Our Work

We love showing off the work we’ve done as we’re always very proud of it. Below are just some of the latest examples of what we’ve been working on.

On the prom at Southwold

CareCo - Freedom: A new campaign for CareCo with agency Hub meant producing a series of national TVCs and Idents for channels.; Find out more

TransUnion - Cameo

TransUnion - Cameo: Our animation team got their teeth into a lively explainer for Cameo, the new geo-demographic data tool from TransUnion.; Find out more

Ramsdens - Currency

Ramsdens - Currency TVC: Ramsdens commissioned us to create a cheerful commercial to show people where to get their travel money.; Find out more

Melo - the Faces of Melo

Melo - The Faces of Melo: We came up with a lively set of people films to show the team for the launch of an eqully playful brand - Melo.; Find out more

It's raining confetti

RSA - Feel The Difference: RSA Insurance and More Than embarked on a new recruitment marketing campaign with SMRS. We produced all film content for both external and internal use, with a few confetti cannons thown in for good measure.; Find out more

Pandora - Craft the Incredible

Pandora - Craft the Incredible: A series of high impact people films created for Pandora's employer brand campaign.; Find out more

Kellogg's - Hot Granola

Kellogg's - Hot Granola: Do you like it hot or cold? In this commercial series for W.K. Kellogg Granola and Crunchy Nut Granola, we put the two head to head.; Find out more

Deniz

EE - Join Us: Creating a recruitment film series for SMRS's campaign for EE meant shooting over four different store loactions to gather a varierty of different people stories.; Find out more

Warburton - Baking The Difference

Warburton - Baking The Difference: It is no longer about white sliced bread. The tastes of the consumer are changing and Warburtons wanted to explore this in a short, punchy introduction film for a series of discussion groups.; Find out more

You Know Who's - TVC

You Know Who's - TVC: You Know Who’s are a fashion retailer with a high street presence as well as being a popular online store. A series of TV commercials were commissioned by Avalon Media to help with the visibility of the brand.; Find out more

Heriot-Watt University

Heriot-Watt University - Digital Transformation: Heriot-Watt University wanted to create a video prospectus for their online MSc in Digital Transformation.; Find out more

Lubrizol

Lubrizol - Leaders In The Field: This film was commissioned to help show manufacturers just how much of a difference Lubrizol's oil additives make to the people whose livelihood depends on their vehicles whatever the conditions.; Find out more

Soocer Sofas TVC

Soccer Sofas - TVC: The Soccer Sofas campaign for Avalon Media meant building six different room sets in one location in one day to create this upbeat TVC.; Find out more

Epilepsy Action - What is Epilepsy?

Epilepsy Action - What is Epilepsy?: Epilepsy Action wanted an overarching film to put them at the forefront of all the bg questions about what Epilepsy is. We created an animation that now sits at the top of every online search.; Find out more

NNL - Where Anything Is Possible

NNL - Where Anything Is Possible: Employer Brand agency SMRS worked with the National Nuclear Laboratory on a recent recruitment campaign. Part of the remit for this was to create film and photography for use on sites and social channels.; Find out more

Ask Italian

Ask Italian - Join The Team: For restaurant chain Ask Italian, we were tasked with coming up with a lively series of films all about the family culture and what it’s like to create amazing culinary experiences.; Find out more

E.ON Life - Early Careers

E.ON Life - Early Careers: Around fifty interviews were shot over three days for a complete recruitment video series fo E.ON; Find out more

Minority Report

AQA - Assessment Banking: Academic organisation AQA launched a new resource for their members. We created a dynamic look to the modules as a user drags and drops the things they want from the new resource.; Find out more

Key Partnerships promo

Key Partnerships: We devised and designed a short and imaginitive animated promo film for Key Partnerships.; Find out more

Pizza Hut - Employee Manifesto

Pizza Hut - Employee Manifesto: Creating a great piece of external communication means thinking about your audience. The website homepage is the shop window and a lead video is the thing that makes people stop and want to go in. This was our aim for the Pizza Hut Employee Manifesto film.; Find out more

Network Rail - Diversity

Network Rail - Diversity: Having the run of Waterloo Station during rush hour meant we could capture the bustle of what a career at a diverse organisation is really like.; Find out more

Shear - Bespoke

Shear - Bespoke: Shear Bespoke was launched to offer individually tailored suits online. This meant creating a whole series of ‘how to’ films to measure yourself for the perfect fit. What better opportunity to then create a series of classic fashion promos for the range in the same production.; Find out more

Ramsdens - My Branch TVC

Ramsdens - My Branch TVC: For this TV Commercial campaign, we featured real Ramsdens people to front the advert. Working with real people can often give a warmth and authenticity to the tone.; Find out more

University of Leicester - CEHS

University of Leicester - CEHS: The Centre for Environmental Health and Sustainability at the University of Leicester commissioned us to make a series of promo films to launch their new centre.; Find out more

