All the best for video production, corporate video, video marketing, videography, film production and media production across Cambridge & Cambridgeshire!
Next on our tour around the UK, investigating the video production scene in a variety of towns and cities like a creative industries version of the Antiques Roadshow, is lovely Cambridge. Less than 60 miles from London, it’s a hotspot for outsourced productions but also a hub of creativity in itself.
Cambridge, like its frenemy Oxford, has a long history as a centre for science and education and has for over twenty years been the heart of Silicon Fen, the high-tech powerhouse of the UK. It’s also thanks to this city that we have bands like Pink Floyd and pop sensation Charlie XCX and actress/singer Olivia Newton-John. Grease is the word!
So join us as we make a stop in Cambridge and have a look around to see what the video production scene is all about. Read on and learn more about this creative city!
The companies on this list are specially selected by us based on the quality of their work.
You don’t have to have read many headlines recently to see how much of a hit local independent creative businesses have taken with current events. Obviously, we’d love it if you got in touch with us, but if we’re not your cup of tea, please do buy locally and support any of the businesses on this list 😊
Simply Thrilled
In search of an innovative collaborator to manifest your creative vision? Consider Simply Thrilled, the go-to Cambridge video production company known for transforming ideas into enthralling visual narratives. Moving imagery, moving narratives, moving audiences - that's our specialty!
And here's our showreel to have a look at:
Whether you’re looking for a:
- promotional video
- animated video
- explainer video
- marketing video
- event video
- product video
- social media video
- music video
…Simply Thrilled is your one-stop shop!
Leveraging our unparalleled proficiency, innovative strategies, and an ardent passion for storytelling, we are committed to making your brand stand out. Experience the compelling power of video and set off on an exhilarating creative expedition with us in the heart of Cambridge.
Why Collaborate with Simply Thrilled?
Join an esteemed clientele: From individual entrepreneurs to the most prominent brands such as Universal, Island Records, Wellpet, or Bose, we've collaborated with entities just like yours. Our exceptional video production in Cambridge has also attracted the attention of global media giants like The Guardian and BBC News.
Superior results: Our video production efforts have achieved an enviable viral status, securing an extraordinary number of views and interactions that others can only aspire to. We're talking about 59 million views on Youtube alone, coupled with hundreds of thousands of likes, comments, and shares.
Audience-focused approach: We utilise Viralpixel, our exclusive creative tool, in combination with top-tier research and social listening platforms, to target your desired demographic with unerring precision.
Innovation at its best: Our creative acumen ensures that our concepts make a resounding impact on your audience's hearts and minds. Typically, for each open creative brief, we generate at least 4 novel ideas.
OH! Films
First-up on this list is OH! Films, a Cambridge-based (can you believe it!) video production company built out of a team of filmmaking creatives. OH! Films is a BAFTA-winning agency providing 4K promotional, brand, and corporate films for any business. In 2020, OH!Films had produced and created 73 films with 92% of their UK and European clientele returning to them.
OH! Films is all about ‘future-orientated film productions’ and produces commercials, animations, and photography that are intended for marketing. They aim to create content that connects to audiences and drives engagement while not demanding a massive price tag.
Some of their clients include names such as Sainsbury’s, Hitachi, Samsung, and TEDx.
TwoFlix
Founded in 2017, TwoFlix is based in the centre of Cambridge and they aim to provide fast, yet effective and affordable video products. As a video production company, they have innovation and creativity at their heart and their team has more than 25 years of experience in film and video production spread across filmmaking, producing, directing, camera operating, editing, animating, and designing.
With kit such as 4K aerial imaging via drone technology, 4K/Full HD cameras with up to 15 stops of dynamic range, DSLRs with frames, and mirrorless cameras with a wide range of lenses, daylight panels, LED’s and even softlights, TwoFlix is certainly kitted out. TwoFlix offer services such as event videography, live streaming and podcasts. Clients include Cambridge Wireless, Arm, CambTEK, Watt Knowledge, and Advanced Bionics.
Lambda Films
Based in Cambridge, the video production and animation company Lambda Films works for Cambridge-based brands such as the University of Cambridge and the Science Park to ensure local businesses can promote themselves nationwide. The Lambda team doesn’t see their work merely as a job, but as a passion, and they boast that every project is a collaboration to produce high end animation and video content.
