UK Graves Video Films

These short films were produced by Atlantic View Sound & Vision, the commercial photography and videography company with whom UKG are associated.

About the films:

The films are between about 4 and 6 minutes in length
Each was photographed with a Sony FX7E camcorder in full high definition, 1080i
Editing was carried out on an Apple iMac 24", primarily using Apple Final Cut editing software
The material was reduced in size and compressed for the web using Apple QuickTime Pro software
If you do not already have the QuickTime player on your computer, it will download automatically from Apple the first time you play one of the films
Some effects were created with the use of particleIllusion
Music was created and performed by Atlantic View, using one or more of the Sony Cinescore system, MusicBed DV or Apple GarageBand
There is little or no sound in graveyards, so the original soundtrack is not present.

As stated, the original material was shot at full high definition, at a resolution of 1920 x 1080 pixels (known in television shops as "full HD"). We create review versions of the material at full HD on Blu-Ray disc, for viewing on a 42 inch HD plasma television. The original quality is stunning. There is of course a considerable loss of quality during the resizing and compression process, but nevertheless, we remain quite pleased with the results to be seen here. Please drop us an email to ukgfilms [at] ukgraves.info if you would care to purchase a full HD Blu-Ray version of any of these films.

We hope you enjoy them.

This is the famous and well-known Brookwood Cemetery. If you've seen our still images gallery of Brookwood you'll know it's enormous. To provide a documentary-style approach to Brookwood would need half an hour of movie, and we don't have the luxury of being able to throw that much web server disk space at this project. So we've opted for making a film containing numerous short snappy clips, designed to convey a flavour of the beautiful woodland setting of this fine cemetery. The movie is just under 5 minutes in length. If you're concentrating you'll notice that the early parts of the movie are steady, but later a degree of shakiness appears. This is because about a quarter of the way into my visit to Brookwood one of the rangers asked me to stop using a tripod and I therefore had to hand-hold a quite heavy camera, which isn't easy.
This film is of no specific graveyard or cemetery; it's edited together from various clips, and is entitled Scenes and Inscriptions, and portrays just that.
Next is Speen Church, St Mary the Virgin. Speen is actually part of Newbury, and is situated to the west of town, on the road which leads to Hungerford, Marlborough, and further into Wiltshire.
Combe is a tiny village, deep down in a dark little valley, just below the highest points in Berkshire. The film opens with some scenery from up top. Combe is well known for its gibbet - Google Combe Gibbet for all you need to know about this landmark. St Swithun's, its church, is tiny and attractive, and it features an interesting little graveyard.
This film is a tongue-in-cheek recreation of the 1930s film style - black and white/sepia, with plenty of hairs, dirt and scratches, just for fun. It's of Shaw Cemetery, Newbury, the day after a reasonably heavy overnight snowfall. We had fun with this one!