Swinton Insurance Contact Centre

Swinton Insurance - Careers Films: We created a range of video content for the Swinton Insurance Careers site from highly crafted commercials to people profiles. Colourful neon icons are drawn in CGI and then become real, adding amazing light sources to these stylish films.; Find out more

Meeow - Promo Series

Meeow - Promo Series: The launch of a new brand requires a well constructed set of videos that work on a number of levels. For the networking platform Meeow, we were able to create a variety of promos for every social channel.; Find out more

Crown To Cuff - X-Frame Physiques

Crown To Cuff - X-Frame Physiques: Our skills for telling a story were put to the test when we were asked to document fitting a specially made suit for WBO Middleweight Boxer Billy Joe Saunders by Crown To Cuff Bespoke Tailoring. We had less than thirty minutes with Billy and this is what we came up with.; Find out more

Libryo - Now You Know

Libryo - Now You Know: The key to a good explainer animation is to find the right visual analogy for the service you are showing. In this video for Libryo, we keep it simple and clear.; Find out more

The Engagement Coach - In Good Company

The Engagement Coach - In Good Company: In Good Company is an educational series based around the goings on within the sales team at fictional company Emerson Software Solutions. As a ten-part drama series, this was one of our most expansive and exciting productions to date.; Find out more

Pizza Express - Apprenticeships

Pizza Express - Apprenticeships: The social media film is a small but very powerful beast. You have seconds before the viewer decides to watch or scroll down. Marketing Agency Jupiter tasked us to bring their employer brand to life for Pizza Express in a short promo that demands your attention.; Find out more

Later Life Lending Symposium

Later Life Lending Symposium: The Key Group staged a number of events for advisors working in the later life lending sector. We were asked to cover all the action live on site and in the studio.; Find out more

HSL - TV Idents

HSL - TV Idents: As you tune in to watch a drama on ITV3 you might notice the sponsorship idents for HSL. We staged a number of delightful settings to make the range of relaxing chairs the centre of each ident.; Find out more

CareCo - Home/Store TVC

CareCo - Home/Store TVC: Ad Agency Hub brought our team in to produce a series of TV commercials for mobility company CareCo. The brief included shots in store and on location at a specially chosen home setting.; Find out more

Pizza Hut - A Shift In Focus

Pizza Hut - A Shift in Focus: Film can really be used well to help teach important lessons for internal training in orrganisations. For Pizza Hut, reconstructing the consequences of when your concentration lapses at work proved very effective.; Find out more

Nestlé - Academy

Nestlé - Academy: As part of an extensive video series for the Nestlé recruitment site we shot for Sparks Careers, we were able to pull out interview content for a range of other briefs. A good production means planning multiple uses of content from the same shoot.; Find out more

University of York

University of York - Be Exceptional: The University of York is a Russell Group University where students study and live in an inspirational place. It wasn't difficult to capture the stories and the footage that would show how students who go to York can be exceptional.; Find out more

Epilepsy Action Jack's Story

Epilepsy Action - Jack's Story: Jack, Ali and Anna all have epilepsy. We were commissioned to make a series of six short animated films to find out how epilepsy affects them.; Find out more

Bubul - Promo

BuBul - Promo: Close attention to brand assets is a key part to making an animated explainer video really work. The colours and design really keep this video interesting throughout.; Find out more

SMRS - YWare

SMRS - YWare: We take the simple concept of pieces to camera and add light and colour. This promo shows what you can do with great cinematography and a small room.; Find out more

Dune - The Dune Experience

Dune - The Dune Experience: Video is a great tool to train a sales force. For Dune London we created a series of training modules to give new starters a full rundown of The Dune Experience. Here is one of the modules in the series.; Find out more

Lowell - The Big Conversation

Lowell - The Big Conversation: When you need to talk to your entire workforce, a well-crafted suite of films is a great idea. For the launch of a new direction, Lowell Financial asked us to do exactly that.; Find out more

The Picture of Health

The Picture Of Health: For many people, what is on the outside only really shows one side of a person. This is the story of what is hidden.; Find out more

Superservice Triage – Vehicle Heath Check

House of Fraser - Let's Do The Extraordinary: An award-winning recruitment film which places the extraordinary people who build their careers at House of Fraser at the centre of the scene - literally.; Find out more

Chris Catalyst Sticks and Stones

Chris Catalyst - Sticks and Stones: Eureka Machines frontman Chris Catalyst wanted a colourful promo video for his debut solo track. After a very eventful day filming at our studio, that's exactly what we made.; Find out more

Holland and Barrett

Holland and Barrett - A Year in the Life: Starting a new career in retail can be a daunting experience. Holland and Barrett commissioned a short film to show how new starter Meg developed over her first year from newbie to confident expert.; Find out more

