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NEWS

“ANZAC AND THE JOHNNY TURK” wıll be shot ın 2008

EKS PRODUCTIONS’ project “Anzac and the Johnny Turk” written by Eriş Akman with the support of the Cinema Fund of the Ministry of Culture will be shot this year. The feature film which will be a co-production with TRANSFILM CORPORATION Pty. Ltd will be produced by John Chase and directed by Eriş Akman. Negotiations with International stars are  continuing for the film, as % 65 of it is in English.

SINEKOL© Brand will be available for public on retail sales points

Eks Productions decided to produce films to support the human resources training efforts of the Turkish companies on commonly needed subjects besides the corporate films the company made for individual companies. One of the main reasons for the decision was the fact that Turkish companies who bought the Turkish dubbed versions of American and British training films paying up to 1000 Pounds did not get the desired results. The research showed that negative results were due to two main factors. First, the films lost their effectiveness with poor translations and dubbing, deteriorating the reality of the acting quality. Second and more importantly the trainees are alienated by characters, situations an environments in these films which are very much different that the ones they are used to and come to the conclusion that these teachings may be true for America or the UK but never in Turkey.

The production of “Excellent Salesman”, a training film on basic sales techniques which started with the encouragement of many major companies and banks was a first in Turkey.

Even though the sales figures were under the projections, Eks Productions proceeded to produce the second film by SİNEKOL©, “Voyage to Total Quality”, a training film on total quality management in partnership with Kalder, the Association for Quality of Turkey. The company reduced the sales prices of the films with this second film despite the fact that the sales had not reached the break-even point and considering the fact that all computers then are equipped with CD drives, started to sell the films also in VCD format.
 
In 2000, “The Power of Motivation”, a training film on motivation was produced under the consultancy of Mr. Ali Kirman, to support the first two films. Meanwhile computer technology progressed immensely to make copying of CD’s easy. Most of the companies, instead of inciting this most beneficial effort, preferred to copy the films without paying a royalty thus making sales drop to further Eks Productions from breaking even.

The immense damage to our efforts by video cassettes being copied and sold illegally from day one, was multiplied when some companies preferred to either copy films from companies in our reference list rather than buying them or buy one copy and copy them for their branches, outlets or agents without paying royalties. The sales eventually almost came to a halt.

EKS PRODUCTIONS took its place among the very few companies that produce training films in the world with its know how and experience since 1984 and decided to enter the retail market with the THE SYSTEM OF TRAINING WITH FILMS© that it developed during the process. The system offers the effective advantages of “Language of Cinema” in an interactive way in education and training and is a very useful tool especially in vocational training. The company knows the high costs and the challenges of this difficult market and decided to add more titles to its production list. Films on beauty and health as well as vocational training films for the construction industry and ready wear industry will be produced this year.

(*)Information on THE SYSTEM OF TRAINING WITH FILMS© is provided under SINEKOL© in this web site

THE SYSTEM OF TRAINING WITH FILMS © on Close circuit TV

THE SYSTEM OF TRAINING WITH FILMS© that Eks Productions developed for its training films  under the SINEKOL© brand is also proved to be very effective in distant learning with use of close circuit television as a result of discussions with several members of the European Union’s Training Village. The company is now ensuing preparations to act as consultant and implicate the content needed for companies who want to train their personnel all over Turkey in their region offices, branches, or after sales services. You can examine the report written to one of the leading companies on “Training with Television” on this site under REPORTS.

and will be employed in distant learning with close circuit television

Our Training Film, Titled, THE POWER OF MOTIVATION-10 GOLDEN RULES is On Sale in the US Market

Training film titled “THE POWER OF MOTIVATION-10 GOLDEN RULES” produced by Eks Productions, is now selling to schools and libraries by Insight Media of New York. The company is also the worldwide distributor for the film.

Insight Media Inc. is also the worldwide distributor of the film in this media. Eks Production will continue to produce other training films for the world market according to the market performance of this film.

Post-Production started on our feature film THEY’RE ONLY KIDS

Eks Productions  started working on “They’re Only Kids”, a feature film in Turkey, in 2003. The film is the first feature film designed to be shot in both Turkish and English languages.  The film was planned to be released in Turkey in Turkish and outside Turkey in English. It was scripted in two slightly different funny but meaningful stories of two broken Turkish families by divorce in the Turkish version, and two British families in the English version.

The shooting is completed now and the post production of the Turkish version is finalised. Editing of the English version is in progress.