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NFSA

Three briefs, one shoot, 550 images

Video, Photography, Talent casting, Design, Voiceover
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Client

National Film and Sound Archive

Sector

Arts and culture

Services

Video, Photography, Talent casting, Design, Voiceover

Year

2025 to now

550+

photos delivered

13

videos, captioned and clean

6

projects and counting

The challenge

Three teams. One building.

Three NFSA teams, accessibility, marketing and venue hire, each needed a library of images and video. Run separately, that's three briefs, three shoots and three budgets, all competing for the same building.

Access done properly. The accessibility imagery had to show real access, not a stock version of it.

Venue hire without a client. The spaces had to look like real events, without promoting anyone else's brand.

Challenge

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Accessibility at the NFSA

Captioned film, one of 13 from the shoot

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What we did

We merged them.

One three-day shoot covered all three teams, planned so each got exactly what it needed without tripping over the others.

Approach
01

One shoot, three teams

A single production with a shared shot list and schedule, so accessibility, marketing and venue hire each got their own library from the same days.

Approach
02

Cast for real access

Professional talent including vision-impaired and wheelchair-using performers, so the NFSA could show real access, not a stock version of it.

Approach
03

A brand that doesn't exist

For venue hire, our designer invented a fictional corporate brand to dress the spaces, so the images look like real events without promoting anyone else's logo.

Voiceover recorded in-house. Every video delivered with captions, clean versions and caption files for YouTube.

From the library

550 images, one shoot.

Accessibility · Marketing · Venue hire

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The results

One shoot. A return client.

The NFSA got a library of 550+ photos and 13 videos from a single production, won and delivered through the Services Australia panel. They've been back five times since, and their marketing lead now acts as a referee for Shoelace.

What came next

  • Jun 2025 30-second visitor experience edit
  • Jun to Oct 2025 Wax cylinder recording film
  • Dec 2025 to Jan 2026 Heaven's Gate exhibition content
  • Feb to Apr 2026 Sounds of Australia campaign
  • Aug to Sep 2026 Learning Programs photography
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I am getting really lovely feedback on the pics.

Anna Michael

Marketing, National Film and Sound Archive

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