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The 3 latest ramblings from Little Orchard!

February 22nd, 2012 by Nikki

It’s good to share

When a global IT business approached Little Orchard to create video animations about Cloud computing we thought it only fair to walk the walk.

So we have set up a team of remote camera ops, editors and animators, who can literally work from anywhere in the world by sharing our folders and files through, in our case, a Dropbox.

 

It means any file we save to Dropbox also instantly saves to the team’s computers, phones, and the Dropbox website. And the files are always available from the secure Dropbox website. It even works offline. They always have the files, whether or not they have a connection.

Simple sharing

Shared folders allow our team to work together on the same projects and documents in parallel.

It means Little Orchard can be leaner, meaner and so much more cost effective, and time sensitive, for our clients – even for large film and post-production or animation projects.

Stayed tuned – we’ll keep you updated as to whether our cloud has a silver lining!

 
February 22nd, 2012 by Nikki

The apprentice comes to Little Orchard

Little Orchard has always been keen to support young people coming into the industry. Mainly because at one time we were young people struggling to get into the industry. So we have taken on an apprentice for the next few months. And who knows, hopefully he’ll stay as part of the team.

Our apprentice comes from Pearson in Practice, the UK’s leading provider of Apprenticeship training. Pearson is set to shake up the Creative and Digital Media sector with their new Apprenticeship programme. As well as offering a general understanding and skills relevant to the sector, this unique Apprenticeship includes the Adobe Certified Associate Certification, which covers training in Adobe products such as Photoshop, Flash or Dreamweaver.

In an ever-changing industry, the Apprenticeship will develop employees who are multi-skilled and able to work across a variety of digital platforms – from video production, digital imaging, design and web development.

Apprenticeships are considered the gold standard for on the job training in the UK with more than 100,000 employers offering programmes. They play an important role in the Government’s plan to growing skills in the UK economy and are increasingly recognised as a way of creating a workforce who have the skills and the attitude that employers want and need.

The programme will last for nine months, with apprentices completing eight weeks off-the-job training at a Pearson in Practice training centre.

Pearson are one of many local and national apprenticeship scemes we’ve been approached by so there is no excuse for young people with a talent for creative and media skills to find their way in to our notoriously nepatistic industry.

Welcome to Little Orchard Gavin, we hope you have a really great time with us and a really great future career!

 
December 21st, 2011 by Nikki

Online video channel for Green Investment Bank

This week pro.manchester’s campaign to bring the new Green Investment Bank to Manchester had support from Little Orchard. We helped to create the campaign’s online video channel by providing our filming, editing and online channel delivery services. You can read the full story at http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/business/s/1468451_video-support-for-green-investment-bank

Or you can see all the campaign activity at www.pro-manchester.co.uk

Or you can see the videos on the Green Investment Bank online video channel  on YouTube, at http://www.youtube.com/user/GreenBankMCR

 
 

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