We have finally finished renovating the first room of our house - the master bedroom. And we did a bloody good job - if I do say so myself. We absolutely cou...

I, personally, am glad to see the end of 2019. It was an emotional rollercoaster. In fact I’m pretty sure we were cursed. For every up, there was a much larg...

Logos don't tend to move around a lot. They just kind of sit at the top of your site or at the beginning/end of a video. But, why have that, when you could h...

This week’s blog is all about what we can do to help you manage your social media more effectively.

While we're currently marketing ourselves as pet photography, design, training video makers, our main focus is health and safety videos.

Explainer Videos, what are they? Websters dictionary describes them as "The word you've entered isn't in the dictionary." But personally, I believe they are ...

Yes you read that right. This week we made an arm that can be severed on camera. I would be lying if I said I never thought I'd be making this prop. A severe...

How are we already half way through the year? This year has gone way too quickly. A lot has happened in our personal lives so far, we got our first home and w...

Blog number two that was suggested by Mum is time-lapse photography. Who doesn’t love a good time-lapse, hell even a bad time-lapse still looks cool. Time-la...

As some of you may already know, we recently adopted a kitten from the SPCA. His name is Topper and he is so adorable. Obviously being a video production com...

When I asked my Mum what our next blog posts should be about, she suggested something about slow motion or time-lapse. Great ideas Mum, this week is slow mot...

Hey guys, last Thursday we spent the morning at the Avid Plus client day. This was basically just a day for all the Avid clients to get together and learn ab...

People are often shocked to find out that Media Melt runs out of an actual office space and not our lounge. Being a small local business, we’re privileged to...

Hi everyone! Hope you all had a great Easter break. Book and I spent the holiday apart, he went to Poolburn Dam and I went to Wellington. Now fair warning, t...

Winter is well on it's way here in Dunedin, New Zealand. I personally can't stand the cold, however as a photographer/videographer I do appreciate how much e...

This week, our Media Melt make up department (Eve) had a request to do a glam zombie look for a dress up party. It was for Michelle and Steve. There are a lo...

Another unique challenge this week for the Media Melt props department as we wanted to replicate the iconic over-sweating shot from Airplane! A classic right...

Dunedin, New Zealand. It's a beautiful city and as a local I feel it is my duty to share the best spots to get that perfect Instagram pic. With more and more...

We’re back with another extremely specific prop! This week we needed to make a hi vis vest that looked like it was getting caught in an angle grinder and got...

Wowie we have a good one this week, look at the state of our new dummy Frank! Isn’t he terrifying?! You could make a dummy just as creepy as him for yourself...