There is a strong possibility that one may find it hard getting in touch with the Zendell team at the moment.

Half of us are still out in South Africa, while the other half has just departed to Cabo St Lucas, Mexico.

Mexico is internet solutions related, representing Zendmail. However, we will refrain in stating the percentage share between business and pleasure for this trip, as the 3 week duration went through a rather 'hard' sell to the accountants!

Not to mention the 'err, I don't know how long the stop overs will be' detours via Chicago and New Orleans!

So, we are only in a position of providing support services to our current clients during the month of August 2010 via support@zendmail.co.uk.

Le adoramos personas!

Siempre!

Zendell have secured a contractual deal with Detica - the UK's leading organisation in Information Intelligence.

The contract will be for 2 months, involving PMO support, consultation and various other functions. Following on from the successful project management and consultation duties Zendell have provided for the likes of Lockheed Martin and the like, this role once again puts our consultant capabilities back to the forefront of forward-thinking design and development.

"We love to integrate our creative capture and design functions with our project experience - as an essentially UK based audio production company, tapping into cooperative markets offering specialist expertise is still top of our list in priorities, as we always strive to maintain continuity with these sectors preforming above expectations."
Zendell Director

Zendell were once again brought in by Unleashed - providing audio for their 'big bang' TV commercial for Sukuzi South Africa.

The film production of the commercial was epic enough, so without stealing the guys thunder, have a little read of the processes that Marc has so kindly submitted by clicking here.

Basically, its all about the Canon HDSLR EOS-7D.

Anyway, the audio production that was created was also quite an epic. We were given the nod on a Friday and had the whole thing turned around in 6 days. However, in between the delivery date, we encountered a wonderful world of frustration, enjoyment and pain. The pain was simple - the client had a specific 'audio sound' request. We kind of went on a totally different genre at the beginning, ranging from drum and bass, electro, jungle, hip hop, classic rock, orchestral, grunge to hard rock.......

We kept sending the pieces out to SA and kept on getting them sent back! It wasn't the fact that the compositions were not any good, in fact, they were all pretty awesome and we are happy that we have them archived for future use. The thing was that the client Penquin, rightfully so, wanted a 'particular' sound. It's all down to following the brief to be honest! ;)

So, session artist after session artist, recording after recording, we finally nailed the rawkus 30sec cut with the help of 'Matt King' on guitar, 'Eddie Hoffmann' on bass and a drum session recorded with each part recorded 7 times - sampled at different velocities of a Ludwig kit - so we can stick it into Battery...........for some ill programming!

'Can we have some vocals also please'..............no problem, a simple hook up with the man 'Bridge Fazio' would certainly add the lick we had in mind!

The biggest thing on this sound to picture production is that the visuals were finished - it was just down to Unleashed polishing it up and getting it graded, whilst the clock was ticking for us to complete the audio in time and get some form of sync on the go. So, once complete, we took the audio parts down to Nick at Revolution Mastering, where we wanted to run the stem parts individually through his 'bloody lovely' Manley compressor, just to get that sound, rather than our SSL set up.

Smash. We all got home just in time for tea and medals.

Recently, a Zendell representative was venturing out in the Southern Hemisphere region for 2 weeks on a little recon mission that has turned out rather interesting!

This involves all components of the Zendell arsenal, from audio and film production, to PMO and internet solutions.

Details to follow soon!