One of our key offers is producing academic research study output films. These are the video equivalent of the 'executive summary' which accompanies the detailed and extensive written documents at the end of a research project.

These films are fascinating to make but often tricky too as we typically work with multiple academics who have put heart and soul into an esoteric subject for months or years. Our task is to synthesise this expertise into a short and engaging video which will capture the attention of policy makers. Such productions require keen editorial ability, which our core producers have honed over years of both broadcast tv documentaries and countless education films like these.

The example above is one of a series of films to showcase the findings of the two year Older Men at the Margins (OMAM) project by the School for Policy Studies at University of Bristol and Age UK.

The study looked at loneliness in under-reported groups of older men, using anonymous interviews to gather research data. With such a sensitive topic, our pre-production consisted of long telephone chats to find out the men's stories and see if they were happy to appear on camera. Key interviews were then set against the background of the workshops in which the research team outlined their findings to groups of participants and relevant service providers.

As with many of our projects, for the OMAM film we delivered still images taken from 4K video grabs (see below) and a series of short, snippet films for social media. We also produced a 15 mins audio discussion podcast.