Raasay distillery
Winning all sorts of accolades at the moment, from the whisky to the visitor experience, Raasay is a gem of a distillery to visit. Here’s our take on what makes it so special –escape to the Isle of Raasay where the distillery is breathing new life into an island with a fascinating history.
Conference opener videos
A conference opener sets the scene for what lies ahead. And what lies ahead might be a LOT of presentations over a number of hours or days. As such, we like to keep our openers short, with high-energy music and quickly flag up the conference theme. This one was commissioned by our client to be based around the theme of “Go further together” and “our people working collectively and in collaboration”. With a banging track licensed by PPL PRS, this opener rolled out ahead of the CEO keynote presentation and played out in 4K across a 12 metre-wide LED display. It featured footage of both conference speakers and delegates to help drive audience engagement.
Drone videography and steadycam works for Cory Brothers
With a set of drones that can legally fly indoors and across urban areas, we are able to capture butter-smooth aerial footage from incredible angles and in incredible detail. And that’s what Cory Brothers asked us to capture, along with some steady cam footage, for the launch of their new logistics facility.
Crème de la crem
The Hurlet Crematorium is an award-winning facility, thoughtfully designed and set within the rolling Hurlet hills, and a beautiful place for a service. We’d like to think this promo, commissioned by Horizon Crematoriums, shows it in a good light. What do you think?
A pair of Islay beauties
These two rare bottlings from an Islay distillery have waited more than 30 years to come in to the limelight. So we pulled out the stops to try and do them justice with this teaser promo…
First footings
After designing an issue of whisky magazine Unfiltered for The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, we make a promo to give members a flavour of what to expect. Here’s one we made earlier…
Real estate and ESG promo
We loved recording Dan Natale talking about the importance of ESG to the real estate sector. Not only does he put his message across succinctly, he sounds great too!
How do you film consistent content when your teams are in different locations?
If you want to produce a series of videos with people who are in different locations, achieving the ‘same look and feel’ across your videos can be difficult.
Planning your content strategy around an event is one way to ensure consistent lighting, sound and visuals. Your annual conference is probably the best calendar opportunity to generate content from your leaders/influencers (and also your customers).
Here’s an example of that in practice – a series of 12 managing partner videos all filmed during an annual conference. Want to find out more? Just hit the ‘Contact’ button.
The good stuff
The Vaults Collection is the high-end whisky bottling range from The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Prices range from £150, all the way to four figure sums. The bottle featured in this video retails at £695 a bottle. Who would pay £695 for a bottle of rare whisky? Well, at time of writing, there were only 11 of 174 bottles remaining. Here’s Calum explaining why it’s rather special…
Can you ditch working with a telepromter?
Perhaps you have watched a newsreader make a comment that wasn’t via the teleprompter and suddenly realised they have a personality – there’s a reason for that.
Yes, reading from a teleprompter saves time. But the time saved often comes at the expense of authenticity. And authenticity creates engagement. Use some conversational cues and an extra camera angle and you can leave the teleprompter switched off.
Here’s our two-cam run & gun shoot with Alexa-Rae Sebba (LLM), Moore Global ESG Project Manager on how Moore is helping clients become more resilient through ESG reporting.
Festival fever
We are really pleased with this promo for the SMWS Bath Street venue. They are headline sponsors of the Glasgow Whisky Festival and wanted to show off what’s waiting for attendees back at Bath Street…
Artisanal Spirits Company
recruitment drive promo
When we got the call to make this recruitment promo for the Artisanal Spirits Company, the brief was very much for it to have good energy, be bold and colourful and give a flavour for what is happening across the ASC. Job’s a good ‘un, as they say…
Highlight the highlights
Producing a highlights video from many hours of conference footage can be a daunting task. More often than not, the end result is a confusing chain of unconnected sound-bites with slo-mo B-roll of finger buffets and drinks receptions.
For Moore Global’s 4 day 2022 conference highlights, we decided the edit had to dispense with unnecessary B-roll and strip out audio that only makes sense if you were there. But simply explain where it took place, show who was there, and thank them (inside two minutes). Here goes…
ESG video promo
It’s good to work on content that has a positive vibe, so bringing the results of Moore Global’s ESG survey to life in this video promo definitely brought out the feel-good factor.
Hey good-looking!
