Scouts / volunteer stories
Client / Scouts
Director / Mike Forshaw
Director of Photography / Stephen Roe & Jacob Sacks Jones
Editor / Ben Harding
It’s easy to feel like we’re running on empty these days - with barely a second to spare, let alone whole evenings. So, why in the world would anyone choose to spend their precious free time volunteering as a Scout leader?
We’ve made loads of films about how brilliant it is to be a Scout. Now, we wanted to pull sharp focus on the people who make Scouting possible - the volunteers themselves. We went beyond the Scout hut, filming them at their homes and workplaces to give a broader sense of who they are, what motivates them and how volunteering has enriched their lives.
Anes’s film (which is part one of the series) went down a storm, within both the organisation and with our target audience of 25-40yo professionals. It smashed all expectations on social media, racking up 125,000 views on Instagram and generating 3500 engagements in just the first few days!
Victoria's Film
Anes' Film
Zahir's Film
Social Work England / Change The Script
Client / Social Work England
Agency / Kindred
Director / Mike Forshaw
Producer / Tom Lonergan
Director of Photography / Stephen Roe
Editor / Ben Seeley
When social workers appear on our screens they’re often unfairly demonised, which has a massive impact on attitudes towards the social care system. Together with Kindred and Social Work England, we wanted to tell a different story and showcase how transformative their support can be.
Our campaign featured two young people who had been supported by social care, with shoot days carefully tailored to capture our protagonist's heartfelt testimony. With essential kit only and minimal crew, we combined audio-only interviews with sensitively crafted recreations, to deliver two hero films as emotive as the stories powering them.
Released to target Social Care Week, our film spearheaded a multi-channel campaign urging the entertainment industry to ‘change the script’ and put an end to these harmful stereotypes once and for all.
NSPCC / Find Your Calm
Client / NSPCC
Director / Sandy Matta
Producer / Charlotte Maxwell
Director of Photography / Natalja Safronova & Jacob Sacks Jones
Editor / Ben Harding
Casting / Cassie Cornish
Creative Directors / Guy Saville & Thom Wood
Managing mental health is never a ‘one size fits all’ approach, especially when you’re busy growing up. Our film for Childline encourages teenagers across the nation to explore coping mechanisms that might work for them, to “find their calm”.
We wanted an authentic documentary-style feel to our footage. So across four weekends, our 3-person crew traversed the UK to hang out with four teenagers - following their lives from homes to hobbies, friends and more - creating a richly textured array of footage, depicting the true teenage experience.
The campaign was designed from the ground up to embrace a multi-channel approach, with over 50 edits customised for a broad range of outputs, including gaming platforms Twitch, Venatus and XBOX. We also collaborated with Grand Matter artist Kris Andrew Small to create collage-style stills used across the NSPCC website and throughout their social channels.
Impetus / 21 years of Impact
Director / Sandy Matta
Producer / Charlotte Maxwell
Director of Photography / Tom McCagherty
Production Assistant / Jacob Penketh
BTS / Guy Saville
Editor / Ben Harding
Schroders / This is Schroders
Client / Schroders
Director / Phoebe Brooks
Producer / Jenny Garrett
Producers (Remote): Ilja Neuenschwander & Patrick Mader
Director of Photography / Charles Mori
DoP (Remote): Damien Larrain & Sebastian Klinger & Brandon Yoon
Production Manager / Kelvin Fred-Horsfall
Editor / Ben Harding & Sophie Farrell
Creative Director / Guy Saville
How do you tell the story of a global company that employs thousands of people? This was the challenge brought to us by Schroders, one of our longest-served clients, for their new recruitment campaign.
Our creative solution was to zoom all the way in and start with the story of an endangered bird that nests in the rooftop garden of Schroders HQ. This allowed us to tie together interviews with dozens of employees across six countries, all united by Schroders’ unique culture of care and responsibility.
The resulting campaign was shared across Schroders’ website and social channels, and included a suite of bitesize Instagram and Linkedin films on topics from mental health to sustainability, making full use of the 20+ hours of interview content.
Thames Water / Every Drop Counts
Client / Thames Water
Agency / M&C Saatchi
Director / Phoebe Brooks
Producer / Rob Tavernier
Director of Photography / Charles Mori
Editor / Ben Harding
Whether you’re watering your lilies or washing your whites, every drop counts. Our campaign for Thames Water lays out handy efficiency tips so we can all save water to help the environment.
