Industrial and manufacturing film, showing the work most people never see.

Most of what a manufacturer does happens behind a gate, on a floor outsiders never walk onto. The scale of it, the people who run it, the actual making: none of that reaches the customer weighing up whether to trust you with the work, or the school-leaver deciding whether the trade is worth a look. A clean website won't close that gap. Film of the real floor will. I spent years in industry before I picked up a camera, so a working site has never been strange ground to me.

And it pays back in more than one place. The same footage explains the operation to a buyer who'll never get a site visit, and earns its keep on the website and in the room where the work gets won. It also reaches the people a trade struggles to hire: three in five under-25s say they wouldn't consider a career in manufacturing, mostly down to perception, picturing dirty and dangerous when the modern floor is the opposite. A job advert can't argue with that impression. A film that puts them on your floor, among the people and the work, can.

And it's rarely one film. A manufacturer's operation doesn't hold still: new people start, new lines go in, the work changes from one year to the next. So there's almost always more worth filming than a single video can carry. The best of this work takes that shape, a run of films over years, each doing a different job.

I've filmed for RGI, a textile recycling group, since early 2024. One film explains the business to customers who've never seen the process. Another helps them hire. The rest run as marketing and on social, same client and same floor, a different brief each time. RGI used to be a name their customers couldn't picture. Now there's a face to it, the family who run it, on screen.

For Generate Upcycle I filmed the Fernbrook Bio plant in Kettering after a major rebuild, when the photos on their own website still showed a facility that no longer existed. A single day on site, from the air and the ground, gave them a current library to pull from for the year. The plant had outgrown its own pictures. The film caught up.

A working plant doesn't pause for a camera, and I don't ask it to. I film around the operation, fitting the shoot to how the site runs rather than the other way round. Where a shot needs reaching that a fixed camera can't get, in tight over a line or down the length of a hall in one move, that's where a drone or an FPV flight earns its place, indoors and out. None of it gets in the way of the day's work.

Certified drone operator, fully insured, and used to working to whatever safety rules a site runs.