Here is the next video in our 5 video series created for the City of Bunbury, it’s called: Art & Culture. This video focuses on the diverse Arts, Entertainment, and Cultural experiences to be had in one of the fastest growing regional cities in Australia: The City of Bunbury.
Mark M has been running around testing out some of the new GMi Macro equipment, and has come back with some stills and vision of some of the tiny inhabitants of his garden.
What he is really looking forward to is getting out into the scrub and better yet underwater to find some really interesting specimens! Especially the great Nudi’s and Blennies that reside in the southwest! In the meantime expect to see some great macro shots in some of our upcoming productions.
9 years ago today GMi’s Mark Moore joined GMi’s ranks as our camera man in a day full of memories, shenanigans, and ultimately hypnosis. It was a day fondly remembered by all the staff here past and present. In that 9 years Mark has shown no desire to leave the good ship GMi (the hypnosis must of worked then… or possibly it has failed horribly) and has grown (quite literally!) with the business and helped it become one of WA’s best small production houses.
Originally Mark thought he would only be with us for a couple of years before moving back to Perth but when he discovered just how good the Southern Lifestyle is, there was no turning back. So instead we now find him not in some cramped newsroom in a city rushing for a deadline, but instead swanning around our great state filming all sorts of interesting things for us, and spending time with his wife and new son in a place he now certainly calls home.
Congratulations Mark, we’ll try and get rid of you next year, surely we will have found a way by then!
GMi is working on a documentary about the creation of the Wardandi Memorial Park. The documentary will cover the construction of the park by the work teams, the preparation and burial of Noongar remains returned to the South West from a number of museums across Australia, interviews showing the cultural significance and steps taken over 25 years to make the park a reality.
The crew at GMi have stayed in touch with the Department of Environment and Conservation (DEC) scientists working on the Fire Mosaic research project near Walpole in the South West of WA. Our youngest team member, Carl‘s daughter Clare, was invited to take part in the catching and classification of the bugs and became DEC’s youngest volunteer entomologist.
After spending a few days with the crew of science division Clare can boast finding 6, so far, unclassified species of moth, 1 new beetle and an all new wasp!
GMi have joined the legions of Bokeh fans with their purchase of a new canon 7D. When coupled with GMi’s ever increasing collection of fast glass the images we have been getting are impressive to say the least. Whilst some of us are sad to see ‘old faithful’ (40D) put out to pasture we are more excited about the 7d’s capability to capture Full HD video.
This allows us to have our lightest and most compact HD camera setup yet, which is great for getting to those shoots where the gear allotment is severely restricted. Shoots such as trips to remote mine sites where access is light plane FIFO, or for wildlife shoots where long treks on foot and fast setup are essential.
2013 has got off to a bang with Mark M getting married.
Mark and his lovely bride Jessica chose Harvey Dam to be the venue and the weather was perfect. Of course, the bride was looking radiant in a white dress with blue sash and the groom was spotted in a shirt, tie and suit. Probably the first time Mark has been spotted out with an ironed shirt and we have the photographic proof. We are sure that his lovely bride will bring many changes to Mark – appearance, tidyness and an ability to listen – all for the better!
And no GMi wedding event would be complete without and appearance from “Best Lamb” Lamby who watched over the whole event. Luckily for Lamby, the weather wasn’t roastingly hot or he might have got the chop…
A big congratulations and best wishes from us all to Mark and his beautiful wife.
Happy 2013 from everyone here at GMi! 2012 was an interesting year for us which saw new clients, new modes of delivery and new gear, we had some great times in 2012 with our fantastic clients and each other, and we hope to continue this in 2013.
Things we are particularly looking forward to include the projects on Dirk Hartog Island and in our states southern forests, the completion of the project based in the Little Sandy, further uptake of our SCORM based corporate video and training packages (which has seen some fantastic interest of late), more adventures for Lamby and a whole host of projects we cant even talk about yet… But watch this space.
So a massive thank you to all of those who made our 2012 so memorable and here’s to the many new and exciting things that 2013 brings.