CC 2003/083153/23
CORPORATE PROFILE: 2003 - 2011
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Introduction
1 WE HAVE MORE THAN 35 YEARS COMBINED EXPERIENCE Johan “Johnny” Taute started out in the video production discipline in 1984 and founded i – LINE FILMS in 2003, primarily to specialize in entertaining, informing and equipping the people of South Africa. The production company is situated in Pretoria, South Africa and delivers video productions for the Broadcast, Documentary and Corporate markets. i-Line Films delivers from concept to final mix and supplements the video facility with Photography as well. The skills shortage in SA is inhibiting the economic growth and job creation and therefore i – LINE Films enters into the joint venture and skills development strategy. We deliver on the following Solutions: Pre production Research Concept development (storyboarding, scriptwriting, treatment development)
Productions for the Corporate, Training and Broadcast spheres Direction & production of video & dvd’s Onsite video recording Single- and Multiple camera recording Live switching
Post production Editing (offline & online) Special effects 2D & 3D animations and compositing DVD disc Duplication Raw footage archiving General production services
Audio Sound studio & recording Audio editing Voice over sourcing & recording Studio facilitation & direction Sound effects Music score development Podcasting
Presentation, Multi-Media & Training discs DVD presentations CD presentations Audio streaming Corporate & Magazine Photography Annual reports Cartooning
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Joint Ventures When a video is produced for a company or broadcaster there is limited responsibility for the producing company. We prefer to work in a joint venture atmosphere with our clients to produce a series of programmes to help the client to hit the target they require to hit. As a partner in a corporate joint venture we bring more than media skills to the table. We offer: - A centre of learning for every business. - Training and education of management in all spheres. - Proper media selection to facilitate skills development programmes. - Increased revenue & Income tax incentives. - More than 20 years experience in training videos at a tertiary level. (Univ. of PTA. Faculty of Medicine) Our Vision is to help talented people to develop in a skills transfer environment and to assist in their life long learning and in so doing, build a potent and creative work force. i – LINE can assist in the following ways: 1. Through the production of high quality documentaries. 2. The production of excellent training video productions. 3. Through quality programmes for corporate communication.
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BROADCASTING IN SA
2 We know and understand the spirit, limitations and expectations of local and intercontinental broadcasters. Our crews filmed, and directed several episodes for SABC’s “Good Morning South Africa”. i-Line Films worked together with EB Productions on inserts for “Ontbytsake” and “In Pas” for KYKNET. We filmed an programme “For All to See”, on SABC3’s “Expressions” and “Carte Blanche” on various inserts such as “Women boxing”, “A Profile on Makhaya Ntini” etc. In 2003 i-Line Films did on-line editing for the KYKNET series “Oulap se rooi” and did full production and directing of episodes for “Reise & Soetkyse” and music videos for “Gospel Gold” in 2006 -2008. We also do infomercials for corporate clients. We filmed, edited and directed the documentary (shown on SABC2 in 2009) titled "Wounded healer." The video was filmed on location in Santa Barbara, California, LA. We produce the series on KYKNET for Portico Financial Services named “Jou geldsake in 90 sekondes”
Carte Blanché: Derrick, Johnny & Makhaya Ntini
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Syndicated documentaries: i – LINE directed several syndicated documentaries in the 1990’s. Amongst others we filmed and directed the “Return of the Tsetse fly” and “KUSOMA” a programme screened at the international Women’s Conference in Beijing, China. “KUSOMA” takes in depths look at the obstacles facing South Africa’s black women and the programmes implemented to help them overcome such hurdles. Johnny wrote and directed “What a beautiful world” (1990) which focused on the growing number of street kids in Sunnyside and the dangers they faced. The programme rocked the pillars of justice for everybody involved in the matter. In 2002, he was Director of Photography on a program investigating religion in Israel and in 2003 - 2005 Johnny co-directed and edited a syndicated documentary on the History of the Royal Bafokeng nation in Phokeng. Since South Africa is plagued by serial murder, in fact having the second highest number of serial homicides in the world, we embarked to study the minds and methods of serial murder in a syndicated programme funded by the National Film & Video Foundation of South Africa.
