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TTV Pictures
Overview
[edit]TTV Pictures is a green screen production studio and corporate video production company based in North London. Established in 1967, the company has 43 years’ experience in the film, television IPTV and corporate video production business. The company is now owned by Torquil Boyd, the Managing Director since 1991. During his time there TTV has worked on all manners of video production for both broadcast and online purposes. In August 2009 TTV Pictures moved into a studio near Gospel Oak/ Kentish Town. The company has close working relations with many freelance professionals who use the studio and editing facilities on location.
Clients
[edit]TTV have a history with the BBC, having produced multiple 6 part series with the broadcasting group in the 1990’s through to present day. Other large broadcasters that have commissioned a series with the company include ITV and Channel 4. In 2001 TTV became heavily involved in the public sector and produced several films for the Home Office, the following year saw multiple projects carried out with the Metropolitan Police, including the flying squad and London serious crime squad. Other large cooperation’s to ask TTV to produce videos in the early noughties include Miss Selfridge, Club 18-30 and Mckinnon films. In the late noughties to present day the company has produced and edited for Jamie Oliver’s school dinners (Channel 4), twenty twenty’s “The Closet” (made for E4), Trinity College of Music and Vodafone Global Enterprise- the latter a commission to produce the first ‘online virtual Newsroom’ for the telecommunications giant.
Charitable and Community Video Production
[edit]TTV Pictures has a body of work in the not for profit sector, having produced videos for Islamic relief, THE Seventh-day Adventist Church, Howard league for Penal reform and most recently Veterans Aid. TTV have also just been selected to be screened at the 'The End of the Pier' film festival 2011 for their short film "Kipling's Poem". The film was created for the charity Veterans Aid and features a selection of ex Veterans that have been helped by the charity,they are reciting Kipling's famous poem "The last of the light Brigade"
Broadcast Production
[edit]TTV Pictures has been working in television broadcast since its inception (with the first Cadbury’s Smash” adverts broadcast in 1967). The company’s production team are exclusively made up from Journalists and broadcast professionals. The most recent work by Notion Pictures is “Up in Smoke”, a BRITDOC award winner to be screened in late July 2011.