Candle Shack has just had a brand refresh, so was great to show off their new fonts, textures and colour palette in a new set of instructional videos. Here’s one we we made with Candle Shack’s laboratory manager, Zoe Campbell.
Great content needs great content marketing
Moore Intelligence is the digital hub for thought leadership and insight from Moore Global. We design Moore Intelligence white papers, and we also made this video promo for Linkedin.
Say cheers to the best whiskies in the world!
The Scotch Malt Whisky Society has had another bumper batch of award medals, in the UK and around the world. Here’s the awards promo we made to showcase a record-breaking haul of trophies.
A new way to view the annual review
In 25 years of designing annual reviews and reports for clients, we have seen a lot of change. From sending 50mm transparencies by courier to the printers along with a Quark Xpress file on a SyQuest disc, to creating fully responsive interactive digital publications on Foleon, we reckon we’ve stayed on the curve.
So it was a bit of a curve ball when our client, Moore Global challenged us to design their latest annual review as a 60 second animated video.
Challenge accepted!
Getting creative with colour
We had a lot of fun filming and producing this explainer video with David and Zoe from Candle Shack. We reckon the show and tell close up shots and cutaways do a great job of illustrating what happens when you start to add colour into your candles.
Demistifying demo videos
Whether you are a manufacturer, a product developer, or a start-up with a story to tell, it can feel a bit daunting to think about making a film that shows what you do and how you do it.That’s where we come in. Take this Amazon product video we made for one of our clients – we picked up the products, agreed the features to be displayed, scoped a suitable location, shot the video and turned it around super quick. Job done!
Outstanding in their field
We were not sure whether this animated explainer video for Crystalyx Dairy Feeds falls under the ‘Videography’ or ‘Digital Design’ category. All we know is it was a lot of fun, and we learned a lot about heifers, udders and dairy livestock health!
200+ recipes for success
We really enjoyed making this promo. From shooting the products in studio, to editing and animating it to music, it was really good fun and reckon that comes across in the finished product.
Founder launches an industry game-changer
We were delighted to film and produce this video of Duncan Maclean, founder and CEO of Candle Shack, delivering news of a game-changing service.
Labels are important
Especially if you are a member of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society, so here’s the label explainer we put together for new (lucky) members receiving their first bottles of Single Cask, Single Malt whisky!
A flicker of intrigue
Here’s Zoe Campbell, Lab manager at Candle Shack on how to make a Pandora’s Box-fragranced candle recipe. Easy, when you know how!
Innovation on track
Here’s the demonstration video we made with NICS (Non-Intrusive Crossover Systems), a clever bunch of engineers who make mobile kit that can move a train from one track to another, quick as a flash.
Spring is in the air
Here’s a promo for The Scotch Malt Whisky Society’s March edition of Unfiltered magazine (which we also designed). Enjoy!
The sky is the limit
Here’s a small ungraded out-take from a recent film we shot. A nail-biting few seconds as a Road Rail Excavator crane sweeps past our cameras
A tour of Robert Burns’ favourite pub
Watch our tour of The Globe Inn, where Robert Burns rented a room that to this day still holds etchings by his own hand on the bedroom window panes. Led by former Globe Inn land lady, Jane Brown, this is a trip back in time filled with the excitement, affairs and inspiration associated with Scotland’s national bard.
A force for good
We recently supported Moore Global with the launch of their global Social Ambition campaign. From designing the concept and creating toolkits for Social Ambition ambassadors, to producing the launch video below, it’s been a real pleasure to work on something that will deliver positive change for communities wherever Moore Global has a presence.
A whole new kingdom to explore
We very much enjoyed filming this partnership between Kingdom Scotland and The Scotch Malt Whisky Society. Here’s Imogen Russon-Taylor on one the partner pairings…
Best of Unfiltered magazine
Feast your eyes on this beautiful members’ magazine we designed. 76 pages of carefully curated articles from a year’s-worth of digital content, perfect bound and delivered as a surprise Christmas present to thousands of members across the UK.…
Wax on!
We love working with experts, and here’s one of the best… Watch David Barn, Head of R&D at Candle Shack step out of the lab and in front of the camera to give customers the full SP on wax…
You’ve been framed
We rarely share outtakes from filming. But this one was too good to keep to ourselves. It certainly brightened our day and hope it does the same for you…
Waxing lyrical
We’ve filmed all manner of things from cocktail recipes, to fine dining experiences, and firewalks. But this was our first time working with hot wax! We were delighted to film Candle Shack’s laboratory manager Zoe Campbell taking viewers through the process of creating a Pumpkin-spice-infused candle. Really good fun, and we all smelled wonderful afterwards!!