The programme “Tortured Souls” was completed after 3 years of research and production and has represented SA in the 2007 Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, Canada and Cape Town TV. The main focus of i –LINE’s syndication of programmes to the international market is to illustrate our continents most precious commodity, the spirituality of Africa. The i – LINE crew have been involved in numerous international documentaries and have travelled the country, the continent and the globe extensively and filmed in countries such as: Angola, Brazil, Botswana, China, England, Ethiopia, Ghana, Germany, Italy, Japan, Malawi, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Singapore, Swaziland and Switzerland, UAE, USA (Atlanta, California, Detroit, Tennessee & Washington DC), Zimbabwe and Zambia. A pilot for the programme series was completed on the first African Princess to fly a helicopter. The programme is named “An African Princess’ Diary” (2005) and includes picturesque scenes of Africa and its people. i-Line Films is currently employed by the Royal Bafokeng Kingdom in Phokeng to assist the King’s office with all aspects of the electronic media and various productions to inform the public on the cultures and history of the Tswana peoples. One such programme is the complete History of the People of the Dew while our multicamera team is employed during their annual Excellence Awards, Sports events at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Palace such as International Rugby and National Soccer Leagues and at the Quarterly mass meetings or Kgotha Kgothe.
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CORPORATE & TRAINING VIDEOS
We assisted in gaining ISO 14001 for the Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine (Anglo Platinum) in 2001and we have written, filmed, and directed video productions for corporate clients such as ABI, seda, Anglo Platinum and various other prestigious clients as tabled below:
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“African Blue” “Disclosing the future” “Not just another brick in the hole” “Shaping our world”
Prevention of HIV / aids Product Release Training of Students of Building Institute in SA. Environmental awareness to gain ISO 14001 Introduction to new products Coca-Cola Cup’s marketing. Coca-cola marketing. Funding for community projects. Marketing & Corporate Information on Omega Risk
ABI Coca-cola TOP INFO BIFSA
1999 1999 1997 - ‘99 2001
“BOND 005”’ “Coca-Cola Cup 2003” “Oasis” “CPPP” “The dti.” “Omega Risk” Royal Bafokeng “seda Corporate and Multi-Media” “Hi-Risk Unit” “ABI: Quarter Drives.” “Kagiso: The Beyers Naude Fund” “X-Cellence Academy
History of the Royal Bafokeng Nation, RBHoldings etc. Launch of offices & Tender Procedures in SA. Corporate, Training & Marketing ABI & Coca-cola marketing
Anglo Platinum TCTA ABI ABI/Coke CPPP/ dti DTI Omega Royal Bafokeng Nation seda Hi-Risk Unit ABI/Coke 6 WINNERS! KAGISO
Productivity SA Access to Finance
Information on the fund & schools in The Northern Province. TV infomercial, Training DVDs & Photography Corporate DVDs & Photography Info and corporate DVD
Radio Pulpit TRANSNET
TV series: Gospel Gold TRANSNET Foundation 1 & 2
Studio plus Calabash
WRP Water Reticilation PUTCO New Ventures
WRP Hydro Engineering PUTCO Corporate Video
WRP PUTCO
RBN
Queen Mother
Royal Bafokeng
CHUBB
Response Officer Training
UTC CHUBB
Vhumbanani SARENS
Induction series Corporate Productions
Vhumbanani SARENS SA
GFOB
Corporate Events
RBS G4S State Theatre VODACOM APRE (Italy) SWC2010 CSIR CSIR PORTICO FIN SERV SASOL ESKOM DENEL Ekurhuleni
“Royal Bafokeng Sport” Training Videos “CAF” Corparate/ Events “SAccess” Tour documentaries “DPSS” “Excellence Awards” “Jou Geldsake in 90 sekondes” TEMANE Kusile Corporate Videos & Events Environmental Education
Girls from our block RBS G4S State Theatre VODACOM Nrth EU Sandown Tours CSIR CSIR PORTICO SC Productions SC Productions DTA EDM
X-Cellence Academy Various seda
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We cover large scale projects and events as they develop over time. The growth of the Ekurhuleni (OR Thambo) Environmental Centre at Wattvile (2011) will be followed. The video material will be applied not only to show the centre’s green advance but will also be applied for various videos on environmental issues to be viewed at the centre. Issues range from biogas to the local community’s involvement.
We assisted in co-productions for ABI and Anglo Plats on AIDS awareness, as well as occupational safety videos for Northam Plats. Current satisfied corporate clients include: Standard Bank, NPI, IPFA and SAMBA soccer (2006 - 2007). In 2006 Magalies Water in conjunction with the RBA assigned i-Line Films to produce a programme in water management for the North West province to inform and educate the local communities on the correct usage of water. This ties in with the Royal Bafokeng’s Master Plan and we assist with multi-media productions as the project grows. We also worked in conjunction with the relative communities to produce videos on the dti, CPPP, seda and Kagiso’s “Beyers Naudé Schools Project” in the Northern Province. i-Line Films was also involved in the photographic and video productions of the “Mrs. South Africa Pageant” in 2005 and 2006 and Mr SA in 2010 & 2011.
