Notlith · Dunedin
Corporate film in Dunedin: for the people you want to bring south
A Dunedin corporate film is often watched by someone who has never set foot in Ōtepoti: a clinician weighing a move, an investor reading about a research spin-out, a buyer assessing a workshop near Mosgiel. Notlith builds these films remotely from your photographs, diagrams and brand material, with creative direction, AI-assisted motion, editing, colour and sound, and without inventing a facility or a result.
Remote production · From your photos
A role worth moving for
Hiring a specialist into Dunedin can mean persuading someone to relocate from another city or another country. A recruitment film should show the work first: the team, the equipment they will use, the kind of problems that land on their desk. Life in the city comes second, and it should come from licensed imagery of real places such as the harbour, St Clair or the Botanic Garden.
We keep those two layers visibly separate. Your workplace appears only as photographed, and the city is presented as the setting, not as a promise about housing, schools or commuting. If a benefit such as relocation support exists, it goes into the words you approve and nowhere else, so nobody arrives expecting something the contract does not contain.
Research explained to people outside the lab
Work from Dunedin's university and health sector eventually has to be explained to funders, partners and patients. A spin-out may need two minutes that make a mechanism understandable without turning a hypothesis into a cure. Diagrams, microscopy images and laboratory photographs are strong raw material, provided the scientist who supplied them signs off on how they move.
Generated animation helps show something invisible, such as a process inside a cell or a sensor reading changing over time, but it is labelled as illustration. A smooth visual must never suggest that a trial has succeeded or a device has been approved. Ethics, consent and publication status remain decisions for your team, and we follow them.
Workshops on the Taieri Plains
Fabrication, food processing and engineering firms around Mosgiel and the Taieri often sell to customers who will never visit. For them, the corporate film works as a site tour for a procurement manager in another region. We build it from photographs of the floor, the machines and the finished work, sequenced in the order a visitor would walk through.
Sensitive areas can be left out or shown as diagrams. If a machine was photographed with a guard removed, we flag the image rather than animate it, because a safety lapse on screen undermines everything around it. Certifications and standards appear only as the documents you hold describe them, word for word.
Te reo Māori in titles and naming
Some Dunedin organisations carry te reo Māori names, Kāi Tahu dialect spellings or bilingual titles. These belong to the people who gave them, so we use the exact forms you provide, including macrons and the southern k where it applies. We do not translate, invent or decorate with Māori language or design on our own initiative.
If your film opens with a karakia or needs cultural guidance, that comes through the relationships your organisation already has. We leave room in the edit for a recorded voice you supply, time the captions to it with care and ask for confirmation of every spelling before the master is approved.
Fictional concept created with AI
In pictures
Catalog demonstration
See the production approach
English, adaptable to your language
Plan the details
Can a recruitment film show the city without a shoot?
Yes, with licensed photographs of Dunedin places, clearly presented as the city around your workplace. We do not suggest that a view or a neighbourhood belongs to your premises.
How do we show research that is not yet published?
Use only what your team has cleared for release. Unpublished results can be described in general terms or left out, and the responsible researcher reviews every frame before delivery.
Can one film serve recruitment and investors?
Two short edits usually work better than one compromise. They can share the material about your work and differ in the opening, the order of information and the ending.
Do you send a crew to Dunedin?
No. Notlith works remotely. Staff interviews or filmed walk-throughs need a local crew, and we can edit that footage if you commission it.
Start with your images
Send photographs of your workplace, any diagrams you want explained and one sentence on who should feel what after watching.