A film about Climate change
While we had some footage from previous films, it was important to get some footage from boats working at sea right now, to show how climate change is impacting the seafood industry.
That meant getting out to a working fishing harbour (Stornoway) and talking to some skippers. Two boats messaged us as they rounded the Stornoway lighthouse, which gave us just enough time to get to the hardbour and capture the boats coming in to port and unloading their respective hauls.
Video production can be hard work. But we are pretty sure, working on a fishing boat, is much, much harder.
Shooting on a hot tin roof
A tour of Crisp Malt’s facility finishing with a sun-drenched rooftop interview, gave us all we needed to make this run & gun explainer about Barley malting. Eagle-eyed viewers might spot the shadow of a swift or two gliding silently through the malting shed.
All for Onebanks
We were delighted to support fintech Onebanks with a video explainer about their pilot branch for business and personal banking. We shot the entire film on location at the in-store OneBanks kiosk in Denny, Scotland.
Shooting was all wrapped up in a single day with lots of B-roll and five separate interviews with staff and members of the public.
Sweet summer sipping
We recently hooked up with W Communications to bring some incredible whisky cocktail recipes to life. Here’s Jason Scott of Bramble to guide you through the set of four cocktails we filmed on location in the members’ bar at 28 Queen Street in Edinburgh…
Embracing the digital transformation
We are delighted to work with clients who are adapting to new ways of working by embracing digital technology – and it’s fab to be part of their transformation.
Ready to start your own digital transformation? Just click here.
A glass act: product showcase filmed for The Vaults collection
Covid brings challenges to creative enterprises, and shooting this Vaults Collection whiskies under lockdown was definitely one we were up for. Eagle-eyed viewers may spot our much-treasured Bechstein grand piano as the setting for this incredible 33 y/o single cask single malt. We reckon it’s a perfect match!
Connecting global communities
Check out this high-impact video we made for Moore Global’s ‘Together we are Moore’ campaign. We think it sums up what it means to be part of the Moore Global family.
Animated trailers and promos, quick as a flash!
We love making creative animations for our clients – here’s one that tells the story of the rare bottlings that can be discovered in The SMWS Vaults Collection…
Remote film production? we’ve got it covered
We’ve recently worked with clients in Edinburgh, Newcastle, Los Angeles, Adelaide, and Johannesburg (to name a few) on remote video production projects.
Here’s a video diary we produced remotely with Moore Global’s head of Digital, Zac Radbone…
Who makes those Amazon product videos? We do
As well as shooting interviews, adverts and explainer videos on location, we make quite a few product videos, often for Ebay and Amazon adverts. Here’s one we made for Delta chairs! #videocontent #storytelling
A recipe for excellence
We filmed mixologists, Anthony and Kris on location for a pre-recorded segment to be broadcast in a live-streaming event on Facebook.
A moving experience at Campbell Consultancy
Campbell Consultancy help sellers of high-value property achieve sales in excess of expectation. We made this explainer to help potential customers understand their unique proposition.
Hurray for Holyrood
It was a real treat to film this access-all-areas tour of the new Holyrood Distillery.
Isle of Raasay distillery
We’re delighted to share this film we made at Isle of Raasay distillery. Sláinte!
The course is set for tackling marine pollution
Our explainer video highlighting the fishing industry’s battle against plastic waste premiered at World Oceans Day
Scottish Equity Partners CEO insights
Our series of CEO interviews for Scottish Equity Partners was captured at an annual event in Edinburgh with mobile lighting and kit at The Scotsman hotel in Edinburgh. On camera were Carolyn Jameson, former SkyScanner CLO; Ruari Kelleher of Immedis; Adam Pikett from SportPursuit; Andy Burton, CEO of Tryzens; Michael Garret, former CEO of Workshare, Jim Wilkinson, CEO of car finance platform Zuto; and Julie Hansen, CEO of Babbel. Here’s Julie’s interview…
Santander banks on impact
We made this firm as part of an awareness campaign for Santander international, which saw us produce video, print and animations in four separate languages.