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Recent Projects
View below our recent broadcast / film projects
Tresor making a difference
Tresor Ilunga Mukuna first heard of Visual Impact through “Runaway”, a subsidiary of the Cape Town Film Commission, while participating in a workshop on pre-production and production for film conducted by them. Tresor went on to be an intern in our Rentals department, and in May 2010, wa...
Media Hive Table Mountain View Location
Cape Town successfully hosted the FIFA draw on 4 December 2009. As a result of the draw the teams now know their groupings and can make an educated guess on the cities they will be playing in. All eyes are now on the soccer world cup in 2010. The Media Hive building, based in Cape Town is ideally su...
RUGBY WORD CUP DOC SHOOTS ALONGSIDE EASTWOOD FEATURE
Liani van Straaten The recent production of a fictional feature about South Africa's 1995 Rugby World Cup victory brought two of the most respected Hollywood stars to Cape Town. Director Clint Eastwood and actor Morgan Freeman's participation in the film Invictus was covered extensively in the pres...
Sony Awards
The 2009 Sony Annual Dealer Awards Function was held in April this year in Midrand, Johannesburg. The function was held for the Broadcast and Professional division of Sony, where a number of awards were given to various companies and professionals who specialise in Sony broadcast equipment. Some of...
Horror Fest
On 6 November the HorrorFest held their main event, the screening of their Short Film competition. According the Paul Blom & Sonja Ruppersberg organizers of the Horror fest, the level of movies entered into the competition was top quality & made it difficult for the judges to decide on the w...
Smoor Verlief
Smoorverlief (Head over heels in love)is an upcoming MNET (www.mnet.co.za)commissioned Short film, Proudly sponsored by Visual Impact and the Swellendam Municipality. The film is a period thriller set in 1967 about Ben Kellerman (Drikus Volschenk) and Antoinette (Chanelle de Jager) who are getting m...
WOELAG music video workshop
Thirty grade ten learners from schools throughout the Cape Peninsula including Wellington, Kraaifontein, Franschhoek, Malmesbury and Manenberg participated in the first stage of Naspers Synergy's third annual Woelag! youth project that encourages pupils who do not always have cultural opportunities,...
Visual Impact Launches VI Academy With HD Short Course
With Visual Impact's reputation for training, it was no surprise when Visual Impact Academy recently opened its doors. VI has been offering camera tutorials and internships for years, and their staff continues to lecture at universities and film schools all over the country. According to...
Nichole the white shark Charles Maxwell Underwater video
Nichole is a white shark that was tagged in South Africa with a satellite tag and made an amazing journey from South Africa to Australia and back again, covering a total distance of 20,000 kms in only 9 months. During this period Nichole reached a maximum depth of 980 metres and endured water temp...
Enigma Ace Productions
Enigma Ace productions shot a music video for Foto na Dans in the MediaHive studio. The Studio was Sponsored by Visual Impact & MediaHive. The production crew had only one day to set up, shoot the music video & wrap the entire production. The crew were very happy with the facilities prov...
Why Democracy?
'Why democracy?' is a project that explores the meaning of the term 'democracy' for each and every individual. Twenty thought-provoking short films, dealing with issues around the theme of Democracy, have been created. These explore personal, political and rights issues relating to this buzzword t...
Project: Gaviscon Commercial (anti hart burn medicine)
Concept: Pilot is compromised when hartburn acts up and Gaviscon saves the day. DOP: Vicky Turpin 1st assistant: Karl Eksteen DIT from Magus: Mogamat Arend Value add: Mo used the HDW 750 hyper gamma setting to give the commercial as much latitude as possible as well as a couple of other tricks...
Siyakholwa - "We Believe"
Siyakholwa - "We Believe", produced and directed by Munier Parker of X CON Films, is a world-first for multi-faith childrens shows and was the pioneer shoot for the Mediahive Studio. This project was commissioned by the SABC and answered the President's call for moral regeneration within South Afr...
Rolex Commercial using Sony's new f23 camera
"Once again Graham at 24-7 Drama came to the rescue," Geoff Boyle, Director of Photography. The latest Rolex commercial was shot using Sony's new flagship high definition camera the F23 supplied by specialist Hire Company 24-7 Drama (a division of Visual Impact). The director for the commercial (...
Kingdom
The shoot for the current series of Kingdom took place last summer in Norfolk. This is the first HD shoot for Kingdom's director of photography, Dominic Clemence. His work includes TV dramas Trial & Retribution XI: Closure, Wire in the Blood and Messiah III: The Promise, all shot on film. He sho...
24-7 Drama is Outlawed!
Outlaw, the latest hard hitting movie from top British Director Nick Love staring Sean Bean and Bob Hoskins was shot using Sony's HDW-750P high definition camcorders. All the production equipment including the camcorders was supplied exclusively by specialist drama hire outfit 24-7 Drama (a tradin...
Torchwood
Drama specialist rental company 24-7 Drama has been chosen by the BBC to supply Sony HDW-750P high definition camcorders for their popular science fiction series Torchwood. This latest hire contract adds to an already impressive portfolio which includes amongst others Kingdom, Hotel Babylon, Judge...
The Sinking of the Lusitania
The date is May 7, 1915, just nine months into World War I. En route to the Irish port of Queenstown, the Lusitania, luxurious cruise liner and pride of the British fleet steadily inches its way across the Atlantic ocean. Unbeknownst to the 1,959 people on board, nearly two-thirds are about to die...
Shofar Family Church
Then there was light..camera and action. Shofar family church has been spreading the gospel of Jesus for almost 2 decades in Stellenbosch, South Africa and the world. They have reached thousands of students through disciple making and leadership development and in 1998 established it's first chur...
Flying the Falls
Juanne Whyte from Visual Impact has always provided me with excellent technical & Sales support saving me heaps of research time to go and try and find the answer on the web. Just one call and I leverage from their experience, not only on the camera equipment but also on the accessories, clamps ...
Pushing HDV to the Extreme
Mush!... Mush!. My slay pulls away with a jerk and in no time I'm racing through the snow at 45km/h with the snow hitting my face. The slay is fastened securely and I can only picture the breath taking images I will have after this journey. On a recent trip to Jamtland in the ...
Hotel Babylon
"24-7 Drama deliver a fantastic service" Sean Van Hales, Director of Photography The second series of BBC One's glossy drama Hotel Babylon commenced shooting in the summer, repeating the American style production values that made it so popular with the 16-24 market as much as older audience...
South African REALITY TV: " The Bachelor "
On The Bachelor, a handsome, successful, and likeable, single man searches for the woman of his dreams. He will be introduced to dozens of women with the hopes that one of them will eventually become his bride. The Bachelor is an original one-hour primetime romance reality televisio...
South African TV: " RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY "
South African TV: " RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY " RED BULL MUSIC ACADEMY The Red Bull Music Academy brings together DJ's and music producers from diverse musical and cultural backgrounds to exchange their ideas about music and their knowledge of how life in the music industry works. T...
DOCKSIDE Night Club
Magus Visual South Africa supplying kit and directing the media & multi-camera shoots for the club. Visual Impact have been supplying kit and directing the media & multi-camera shoots at the biggest and most technologically advanced super club in the Southern Hemisphere! The clubs...
Nigerian Clay Animation Commercial
Shoot on a Sony PD150 and a Sony DSR 570, supplied by Visual Impact South Africa. The commercial is being screened in Nigeria this Autumn. South African animation studio 'Realize Animation' created two commercials (a 60 seconds and a separate 15 seconds) for 'The Cornerhouse Production C...