Overview
The film in brief.
The Fern & Field Trust protects small, overlooked habitats — hedgerows, ponds, back-garden wilds. Their brief was radical: a fundraising film with no narration, letting the places speak through sound and patient observation.
We spent eleven dawns in hides with long lenses and ambisonic microphones. The twelve-minute film raised three times its target in the first month and now opens every trust event.
The challenge
What we were up against.
Wildlife ignores call sheets. The film needed intimate animal behavior without baiting, handling or staged releases — and a structure that holds attention with almost no human presence.
The approach
How we solved it.
We worked with two ecologists who knew each site's rhythms, filmed behavior in seasonal order, and built the edit around a single dawn-to-dusk arc so the quiet accumulates into something moving.
From the production.
What the client took home.
Festival film
Twelve-minute documentary with 5.1 mix and accessibility versions.
Classroom cut
A six-minute schools version with educator discussion guide.
Appeal assets
Ninety-second appeal film plus stills for print and mail.
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