Notlith · Cardiff
Corporate film in Cardiff: one organisation, two languages
A Cardiff organisation often speaks to several audiences at once: graduates weighing a first job, partners in the public sector, customers elsewhere in the UK. Notlith makes corporate films remotely from your own photographs, screens and brand files, with scripting, AI-assisted visuals, editing, colour and sound. Where your audience expects Welsh as well as English, we plan both languages from the script stage, not at the end.
Remote production · From your photos
Recruiting from the city's universities
Cardiff University, Cardiff Metropolitan University and the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama send graduates into the job market every summer, and many of them meet an employer first through a short film on a careers page. That viewer wants to know what a working week looks like, which teams exist and where the office actually is. Answering those three points earns more attention than a montage of values.
We build that answer from what you can show: photographs of the workspace, approved descriptions of each team, product screens and, if it matters, the walk from Cardiff Central or Queen Street station. Nobody on your staff is generated, and no words are put in a colleague's mouth. If real people should speak, that part needs a camera, and the proposal says so plainly.
Welsh and English, planned together
Public bodies in Wales work under Welsh language standards, and plenty of private employers choose to offer Welsh too, particularly when they recruit or serve customers across the country. For a company film, that decision changes the edit. On-screen text in two languages needs room, a Welsh voice-over has its own rhythm, and some lines simply run longer. Leaving it until the English cut is locked tends to produce cramped captions.
So we ask early whether you need a Welsh master, an English master, a bilingual version or separate edits for each audience. Translation and voice are checked by fluent reviewers you appoint, or by a translator agreed in the quote. Titles are laid out for both languages from the first draft, and your communications team approves every line before anything is exported.
Offices from Central Square to Butetown
Many Cardiff employers occupy modern blocks around Central Square and Callaghan Square, others work from converted buildings in Butetown or from business parks towards the edge of the city. The setting shapes how a company film opens, but only when it is genuinely yours. We start from your own exterior and reception photographs and will not borrow a glass tower or a waterfront that belongs to a neighbour.
Inside, AI-assisted motion can give still images of meeting rooms, workshops or laboratories a slow, controlled drift. Each frame is checked for added desks, altered signage or windows that were never there. Where confidentiality limits what can be photographed, a graphic sequence drawn from your brand system can explain a process without exposing client data or unreleased products.
What a remote company film cannot do
A chief executive's message, a site visit with engineers or a documentary about an apprenticeship scheme belongs to real filming, and Cardiff has crews who handle that kind of work. Notlith has no office in the city and does not send a camera. Our method suits films carried by places, products, screens and words you already own, which covers more briefs than people expect, though not all of them.
When a project mixes both, we can work alongside footage you commission separately: interview clips cut into a sequence built from photographs, with consistent grading and sound across the whole piece. The quote lists durations, formats, language versions and review rounds, and it states how the finished film may be used, from the intranet to recruitment fairs and paid placements.
Catalog demonstration
See the production approach
English, adaptable to your language
Plan the details
Can the film run on a loop at a recruitment fair?
Yes. We can supply a version that does not rely on sound, with titles large enough for a stand screen and an ending that restarts smoothly. Mention the screen format in your brief.
Do we need a Welsh version?
That depends on your obligations and your audience. Public bodies should check the standards that apply to them; private firms decide for themselves. We plan the edit so that either choice works properly.
Can you show our people without filming them?
Only through photographs you already hold, with the consent of those pictured. We do not create staff, clients or testimonials with AI, and faces are never altered.
What do we send to begin?
Your objective, the audience, workplace photographs, brand guidelines and any screens or diagrams worth showing. A short list of facts the film must state helps us draft the script.
Start with your images
Send us the purpose of the film, your workplace photographs and a note on language needs, and we will propose a structure that works in Cardiff and beyond.