WHAT WE MAKE · COMPANY HISTORY FILMS
TELL IT WHILE THEY STILL CAN.
A company history film tells where a company came from, through the people who were there: founders, second and third generations, the thirty-year veterans, and the crews doing the work today. Companies make them for an anniversary, a change in leadership, a new headquarters, or the year they realize the people who remember are about to retire. We make them the way we make everything else. Start with real people, find the story, and film the work as it is now, so the film is about where the company is going as much as where it has been.
WHO IT'S FOR
For companies old enough to have a story and too busy to have told it.
Who this is for: owners and presidents, marketing and communications leads, and whoever got handed the anniversary.
Family-owned contractors, manufacturers, co-ops and utilities. Companies that have been at it for fifty or a hundred years and have the photos in a box to prove it. An anniversary is the usual reason. The better reason is that the people who built the place are still around to say how it happened.
WHAT'S INCLUDED
01 Research and archive
We go through the photos, newsletters, ledgers and old footage with you, and scan what belongs in the film.
02 Interviews with the people who were there
Founders, family, retirees and long-tenured employees, on camera, in their own words.
03 The work as it is today
The shop, the job site, the crews. A history film with nothing but old photos is a slideshow.
04 Edit, color, sound and mix
Archive and new footage cut into one film, with music licensed for every place it will play.
05 Versions for the whole year
The main film for the event, shorter cuts for the website, recruiting and social, and stills for the lobby wall.
THE WORK
Films about craft handed down and companies that have been at it a long time.
QUESTIONS
Things people ask us.
Earlier than you think. Research and interviews take the most time, and the people you most want on camera are the hardest to schedule. If the date is close, call anyway and we'll tell you what's realistic.
Then the people carry it. One good interview with someone who was there does more than a box of photos. We also film the work as it is today, which no archive has.
Long enough to do the story justice and short enough to play in the room where it premieres. We cut the main film for that room first, then shorter versions for the website, recruiting and social.
No. A retirement, a succession, a new building or a merger are all good reasons. So is a founder who is ready to talk.