Notlith · Aberdeen
Corporate film in Aberdeen: explaining work that happens offshore
Much of the work done by Aberdeen companies takes place where a camera crew cannot easily follow: on a platform, inside a subsea system, on a vessel in the North Sea. Notlith builds corporate films remotely from the material you are allowed to share, such as site photographs, engineering drawings and approved renders, and turns it into a clear account of what your organisation does.
Remote production · From your photos
When the worksite is a flight away
Getting a crew offshore involves survival training, medicals, helicopter seats from Dyce and a permit to film. For a company introduction, that effort is often out of proportion. Photographs taken by your own technicians during routine work, combined with drawings and cleared interface screens, can carry a precise explanation of a job without anyone boarding an installation.
We plan the sequence around one operation the audience should understand, such as a tie-back, an inspection campaign or a decommissioning scope. Images that show sensitive equipment or client assets stay out of the folder unless the asset owner has approved them. Your communications and legal teams decide what is publishable; we work only with what they release.
Transition claims need evidence behind them
Many north-east firms now describe work in offshore wind, hydrogen or carbon capture alongside oil and gas. A corporate film is a public statement, so every line about emissions, capability or projects should match something you can document. We will not generate a turbine field or an electrolyser your company has not built or worked on.
A useful structure separates current contracts, demonstrated capability and ambitions clearly. The script labels each one, and the visuals follow the same boundaries. That restraint protects you from accusations of greenwashing and gives buyers a more credible picture than a montage of clean-energy imagery borrowed from elsewhere.
Recruiting engineers to the north-east
A careers film for an Aberdeen employer often addresses people deciding whether to relocate, or engineers moving from one energy sector to another. They want to understand rotas, training, the type of projects and where the office actually is, whether Westhill, Altens, Bridge of Don or the West End.
We do not invent staff testimonials or give a synthetic voice to a named colleague. If employees speak on camera, that recording comes from you with consent, and we edit it into the agreed structure. Benefits, shift patterns and locations are taken from your current recruitment documents and checked again at review.
Safety detail that reviewers will notice
Anyone who has worked offshore will look at the gloves, the harness and the hard hat colour before the message. A generated image that shows missing PPE or an impossible lifting arrangement undermines the film immediately. We keep motion conservative around people and equipment, and your HSE adviser reviews those shots before anything is finalised.
The same review clarifies what may be shown of control rooms, data and vessel names. Captions, language versions and the use of the delivered film are agreed in the quote. One reviewer consolidates the comments, which keeps technical and communications feedback from pulling the edit in different directions.
Catalog demonstration
See the production approach
English, adaptable to your language
Plan the details
Can you make a film without visiting our site in Dyce or Westhill?
Yes. We work remotely from photographs, drawings and approved screens. If your story depends on filmed interviews or live operations, we will say that a camera crew is the better choice.
Can the film show an asset we operate for a client?
Only with the asset owner's written approval. Otherwise we can describe the work through generic drawings, your own equipment and clearly labelled illustrative sequences.
Could we produce a version for colleagues in Norway?
Yes. Caption or voice versions can be prepared from the same master, with a fluent reviewer you nominate checking the technical vocabulary.
What should a first brief contain?
The audience, the one operation or capability to explain, the images you are cleared to use and the names of the people who approve technical and safety content.
Start with your images
Send the operation you want explained, the cleared images and drawings, and the names of your technical and HSE reviewers.