Starting A Drone Photography and Video Business In The UK
14th June 2025
Simcoemedia offers aerial video and photography (see examples and an overview of the service on the Simcoemedia drone page). Whilst drones are becoming widely available and increasingly sophisticated, there are rules and regulations restricting how these Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)…
AI Tutorials For Photographers, Designers And Video Producers
Simcoemedia shop has been selling 360 images, tutorials, books and t-shirts since summer 2024 proving an outlet for the graphic design, AI video experimentation, generative AI 360 image generation. Simcoemedia remains committed to the exploration, experimentation and analysis of AI…
Paloma Film Development – Storyboard Pre-Production Overview
12th April 2025
Paloma Film Development – Storyboard Pre-Production Overview
https://youtu.be/nCcFqAV80io What Is Paloma? Paloma is the 60-75 minute film of a story written by Peter Simcoe. It takes place 300 years in the future where a man living a solitary life in a post apocalyptic land finds a note…
AI And The Future Of Media Production
2nd March 2025
AI And The Future Of Media Production
The US Government has recently announced an investment of 500 billion dollars toward the development of AI technologies. Flanked by some of techs top shakers and movers including Sam Altman of OpenAI and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump announced it…
Immersive Digital Media Part 2 – Examples
20th November 2024
Immersive Digital Media Part 2 – Examples
My previous post, Immersive Digital Media Part 1 – Definitions, defined the terminology associated with Extended Reality (XR) including VR, AR, MR and other technologies such as ambisonic audio. The second article in the series focuses on projects I have…
Immersive Digital Media Part 1 – Definitions
28th October 2024
Immersive Digital Media Part 1 – Definitions
I recently had a conversation with a client regarding the use of immersive digital media in engineering and design. We discussed how it can enhance research, product development and training and increase the overall impact. Over the last 8 years…
Recording And Editing A Podcast With Adobe Podcast Studio
15th August 2024
Recording And Editing A Podcast With Adobe Podcast Studio
Adobe Podcast was originally released in January 2023 as an online application designed to enhance audio by removing background noise, balancing EQ and improving the overall sound quality of audio recordings using AI. At the time of release the system…
Introduction To Creating AI Generated Music Videos
29th July 2024
Introduction To Creating AI Generated Music Videos
Introducing AI To The Music Industry Artists and musicians are increasingly exploring AI technologies as a solution to creating promotional videos. These tools allow the user to enter a text prompt, image or video to direct the AI towards a…
Generative AI Video And Film Production
1st January 2024
Generative AI Video And Film Production
Introducing Generative AI Technologies During 2022 and 2023 a variety of photo and video Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies were released to a wildy enthusiastic audience of digital content creators. Examples include Midjourney and Adobe Firefly - both designed to…
Google Earth Studio Experiments Part 2
10th December 2023
Google Earth Studio Experiments Part 2
Google kindly gave me access to their Google Earth Studio platform a few months back. I recently used it to create a variety of videos including a 2D 360 interactive video tour of my home city of Chester in England…
Guide To Freelancing Created With Character Animator
28th October 2023
Guide To Freelancing Created With Character Animator
Animated Freelancers Guide Adobe's Character Animator software was used to create this 14 minute animated guide to becoming a freelance practitioner in the creative industries. The video is based upon Chapter 2 of the Freelancers Handbook: A Survive and Thrive…
Free Creative Software for Content Creators and Designers
28th September 2023
Free Creative Software for Content Creators and Designers
If you are in the early stages of exploring different types of content creation or just looking to save a little money before investing in professional software such as Adobe’s Creative Cloud (which will cost around £50 / month for…
Google Earth Studio Experiments Using Chrome
7th August 2023
Google Earth Studio Experiments Using Chrome
Below are two videos in 4K 2D 360 format created with Google Earth Studio on a Google Chrome browser. I was given early access to test this browser based app and decided to experiment with the immersive VR video capability…
Using YouTube As A Research Tool
17th July 2023
Using YouTube As A Research Tool
YouTube was launched on 14 February 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim and was purchased by Google in 2006 for 1.65 Billion Dollars. In 2019 it was estimated that around 500+ hours of content was being uploaded…
NetThreat Character Animation For New Minisite
3rd November 2022
NetThreat Character Animation For New Minisite
Following the production of a music video using Adobe’s Character Animator software in February this year, NetThreat asked Simcoemedia to produce an animation highlighting various online security issues such as malware and encrypted threats whilst offering a solution in the…
Design Inspiration On The Web
28th June 2022
Design Inspiration On The Web
Raising Your Ambition In the early days of my design, video and photography career, I used to consider the standard or "bar" set for my own design to be the activity of those companies or individuals around me in my…