INFORMATION: SPECIAL FX INTEGRATION.

CONTACT: OFFICE@AGOGVIVID.COM I +44 (0)333 344 8284

INTEGRATING MOVIE EFFECTS INTO MILITARY TRAINING

AGOG’s 25 years of interpreting film scripts to produce environments that have actors, stunts and crew at the heart of the action exactly parallels new thinking on augmentation of training environments to reflect physical, psychological and emotional stresses of real world incidents.

Special effects are often experienced as explosions, or CASSIM make-up and prosthetics. AGOGFX’s creativity is in layering sound, sight, smell, and force effects to create immersive learning environments that reflect reality and produce true to life responses.

Trainees are fully involved in a live experience, maintaining belief in a scenario as incidents unfold rather than just moving from exercise to exercise.

Our exemplary effects safety record is rooted in experience and expertise building high-energy, enveloping effects work with the Agog team in final control of staging of effects in any scenario.

AGOGFX has £1.3m worth of special effects equipment coupled with urban, remote and extreme location experience across 32 countries on five continents, all at your disposal to add value and flexibility and improve learning outcomes.

WORKING SPECIAL EFFECTS INTO YOUR TRAINING PLANS

AGOGFX is usually involved in development before a project is green-lit, to ensure a proposal is both creative and pragmatic. The company advises and collaborates at all levels, initially with learning directors and department heads, then designers, makers and production and finally with technical and event personnel.

AGOGFX is used to managing short lead times and high burn rates, and responds positively to reconfiguration of goals to achieve best value. Our work usually runs like this:

1) Given a script or plan, we assess it for options to add value
2) We submit a discussion document outlining builds and treatments
3) Location meeting with stakeholders to discuss practicalities
4) We submit an outline budget reflecting material requirements, personnel, logistics and timings
5) Through discussion, commitments agreeable to all parties are set and formally contracted
6) We begin design, build, procurement and production of equipment, rigs, pyro and devices whilst developing associated paperwork, third party contracts, insurance, risk assessments
7) We manage the logistics of moving equipment and effects materials to locations, shipping internationally and hauling across country borders, then returning to the UK