Lambda are award-winners in their own right with their own unique flair counting towards every project they create. Their eight-person team produces video animations as well as giving expertise in video marketing. Lambda are known for their cinematic and stylistic video and storytelling, making them stand out above the crowd. Previous clients have included Norfolk County Council, Lancaster University, Visit Norwich, and the English Whiskey Company.
Origins Of Motion
With a fresh style and a unique approach, Origins of Motion is a videographer collective within Cambridge which specialises in video services across the south east. They state that video is vital at a time when the average Internet user has an attention span of 8 seconds, and use their videos to engage and communicate. Their four-person team collaborates to produce a variety of videos, from ads to white label outsourcing.
Origins of Motion offers many services including corporate and promotional video, video marketing and paid ads distribution, creative videos and advertisement production, as well as promotional product demonstration videos. They aim to bring adverts, companies, stories, social media, and products to life with powerful storytelling and hypercreativity. The Origins of Motion team has worked with names including Ardex UK, RSC Vision, Volac, Alzheimer’s Research UK, and Imperial London Hotels.
Oggi Tomic Pictures
With over 15 years of experience in the UK, USA, Pakistan, Europe, and beyond, freelance filmmaker Oggi Tomic has over seventeen years of experience and has won many awards for his work including a BAFTA. Based in Cambridge and London, this filmmaker/director combo is also a member of the Association of Cinematographers and Filmmakers of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and specialises in directing and cinematography.
Though Oggi works and is based in Cambridge, it does not mean he is tied to Cambridge, travelling wherever he needs to meet a client’s needs. Oggi provides many services and these start from and are most certainly not limited to 4K multicam coverage, interview testimonials, event highlights, kit hire, post-production services, documentary, promotional, corporate, and broadcast films, as well as social media and branded content. Over his career, Oggi has worked with the BBC, Barclays, MTV, Sony Europe, Google, and Buckingham Palace.
WaveFX
Breaking up this list with a slightly different approach is WaveFX, a webcast production and event streaming company. WaveFX has won awards for its services including photorealistic and engineering fly-throughs. Since 1999 the company has been offering 360 services, animation, AV hire, and event filming, and in 2020 alone it created 227 webcasts, conducted 197 virtual events, created 54 animations, and produced 320 videos.
By specialising in streaming and filming all kinds of events, from concerts to interviews to conferences, the WaveFX team has been voted the Best UK Live Event Streaming Company.
WaveFX has worked on projects involving Ellie Goulding, Natalie Portman, Gary Oldman, and Amanda Holden, with clients such as the Adventure Bike Rider (ABR) Festival, the International Virtual Symposium, the Churchill Hybrid Conference, a West End production of Motown the Musical.
Cambridge Filmworks
Cambridge Filmworks is a video production company that loves making creative and compelling films out of their historical Victorian office. Delving into their cross-platform expertise in online, television, broadcast, filming, and post-production, Cambridge Filmworks has a remit of producing ‘digital solutions which really connect with people and help our clients to communicate their stories in the most passionate and effective way possible’.
From filming and cinematography, post-production, editing and animation to online distribution, video strategy and broadcasting, Cambridge Filmworks’ work has taken them to the farthest reaches of the globe and back home again, enabling them to create and work with a diverse range of clients and to create a diverse range of videos. Past clients have included ITV, Channel 4, the National Trust, and Amazon.
Lapse Film Cambridge
Working in both London and Cambridge, Lapse Film is a full service creative film and video production company creating advertisements and other forms of video with a unique artistic flair. Founded in 2013, the three-person Lapse Film team specialises in documentary filmmaking and visual storytelling and works across the country to produce original content, including online and short films.
Lapse Film is conducted by a young team that intends to bring something new and fresh to the table. This company additionally creates 2D and 3D animations, experimental video, travel content and narrative videos. Their primary aim throughout all of their work is to produce videos that are design-forward for a range of design-forward clients. Past Lapse Film clients include ACPS Automotive, Chelsea Mews, MIND + EFL, and Morgan Lovell.
Louis James-Parker Video and Photography
Louis James-Parker boasts that he has held a camera since he was a boy, and later in his life he went on to study a degree in photography. Now with more than ten years of professional experience, Louis has built both a reputation and his very own business, which specialises in video production and freelance videography, as well as commercial photography expertise.
