For those, like me, who still lament the passing of that excellent satire Drop the Dead Donkey, the first episode of Taking the Flak on BBC2 came as a crushing disappointment.
So poor was the script – and unremarkable the acting – that I can’t recall a single laugh-out-loud moment.
Those tired old clichés about journalists being [...]
First episode of Taking the Flak
13 July 2009Huge popularity of social media
13 July 2009No one can deny the huge popularity of social media – nor, from a journalistic point of view, the role it now plays in the coverage of major stories like the Iranian elections. But has this obsession with the mundane details of people’s everyday lives gone just a bit too far?
Take last weekend, for instance, [...]
Freelance professional services – Ember Regis
16 March 2009Here at Ember Regis we offer a freelance professional service for all media related services. Clients that have taken advantage of our freelance professional services include local Governments, large and small companies, schools and charities.
With a background in television our freelance services have been used by all the major UK television networks and they expect [...]
Gain positive media exposure – Ember Regis
13 October 2008We live in a media age; whether it is newspapers, magazines, radio, televisions, weblogs or podcasts, there’s just no escape from it. Without a doubt the media is the most powerful industry in the world today. Gaining positive media exposure is one of the best ways of helping your company to succeed in a world [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Video editing facilities – Ember Regis
15 September 2008Here at Ember Regis we have state-of-the-art video editing facilities to produce broadcast quality video media in many different formats for your company.
These video editing facilities can be used to produce high quality media that can be used in many different scenarios; producing a training video, a promotional video, for use in freelance work producing [...]
Media training courses – Ember Regis
12 August 2008If you or your company have to deal with the media in any shape or form you need to know how to deal with them to keep them on your side to get your story out in the manner you want. The media is one of the most important mediums for portraying your company in [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Independent media specialists – Ember Regis
3 July 2008Here at Ember Regis independent media specialists we are able to offer our clients a ‘cutting-edge’ service to help your company, school, charity or anything else for that matter increase their profile and also help improve your profile if for unforeseen reasons, such as a bad newspaper article or faulty products, your profile has been [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Public relations consultants – Ember Regis
29 May 2008Here at Ember Regis we have vast experience within media and how it works. We use this vast knowledge to our advantage as public relations consultants to help our clients and advise them and their company on the best possible ways of attracting interest from the media and in turn helping the company to raise [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Corporate video – Ember Regis
15 April 2008We take a different approach, because let’s face it, most of these corporate videos people are made to watch are boring and in fact very cringe worthy. Our aim is to grab the attention of the viewers within the first few seconds and keep that attention all the way through and if we have done [...]
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