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BEHIND THE SCENES @ URBAN KARMA FILM


At Urban Karma we produce quality driven, bespoke and creative videos, which offer a real value to their audience.

We’re a driven, dynamic and a technically capable team who create video and film content for market leading brands. We pride ourselves on our in-house capabilities to turn projects around at speed whilst also ensuring that content is optimised and ready for the intended audience.

Urban Karma began life as a Music Production/Video studio 10 years ago and has gone from strength to strength since. Over the years the business, skills and team have consistently expanded allowing Darren  to focus his attentions on founding the Urban Karma you see today. The business thrives on outside the box ideas and weird and wonderful opportunities, it’s these traits that allows us to really bring your project to life. Alongside our in-depth technical knowledge, we genuinely care about our clients and every project we get involved in. 
 

It isn’t exactly astro physics understanding how we got here, a little bit of common sense, hundreds of hours learning and shooting and lots and lots of drive but we are just getting started. Now we offer not just engaging video content but creation strategy, films, documentaries, social adverts, editing and location services as part of our proposition to you

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Darren

Technical Director

Darren’s passion for Film & TV has grown from his media career in audio production & recording. Darren owned a record label and pro tools based recording studio for many years which has given him a pivotal access point into the world of video. Darren has vast understanding and experience in the technical aspects of film production in studio and on location. Darrens knowledge in the latest cinema camera’s, rigging, post production, techniques & industry standard equipment Is seriously impressive. As with anything Urban Karma we stack the odds massively in your favour.

We have developed our skills over the years to be able to handle all kinds of situations from fast paced racing cars  & fighter jets to gentle documentaries and everything in between.We guarantee an amazing experience when filming with Urban Karma Film

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Our equipment

We pride ourself on working with high end systems our studio is powered by 2 state of the art mac editing stations with 110 TB of storage, here is a full list of our equipment

CAMERA’S

• Zcam E2 Cinema camera system 4k 160fps/pro res raw 12 bit recording 60p

• Panasonic GH5 24mp 4K DCI 60fps camera’s x 2

• Sony A7III
 
•Canon 1Dx Mk2
 
• Sony A77mk2
 
• 4x4k Action Cameras   
 
 
 

LENSES

• Dzo Film 20mm – 70mm parfocal cine zoom lens T2.8

• Samyang 35mm cine T1. 5 prime lens

• Samyang 100mm cine T3.1 macro prime lens

• Leica 12mm – 60mm F2. 8 zoom

• Panasonic 12mm – 35mm F2. 8 power IOS lens

• Panasonic 25mm prime F1. 7

•Sony G Master 200-600mm

(with adapter 400-1200mm)

•Sony G Master 70-200mm

•Sony x 2 Teleconvertor 

• Sony FE 28-70mm F3.5
 
• Tamron 28-75mm 2.8
 
• Zeiss Planar 50mm F1.4
 
• Sony SSM 16-50mm F2.8
 
• Sony Selp 50mm F1.4
 
•Canon 28-70mm
 
•Canon 70-300mm
 
 

RIGGING

• Manfrotto tripods & HD Fluid head

•7 X Full range RGB led lighting panels 

• Edelkrone motorised slider Pro & motorised parallax head

• 3.5 meter Pro aim crane jib + counter balance weights

• Zhiyun crane labs 3s directors edition gimbal with motion control unit

• Hill rigs cinema dolly & track system 8 meter track flight cased

• LED high powered continuous lighting with variable colour control

• Fresnal lens tungsten lighting,
Martin smoke & fogger machines

• 6 x Motorola 2 way communication radios

• Atomos ninja V ssd recorder/monitoring

•Gini rigs manual follow focus

•Transmitter & Receiver for wireless monitoring  

• Gini rigs shoulder rig for Zcam, 
2nd focus puller monitor

• Wireless Metz Flash System

• 2x Fresnal 1000w Tugnsten Lighting 

• Martin Smoke Machines

• Martin Fog Machines 

• Tilta Nucleus wireless electric follow focus

AUDIO

• Tascam 24 bit audio recorder

•Studio Electronic 3300a omni pattern condenser mic

•Hollyland dual wireless microphone system

• Rode NGT 2 Shotgun mic

• Rode shotgun Video microphone

• Sure SM58 microphone x 2

• Sure sm57 microphones x 2

• Microphone boom for overhead miking

• Avid audio interface with Pro tools, Reason, Logic PRO, Ableton Live Digital Audio Workstations

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