SlackPress Studios

Recruitment · Company culture · Events

First Derivative

Showing what it means to be part of the team.

Client / partners

First Derivative

Recruitment · Company culture · Events

The brief

A body of film and live production work supporting how First Derivative recruits, welcomes and brings its people together. From graduate and placement recruitment campaigns to induction, corporate team building and live events, the aim was to make the company’s people, opportunities and culture tangible.

Our contribution

SlackPress worked with First Derivative to shape creative concepts, storyboards and production plans. We filmed employee interviews, workplace stories and events, developed branded motion graphics and produced edits for recruitment campaigns, internal communications and content across its social channels.

Graduate and placement recruitment

We put employees at the centre of the story, combining natural interviews with workplace footage, animation and a visual language familiar from social media. The films introduce career opportunities through the experiences and personalities of the people already there.

Induction and team culture

Our wider work included new-starter induction, policy and training films, leadership content and corporate team-building videos. These productions helped First Derivative explain working life, introduce its people and share the moments that bring colleagues together.

Event concepts and live broadcasting

We supported event concept development and programming alongside multi-camera filming and live broadcasting, working with event and streaming partners where needed. Sizzle reels, speaker content and branded films connected the live programme with its wider communications.

Event highlights and social content

From Dare to Dream in Edinburgh to team events in London, we captured presentations, interviews, activities and the atmosphere around them. Highlight films and shorter social edits gave First Derivative content to share across its channels after each event.

Selected films

People, careers and shared experiences.

Graduate recruitment campaign

Employee stories, animation and social-inspired graphics introduce graduate life at First Derivative.

1:33

Placement recruitment

An introduction to the placement experience through interviews, workplace footage and time with the team.

2:32

Dare to Dream: sizzle reel

A short brand film bringing together company culture, team activities and the Dare to Dream theme.

0:53

Dare to Dream: Edinburgh event

Presentations, employee interviews and shared activities from the Edinburgh event.

3:24

London team event

An energetic highlights film capturing colleagues coming together at the London summer event.

1:03

Project team

Simon Black

Executive Producer

Amy Lowry

Executive Producer

Laura Conlon

Production Manager

John Fitzsimons

Director of Photography / Editor & Motion Graphics Artist

Ryan O’Rourke

Director of Photography / Editor & Motion Graphics Artist

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