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Education
Schools, universities and training providers are selling a decision that matters. We make enrolment and open-day films, campus content and staff and student stories. Warm and real, the kind that helps a parent or student choose you.
We have filmed in the training and education space, including the AIPT and Manly Sea Eagles partnership, and a Sennheiser masterclass for production students at Macquarie University.
Schools and universities do not stop for a camera, and they should not have to.
We plan around the timetable: bells, changeovers, exam periods and the weeks staff simply cannot give up. We work with a small crew, so a classroom still feels like a classroom. We can shoot in short windows across a day rather than taking a room out for hours.
Permissions come first. Tell us your consent process and what your school requires of visitors on site, and we will make sure the crew booked on the day meets it. We only film students you have cleared.
Parents and students are choosing a feeling as much as a curriculum. They want to know what it is like to be there on a Tuesday.
So we film real classes, real students and real staff, rather than staging a version of the school that nobody would recognise. The pieces that work are usually the quiet ones. A teacher explaining how they teach. A student saying what changed for them.
One visit generally covers an enrolment or open-day film, shorter cuts for social, and footage you can reuse for years across enrolment, alumni and staff recruitment.
A school or faculty rarely has the budget to film every year. So the day has to be worth more than the one piece it was booked for.
We shoot with that in mind. Alongside the enrolment or open-day film, we capture general campus footage, classes, grounds and the small moments that date slowly. Uniforms and buildings change, a student explaining what they like about a teacher does not.
That footage becomes the library. Next year it is a social post. The year after it sits under a staff recruitment piece or an alumni appeal. Because you own the files outright, none of that costs you again.
When something does change, we still have the project files, so an update is usually a short edit rather than a new shoot.
Who this is for
Different parts of the sector are selling to very different people. The film has to know which.
Course promos, research explainers, open day and campus films for marketing and faculty teams.
Enrolment films, open day video and the pieces that show a parent what a Tuesday actually looks like.
Skills and vocational providers like AIPT, who need to show real training in action.
Work that makes grant-worthy research clear, credible and worth sharing.
Content built for the channels prospective students actually use.
Proof
Real jobs, with the full story behind each one.
Selected work
A look at how we work across every job, from corporate and events to brand films.
What we make
One team, end to end. Each of these has its own page if you want the detail.
How it runs
Planned around the timetable, and around your permissions.
What the film is for, when you need it, and the term dates and weeks that are off limits. Fixed price back off that.
You lead the consent process. We need the cleared list, plus your visitor and screening requirements, at quoting stage so the crew booked on the day meets them.
Small crew, quiet kit, filming in short windows so classes carry on. We film the cleared students and staff, and general campus footage between sessions.
The main film plus the social cuts, delivered on the date we set. Two rounds of changes included, and the files are yours to reuse.
Where we film
We film at schools, campuses and training facilities across Sydney, and travel to regional New South Wales for a boarding or country campus.
The honest comparison
Anyone can film a campus. Consent, a timetable that will not move, and getting something natural out of a student who is not a performer are the parts that go wrong.
| Zarco Creative | A general corporate crew | DIY or in-house | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Understands the audience | Films for students, parents and funders | Generic brief, generic result | Knows the school, not the craft |
| On a busy campus | Plans around classes, bells and exams | Varies, often not their focus | Full control, big time cost |
| Students and staff on camera | A broadcast crew who settle nerves fast | Hit and miss | Hard to do yourself |
| Consent and privacy | Careful with students and with minors | Depends on the operator | Entirely your responsibility |
| Your time involved | Brief us once, we run it | You manage the crew | You manage everything |
Where it ends up
One visit, filmed once, running everywhere a family or a prospective student is already looking.
I’m really relaxed. Even at events I’m not at, I’m not worried at all. It’s set and forget.
They make our attendees feel comfortable on camera, and find ways to maximise the content on the day.
I had a partner, not a supplier. They were truly part of the team, across a four day, five week event.
Good to know
You lead on that, because it is your consent process and your families. Tell us who is cleared and who is not before the day, and we will film accordingly. If a student without consent ends up in a shot, we cut it.
Tell us your visitor and screening requirements early and we will make sure the crew booked on the day meets them. Send them at quoting stage rather than the week of the shoot, so there is time to sort.
Yes, and it is usually the best footage. We work in short windows around bells and changeovers, with a small crew and quiet kit. Give us the timetable and we will build the day around it.
Yes, the finished files are yours. One visit normally covers an enrolment or open-day film, social cuts and general footage you can use again for staff recruitment, alumni and the website.
Tell us your requirement at quoting stage and we make sure every person booked on the day meets it before they come on site. Send it early rather than the week of the shoot, so there is time to sort it properly.
Yes. Event coverage and livestreaming are core to what we do, so a ceremony can be captured, streamed for families who cannot attend, and cut into a highlights piece afterwards from the same day.
Usually 20 to 30 minutes each. We light and set up before they arrive and film in a free period or after class, so nobody loses teaching time.
Not as one film, because the two audiences want different things. From one visit, though, we can deliver both. It is the same day and the same setup, and it costs far less than two shoots.
It depends on the scope. The number of videos, filming days, locations, how many people we interview and the edit all move the price. You get one fixed quote up front, so there are no surprises later. Tell us what you have in mind and we will scope it and send a clear quote, usually inside a business day.
Yes, and we would recommend it. Prospective students research on their phones long before they enquire. We frame for vertical on the day rather than cropping later, so the main film and a set of short vertical cuts come out of the same visit.
A single piece usually runs a few weeks from brief to final cut, depending on when we can get on site and how the review goes. Two rounds of changes are built in, reviewed in Frame.io. You get real dates once the job is scoped, and we work back from an open day or an enrolment deadline if there is one.
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