Shooting in showers, ponds, kitchens and reservoirs, we worked closely with agency M&C Saatchi to go from creative to delivery in a tidy three weeks. We paid careful attention to casting, ultimately selecting five talented humans and one very cheeky otter.
The campaign went out on TV channels nationwide, as well as on social channels, sparking a conversation about how we can all work together to save hundreds of thousands of litres of water every year.
Plexal / Member Docs
Plexal / MOONHUB
Plexal / Pinnu Analytics
Plexal / My Life My Say
Client / Plexal
Director / Tom Eagar
Producer / Charlotte Maxwell
Director of Photography / Tom McCagherty
Editors / Sophie Farrell & Ben Harding
Creative Director / Guy Saville
Whether proving that VR is the future of training, impressing the vital importance of diversity in data, or empowering young people to engage in politics, each of the subjects in this series, profiling Plexal residents, is on a mission to better the world through tech.
Having our in-house directors on the project allowed us the flexibility to properly connect with the individual founders over time, drawing out what made their outlook unique. We then designed each profile so that it creatively mirrored the subject’s approach to informing and innovating.
The resulting films were promoted widely on Plexal’s website and social media platforms and drove their 2022 marketing campaign, showing prospective startups just what is #possibleatplexal.
EDELMAN / MARTIN KEMP P&O FERRIES
Client / Edelman
Director / Phoebe Brookes
Producer / Jenny Garrett
Director of Photography / Paolo Bischi
Editor / Tim Lewis
Creative Director / Guy Saville
Cuisinart / Cook In
Client / Cuisinart
Agency / The PH Collective
Director / Guy Saville
Producer / Amy Saunders
Director of Photography / Paolo Bischi
Editor / Robin Doelly
Home Economist / Marina Filippelli
Prop Stylist / Hannah Deacon
The modern kitchen should be built for the modern life. All diets, cooking styles and time schedules welcome! Easy to use and tremendously versatile, watch how the Cuisinart 'Cook In' has just changed the kitchen as we know it.
Equal parts gorgeous food and gorgeous influencers - our job was to take all of these ingredients and combine them with super-dynamic camera work to create a spot that sizzled just as much as the food did.
Released as part of Cuisinart's Christmas marketing campaign, which would contribute to the 'Cook In' product selling out throughout the UK. The campaign has subsequently been extended, taking advantage of the traction created through influencer recommendations.
Schroders / Beyond Profit
Client / Schroders
Director / Danny Baldwin
Producer / Sophie Christophersen
Director of Photography / Tom McCagherty
Editor / Ben Harding
What does it mean to be a responsible company in a world where sustainability is becoming less of a choice and more of an imperative? This film explains how Schroders is putting purpose over profit, and what this means for the new frontier of sustainable investing.
Schroders challenged us to take a multifaceted corporate initiative and distil it into a compelling piece of high impact content, relying on our track record of telling complex stories simply and emotively.
The film has been used extensively internally and externally by Schroders, as a crucial part of their renewed drive to become a world leader in sustainable investing.
If you want to read more information, check out our creative corporate film making service.
FAIRR / AMR is now
Client / FAIRR Initiative
Director / Guy Saville
Producer / Sophie Christophersen
Editor / Ned Champain
One human death every three seconds will be caused by antimicrobial superbugs by 2050. Why? Because of the overuse of antibiotics across multiple industries, including livestock farming. 'AMR is Now' presents the potentially devastating reality facing us and the food we eat.
FAIRR asked us to make a film for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week that stood out from the average video content created by the finance industry, which could alarm and inform their audience in equal measure.
The film had significant impact on social media, gaining 65,000+ views and 200,000+ impressions on Twitter alone, outstripping FAIRR's expectations and capturing the attention of major financial organisations.
Plexal / More Than An Office
Client / Plexal
Director / Becca Human
Producer / Sophie Christophersen
Director of Photography / Chris Dodds
Editor / Becca Human
Colourist / Ben Harding
Creative Director / Guy Saville
Welcome to the office...but not as you know it. A vibrant promo for the next level workplace: Plexal, a new home for groundbreaking innovation on the riverbank of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
The team at Plexal sought to reposition their workspace, differentiating it from their competitors and emphasising purpose. They wanted to focus on the innovators who work there and that's where our years of experience shooting with real people came to the fore.
