How can a ten-strong production team mastermind a movie about bloggers and Web 2.0, shot in Las Vegas on mobile phones, as well as creating a half-hour video drama for an English language course, a five-minute weepy' feature for insurance company Axa, plus the music for a Volvo commercial?

The answer is Tom, Dick + Debbie productions, which has just moved to state-of-the-art production studios tucked away in a side street off the Cowley Road in Oxford, and whose output seems incredible for such a small company.

It is owned by Richard Lewis - he's not really called Dick, incidentally, and Tom and Debbie left the company seven years ago.

Other recent work includes a musical comedy - about kebabs - featuring Omid Djalili, who is, in his own words, Britain's top stand up' - expected to appear on BBC1 this year.

The company has produced lectures on DVD for Reading University, audio CDs for the Middle East, and even a live video dissection of a pig for a medical website.

Mr Lewis said: "People can't believe they don't have to go to London to get these things done.

"Previously, all the production companies have had to travel, but we have the expertise. As far as we know, there is no-one offering facilities like ours - video, audio, interactive and production. The freelances and small production companies in satellite villages around Oxford would normally have to go to London."

He says new technology means there are dozens of production companies in Oxfordshire which would previously have been based in London, including Mentorn, which produces Unreported World for Channel 4, and which uses his studios for the voiceovers.

Tom, Dick + Debbie's ten staff are trained in all the technical skills needed to operate the expensive equipment, but Mr Lewis says their speciality is listening to what clients want to say, and working out how to communicate the message.

They call on a pool of freelance talent from all over the world, bringing in the expertise needed for each job.

"We want to be a hub for talented editors, designers, camera operators and audio professionals. We want to be able to offer them work that they are having to go to London for."

For the Nokia film, the company employed a top Canadian camera director who had wide experience of producing documentaries.

"The film was shot in Las Vegas, sent digitally to Oxford for editing and the graphics were done in Lithuania. We found a graphic artist on the Internet - he was reasonably priced and we liked his style.

"The whole film was done inside ten days, which is remarkably quick."

Like the Axa film, the Nokia work was for internal communications - a growing part of the company's workload.

"Powerpoint has been around for ten years and there have been a lot of presentations using it. Presentations need to be much richer now and more emotional.

"The Axa work was a very emotional film about the good that insurance can do. Most of the people who have seen it have wept," said Mr Lewis.

He added: "I think companies are realising the power of video, audio or beautiful graphics to really help people connect with a message.

"Internal messages in the past have perhaps been sales-driven rather than emotionally connecting, as people seem to need now. I think there is also more of a need for purpose when people go to work.

"Everyone wants to feel that they are doing something worthwhile in their job. A lot of the films that we make are about what are we doing and what could we do better?'"

"Video is a great tool for showing how something has gone well and telling the story. We find that smaller companies want richer media as well.

"In the past they might have been happy with photos on their website, but now a lot of smaller companies are now asking us to do a product demonstration."

Mr Lewis, a classically trained musician, spent two years running his first business, a TV commercial production company in Durham. He then moved to Hollywood, where he took a life-changing Guitar Institute course on accelerated learning.

He returned to Britain determined to use his musical skills to help the learning process, and set up another company producing interactive learning materials as well as continuing to make commercials and promotional videos.

Now his clients include English language teaching publishers such as Macmillan, Heinemann and Oxford University Press, as well as Volvo, Royal Mail, BT and British Gas.

The company won an audio award for a children's book, The Story of Jack Frost, produced for publisher Hodder Stoughton and narrated by Hugh Laurie.

Mr Lewis said: "We want to offer a broad range of skills. It is not enough to be a cameraman or a composer or just an animator. We try to combine all the skills - video, audio, music and motion graphics, as well as the ability to communicate.

"It is not good enough to have technical skills if you don't tell the right story."

Having moved from rented offices in Osney Mead, the company is poised to expand - he aims to double turnover to £1m.

Mr Lewis added: "We bring in talent for each specific project, so that we only offer clients what they need. We can expand quickly if the work comes up.

"Some clients just edit here - sometimes we just do the last part in the chain. We are not camera people, we are not animators, we are not engineers - we are communicators.

"I think that is what is going to make us successful. We have an ethical stance and want to create messages that are true, as far as possible, to make things clearer."

n Contact: Tom, Dick + Debbie, 01865 201564, www.tomdickanddebbie.com