Training & Multi-media Johnny has more than 26 year’s experience of producing training programmes and Multimedia for basic education as well as under graduate and post graduate education and MultiMedia make up an integral part of training programmes. These programmes were produced in the Medical, Veterinary, Dental and Science (and even Language) disciplines.
This includes CD ROM and Web based materials. i-Line Films support their customers on all levels of multi-media and our footprints can be found in training programmes (over a decade in all official languages) produced for: Seda Procurement, Gerotek, Dimension Data, University of Pretoria, Royal Bafokeng Nation as well as for the Construction industry.
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Sport Not only are our directors and creative teams active in sport, we have been producing sports programmes and photography on various levels and ranging from single camera to multiple camera to OB Van set-up: 1. Athletics, swimming, cricket, sky diving, karate, rugby and hockey for the University of Pretoria. 2. Soccer: Coca-Cola Cup & Confederations Cup 09; SWC 2010 3. Soccer: RBN sports palace: Telkom Charity Cups, BP top 8 and Mandela Challenge for Royal Bafokeng Holdings / Platinum Stars. 4. National Games in Mongolia.
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Int. Rugby at Phokeng: SA vs. NZ 2006 School sports: Rugby, hockey and athletics. Int. Rugby at Loftus: SA vs. Wales 2005. Golf: First National Bank. Aerobics: Nat step challenge. Motor sport at Kyalami and Swartkops Horse racing and challenges for SAPS Fishing & Micro light for corporate sponsors. Para Motor Boogie Champs 2006 (KYKNET) SAMBA soccer 2006 - 2009
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TELEVISION & VIDEO ADDS
We have proven very successful in generating substantial income for: PHONAK (HASS) hearing aids; FIRE GEL: Fire lighters & X-Cellence Academy for Advanced Beauty Technology Infomercial. Several ads were produced for the Marketing students in annual competition with RAU and AAA Marketing School. We produced 3 winners over the four years of the competition.
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PART 5
CARTOON/ ANIMATION
i- LINE is involved in 2D cartoon animations as well. Examples of such shows are: TV shows such as Liesel Eislen’s “X-peri shop” and video productions such as “Run, yell and tell” to combat the sexual abuse of children. Two complete books on the 20 Keys to a successful business (Kaizen) were also cartoon illustrated for Anglo Platinum and Impala Platinum and we design cartoon characters/ mascots for comics and features.
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PHOTOGRAPHY
The telling of stories is what we love to do, but the reporting of true life is what we live for. See the world through our lens as we take you to fascinating places where every person has a tale to share.
Our photos have featured in the following printed media: Media Corporate Coffee table book & Various Printed Media
Client History of the Royal Bafokeng Nation, seda
News photography & Press Release
Pretoria News, Beeld, Record, Solidarity, Productivity SA, Excellence Academy, Big News, & Internal medical magazines as well as Enterprise.
Annual Reports, Corporate Photography & Magazines & Board members
Seda, SARENS, ABI, VODACOM, Girls from our Block, Rand Building Hydraulics, HPCSA, CHUBB, Fidelity Guards, Productivity SA, Swedish Trade, Lafarge, Royal Bafokeng Holdings, CSIR, Royal Bafokeng Administration & Transnet Foundation.
Sport, Wildlife & Landscape
International Rugby, Football & Various requirements.
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In 2005 we completed a 200 page book of photos on the Kingdom of the Royal Bafokeng and its people. The book was commissioned by the king himself and printed in conjunction with “Signatures”. The Small Enterprise Development Agency (seda) engaged us in their numerous success stories as they established new branches in the Eastern Cape, the Free State and launched their HO in Pretoria. We were commissioned by seda to photograph the events of the “Memorandum of understanding” signed in 2005 and launching of provincial offices throughout SA in 2005 2007. We have been honoured to be instrumental in the Annual Report of seda as well as their book on Success Stories when we were tasked to take all photographs throughout the country. We assist with Annual Reports from creation, layout and design, photography, printing and delivery!
