Collaborate - Our work
Work created using the Collaborate model.
Each project answers three questions: what problem existed, how the Collaborate model was applied, and what changed as a result.
Higher Education
The embedded team
University
The problem
Some of the best content creators in an organisation are already inside it. They know the culture, they spot the stories, and they have the instinct and access to go and get them. What they don't always have is the time, or the post-production resource, to turn what they capture into something finished
How Collaborate was applied
We've worked alongside one university's in-house media team across multiple years and multiple output types - programme promos, clearing campaigns, student life films. Their people go out and shoot. We shape, edit, and deliver. The result is a content operation that moves faster and reaches further than either of us could manage alone, without either side losing what makes them good at what they do.
What changed
This is a longstanding creative partnership, built around filling the gaps that matter most.
International · Programme Documentation
The creator community
Management School
The problem
What if the people you wanted to reach were also the ones making the content?
How Collaborate was applied
Working with a world leading management school, we developed a workshop model that trains emerging creators in conversational video, narrative structure, and self-directed filming. Participants receive a brief, creative support, and the freedom to make something in their own way. The content that comes back is authentic precisely because it comes from people living the experience, in their own voice, through their own lens.
What changed
The exchange is deliberately two-way. Creators build a portfolio and a personal brand. The organisation gets a steady stream of genuine, varied content it couldn't brief into existence. The workshop becomes a production engine that keeps running long after the initial engagement ends.
Corporate · Internal Comms
The unreachable story
Research Studio
The problem
The most compelling stories are often happening somewhere you can't send a crew. Remote fieldwork. International deployments. Communities in places that are hard to reach and harder to film. The moments that would make the most powerful content are precisely the moments when conventional production falls apart.
How Collaborate was applied
We worked with a research studio to build a capture framework for communities involved in a long-term environmental project across multiple locations. Rather than attempting to crew it, we designed a lightweight system that turned local participants into documenters - simple protocols, structured briefs, minimal friction. The footage they produced fed directly into films for funders, presentations, and public-facing outputs.
What changed
The work is still evolving. But the principle holds anywhere: when the story is in a place you can't reach, the answer isn't a bigger crew. It's a better framework.
Want to see the actual films? Some work is publicly available; some is internal. Get in touch and we'll share what's relevant to your sector and goals.
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