Specialty coffee roaster, 12 sites
The Refit
Northbank Coffee
- Category
- Brand film
- Year
- 2026
- Runtime
- 02:14
- Turnaround
- 9 days
The brief
Northbank was opening its twelfth site and every piece of footage it owned was shot on a phone. It needed one film that could carry a funding round, a hiring page and a shopfront screen.
The constraint
The roastery runs from 04:00 and cannot stop. We had a four-hour window with live machinery, no lighting rig allowed near the roaster, and a green intern who had never been on camera as the lead.
What we did
- Shot the roast cycle in one continuous take so the film has a spine that is not editorial trickery — the drum turns, the beans crack, the batch drops.
- Lit with practicals and two battery panels only. Nothing plugged into the roastery's circuits.
- Cut a 2:39 master for the shopfront and pulled a 9:16 and a 60-second version from the same grade so nothing was regraded twice.
The result
Used in a seed round that closed in eleven weeks. Now the default hiring asset.
Deliverables
- 2:39 master
- 60s cutdown
- 9:16 social cut
- 12 stills
Services
- Direction
- Cinematography
- Edit
- Colour
Delivered in 9 days from approved treatment.
“They shot around a working roastery for four hours and did not stop production once. The film has been in every deck we have used since.”