In reponse to the specific requests from existing international clients, Project Television established its Cairns video and television operation in December 1997.

INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION BROADCASTS

Steve Irwin

The unexpected tragedy of Steve Irwin's sudden demise in early September 2006 kept Project Television's Cairns operation very busy. Our crew was on location on the Low Isles within a few hours for national news and in the following weeks provided field production crews and services for international tributes and news broadcasts in Europe and South America.

Fuji TV  P-kies shoot

Japanese TV Mascot on “Finding Nemo-style” Australian Diving Adventure

North Queensland and the Great Barrier Reef feature on Japanese television in two episodes of P-kies, the top rating Fuji TV children's show. 

P-kies has been running for 30 years and has an audience of 30 million households throughout Japan
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The shows’ main aim is to entertain and to educate young Japanese children.

The mascot of P-kies is a 5 year old dinosaur named Gachapin. Gachapin visited Cairns in late October, dived on and flew over the Great Barrier Reef in a "Finding Nemo" related adventure. The release date for "Finding Nemo" in Japan is Dec 6.

Gachapin also called in on a preschool and met with a local scout group.

This itinerary faced the Japanese production team Fuji Creative Co. with many challenges. They had to find local crews with Japanese style broadcast skills and experience to shoot aerials, on land and underwater, with NTSC system broadcast equipment in a PAL system country.

And as is common in today's economic climate, all on a fixed modest budget.

At first it was suggested that the equipment be brought from Japan, and separate underwater, land and aerial crews be employed. 

However, the solution was found with Project Television Cairns' camera operator Tim Petrie and Richard Fricker on sound.

Petrie not only is an experienced camera operator, but routinely shoots and edits for Japanese clients with in-house NTSC equipment with a specialty in underwater videography. Fricker has been working with Japanese and SE Asian clients since 1986.

“Not having to translate much from the director to the local crew really kept the tight schedule on time & hassle free”, said Petrie.

"…and being a one-stop solution assisted in the logistics, budgeting, communication and consistency in the style of the shoot".

"Local knowledge of Cairns city, the dive locations and conditions, helicopter crews and Japanese television style also contributed to the success of the shoot."

Petrie's NTSC footage shot and edited last March and April promoting "The New Cairns" was broadcast earlier this year throughout Japan.

DVD DUPLICATION AND REPLICATION

Project Television has been involved in multimedia production since the early 90's producing information and entertainment laser disks for institutional kiosks and corporate CD-ROM titles. We continue being at the forefront of this continuing evolution in multimedia with in-house DVD bulk duplication facilities and DVD replication project management..

International advertising media companies chose Project Television's Cairns production office to relocate to Port Douglas for a week in September 2006. Operating around the clock, Project Television provided camera operators and editors and equipment to cover the Group M international media conference. In addition to services such as last minute DVD encoding and authoring on behalf of delegates and a record of all the seminars and activities, the wrap DVD projected on the final night's dinner was a huge success - with requests for repeat showings from the delighted conference audience.

Testimonial

The video was received really well in Japan and we ran out of copies in Nagoya!!  I need an extra 400 NTSC copies.
Thank you!! 

Paul Summers
International Sales Executive
Tourism Tropical North Queensland
April 2003

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