At Preston Street Films we make educational content that is innovative, fresh and exciting. Whether it’s eLearning resources for your students or promotional videos for your school or university, we can help you to make it happen.
We use a huge range of techniques we use to make content that is educational and engaging. These include shooting in studios, on location or even remotely, and the creative use of animation and motion graphics.
We have made a films for universities, schools and adult education providers as well as nearly fifty educational films for BBC Bitesize. Have a look at some of the work on our website and get in touch to find out more.
We are used to working closely with academics, teachers and educational consultants to make sure we can best condense often complex concepts and ideas into engaging, understandable and thought provoking content.
Bring complex ideas to a wider audience.
We are used to working closely with academics, teachers and educational consultants to make sure we can best condense often complex concepts and ideas into engaging, understandable and thought provoking content.
Examples of this include our work for BBC Ideas, where we have worked with institutions such as The University of Oxford, the Open University and the Royal Society to make short films about big subjects.
Case Study: The Secret History of Witches
In this four and a half minute film we boil down what it was like to be accused of witchcraft in 17th century England. Written in conjunction with academics from the Open University and filmed on location in Exeter, the film combines reenactment, animation and archive images to keep the audience engaged.
Training
Whether it is a remote location or a budget constraint, we understand that sometimes you cannot hire professional help to create the content you need. Building some basic creative capacity within your team will give you the confidence to capture interesting moments in high quality.
We can provide in-depth and bespoke training in a number of areas to help you and your team capture important moments as they happen. These include: shooting video, photography, video editing, sound recording, and audio editing. We can provide training on high end professional equipment, or help you make the most of the equipment you already have such as your mobile phone.
Creative Workshops
Having a creative professional in a room of academics can help facilitate a different way of thinking that is outside the academic box. We can arrange workshops in a range of creative disciplines including graphic design, collage, drama and more.
A recent example is a Poster Workshop for The Department of Archaeology and History at the University of Exeter. We ran a one day design workshop with academics into how they could approach creating research project posters in a different, more creative way. The results were fantastic; the posters they created have been exhibited in the university and the creative techniques they learned will inform their approach to academic future communication.
“it was great to see the conversations and creative process in action and we are very pleased with the result”
University of Exeter
Podcasts and Audio
A powerful way to generate impact is through audio productions. Whether it is an ongoing podcast or a one-off documentary story, audio is an effective way to engage audiences with interesting research projects and the people of your department. It’s also relatively easy, cheap and quick to produce.
Through a series of conversations, a podcast series can create a body of work that highlights interesting research stories/findings. The potential here is vast, for example: behind-the-scenes insight into a project, exchange of ideas between academics, cross-discipline exchanges with other departments and many other formats.
Case Study: Strandings
Social Media
We can create content specifically for social media to drive audience engagement. However, creating interesting content is all well and good, but what do you do with it once you have it ready to go?
We can offer a Social Media Strategy – a bespoke approach that will maximise the impact of your content once it is published.
We can also offer Social Media Management – executing your strategy according to a planned schedule and targets.
As you can see, the possibilities of academic collaboration with Preston Street Films are limitless. Do have a look around the website and get in touch to see how we can work together.