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Admissions films, virtual open days and staff recruitment video for independent schools across Sussex and Hampshire, filmed at your school and finished at our studio near Chichester.
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In short: Granary Digital produces admissions films, virtual open days and staff recruitment video for independent schools and colleges across Sussex and Hampshire. Filming happens at your school under your safeguarding policies, post-production at the studio near Chichester. Signature productions from £4,950+VAT.
The prospectus got them to the website. The film does the rest.
Most families now meet a school on a screen long before they meet it at the gate, and many relocating or overseas families choose from the film alone. A prospectus can describe a school; only film can let a parent feel what a Tuesday morning there is actually like.
The schools that film well do a few things differently. They let pupils talk, because parents believe children in a way they will never believe a voiceover. They film ordinary excellence, a rehearsal, a science lesson going right, rather than only speech-day polish. And they cut it to length: a headline film for the admissions page and short pieces for each department, open day and social channel.
We film at your school, on your terms, under your safeguarding policies and with your consent records, then finish everything at our studio. Heads' welcomes and staff interviews can also be filmed here at the barn, which some heads prefer to a busy school day.
What admissions teams commission
A film library that works the whole admissions cycle.
The admissions film
The flagship: three to four minutes that carry the feel of the school, led by pupils and staff rather than a script. Cut down into 60- and 30-second versions for campaigns and social.
Virtual open days
Department tours, boarding house walk-throughs and a head's welcome, structured so an overseas family can genuinely evaluate the school remotely, and so UK families arrive already half-decided.
Staff recruitment films
Teaching posts are a market too. Films that show what it is like to teach and live at the school reach candidates the TES advert never will.
An admissions interview set, dressed and lit.
How a school film comes together
1. Work back from open day
We start from the date the film has to be live and plan the filming around your calendar. Summer term gives the grounds and the light; an autumn visit catches the school in full swing.
2. Agree who appears
Your safeguarding lead and the consent list come first. Only pupils with consent on record are filmed, and you get a log of who appears in each clip, so a withdrawn consent is quick to act on.
3. Film ordinary days
A rehearsal, a lesson going well, the walk between lessons. Pupils are interviewed in pairs with staff present, which settles them faster than any script.
4. Cut it for every use
A hero film for the admissions page and the open-day screens, 60- and 30-second versions for campaigns, and captioned verticals for social. Your team approves every frame before anything goes out.
The admissions production
Signature Production: the school film
A full production: planning with your admissions team, filming days at the school with a full crew, a hero admissions film plus the cut-downs, delivered with stills from the shoot. Scoped and quoted per school before you commit.
Get a quote- Planning built around the school calendar
- Filming at your school, full crew
- A hero admissions film plus cut-downs
- Photography from the same days
- Consent and safeguarding handled your way
Smaller pieces, a head's welcome or a single department film, start from Content in a Day at £1,395+VAT.
What the barn adds to a school shoot
Some of the work is easier away from a school day. A head's welcome can be read word for word from the autocue in the Green Space in one sitting, with no bell and no knock at the door. The podcast room, with three 4K cameras and an engineer, suits a sixth-form debating show or an alumni series, and the cove handles staff portraits for the website. A team headshot day is £950+VAT for up to fifteen people, at the barn or at the school.
The barn is at Adsdean, near Chichester. By road it is about 25 minutes to Petersfield and Portsmouth, 50 to Winchester and around an hour to Guildford, Horsham and Brighton, so schools across West Sussex, east Hampshire and south Surrey are a short drive for the crew.
The school admissions film · from £4,950 +VAT
Questions we get asked
How do you handle safeguarding and consent?
Your policies lead. We work to the school's safeguarding requirements, film only pupils with consent on record, and hand over footage logs so your team can audit exactly who appears. Filming is scheduled with your staff present throughout.
When should a school film?
Summer term for grounds and light, autumn for the open-day push. A two-visit plan, one in each, catches the school in both registers and keeps the film honest across the year.
How long does an admissions film take?
Typically two to three filming days and three to four weeks of edit, planned around the school calendar. Rush versions for a looming open day are possible if the filming is done.
Can pupils really carry the film?
They are the film. Parents discount adult voiceover almost completely and believe pupils almost completely. We interview well-prepared pupils in pairs, which relaxes them, and the school approves every frame used.
What does it cost?
The full Signature Production is from £4,950+VAT depending on filming days and deliverables. Single pieces from £1,395+VAT as a Content in a Day. Every school is quoted on scope before committing.
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