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CREATIVE TEAM
Johnny Taute Writer, Director, DOP and Editor. Johnny started his television career in South Africa in 1983 when he played a bit part in the SABC series named “Skooldae”. During the 80’s he worked on several SABC productions such as the sitcom, “Orkney snork nie” and dramas such as: “Sonkring”, “Egoli”, “Jackpot” and “Die laksman”. Under the directions of credited directors such as Grey Hoffmeyer, Bob Reilly, Jan Scholtz and Willie Esterhuizen he cultured his directing skills. He also acted out bit parts in English and French productions such as SABC’s sitcom “Jo’burg Blues” and “Crocodile pond.” He made his film debut as the captain of the Makulu rugby team in Leon Schuster’s’ comedy “Sweet & short.” Apart from that he acted in a variety of training and educational productions. In the 90’s he hosted a talk show for the Technicon students on Radio 2000 and as announcer on Radio Ripple and Radio Pulpit. Training / education: In 1988 Johnny Taute joined the video unit at First National Bank and attended the WITS University’s television Course. He specialised in camera work filming amongst others: Training productions, corporate communications and a quarterly news programme called “Network” which was presented by Derek Watts and which focused on current affairs in the banking sector. During his training as a director he completed two internal training courses in “Management Principles” and “Human Relations”. He joined the University of Pretoria at the Faculty of Medicine in 1989 and in 1991 he completed a diploma in TV script writing and Creative writing at Success. He obtained a diploma in journalism in 1998 at the Intec College. During the first four years of the 13 he worked at the University of Pretoria (1989 – 2002) Johnny started a video unit at the Faculty of Medicine to train undergraduate and post graduate medical students through multi-media programmes. He produced videos on “In vitro fertilization” (Test tube babies) and other specialised sciences such as Dentistry, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy. His expertise was also employed to train dental students as well as the students of the Veterinary Science Faculty at Onderstepoort.
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In 1994 he won the South African Association for Research and Development in Higher Education’s award for: The best Multi-media Learning Resource and in 1995 he was awarded their: Media prize for the best Video Production. He produced training videos on various subjects such as: Dentistry, Medicine and Surgery techniques, Nursing, Veterinary procedures, African Languages, Sport, Procurement, Risk Management, Construction Industries, Float Glass manufacturing, Agriculture and Music. Johnny was the on camera presenter on various educational Video programmes such as: The University of Pretoria educational programmes, SASOL, and Christian -TV and does voice-overs for such video programs. From 2002 - 2010, he heads the media team for Kgosi Leruo Molotlegi of the Royal Bafokeng nation and was seconded to the enthronement committee of the royal family. He is currently studying for his Business Management degree at Penn Foster College Arizona USA Dirk Pieters Dirk Pieters heads up the Photographic department of i-Line Films. He has been widely publicised in local newspapers and corporate magazines. . The photographic department delivered DVD’s with photographs for John Van G on makeup, travelled to Germany for the World Cup Soccer 2006 to capture the preparations, captured corporate branding of Bidvest’s Budget Chairs and Desks and other clients on the attached select client list. Our CV includes a coffee table book for the King of the Royal Bafokeng, Success Stories for SEDA and several annual reports including Productivity SA, SEDA and Fidelity. Dirk’s forte lies with photographic editing software such as Light room, Photoshop and Aperture. Although his strong points are in the fields of photography and imagining software, he has quickly adopted to the video fields as editor and camera operator. Lebogang Bogopane Lebogang is a graduate of our own skills transfer programmes. He joined the program in 2006 and completed 5 year training in videography and photography under the guidance of our crews. He excelled as a videographer and video editor and is currently an insert camera operator and editor for video. He is a stills photographer and a proficient video camera operator as well as co-director for SABC productions.” Jean Pohl Jean’s forte is audio and is in charge of audio ranging from field recordings, studio recordings to final mixing. His programmes of choice for mixing it up are Soundtrack Pro and Reason. He is an avid musician and member of a band but doubles as a jib operator and grips. Jean is a cameraman in motion. We employ freelance photographers, audio and camera crews from time to time as well and this contributes to i-Line Film’s responsibilities as an employer.
Synergy Synergy is important to make a success in video production and we enter into JV’s with other production houses, most notably is “It’s a wrap productions”, “Phutego” and “Black stone design”. We employ graphic designers and layout artists, voice artists, cameramen, photographers, writers and other freelancers on a regular basis to support us on various projects.
