ABOUT GENERIC POOL
Generic Pool Productions have been producing Corporate, Informercials, Training, Educational, SIVs, Music Videos, TV Commercials, Documentary and other Broadcast work since 1999. Founder and director Nigel Cooper comes from a professional stills photographic background where he worked with Hasselblad medium format and Sinar 5x4 & 10x8 large format cameras. His speciality was advertising photography. He photographed commercial advertisements for companies such as BMW cars, Smirnof vodka and Rapide coach lines to name a few. Having run his own photographic studio in North London during the late 1980's, coupled with his passion for movies, his next natural progression was always going to be film and video production. He studied screenwriting in London, and then received formal training as a Lighting Cameraman. He is also an editor/compositor and his musical background as a classically trained concert pianist also allows him to do much music arranging and composing for many of his productions.
Director of Photography Nigel Cooper has a passion for the moving image and all things video. He is also the founder/editor of UK-based video magazine DVuser (see: www.dvuser.co.uk) where he writes many technical pieces, articles and reviews relating to video production and broadcast. He is a technical advisor for many video broadcast companies including Sony Broadcast, Panasonic Broadcast and JVC Professional and is often asked by these companies to give talks and lectures in both the UK and Europe.
In the past we have produced dvd's on a wide range of subjects including: digital photography, glamour photography, baby care, cake decorating, gliding, home cinema systems, fishing, as well as health & safety videos, informercials, corporate presentations, television programming and music promo videos and classical music concerts.
Nigel has also personally written, produced and presented various training DVDs on video production and broadcast techniques. See: www.dvuser.co.uk/storeresults.php
Why are we called Generic Pool?
Here are two of the definitions available.
Generic
ge-ner-ic adj = Usable or suitable in a variety of contexts.
Pool
pool n = The term Pooling is the grouping together of assets, samples, equipment etc. for the purposes of maximizing advantage to the users e.g. pool together.
But to be honest, the simple answer is that Generic Pool is an anagram of Nigel Cooper, and it sounds pretty cool too.
Prices
We believe it is important that the client has an idea of how much your production will cost, so below is an outline of our production charges. However, it is worth noting that most corporate productions are bespoke and we typically quote for an entire job tailored to your requirements. This typically works out cheaper than our standard daily rates. Feel free to call us to discuss your requirements.
Rate Card prices for our daily filming rates
Cameraman with HD camera, lighting & sound kit = £500
2 Cameraman with HD cameras, lighting & sound kit = £900
Auto-Cue operator with Auto-Cue system = £300
Sound Recordist = £350
Rate Card prices for our daily editing rates
HD edit suite consisting of Avid Media Composer and Apple Final Cut Pro. We also use Protools, Logic Pro & Soundtrack Pro for audio. For animated graphics we use Motion & Photoshop.
All editing & postproduction work = £400 per day.