Into the Dragons Den

Another project, another trip out for the green screen... and the ironing board, to make sure it is nice and smooth... This time the brief was to make an exciting and colourful film about careers choices aimed at young people about to enter the world of work.

This project was made in collaboration with Small World Productions and features advice from the formidable Theo Paphitis.

Watch the film here...

Cardiff Design Festival

Look, there we are... yes, that's us, the rowdy looking bunch in the corner.

And, why the smiles and broad grins? Well, we won an award for a project of ours...

Despite stiff competition, from the likes of Ethos Creative, Tantrwm ran out eventual winners in the Social Media category at the Cardiff Design Festival.

The project that won was our Stay Safe Online film, made with Dyfed Powys Police and aimed at educating young people about Online do's and don'ts.

Tantrwm drew upon their considerable experience of online social media, facebook and frenetic X-box Live deathmatches to make a film that spoke directly to its intended audience.

The film can be seen here...

Libraries for Life

Libraries have a long and illustrious history as one of the cornerstones of democracy, but lately the rise of the internet and the dominance of Google have brought unprecedented challenges.

But now libraries have a new champion in their corner... us.

Tantrwm have been asked to produce some adverts and promotional posters to get people using their libraries more. And we are, of course, rather excited.

Broadcast Standard

Tantrwms Creative Director, Stephen Hanks, had a rather busy summer... as well as his regular work creating eye catching videos for the web he also went off and made a bit of telly...

As one of the directors on the BBC Wales new talent scheme, It's My Shout, Stephen made a short TV drama about the sort of adventures children get up to when they hang out at holiday camps. The show was broadcast last night as part of the Made in Wales series and will be available to view on BBC iPlayer until the 20th of December.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00w13r1/Made_in_Wales_Series_3_First_the_Worst/

As well as being broadcast, the film was well received at the It's My Shout premiere and awards evening, where it picked up Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actor and Best Film. The evening was covered by the S4C programme Wedi 7. Which led to the odd co-incidence of two Tantrwm employees being on the same show, as Tantrwm's very own in-house Diva, Catrin Southall was a guest on the show talking about her burgeoning singing career.

Protecting Children

Sometimes you work on projects that you feel can really do some good... and Tantrwm have just completed one such project...

A series of films for the Child Protection Services, that will be used to train professionals who come into contact with children, on how to spot tell tale signs of a child who is being abused.

The project was tough, and at times the subject matter was harrowing, but of course, it will be well worth it if it can help stop real children from having to live through the sort of things we have dramatised.