Event videography & recap films
Film your event, and get from it what you need to communicate until the next one.
An event is prepared over months and plays out in a single day. Filming it is what gives it a sequel: a recap film that travels, sessions available on replay, short formats for social media. We handle the multi-camera coverage, the edit and the delivery, in Lyon, Paris or Geneva.
A recap film is not one single format. Depending on what the event has to leave behind, it runs forty seconds or eight minutes, is cut during the evening or in the days that follow, and is delivered as one film or as a set of clips. That is the decision we take with you, before the first camera goes down.
The setup follows the event, never the other way around. An awards ceremony in front of a hundred people doesn’t call for the same crew as a convention gathering several thousand, and inflating the setup doesn’t make the film better. The number of cameras, the edit suite and the crew are set by the actual run of show.
Since 2004 we have filmed company conventions, festivals, company anniversaries, openings and congresses. A few examples, rather than promises: they are just below.
- Multi-camera coverage
- Attendee interviews caught on the spot
- Recap film cut while it is still warm
- Short and vertical formats
- Photo library of the event
What gets filmed is decided before the event
For Printemps in Lyon, the festival recap film was prepared before the doors opened: we went through the run of show and identified the three or four moments that would carry the film. A good recap film is not rescued in the edit.
So we ask for the run of show up front, and we read it as a shooting plan.
The same-day edit, delivered before people go home
At Festival de K, we edited while the event was still running: the video was screened at the closing, in front of the people who were in it.
It is a setup that takes a crew and an edit suite on site, and it changes the reach of the film completely — a recap film delivered three weeks later meets nobody.
Coverage that keeps working afterwards
For Valrhona’s centenary, with CWT, the coverage didn’t stop at the film of the event: the sessions shot multi-camera became replays, clips for social media and internal material.
So we deliver both the short film of the event and the full sessions, ready to publish.
A company anniversary is prepared like a public event
For Crouzet’s centenary, with LUDICO, the point was not to film an evening but to tell a century in front of the people making it today: archive footage, employee interviews and coverage of the evening in one film.
That format means starting well before the day itself — finding the archives, preparing the speeches, setting the edit against the run of show — and that is what sets it apart from a standard recap film.
What is left once the room has emptied
An event lasts a day. Its film then runs for months — on the client’s channels, in their emails, and as the sales argument for the next edition.
Six situations where the event has to carry on afterwards
Extending a company convention
Two days of conference fit into two minutes, watched by the people who weren’t there — and by the people who were.
Koesio Convention 2024Filling the next one
One edition’s recap film is the sales argument for the next. It is the only material that shows the atmosphere instead of promising it.
E-XPERT Solutions 2023Delivering the same night
A film approved in the evening and published the next morning, while the appetite is still there. Three weeks later the event is over, and so is the appetite.
Guitare en ScèneDocumenting an opening
The place, the speeches, the reactions: what is left once the guests have gone and the decor has come down.
Grand Hôtel-DieuFollowing a client over several years
The same crew, the same format, a series that compares from one edition to the next — and an edit that goes faster every year.
E-XPERT Solutions 2022Feeding social media during the event
Short formats published live, not three weeks later. The editor is on site, not at the office.
IrisDays 2024Recap film, daily recap, best-of: what is the difference?
The recap film tells the event once it is over and serves to extend it. The daily recap goes out each evening during a multi-day event and holds the audience on site. The best-of condenses a whole edition, often to announce the next one. The choice is made alongside the distribution plan, not after the shoot.
When do we get the recap film?
Within one to two weeks in normal running, and the same night with an on-site edit. The choice is made at quotation stage, because it changes the make-up of the crew on site.
How many cameras does it take to cover an event?
Two are enough for a straightforward evening: one camera following the run of show, a second for reactions and detail. From three, you can cover a stage and a room without missing simultaneous moments.
Do you need releases to film attendees?
Yes. A notice at the entrance and a line on the invitation are usually enough, but anyone filmed in close-up and every speaker signs a release. We provide the templates with the proposal.
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Project onto a building, an object or a set, and turn its surface into a screen.
Go live, with a set built for it and the reliability of a proper control room.
Film your event, and come away with enough to keep talking until the next one.
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