jam website um hopefully you've all seen it it's awesome it looks great it's really well built but the website for me is kind of the tip of the iceberg of the transformation Journey that bear Jam's been on this year in 2022 going live with the website was definitely the moment where it felt like okay we've done it mission accomplished let's look forward now get back out there and do more great works I think that was a real highlight for me I can't wait to see what 2023 will bring next question favorite podcast of 2022 I really enjoyed the um the missing crypto Queen on BBC sounds but my kind of go-to favorite um podcast series is forgot what it's called now caution it's called cautionary tales and it's it's about real life kind of catastrophes and disasters that kind of retold and you can kind of take a lesson from those which is it's really interesting I definitely recommend that next up favorite film or TV show so I normally go for kind of documentaries um in terms of like my first choice of film but my kind of favorite film or favorite film moment of 2022 was going to go and see sing too because I took my daughter she's three it's the first time she's been to the cinema so we had a really lovely moment watching that together until I uh concentration run out about an hour in and I was like pretty Keen to stay and finish it I couldn't have got through 2022 without dot dot dot all right so for this one I have to of course it's a bit cheesy say the bear Jam Team without them obviously we couldn't do the work that we do do um as part of the the transformation that we've been on this year we've grown the team which has been great got new capabilities and so much talent in-house which I'm really really proud of good point to segue that um filming this two days before our Christmas party [Music] what are your top three projects one that we've just finished was a um a flagship webinar for Knight Frank called the European breakfast which was a big production for us it involved with a huge Studio shoot day a trip to Paris to shoot a VT over there I had to build loads and loads of Graphics to play on screens during the the presentations why it's kind of in my top three um it's because it kind of like signifies some of the growth that bear Jam has been on we've been working with Knight Frank for um for 10 years now believe it or not and when I look back at some of the first projects we did for them to that European breakfast which was a really kind of glossy production it makes me really proud it kind of shows the the growth and the journey that um that we've been on as a business and bear jams um you know been able to go on that makes sense I can't do three I'm not okay one down um the next one would be um so the the project for Gravity Road and Smart Energy with Albert Einstein which was an actor in a prosthetic face mask so I really love working on this project because it was really rewarding it's a really collaborative project so we work quite closely with the creatives at gravity Road who'd come up with some Concepts but really needed our helpers video content experts particularly in terms of social content to help them bring it to life so we brought in a director that we knew would be able to get the the right kind of comedic performances from the actors and then we kind of built a team that was going to deliver the project as best as possible and we did it all in a really short space of time so super collaborative really fun one to work on and a great end result and then another one was for bcw and their pharmaceutical client who I think I'm not allowed to name for legal reasons four different social ads that we had to shoot in one day in one massive location outdoor location um four different scenes so it's a huge amount to get through on the day everyone went really really hard we had a great kind of feeling camaraderie on the day on set to get through everything and then managed to smash it out of the park I had to stand in Fairly last minute as the Director because the director that we had got in had to drop out um I had not not being too biased but I think I did a pretty good job and yeah it was really enjoyable one but a lot to do and what I love about those days when you when you finally wrap and it's done and you know done a great job and you've kind of been in the zone all day and you take a step back and you can breathe and just kind of really pleased and proud of what you've achieved and what the team's done so um that's another one is that three yeah I think that's three okay that was my top three what projects have you learned the most from I think what I really enjoy about the work that we do is the the clients and the projects are so broad you kind of get to dip into all sorts of different um different businesses and different brands and meet different people so you know one day you might be hearing about the state of like debt in the real estate market and then the next day you're working out how to compound Scarlet Muppets face onto a onto an old Nokia hi Scarlett Moffett here can't you tell what was the question again so projects we've learned the most from yeah I think I've kind of answered that in a roundabout way do you prefer Bears or Jam Bears or Jam okay Bears definitely bears where this client request one of the funniest requests of the year was um it's often when we're doing an animation one of the team will normally kind of do what we call a scratch voice over so they're just record it on their phone and we'll kind of set the animation or the edit to the pace of that well Katie who joined the team this year has kind of stood in as our in-house voice-over artist so she always does the voiceovers for when we need those placeholders and one of our clients loved Katie's voice so much that they refuse to have a professional voiceover on it and we ended up having to send Katie to a um a voiceover recording studio in SoHo and Katie actually did the voiceover for the um for the project and the client loved it and was really happy transforming our society increasing our understanding that's it that was quick thank you for watching the Vlog um happy Christmas Happy New Year I hope you have a wonderful Christmas break enjoy your time off and we look forward to seeing you in 2023 with even more brilliant projects from bear jam and my awesome awesome team any more for any more they vote employee that's an easy one my favorite employee is [Music]