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Client: Unispace
Location: Zurich, Switzerland
Role: Filmmaker
Setup: Gimbal, Sony FX2, natural light only
Travel: Munich to Zurich by train
Images: Unispace design visualizations from the NKT Photonics brief, including the featured entrance lounge rendering.
Insights
Most days, my role is Senior Video Producer, which mostly means I'm shaping other people's shoots, not standing behind the camera myself. But every so often a project comes in where it makes more sense for me to pick the camera back up, and this one in Zurich was exactly that kind of project.
I've been working with Unispace since 2024, covering the interior and architectural spaces they've designed for clients across Europe, and editing some of the video series built around that work. It's a relationship I genuinely enjoy, partly because I have a real love for interiors and architecture, something my colleagues know well enough that when an urgent request came in to shoot a newly completed space in Zurich, they came straight to me.
The turnaround was tight, a single day, with the shoot needing to happen fast. Rather than fly, I took the train from Munich to Zurich, both for the sake of a more sustainable production and because it fit the timeline just fine. I kept the kit as simple as the day demanded: a gimbal, a Sony FX2, and the natural light already living in the space. No lighting rig, no crew, just me moving through a beautifully designed environment and letting it speak for itself on camera.
That simplicity ended up being the right call. The space Unispace had built was striking enough that it didn't need to be dressed up with a heavier setup, it needed someone who knew how to move through it, find its best light, and frame it the way an architect or interior designer would want it seen. Great people, great design, and a result I was genuinely proud to edit together afterward.
Jobs like this are a reminder of why we keep filmmakers on the team who can step into a producer role most of the time and still shoot and edit when a project calls for it. Sometimes the best crew for the job is one person who knows the client, knows the subject matter, and can get there fast with the lightest kit that still delivers.
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