Malcolm  Dent  Digital  Media  is  the  name of the company that we work under. I, together with Carol my wife and Chris my son film and produce  travel  documentaries,  wedding and corporate videos,  and then duplicate to video CD-ROM and DVD.

My name is Malcolm Dent and I have spent the last 30 years making videos of anything that moved - or didn't - as  the  case  may be.  In the  early nineties  my wife Carol and I went on holiday with friends to Pinewood  Village  on the shores of Gallu beach in Kenya. as always I took my camera ( having left the professional gear at home I took a Sony Hi 8 camera just for a record).

Never have I been more envious of BBC cameramen with enormous zoom lenses as when I am trying to capture my subject on a 12 to 1 zoom capability. I would trade most of the useless extras that manufacturers seem convinced that the purchaser wants, for a more powerful optical zoom lens.

While having dinner with Justin the manager, he mentioned that he needed a video of Pinewood to help attract people to his delightful resort. I explained that I only had a small camera with me, but the place looked so good that I was sure I could produce enough to help him.

Pinewood beach at various times of the day, from sunrise to sunset

During our second filming trip to Kenya, I linked my home town of Gosport in Hampshire through my Rotary Club with a project run by the Mnarani Hotel, using local people and paying them to produce desks for the local school. Many hotel guests sponsored desks which had their name carved on them.

Happily, he was delighted and ordered 500 copies to distribute to his agents around the world.
What had made our video stand out was the attention to detail with the wildlife,  as I would spend hours trying  to film a crab coming out of it's  sandy hide-hole on  the beach,  or remain motionless  by a tree trying  to capture a  Humming  bird (I  have  wasted  more  video  on Humming birds than on  any other subject, and never been happy with the end result).

So, I had finished the project, had a happy client, but I was left in a void, for I felt that the video would be a useful selling tool, but to whom?   Unusually  for me I  had  a  flash of  inspiration.  We had arranged  the  holiday  with Tropical Places, who had looked after us through their  Kenya rep extremely well,  so instead of sending them a thank-you note, I sent the video.

Malcolm cycling around Kenya

You  can imagine  my amazement when the C.E.O. rang me up to congratulate me on the video and to ask if we would like to visit some of their locations and make films for them.

Over the next 5 years we travelled around the  Caribbean making videos of the Islands, using the same format that had  worked so well in Kenya.  They just arranged all travel and accommodation, and it was left to me to  film and edit as I saw  fit and then give  them the final result,  which, apart from very minor changes was just as I had finished it.

Carol  accompanied  me on  several of  the trips as I insisted on 2 weeks per  location in case of overcast or inclement weather, and when  underwater  footage was essential,  my son Chris came so that we could split our time and double the footage.

Chris relaxing at the Mnarani

We shot on average 12 hours of DV footage on our VX1000/2000 cameras and I cannot praise them highly enough. Small enough not to attract attention but high quality enough to give sparkling results, it is the still pictures from our video footage that populate these webs.
One  of  the  most  exciting  bits  left to  finish  these  webs  will be the video footage of the Islands and Hotels that we have filmed for people to download to their P.C's, which we shall be starting soon.
You can already order videos or CD-ROMS of our visits to watch at home.

Links to our other websites:

www.caribimages.com
www.myantigua.org
www.mybarbados.org
www.mygrenada.org
www.mystkitts.org
www.mystlucia.org
www.mytobago.org
www.mykenya.co.uk
www.videoserve.org.uk
www.videoserveweddings.co.uk
www.mddm.co.uk
www.caribimages.co.uk
www.malcolmdent.com
www.malcolmdent.co.uk
www.mygosport.org
www.mynerja.co.uk
www.mycyprusweb.co.uk
www.myflorida.org.uk