2x event highlights and interviews for global digital media and events company, UNLEASH. Produced, filmed and edited by Dreaming Fish Productions in Paris!
The client and project
On Monday 16th October, three of our production team and three of our lovely freelancers headed to Paris on a two day conference shoot with global digital media and events company, Unleash. Annually, Unleash hold two HR events; one in Las Vegas and one in Paris to cater for all worldwide businesses. The two day conference is a great way of networking and meeting new people whilst having the opportunity to learn more about HR innovations, recruitment technology and much more! What’s not to love?☕
The Unleash team contacted us in September in need of promotional video content for their Paris event. They were after two highlight videos, accompanying social edits as well as a promotional trailer, to be teased a week after the event. Having created many event videos in the past, we were super eager to work on this project. Due to the size of the event, our team were divided into subsections: 2x videographers for b-roll, 2x videographers for voxpops/interviews, 1x production runner/MUA as well as 1x onsite video editor. #DreamTeam! After a few logistics calls with Unleash, we won the project and got started on handling our side of production.
The production
Our Producer, Tom, flew out on Sunday to meet with the Unleash team, ensuring everything was going as planned. The rest of the team flew out on Monday morning. We then headed straight to the venue, to set up ahead of Tuesday and Wednesday morning.
Before each day, Unleash provided each team with a schedule of the day which highlighted the ‘money shots’ for the b-roll team and a list of interviewees for the voxpops team. Throughout the day, our team dropped off camera cards to Alex, our editor, who immediately started piecing together elements for the 60-second highlights video. Both days ran super smoothly, all teams worked brilliantly and we captured some great content. Check out some BTS photos of the crew below.
Day 1 highlights
Day 1 was a huge success. Thousands of guests arrived from Paris, Europe and the rest of the world to attend the ‘most influential HR event in the world’! The exhibition floor was buzzing with businesses like AWS, HiBob, SmartRecruiters and eightfold.ai to name a few. The speakers included Josh Bersin, the L’Oréal CHRO Jean-Claude Le Grand, Catherine Gouw, head of employer branding international at Lidl, Barbara Lavernos and Muriel Pénicaud, along with many others.
At the height of the world cup, it was only right that two rugby legends, England’s 2003 Rugby World Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson and French rugby star, Serge Betsen closed the show. In their latest news blog, Unleash declared, “we’re proud to say that this is set to be the biggest and best UNLEASH World event yet!” and they delivered on that promise. It was super rewarding to have witnessed such a great day; watch the highlights from day 1 below!
Day 2 highlights
If you thought Day 1 looked cool, Wednesday was just as busy! We were joined by even more speakers, attendees and bigger breakout sessions. The excitement from the first day was just as prominent. Check out the day 2 highlights below:
Thank you!
And that’s a wrap! A big shoutout to Unleash for hosting such an incredible and inspirational #HREvent. Thank you so much for having us and here’s to the next one. Click play on the video below to enjoy a snappy social edit we created to showcase some ‘exhibition fun’. Interested in attending next year’s event? Keep an eye out on Unleash’s socials for more information.
