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Four disciplines,one way of working.

Strategy, film, photography and live production sit in the same studio and run off the same brief. That is what keeps the intent set in the first conversation intact in the final frame.

01

Film

Film is the centre of the studio. Whether the subject is a community, a product or a leadership team, the work is built the same way: find the human truth in it first, then decide how it should be shot.

  • Documentary Films

    Non-fiction work that treats its subject as cinema rather than as evidence, without trading the truth of that subject for the effect of the frame.

    • Human-centred documentaries
    • Impact stories
    • Institutional documentaries

  • Commercial Films

    Brand work built on a story rather than a claim, so the product arrives inside something an audience actually wants to watch.

    • Brand films
    • Advertising
    • Product storytelling

  • Corporate Films

    Films that make an organisation legible to the people it needs to convince, internally and externally.

    • Company profiles
    • Leadership films
    • Internal communications

  • Branded Content

    Work made for the platforms it will actually live on, cut to hold attention where attention is hardest to hold.

    • Social campaigns
    • Branded storytelling
    • Digital content

02

Photography

Photography is a discipline here, not a by-product of a shoot day. A still can carry a story into a report, a campaign or a boardroom in places a film will never be played.

  • Documentary Photography

    Real people, environments and stories, photographed with the same dignity the films are made with.

  • Campaign Photography

    Images designed around a campaign or a communication objective, including long-form photo essays built to carry a narrative on their own.

  • Corporate Photography

    Events, workplaces, teams and the everyday texture of how an organisation actually operates.

  • Executive Portraits

    Founders, chief executives, government leaders and professionals, photographed to look like themselves on their best day.

  • Lifestyle Portraits & Weddings

    Private commissions, approached with the same eye for the unguarded moment that the documentary work is built on.

03

Visual Communication

Visual Communication is not another kind of video. It is the thinking that decides what should be made at all, who it is for and what it has to achieve. Most production begins with a deliverable. This begins with an objective.

  • Story Development

    What is the story? Who is the audience? What should they feel, and what should they understand? Settled before anything is shot.

  • Creative Direction

    How the story should look and feel, decided against the psychology of the intended viewer rather than against trend.

  • Communication Strategy

    Which visual assets are actually required, which are assumed out of habit, and which would be made and never used.

  • Campaign Development

    How one central story becomes multiple pieces of communication that reinforce each other instead of competing.

  • Social Media Management

    For organisations that need the full communications package, the ongoing running of Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook and the rest, so the work keeps speaking after delivery.

  • Content Ecosystem

    One documentarybecomes a campaign.

    Planned properly, a single production yields a year of communication rather than one film and a folder of unused footage.

    1. 1Hero Film
    2. 3Short Films
    3. 20Photographs
    4. —Social Media Cuts
    5. —Campaign Assets
    6. —Archival Material

04

Live Production

Live work is unforgiving: there is no second take and no fixing it in the edit. It is run by the same team that makes the films, with the technical infrastructure the room requires.

  • Full-Scale Production

    One team carrying an event from technical planning through to delivered assets.

  • Multi-Camera Production

    Coordinated multi-camera coverage cut for broadcast or for the room.

  • Livestreaming

    Streamed to the audiences that could not be there.

  • LED, Lighting & Sound

    Screens, lighting rigs and audio specified and run for the venue.

  • Event Production

    The production layer of the event itself, not only its recording.

  • Technical Direction

    One person accountable for the technical outcome, from rehearsal to strike.

How We Work

Four stages,every project.

The sequence does not change. What changes is how long each stage takes and who is in the room for it.

  1. 01

    Discover

    Understand the objective. Who the audience is, what has to change, and what the work is actually for.

  2. 02

    Develop

    Develop the story and the creative direction, so every production decision has something to answer to.

  3. 03

    Produce

    Film, photograph and create, with the crew built for this brief rather than a standing team.

  4. 04

    Deliver

    Deliver the final assets, in the formats and cuts the campaign actually needs.

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