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Other professionals Various experts at various universities, clubs and groups are employed to develop scripts, do 3D animations or are interviewed as people in the various fields should give credibility to the diversity of productions. Financial specialists are called upon where programmes with budgets exceeding R 500 000 are produced. We employ the mathematical skills of reputable Chartered Accountant’s company to ensure good financial management. On productions in excess of a million Rand and more we call on a Deloitte or Ernst & young.
Live Events & AV i-Line Films is geared for both single camera recordings of live events as well as multiple camera recordings, live switching and OB van programmes and our directors are accredited with a Television certificate from WITS University as confirmation. Covering productions such as: drama, local TV, sport, conferences, awards ceremonies & seminars, we mix multiple cameras and record to scale down on post production. AV services are rendered in conjunction with DUARD for major events such as: Royal Bafokeng KgothaKgothe, Annual Awards, KK&K Festivals, Corporate Functions,
Equipment Our current Pretoria studio boasts full video and audio post production services and hosts the following equipment: Video: ◘ 5 x Apple Mac G5 editing stations running Final Cut Pro HD ◘ 2 x Apple Mac PowerBooks running Final Cut Pro HD ◘ 4 X HD cameras ◘ 2 x 3CCD cameras ◘3 x 1 CCD cameras ◘ Lapel and rifle microphones ◘ Audio booth ◘ Dolly and tracks ◘ Jib, Steady cam, underwater housing and Tripods ◘ Audio recording studio
Photography: ◘ D3 digital camera ◘ D700 digital camera ◘ D200 digital camera ◘ 2 x D5000 digital cameras ◘ D 80 camera ◘ D 70 camera ◘ Complete set of wide angle and zoom lenses & studio lights ◘ 9 x photo editing stations
We compose music scores to suit the individual video production and to help reduce costs on music licensing.
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Part 8
Skills Training
i-Line Films boasts a tremendously successful and proven skills training programme. We never solicit donations; instead we invite stakeholders to grant us video and photo productions to develop our students in practical application. The students work close to the production team on all aspects of a production from concept to finish. Our mission is to make our students self sustainable business owners at the end of their training. Training starts with a quality photographic course, the journalism follows before the students are immersed into the deep video pool as they are trained to shoot, edit and direct videos. Initial Skills Transfer started in 2002 when our first students, Albert, AndrĂŠ and Derick, was introduced to the world of photography and then later into video. They went on to start their own enterprises in 2004/5. Jennelee is our third candidate, specialising in photography while touching on the basics of video editing. At the end of 2006 Jennelee will complete their diploma in journalism. Jennelee started her programme as photographer and video editor in 2004 and should be self sustainable by end 2007. In October ‘05 Lebogang and Patricia joined the first 5 year fully fledged programme while Shani joined as our last student in January 2006. It took only 8 Months to train Shani and make her employable. She is currently employed as an on-line editor. Lebogang and Patricia are our first students to join us from outside the Pretoria Area and from the North West province. Special accommodation arrangements were set in to place and i-Line films obtained a two bedroom duplex to serve as a hostel for them. They completed a dynamic 5 Year training programme in 2010 as seen below. Our current student, Phillicia, started with photography in Jan 2011. We continue to give opportunities to several students who need to do a quick internship at a local enterprise.
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Skills development programme The students are trained on all aspects of photography and video production and then the management of an own business. These skills are not transferred merely to give the students employment but to help them start their own ventures and eventually become employers themselves. When a trainee exits the programme he will be a fully fledged: Photo journalist, Video journalist, Business manager, a video director with all the skills from concept to delivery. The vision of our skills programme is as follows: • To train candidates to be a skilled photographer by the end of the first year of study and have a basic understanding of video production. Where needed, driver’s licences are obtained. • To train candidates to be a skilled photo journalist by the end of the second year of study and level one video cameraman. By this time a CC must be started by the students and money made from basic productions such as weddings are saved into a CC account. • By end third year, the student must be able to script, film and edit a basic production as a journalist. Sound management principles are taught to ensure a stable business. • The 4th and 5th years are the practical years and here the student will be used to do full scale productions and start to manage their own business while i-Line oversees the management of the CC. • The schedule can be shortened to accommodate students.
Part 9
Testimonials & Awards
NSBC Champions for 2009 – 2010 Please find client testimonials and awards bestowed on our personnel attached below:
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in closing
We thank you for taking the time to be acquainted with i – LINE FILMS and hope to include you as a preferred customer and stakeholder. Please visit our website: www.iline.co.za or contact us: johnny@iline.co.za
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