The film has been used as a central asset in the company's new marketing, on their website, events materials and social channels, where it has got over 100k views to date.
If you want to read more information, check out our creative corporate film making service.
Scouts / Ambassadors
Client / Scouts
Director / Greg Davenport
Producer / Sophie Christophersen
Director of Photography / Tim Fok
Editor / Becca Human
Creative Director / Guy Saville
What skills might you need to walk the length of the Amazon, climb Everest, or become an Olympian? Scouts rounded up 7 of their Ambassadors to chat us through the very skills that have taken them on to do just that.
Unsurprisingly, adventurers, Olympians, & explorers have pretty tight schedules, so it was a small miracle that we got them in a room together for this project. Our mission was to capture all the footage needed in under 12 minutes. Fortunately we work particularly well under pressure.
“What Made Me” went on to win a Smiley Charity Film Award, and was part of the #ScoutsMadeMe Campaign where it was viewed over 170,000 times on Facebook alone.
SPW / Wealth is Personal
Client / Schroders Personal Wealth
Director / Greg Davenport
Producer / Sophie Christophersen
Director of Photography / Toby Goodger
Art Director / Blaithin Farry
Editor / Jon Beagley
Composer / Daniel Sonabend
Creative Director / Guy Saville
A wealthy life shouldn’t be measured by its super-yachts and sprawling properties, it's about having choices. This film asks the all-important question: what does wealth mean to you?
Having worked with Schroders for a decade, we were a natural fit when they needed an advert to promote SPW, their joint venture with Lloyds Banking Group. They needed creative that would reflect their fresh, transparent approach to financial planning, which our background in telling human stories suited perfectly.
This was SPW's first advert and was launched accross multiple channels including Sky Adsmart and social media, for which we produced 4 additional cutdowns and 4 separate product films to accompany the spot.
If you want to read more information, check out our creative corporate film making service.
Borrn / Introducing Borrn
Client / Borrn
Director / Sam White
Producer / Kezia Clark
Director of Photography / Jack Mealing
Editor / Jon Beagley
Borrn are breathing fresh air into the baby product market. Their brand story is one of considered simplicity, of beautifully crafted products rooted in brilliant British design and state-of-the-art manufacturing.
Wanting to showcase the process that lies behind each Borrn baby bottle and pacifier, our mission was to give prospective parents and retailers a look behind the scenes, equal parts informative and inspiring. We collaborated closely with key personnel, giving them time and space to champion their specific role in the products’ development.
This was one part of a suite of films we produced for Borrn, which included a seven- part series of social clips introducing parents to the broader brand aesthetic. This specific film was used widely to help with B2B sales, on the Borrn website as well as at trade shows and in-person pitches.
Schroders / Speed Week
Client / Schroders
Director / Guy Saville
Producer / Kezia Clark
Director of Photography / Jack Allred
Editor / James Angus
Schroders / Hugo Dalton
Client / Schroders
Director / Danny Baldwin
Producer / Phoebe Haines
Director of Photography / Charles Harrison Mori
Editor / James Angus
If you want to read more information, check out our creative corporate film making service.
NSPCC / Your Tomorrow
Client / NSPCC
Director / Guy Saville
Writing / Guy Saville & Thom Wood & Caroline Rawlings
Head Of Animation / Bishoy Gendi
Animation Team / Michael Gendi & Abel Reverter
Time To Change / Who We Are
Client / Time To Change
Director / Ruth Sewell
Director of Photography / Gabi Norland
Editor / Artur Zaremba
NSPCC / Will's Story
Client / NSPCC
Director / Guy Saville
Writing / Guy Saville
Animation / Yuka Takeda
Sound Design / Rob Manning
An emotionally delicate animation about self-harm, how it can affect young people and the remedial power of talking about trauma.
The NSPCC challenged us to find a new way to portray self-harm, to create a film that could provide gentle reassurance and guidance to an extremely sensitive target audience, without using potentially triggering imagery.
The film was used as a resource on the new Childline website. Yuka Takeda’s combination of hand-drawn illustration and stop-motion papercraft technique was awarded a Lovie for Best Animation.