Trinity Academy Sowerby Bridge - Promo

Trinity Academy Sowerby Bridge - Promo: A fly-on-the-wall documentary approach helps give this beautifully shot promo for Trinity Academy a warm feeling.; Find out more

Berri's Law - Promo

Berri's Law - Promo: Video really helps to personalise a website. Our brief was to put the personality and expertise of the team at Berri’s Law right at the front of their communication to potential clients.; Find out more

Rosenbauer Uk - Tech Day

Rosenbauer UK - Tech Day: We were commissioned by Aye! Agency to create a series of intro films for Rosenbauer UK’s Tech Day. Imagine a big hangar full of smoke. Then from through sparkling lights an enormous Rosenbauer Panther fire truck rolls in – all in sync with a massive screen showing an intro film like the...; Find out more

The British Shop

The British Shop: A short animated commercial for expert art couriers The British Shop. Our in-house animation team concieved, designed and animated this project from start to finish.; Find out more

More2Life - Symposium

More2Life - Symposium: An impactful trailer for a series of events aimed at financial advisors in the later life lending market. We kept it concise and got straight down to heart of the matter.; Find out more

Ensign - Dover Castle

Ensign - Dover Castle: Installing wireless technology in an English Heritage site threw up many challenges. Thunder and Lightning Films were commissioned by Ensign Communications to document a case study on how they equipped Dover Castle with microwave Siklu links whilst maintaining the integrity of the beautiful...; Find out more

National Audit Office

National Audit Office - Change Your World: We tackled the big question in this employer brand video – what exactly does the National Audit Office do? What better way to explain this organisation than through a patchwork of quickly cut descriptions from the people at the heart of the business.; Find out more

SMRS - Meet Dave

SMRS - Meet Dave: A combination of steadycam shots and motion tracked graphics makes this info film for SMRS very engaging.; Find out more

Ramsdens - A Year in the Life

Ramsdens - A Year in the Life: Starting a new job can be a daunting experience so Ramsdens wanted to show how they help their staff progress and build a career with them through training, role opportunities and staff development.; Find out more

Paul Morricone - December

Paul Morricone - December: A festive music video filled with twinkly lights and chocolate box visuals.; Find out more

The Scaramanga Six - Dirty Subaru

The Scaramanga Six - Dirty Subaru: A good old-fashioned performance video with a twist – we couldn’t get all of the band in a room at the same time. So the answer? Sit each person on a chair, composite them into a car and let them ride.; Find out more

SimplyBiz Group - Partnership Event 2015

SimplyBiz Group - Partnership Event 2015: The opening of a medieval themed event and an adventurous journey through the ancient lands of The SimplyBiz Group. This formed the basis of a set of awards VTs shown to a merry audience throughout the evening.; Find out more

Balfour Beatty - Shape Everything

Balfour Beatty - Shape Everything: Working with Employer Brand agency SMRS, we helped to create over fifty highly sculpted pieces of film within one production for Balfour Beatty. The concept – you shape everything around you.; Find out more

Forget Me Not Hospice - Jacob's Story

Forget Me Not Hospice - Jacob's Story: Suzanne & Tom received amazing perinatal care when their son Jacob was born with a life-limiting condition. We helped to tell their story to show what a difference the hospice makes to families.; Find out more

Samuel Smith Old Brewery - Delia & Mark

Samuel Smith Old Brewery - Delia & Mark: We followed the stories of a number of couples who decided to live and work in a Samuel Smiths pub for a series of recruitment promos.; Find out more

ICAEW - Finance in a changing world

ICAEW - Finance in a changing world: A highly stylised animated explainer film that uses designed assets and an impactful voiceover to explain how finance has evolved.; Find out more

Superservice Triage - Capture, Share, Sell

Superservice Triage - Capture, Share, Sell: We take a look at the benefits of using video and image capture when performing a vehicle health check with Superservice Triage.; Find out more

ABOUT us

We love the moving image. In fact, we have a passion for it. Big or small screen and wherever your viewers watch, it is an irresistible opportunity to fill a space with colourful pictures and words, to make a statement and say something.

We have the knowledge and expertise to produce film, video, motion graphics and animation for all mediums: broadcast or non-broadcast television, events or commercial film. Whether it is internal or external communication, we can help you say what you need to say in a memorable way.

There is no point in making a program that nobody wants to watch. We want to make things interesting. Very interesting. We are Thunder and Lightning. The electrifying film company.

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Get in touch

Call us and let’s talk. We can help to create video for any use. Don’t be shy - we can talk you through the processes to get the right piece of work for you.

Contact:

Paul Morricone, Creative Director
paul@thunderandlightning.co.uk

Ed Marks, Senior Producer
ed@thunderandlightning.co.uk

T: 01274 878005
www.thunderandlightning.co.uk

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