Turps Film

04/09/2025

You'll have seen the clapperboard making an appearance on many behind the scenes stills and clips.

It's not just there for show either, it serves as a very important tool especially in the editing process!

In our latest blog (http://bit.ly/3I2Oyml), we explore the origins of this handy piece of equipment and what actually goes onto it!

19/08/2025

Last week, team were on location with St Oswald's Hospice for our latest collaboration.

You'll have to wait for the release of the latest film but here's some promised BTS from the week.

13/08/2025

Boys will be boys..

No Luke hasn’t changed his surname to Skywalker to channel his inner Jedi-Master.. but he has been having a lot of on set fun this week with Adam shooting some fantastic content for one of our favourite clients.

More BTS to come from this shoot!

14/07/2025

Well this certainly wasn’t the worst location to be shooting at this weekend!

We were at the Lit & Phil library in Newcastle filming for our clients Little Inventors and their latest award ceremony, talk and workshops.

The presentation included special guest Chi Onwurah, MP for Newcastle Central and West, who is passionate about all things science!

We’re really looking forward to putting this one together in the edit.

02/07/2025

It's no wonder our wonderful clients over at Forfusion won this year's SME Business of the Year at the NECC awards!

They recently tasked the Turps Film team to produce a client testimonial case study. This video highlights their work and systems in play at the state of the art Northumbria Care Academy at NSECH with appraisals from a number of the trust's employees.

30/05/2025

15/05/2025

Video is everywhere. Reels, promos, interviews… they’re all over our feeds. But those slick little videos you see? They don’t take our editor Dominic five minutes to throw together... and here’s why.

Logging & Organisation:
We’re often dealing with hours of footage (especially if Luke’s done the interviews - that one is thorough!). Everything gets logged, labelled, synced and sorted so not a single gem gets lost.

Assembly Edit:
Watching 2 hours of interviews takes 3–4 hours alone. We cut the waffle, the false starts, the long pauses and all the “erms”. Every usable clip is tagged and sorted so if a client asks, “Got more on that new product?” the answer is: yep, already bookmarked.

Narrative Edit:
This is the storytelling bit. It’s not just dropping in pretty B-roll. Every shot needs to support what’s being said. If someone’s raving about their revolutionary service, we’re not showing a corridor and a coffee mug. That’s filler. And we don’t do filler.

Tweaks & Amends:
We include three rounds in our contracts, but most clients only need one. (Dominic’s nickname? The One Edit Wonder Kid). Still, late feedback happens, and sometimes you’ve got to reshape things, that’s part of the job.

Sound Design:
You only notice sound when it’s bad. We clean, mix, layer music and make sure it all sits right.

Colour Grading:
Sometimes it’s a few hours, sometimes it’s three days. Matching shots, making skin tones pop, elevating the whole look. It’s more than slapping on a filter.

Graphics & Titles:
From quick captions to full-blown animations, this bit ranges from an hour to a whole separate stage of the project.

Final Checks & Export:
1–2 hours, or more if you need cut-downs for socials, subtitles or you’ve gone full 3D showstopper (our longest export render? 180 hours. Yes, really).

And remember.. this is just editing!

It doesn’t even cover scripting, storyboarding, filming or the 20 other things we do to get to this stage.

02/04/2025

We had the recent pleasure shooting some fantastic testimonial content for our new clients at Forfusion to highlight the amazing services provided by their team and organisation.

You know Adam means business when he's donning his shorts and being creative with lighting.

Set-staging was in full force with Claire and Luke sat in quite a lot as our 'model' to check the set-ups on top of his usual director duties. Check out that cheesy grin!

03/03/2025

HELLO MARCH!

Well we know we say it every month but crikey, last month was BUSY!

We've got a tonne of projects in the works from animations, product shoots and loads of interviews.

Here's some peeks from last week's shoot in Newcastle and Sunderland with Luke looking longingly at Adam, Claire ensuring Adam doesn't fall over on a trackback and some very nice on site feedback from our interviewee and her experience with Turps Film!

24/02/2025

It might look warm and cosy in frame, but it was anything but shooting on a cold February day! Part of the job though, eh?

We had a cracking day filming some unreal product content. Final edit coming soon- it’s looking amazing!

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18/02/2025

We always welcome an opportunity to give back so as part of an upcoming animation project, we had the pleasure of hosting a workshop with some fantastic students from Sandhill Academy in Sunderland last week.

It was a great afternoon and we can’t wait to see the animated piece come to life!

31/01/2025

January- wow, what a start to the year it's been! We have been jam-packed with back to back shoots, hours and hours of editing and tonnes of pre-production for some very exciting future projects!

Between all of the madness, we did manage to catch a little bts from an event this week for a lovely client for a series of arts & culture events over the next few months.

February- let's be having you!

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