Portfolio Category: Aerials

As a leading manufacturer of combat-proven body armour systems for defence force and police force personnel, ballistic glass and ballistic plates for aircraft, land transport and marine vessels Craig International Ballistics needs little introduction to armed forces in Australia. The company is ISO 9001 certified and has been producing security solutions since late last century.

However, all companies need to keep existing clients informed of recent developments and present their capabilities to national or international prospects.

Digital Tsunami was commissioned to produce a video to showcase the company. The objective was to convey the manufacturing capability, ISO 9001 certified processes, ballistics testing to international standards; and the quality of materials, personnel and practices.

To achieve this objective, Andrew W Morse first determined to deliver the video in 4K resolution. Secondly, an aerial camera operator and an experienced local videographer (with whom the director had previously worked) were contracted. Thirdly, the manufacturing complex was visited, to conceive a visual concept and plan the schedule for the shoot. Fourthly, a music track with an appropriately high tempo was selected. Fifthly, (because of the third step), we achieved a very high number of daily ’camera set ups’ (individual camera shots). Sixthly, we filmed in Melbourne at the test centre and shot six locations on the one property. Finally, the footage was edited into a tight, powerful three minute video.

The client was provided with both 4K and HD files, and uploaded an HD version of the video to Vimeo, which was embedded into the website.

Digital Tsunami developed a responsive web presence for Craig International Ballistics in 2014, after delivering a new identity.

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The developer of 168 luxury apartments in China needed ‘cut through’ in a congested property market.

Master Residences Yinchuan is an exclusive, luxury residential precinct in northern China. Yinchuan is the capital of the autonomous Ningxia region, seat of the Hui people, adjacent to Inner Mongolia, and a key stop on the ancient overland trade route between Europe and the Orient, the ‘Silk Road’.

The three towers of the Master Residences Yinchuan exemplify the best of East and West. Sinuous curves on the exterior pay homage to the shifting sand dunes of the surrounding desert. The technology throughout the site is best-of-breed, and suppliers from around the globe contributed their expertise and superlative products, to ensure that these apartments among the most contemporary and innovative residences in China today.

To determine the vision and strategy to launch this exceptional property, Master Real Estate appointed the founder of Digital Tsunami, Andrew W Morse to the role of Creative Director in July 2015.

The challenge (as with most property developments) is how to present the property accurately and effectively before a lengthy construction process is complete. The answer is to create ‘show flats’ and produce photography, computer graphics (CG) and video.

For Master Residences Yinchuan, six apartments were fitted out and furnished: a townhouse (with private garden), two simplex and two duplex (dual-level) units and a (dual-level) penthouse with roof garden. CG to showcase the interiors, exteriors, clubhouse and the entire precinct was produced; photography of interiors and exteriors was shot; and aerial 4K video of exteriors was captured. This visual content was compiled into three distinct videos, each presented within the website and also on a ‘video book’ with embedded screen and magnetic switch, so the video played automatically upon opening.

To accurately reflect the extraordinarily high standards of the property, an uncompromising quality of all marketing materials was imperative. Shooting 4K aerials with an Inspire One and a pilot / gimbal operator team from Hong Kong, three videos of an exceptionally high standard were produced.

This project is a perfect example of the production of a cohesive marketing campaign across all digital and tactile media. The experience of the team at Digital Tsunami was perfectly suited to ensuring a consistent implicit and explicit message throughout all offline and online touchpoints.

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Cathay Pacific Airways is Hong Kong’s international airline, with a large fleet of wide-body aircraft flying to over one hundred destinations across the globe.

Andrew W Morse conceptualised and directed a short inbound destination film for Cathay Pacific. Inspired by the peregrines which soar on updrafts of Hong Kong’s mountain peaks, the film was titled “Through the Eyes of a Black Kite”.

Many hours of aerials were flown, and many feet of 35mm film exposed, to capture stunning low altitude vistas of the extreme variations in the topography of the territory. Long languid sequences included traversing the Mai Po Marshes and Plover Cove at dawn, vast expanses of green hills, craggy rock formations on the North Eastern coast, fishing villages on Peng Chau, and the dynamic (at any hour) Victoria Harbour.

Landing our helicopter on the construction site of the new international airport became an historic event. As the DP changed a magazine on the film camera, the Director alighted .. and became one of the very first air passengers to land at Chek Lap Kok!

The film was one in a series of destination films screened on CX flights for several years.