Virtual and Hybrid, Meeting and Large Event Production support
Whole Being Films can help you hold your meeting, make your recording or produce your online or hybrid conference event. We offer a range of support services focussed on facilitating online gatherings where technological insight and interpersonal skills make the difference.
Our background in broadcast television and independent film making helps us to bring a high production value sensibility to everything we do. We can help you navigate the best way to present and hold your event; small and large.
Whole Being Films’ internet and tech skills provide a secure base which your organiser, participants and attendees can rely on. We facilitate presenters as well as host’s skills to enable successful performances.
An organiser might ask: ‘how would I go about getting some help with my meeting and what would it cost?’ We can help to talk you through what could be needed.
Meeting with you, we get a sense of the kind of project and outcome you are looking for. Our prices are based on an hourly rate (see example below) as well as one-off fees for a live event. Whole Being Films negotiate on extensive projects.
We offer:
Planning and production – helping you devise your best event, arranging team resources
Scripting and scheduling – a creative process that enables the project to build well
Recording and editing – getting the presenters tech and performances to a high standard
When we are live – supporting access, engagement and a smooth process
Once we are done – ensuring the material is where you want it, looking and sounding great.
Online and hybrid events combine the worlds of television, online and internet, developed interpersonal skills and a willingness to be flexible. Whole Being Films offers all this and more
Call us for a discussion and we can start the journey together.
An example of our rates for meetings/recordings:
You have a monthly meeting you want support with. You need someone to hold the meeting, circulate invites, manage breakout rooms in the live meeting and record and edit particular parts of that meeting which you know in advance. Once it’s done those files are uploaded to your location/server.
Imagine: 1 hour to set up the meeting. The meeting itself is 3 hours long, Once its done we edit the sections you want shared, encoding and uploading them – another 2 hours. In total this is 6 hours at GBP £50 ph gives £300 (plus VAT in the UK). If there is any ongoing hosting of the video’s there is a small charge. Otherwise; that’s it.
Events with 100 attendees (and above) require tech support for access issues as well as sign-up emails and enrolment, depending on the platform being utilised.
Considering a conference? From the start our support includes selecting platforms to best meet your needs and budget. We guide attendee management, agenda design, recording, scripts, and live on-the-day resources and direction. Conferences with multiple presenters and live links from a host presenter may require our studio and mix/streaming facilities. Contact us for more details: info@wholebeingfilms.com
We have been delighted to support The Centre for Early Child Development and Blackpool Better Start/NSPCC with their virtual conferences in 2020/21/22. It’s a an excellent project taking care of infants age 0-4, children and parents in one of the most deprived areas of the UK. Here is a link to the event from 2022: https://blackpoolbetterstart.org.uk/conference-2022/
This is a clip from the opening of 2021’s event.
We can send links to programmes we have created on request: Here, below, is Elmer Postle (Director of Whole Being Films) introducing a conference we originated from 2021.
Testimonials for Whole Being Films’ work.
‘Thankyou for organizing this event, you did a really good job‘ – Merle Davis, Director, Centre Early Child Development, Blackpool
‘We recently appointed Whole Being Films to assist in delivering a virtual conference to a professional audience of 300 delegates. Having never organised a virtual event before, we were keen to recruit experts to help us bring the vision we had to reality. From day one, Elmer and Amaranatho were incredible at understanding our needs and ambition, and helped us to achieve a stand out event with a jam-packed agenda. From technical support in the lead-up and on the day, to producing and editing the conference content – the team were fantastic in all elements of the planning and delivery. They made what was a difficult piece of work into one that we were all extremely proud to have been involved in’.
Merle Davis, Director, CECD, and Hannah Connell, Senior Communications Officer NSPCC. (Four events 2020 – 2023)
Whole Being Films, directed by Elmer Postle, are wonderful to work with. Their patience, good humour, attention to detail and professionalism are a great support to me as I run my online events.
Jan Trewartha
Director
The Fascia Hub (ongoing) & The British Fascia Symposium (2020 and 2022)
Action Trauma runs conferences and events to raise awareness of psychological trauma, its causes, effects and healing. In 2020 ….. Elmer and his team made a seamless process out of what was a hugely complex task of putting together pre-recorded footage, live Q&A sessions after each talk, switching from in-person to virtual and back. Elmer very effectively handled all of the editing, broadcasting and delivery, working closely with our technical and managerial team. Moreover, his caring and professional manner immediately put all the speakers at ease and his attention to the technical detail ensured high quality output. The result was a highly successful and much acclaimed virtual conference which had an attendance of 3,000+ attendees from all over the world.