Working between Cambridge and Bury St Edmunds, freelancer Louis operates with a team of filmmakers too. He continues to be up-to-date with all the technology he uses, investing in drones and the latest camera kit, and he also has a full CAA licence. His work has been featured in the mainstream media including the BBC, ITV, and the Daily Mail. Additionally, Louis and his team offers productions such as talking heads, sports videos, and drone productions. Clients include Oyster Yachts, Hyundai, Redbull, and the University of Cambridge.
EG Video Productions
Now in the list is a Cambridge-based family-run video production business, specifically a father-daughter duo, who bravely started their business EG Video Productions during the Covid-19 pandemic! Video production runs in the blood of this company, as does the passion to tell compelling stories using the art form of video. EG specialises in producing documentaries that portray individual stories and the impact that businesses have. The EG team also specialises in creating testimonial and promotional videos.
As a family business, EG has generations worth of business experience as a whole, 35 years to be exact. EG stands for Ellie Grace, who serves as the chief producer. She graduated in 2020 with a first-class honours degree in media production, and her father, Tim, has over 18 years of experience as a founding director of multiple small businesses in Cambridge. Their clients include King’s College Cambridge, La Cucina Italiana, KFD Jewellery, and A Rocha UK.
Streamline Productions
Streamline Productions was founded in 2001 by Steve Holloway and Judy Aslett who continue to be the directors of the company in the present day. Judy is BAFTA-nominated and experienced broadcast journalist, while Steve hosts 30 years of being a professional cameraman and editor and has worked with the BBC and ITN, winning a BAFTA and other awards. They proclaim that they have much experience in various difficult environments so welcome all kinds of challenges.
Streamline Productions benefits from this expertise and also aims to innovate. For example, Steve is an experienced steadicam operator and has gained his CAA license in order to commence aerial filming with a Hexacopter. Among the team’s video production services, they also offer media training, journalist training, and location training. They have filmed all over the world, including for documentary filming in Burkina Faso, and are experienced at making corporate films.
Bullaki
Based in Cambridge, this video production company is multi-skilled and offers various services, including audio and video equipment hire. They produce cinematic videos for both the high-tech industry and the academic sector. Unusual for this list, they have a background in science and research and development, which they state makes them superb at communicating with their clients and offering a data-driven approach.
Alongside equipment hire, apps development, and peer-reviewed videos, Bullaki offer video production services and filming for conferences and events. Their data-driven creative solutions allow scientific consultancy in a wide field of work which in turn provides data analysis, artificial intelligence, text/image processing, prototyping, and software application development. Previous works include IBC, Emirates, the University of Cambridge, and Nuragic Bikers.
Dragonlight Films
Documentary and commercial films are Dragonlight Films’ specialty, collaborating with the science, technology, and education sectors to create branded strategic content that is designed to curate business for the client. Colin Ramsay is the founder and the director of Dragonlight Films, which works out of Cambridge to produce award-winning commercial and documentary films. The other half of the Dragonlight Films team is Daria Hupov, an award-winning filmmaker and sound recordist.
The goal of Dragonlight is to help people and brands tell stories. Founder Colin has created documentary films that have featured in Nature Magazine, BBC Click, and various other international film events. Colin won an award in 2017 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Dragonlight has made videos for names such as the Cambridge Trust, Cambridge University Press, Norfolk Council, and the NHS.
Paperboy Productions
Paperboy Productions is a film and video studio that describes itself as a one-stop-shop for video production. Having worked internationally, the Paperboy Productions team has a mission to construct a world-class video production company that will provide and produce movies that can be ‘generally accepted in all parts of the world’. On their website, they state that their intention will be to have a global reach by hiring ‘competent hands’.
Paperboy offers commercial and corporate video production expertise but they also offer services such as educational workshops. From their own film studio and production unit, they aim to be able to create any genre of film whether that be action and adventure films, dramas and documentaries, thrillers and suspense films, or even music videos. They have created several of their own documentaries and feature films.
RAPT TV
RAPT TV is a filmmaking, production, and photography company founded and led by David Spurdens, who has over 40 years creative experience. Spurdens is a multi-award winning cinematographer and photographer and has worked all the way over at the North Pole to Tasmania and back home again. Working and filming for corporate clients, Spurdens aims to create high quality photography and video products with a cinematic touch.
