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NFSA Heaven's Gate

A 12-metre installation, made for the scroll

Video, Motion graphics, Social cuts
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Client

National Film and Sound Archive

Sector

Arts and culture

Services

Video, Motion graphics, Social cuts

Year

2025 to 2026

Half day

on site

2 days

from shoot to first edit

6

final cuts, 15 and 30 seconds

The challenge

Hard to describe, easy to show.

An Australian first. Heaven's Gate is an installation, not an exhibition, and that was hard to market with static images.

Scale. A 12-metre screen, smaller screens and mirrors had to read on a phone.

A tight budget. The brief moved from a long walk-through to short social trailers that would drive visits.

Challenge

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What we did

Show the scale.

We used NFSA staff as talent for human scale and built the trailer around reflections of the screens on their faces.

Approach
01

A one-page reverse brief

We wrote the creative plan after kick-off so everyone agreed on the shots before the shoot.

Approach
02

Half-day shoot

A morning on site with NFSA staff on camera, and a first edit back two days later.

Approach
03

Graphics in their style

Motion graphics matched to the NFSA's own trailer style, with clean versions supplied too.

From the library

Made for the scroll.

Installation · Scale · Reflection

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The results

Ready for the opening.

  1. 15 and 30-second trailers in 16:9 and vertical.
  2. Clean 30-second versions without graphics for the NFSA's own use.
  3. A first edit with the client two days after the shoot.

What came next

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