Student Enterprise @ Purple Door

Background:

Allen and Dominic both graduated from Entertainment Technology in the summer of 2005.  Ideas of establishing a multimedia production company had been under discussion since they collaborated in the making of an educational video for "Explosion - The Museum of Naval Firepower".  The resulting video was nominated for and won the Avid Award for best-edited short film.

With new ideas for providing video production services for SME's, Allen and Dom founded Monochrome Media and proposed a filming, DVD and production solution to the Enterprise Challenge 2005 Design category.  Monochrome Media was delighted to win the £1000 prize.

Monochrome Media successfully bid to design and make Cascade Shopping Centre's Cinema Advert, which combined skills and original ideas the team had developed through their knowledge of stop motion animation, project management, as well as editing skills from their mentors and lecturers during their time in the department of Creative Technologies.  The final 30 second advert was shown at cinemas across the south coast in 2005 and early 2006.

Current:

Monochome Media is currently developing Video Podcasting as a new medium for the University of Portsmouth to recruit prospective students.  The Video Podcasting venture promises to be the first use of such technology by a university in Europe.  Discussions are currently underway with Apple Europe and the University, with an official launch date due imminently.

Other current projects include DVD solutions for Hampshire schools, in-house big screen advertising for a small chain of pubs and a number of small animation projects to raise graduate business awareness.

Portsmouth Centre for Enterprise:

Allen and Dominic moved into their offices at the PCE in September 2005, and have found the support from the team there invaluable.  Frequent contact with the staff and other companies mean that Monochrome Media are able to keep their business knowledge up to date as well as maintain a healthy relationship with the network of other student and graduate companies.

Allen has also been fortunate enough to be asked to mentor 2nd year students studying the "Student Enterprise" units.  It means he is able to pass some of the experience and knowledge he has gained back to current students hoping to make it big.

Future:

Work in the 'pipeline' include a new promotional short for the new School for Professionals Complimentary to Dentistry, ideas for a year long documentary surrounding Enterprise Businesses, as well as new advertising video solutions for Solent and cross channel ferries.

Visit their website at www.monochromemedia.com

Telephone:  023 9284 3057

Fax:  023 9284 8874