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We traveled to the Canary Islands with Thomas Cook and spent 8 days island-hopping, armed with two Canon C300s, a Movi M10 and a load of GoPros, shooting a huge amount of footage across the 4 islands, covering everything from venue shots to camel safaris to water parks and zoos – all of the things Thomas Cook wanted to show off.

The 4 islands – Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Fuertaventura and Lanzarote – each had their own individual video edited showcasing the fun and adventure available on a Thomas Cook Gran Canaria winter sun holiday. From those main edits, cutdowns for social media were made and an overall Islands-Montage video was cut too which is what you can see here.

We shot the videos to be a mix of holiday-maker style footage, hence the GoPros and more polished, professional shots, which were acheived with the C300s and the Movi, giving us some incredibly fluid shots the likes of which we couldn’t have gotten normally.

This series of videos showcases the action available to visitors of the island and for us, are the loosest definition of “corporate video” ever in terms of content but formed a large part of the companies video marketing campaign for the destination.

The videos were shown in-stores, nationwide and on planes, worldwide, and also used on social media including heavy promotion on Facebook and Twitter. Plus clips from the videos were used in the pre and post advert stings on Take Me Out on ITV.

Directed by Sacha Moore

Edited by Geoff Cockwill

Camera by Josh Bamber, Chris Carr, Archie Guinchard

Sound – Francis Cullen

Executive Producers – Alison Sams, Katie Elson