On location out of Cambridge, Spurdens offers many services including marketing and PR expertise, film and video content for websites, sports and lifestyle photography, and action filming. He also offers expertise through individual consultancy as a director of photography, or through camera operation roles on various client projects.
Somersault
Founded in 2012, but already having been an established core group, the team at Somersault have been working together since 2009, building YouTube channels, developing video-based apps, and producing branded content. With all this experience, Somersault have become experts in their field of producing digital content. From the first meeting, Somersault wants to create a relationship that goes beyond the first project. They even host regular BBQ’s to help keep relationships flourishing or to create new ones.
Somersault offers a variety of services all with the aim of captivating and converting. Some of their services include video production, post-production, animation, virtual events filming, and so forth. They also have their own studio from which they operate with their kit, which includes 4K cameras and light and sound equipment. Their mission is to unlock the potential of digital and live video for their clients. Past clients include VNC Automotive, Condeco, and Pearson.
Majestic Vision Media
Although technically based in Cambridgeshire, not Cambridge itself (forgive us!), Majestic Vision Media was founded by corporate video producer and photographer Darren, who boasts a passion and creative flair that has remained with him into adulthood. After 15 years experience, he took his skills and passion to start his own video production company which now provides a host of services for a multitude of video production and photography needs.
Darren’s photography services include portraits, product photography, stock images, journalism photography, corporate photography, and retouching and image manipulation. The video production services provided by Majestic Vision include talking head videos, live events relay, and cinematic acquisition. He also has editing facilities to apply everything required in post production such as animation, graphics, and special effects.
Shooting Image
This Cambridge-area video production company (based in the same place as Majestic Vision!) is led by Andy Wilkinson, who has a background in science and technology, troubleshooting and consultancy. With all of this experience behind him, Wilkinson decided in 2008 to have a career change and moved to video production. Creating Shoot Image, Wilkinson now works in Cambridge and across East Anglia.
Since its inception, Shooting Image has created well over 900 projects which include promotional videos, advertising and corporate videos, product demonstrations and social media content. Shooting Image is also a sponsor of the Magpas Air Ambulance charity, making 36 films for them for free to gain them over 200,000 views and boost support. They also support the Support 4 Sight charity, creating videos that improve their social media traffic.
World Video Production
An independent video production company, World Video Production has been in the industry for over thirty years. They argue that it’s this longevity that has allowed them to gain a lot of experience and knowledge which they use to benefit their clients from their base in Cambridge. By keeping all of their equipment in-house, the World Video team is able to do a lot of their work on their own turf.
All videos at World Video Productions are produced on a format of the client’s choosing, whether that be digital or Blu-Ray. World Video Production is able to film any event, ceremony, business meeting and more. In addition to their video services, they also offer aviation-related DVD’s that cover many fields including PPL training, cabin crew training, and historical interest content. They also offer mobile recording services, location filming, voice overs, commercial events, wedding and christening filming, and more.
Simply Thrilled
And rounding out our antiques tour — video production tour, sorry — is, well, us! We had to squeeze ourselves in. ;)
Simply Thrilled is based in Nottingham and London, making Cambridge an easily-accessible collaborator for all kinds of video projects, from event films to brand campaigns to internal comms videos. Our in-house team of expert filmmakers can animate, direct, and produce, and that’s just the start. We have years of experience creating magical films for magical people and we can’t wait to see what we can create together. Our clients range from local businesses to big names like the NHS and Boots, and we know how to bring in audiences, fans, and sales.
Simply Thrilled combines an eye for cinematography (to make sure your video is slick and eye-catching) with a talent for audience data (to make sure your video actually reaches your target viewers). With cinema-quality cameras and a wide editing suite, we combine science and art and BOOM! There’s a perfect video. Alright, maybe it’s not that quick, but we never compromise on quality and always prioritise your vision.
Contact us today and we’ll start generating four fresh ideas for your next video project. We bring originality. We bring passion. And most importantly, we’ll leave you Simply Thrilled.
We hope you enjoyed this little whiz around Cambridge’s video production scene, and be sure to check out more of our blog posts or even our own portfolio!
- Xoxo, Simply Thrilled.
