Our goal is to bring your project to life in exciting ways that will also excite and inspire others. No two creative projects are the same, though in our experience they do share important ingredients – ideas, imagination, clear vision and technical skill. We have these in abundance and invite you to choose from the menu.

The Menu

• Event and conference planning
• Network / consortium co-ordination / management / secretariat services
• Marketing and communications services (tailored to our clients needs)
• Film and documentary design, pre-production, production, post-production and distribution
• Website design and content management
• E-bulletin design and distribution
• Creative services for and with special populations including disabled people and those with learning difficulties
• Image (photo stills) and film retrieval and review services
• Photography and digital media services
• Professional music / score production
• Graphic design and print fulfilment
• Copy writing

Skyblue is able to offer you a growing portfolio of creative services in association with Agathon Productions, Accessible Arts and Media and Rubberband.

Here are some of the inspiring projects we have been asked to develop:

Photography-Related

• The Yorkshire Stills Archive - reviewing over 60,000 photographic images to develop an online library that will help Destination Yorkshire with its future promotional endeavours. Partners for this project include Screen Yorkshire, Yorkshire Forward, the Regional food Group, Welcome to Yorkshire, Marketing Leeds and the Area Tourism Partnerships in this region

Film commissions

• Science City York and the York and North Yorkshire Cultural Partnership - Films were produced for the York and North Cultural Strategy Launch Conference in Scarborough, York Cultural Symposium and Illuminate York Festivals testing our abilities to produce visually exciting and creative work balanced by the necessary amount of educational and factual content so that the resources act as a sustainable record of these excellent events
• National Skills Academy for Nuclear - as part of an independent evaluation of a 4-year funded programme we are developing a portfolio of films between 2009 and 2012 that will track the progress of young 'community apprentices' hoping to develop skills that will help them forge a career in the industry and change their lives for the better
• Yorkshire Gold - a variety of films have been produced featuring visits by London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games dignitaries to the region and highlighting the legacy opportunities for young people, business and communities alike
• Sheffield City Council - Lord Sebastian Coe visited the English Institute of Sport as part of his ambition to inspire every region in the UK to maximise the opportunities of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Skyblue Creative was there to film the day in full which included some amazing athletic performances, world class diving over at Ponds Forge, the launch of the London 2012 'Have you got what it takes' enterprise challenge with 40 kids from Barnsley and Newham and a business meeting with the Serbian president - our footage was soon to be seen on Serbian TV shortly afterwards
• 'The Learning Legacy' - a film commission involving children and young people, students and businesses that 'without any words' visualises what sort of learning opportunities there are linked to the values and philosophy of the Olympic movement

Events

• The 'Celebrating Ability' event taking place on the 22nd of September was conceived by Skyblue Creative in 2009 and is inspired by the values of the Paralympic Games. It will see the delivery of a major signature event in York - the first of its kind - celebrating the abilities of people with disabilities and learning difficulties in the arenas of sport, business and culture
• Partner Briefing Events - a recent example was a briefing at Government office in Leeds for 50 Network partners which included not only traditional elements such as expert and key note speaker presentations, but team-quizzes, interactive skills competitions and demonstrations and the full use of film and digital media to make the event memorable and worthwhile for delegates

Network management, marketing and communication services

• Skyblue's Managing Director Alan Graver has been the long-serving Secretariat for the Skills, Employability and Education for the 2012 Games Network in Yorkshire and the Humber. This Network has grown to over 600 members since 2007. Skyblue has provided creative consultancy support to the Network, chairmanship services for a variety of working groups, all marketing, copy writing and PR activity as well as designing and content managing the Network's dedicated website www.skillslegacy.co.uk