SLS (Scientific Laboratory Supplies) is a leading supplier of scientific equipment and laboratory supplies in the UK. They were nearing completion of a mammoth new warehouse and office site in Nottingham and wanted to show it off to both their customers and to excite their new team.
However, they didn’t want just a regular corporate video – they wanted something different, something that would stand out. That’s why they came to us!
After brainstorming a few ideas over a cuppa, we all decided that using FPV (first-person view) drones would be the ultimate solution. It would make for a truly immersive video and be super exciting for the team on the day! Plus, with the video being launched at their annual conference, it needed to have something different!
We use drones in pretty much all our videos, and our drone operators are the best in the country (if we say so ourselves), having filmed all over the world, so SLS knew we could live up to our word.
There’s a lot of careful choreography needed with FPVs (unless you want to crash a lot, which we don’t!), so an action plan was meticulously drawn up.
We had a walk around the site and identified the areas that SLS wanted to show off and figured out how best to do that with the drone. SLS were keen to incorporate some interest and humour into the video, so keep an eye out for several science-related Easter eggs in the video if you can spot them!
We shot for two days, and our talented operator, Luke, was able to navigate the FPV drone into every conceivable space, flying through doors, down corridors, through forklift trucks, and even through eight racks of shelving – all without breaking a sweat! We then cut everything together with some subtle motion transitions giving the video a seamless feel, perfectly capturing the cutting-edge facilities of SLS.
The video was a huge success. It went down a storm on LinkedIn and at their conference too. The impactful showcase of SLS’s state-of-the-art warehouse positioned them as a market leader and generated significant engagement from their target audience. And the FPV will definitely be making a reappearance soon too!
