s4digital makes documentary-style brand films about people who are exceptionally good at what they do. Founder stories, craft, customers and the work itself. Shot properly, cut so it can breathe, and built to break into everything else you need for the year.
Somewhere inside a business there is a person who started it, a thing that nearly went wrong, a process almost nobody outside ever gets to see, or a customer whose life quietly changed. That is the film. It is almost never the product.
So we spend time before the camera comes out, work out what the real story is, then shoot it properly and cut it so it can breathe. One film gives you the film, the stills, the short cuts and enough material for the year. Photography, social and the rest of the marketing follow on when you want them to.
Documentary and brand films made for companies worth spending the time on.
We research it, spend real time with the people in it, shoot on cinema cameras and cut it as a story rather than an advert. You end up with one film that stands on its own, and everything that comes out of it.
A film gives you a year of material. These are for the businesses that would rather someone else ran it.
I need content, and I need someone to run it.
Creating the content is only the beginning. We plan it, publish it and improve it, so the marketing actually gets done.
I need an outsourced marketing team.
Your marketing department, without hiring one. We take the function on and scope it around the business.
All prices exclude VAT. See what is in each one.
Strategy, planning, production and editing handled in one place, so nothing gets lost between the shoot and the post.
One visit, two outputs. You aren’t paying twice or coordinating two suppliers.
Every shoot starts with what the content has to do, not with a shot list copied from somewhere else.
Edited, sized and captioned for the platforms you actually use, in a shared folder you keep.
Trained camera operators and editors working to one creative direction, so the quality holds as volume grows.
The same process whether it’s one shoot or the twelfth month of a partnership
We agree the goals, audience, content ideas, locations, outfits and deliverables.
Our production team captures professional photography and video during the scheduled shoot.
Our editing team prepares the agreed content for delivery.
Final content is delivered through a shared online folder, ready to post.
We aren’t tied to one industry. Personal brands, coaches and consultants, founders and business owners, professional services, trades and construction, automotive, gyms and combat sports, manufacturers and distributors, local businesses, established organisations and events. If the work is worth showing, we can shoot it.
Two clients talking about what the work did for their business. Filmed, edited and published by us, the same way we would do it for you.
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These sit around the content, not in front of it. Add them to a partnership when it makes sense.
Paid advertising can be added to selected partnerships and managed by a specialist advertising manager. Advertising spend is paid separately by the client and isn’t included in the monthly fee.
Tell us what you need content for and roughly when. We’ll come back within one working day with a clear next step, whether that’s a single shoot or a monthly partnership.
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