bishopsgate
school

Bishopsgate School is an independent preparatory school in Egham, Surrey, set within beautiful grounds and offering a broad, rounded education from Nursery through to Year 8.

Overview

bishopsgate school knew its best
sellers
weren’t on the marketing team;
they were already inside it.

THE CHALLENGE

  • Prospective families needed to feel welcomed and informed before they had set foot on site
  • The Head needed a direct, personal line to prospective parents — something a written welcome message alone couldn’t deliver
  • Three distinct perspectives — parents, teachers and pupils — each needed their own space to speak candidly about life at Bishopsgate
  • All four videos needed to feel cohesive and professional, sitting together naturally within the school’s website

OUR APPROACH

The Head’s Welcome was built around a pre-prepared script, loaded onto our autocue ahead of the shoot. This allowed us to map each section to specific locations around the school, ensuring the footage and the Head’s words worked seamlessly together. On the day, he delivered his welcome directly to camera via autocue, giving a natural, assured performance. Alongside this, we captured candid testimonials with parents, teachers and pupils, plus b-roll across the grounds, with the kind weather showing Bishopsgate at its best.

In post-production, the Head’s Welcome was cut together with the b-roll and the school’s existing drone assets into a single, cohesive film. The three testimonials were edited separately, weaving multiple voices into natural, flowing conversations, with opening and closing titles giving each film a clean, professional finish.

WHAT WE DELIVERED

four films that let bishopsgate
speak for itself.

  • 1 × Head’s Welcome Video — autocue-delivered, cut with b-roll and drone footage, giving the school’s leadership a direct and personal line to every prospective family
  • 3 × Vox Pop Videos — parent, teacher and pupil voices, each edited into a natural, flowing conversation that adds depth and credibility through the people who know the school best:
  • Parent Voices — parents speaking about their experience of the school
  • Teacher Voices — staff reflecting on life and teaching at Bishopsgate
  • Student Voices — pupils sharing what they love about the school
THE FILMS

four voices, one school
speaking for itself.

The Bishopsgate suite works because every voice in it is genuine. The Head’s Welcome gives prospective families a direct, assured introduction from the school’s leadership. The three testimonial films add what no written content can: the unscripted honesty of parents, teachers and pupils who know the school from the inside. Together, the four videos cover the full picture.

 

THE OUTCOME

a head’s welcome, three
communities, and a website that
now feels like the school itself.

Bishopsgate School now has a suite of four videos that work together to give prospective families a warm, rounded introduction to the school before they visit. The Head’s Welcome puts a face and a voice to the school’s leadership, whilst the three testimonial films add depth and credibility through the people who know Bishopsgate School best. Together, they give the school’s website a human quality that written content alone cannot achieve.