Clive Corry, Action Trauma, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. (2020 and 2021)
“Elmer recently helped us host our first online conference, which had around 550 attendees from around the world – he was extremely helpful from beginning to end, using his expertise to guide us through everything we needed to do to ensure a smooth live event – his wonderful capable and calm approach, and easy sense of humour, helped ensure a great result for all our delegates and enabled us to feel confident and relaxed throughout.”
Jane Tyrrell, Human Givens Institute (conferences 2021 + 2023)
WHO ARE WHOLE BEING FILMS?
Elmer Postle and Amaranatho have a combined experience of 50 years working with the media tech/healing arts fields.
Biographies
Elmer Postle has worked in the therapy and healing arts fields for over 25 years. He is a broadcast TV cameraman who counts the BBC and CNBC, ITN as clients. Elmer is also a practicing Biodynamic Cransiosacral therapist and trainer in Pre and Perinatal Psychology. He lives in London.
Amaranatho Robey started his working life as a technical support manager and this took him on a transformational journey from getting a degree in AI, to world explorer and spending 15 years as a Buddhist monk. He is a consultant to a variety of mindfulness oriented projects online and in person. He developed the PlayfulMonk approach to help people and organisations to stay calm and connected in complex situations. Amaranatho lives in the Netherlands.
Some of our FACILITIES
- We manage your remote stream from our virtual studio with options to move your internal or external event completely online
- Green screen/active video backdrop options add value to your audience & allow you to be independent of your location
- Multi-Camera options for streaming. Services include recording & post-event editing & branding in your edit
- Broadcast to multiple outlets at the same time
- Options for live streaming using cellular internet for tricky locations or those with insufficient infrastructure.
To give you a picture of our film making background:
CORPORATE PROMOTIONAL FILMS.
If your focus includes promotional films, we have made a series of films for several major multinational companies for sales purposes and these clips give examples:
They include: Investec Asset Management (Now: ’91 Asset Management’), a large asset manager in the City of London. Our credits are for the whole production process. The series of films have been used online as well as to introduce investor conferences worldwide.
We have made a number of films for travel companies including the luxury cruise company, CUNARD. Our involvement was from initial branding discussions through script, direction, shoot and post-production, often integrating many film sources. Films for Cunard celebrated the inauguration of the Queen Elizabeth (3), their newest ship. The ‘Brand Movie’ (below) was described by Cunard’s head of marketing as ‘the most ‘Cunard film’ we have ever had’.
Here is an example of a short promotional film for Somatic Body Mapping director Annette Schwalbe (2020).
ENG Camera Crew – West London Based
Our work in broadcast television is with clients such as the BBC, CNBC, ITV, C4, ITN and a host of international broadcasters.
For ENG Broadcast Crew see here: https://wholebeingfilms.com/us/production/camera-crew-ratecard/
CContact: info@wholebeingfilms.com +44 7785 92679SIX for more information.
INDEPENDENT FILMS AND PROMOTIONAL FILM PRODUCTION
Independent Film productions include: The Healing of Birth, (co-produced as ‘What Babies Want’ in the USA). Made by Whole Being Films in 2005, this film has informed and supported the field of pregnancy, midwifery and birth support. Elmer Postle, Directed this film.
Making independent documentaries gives us the ability to delve deeply into a subject to tell an essential story. Whole Being Films shot and executive produced this feature-length documentary; ‘It’s A Life’, directed by Denis Postle (2017). Here is the whole film.
CONFERENCES:
We have been involved with many inspirational and educational conferences all over the UK. These range from recordings of workshops to large events with thousands of participants. Our partners in these projects include: Action Trauma, The Fascia Hub, Khiron House, PESIUK, The Findhorn Foundation, (Scotland), Human Baby, Human Being and The Breath of Life Conferences. Please call to see examples.
This (below) is a short promotional film for the International Conference; ‘Healthy Birth, Healthy Earth’ at the Findhorn Foundation, Scotland, 2016. It features pioneering obstetrician Michel Odent addressing changes in approaches to childbirth from the neolithic era to the present.
LONG-FORM INTERVIEWS AND EVENT RECORDINGS.
‘A Dialogue on Forgiveness’ is an edited, two hour production with Tom Carpenter and Dr Robert Holden and is an example of an interview for online/tangible distribution. Other productions have featured inspirational teachers Eckhart Tolle, Neale Donald Walsch, and Caroline Myss.
FACILITIES
- We manage your remote stream from our virtual studio with options to move your internal or external event completely online
- Green screen options add perceived value to your audience & allow you to be independent of your location
- Multi-Camera options for streaming. Services include recording & post-event editing & branding in our edit suites
- Simulcast & Multicast technology for maximum exposure & ROI. Broadcast to multiple outlets at the same time
- Options for mobile live streaming using cellular internet for tricky locations or those with insufficient infrastructure
To see further examples of our work, have a conversation or quote, contact: info@wholebeingfilms.com
