The Client

The Alumni Awards are presented annually by SAIT and recognize the outstanding achievements of SAIT graduates as community builders, innovators and leaders in their industries. These are people who are making an impact in the community, on the national stage and worldwide. 

The Collaboration

As a SAIT Alumni herself, Shawna was excited to have the opportunity to work on the 2023 Alumni Awards. Similar to when we worked with the team at The City of Calgary, we developed scripts and shot lists from the nominee bios, conducted documentary style interviews, and sourced additional content where needed.

This project provided a couple unique twists as not all recipients were in the local area. We took a brief road trip to Edmonton to capture one of the recipients, and had the privledge of working remotly with a film team in the UK to capture another recipient.

The team at SAIT Alumni was also creating a new brand look for these awards so we stepped up by taking the still image brand content they provided and designed beautiful motion bumpers and lower thirds that fit seamlessly with the rest of their elements. It was definetly a challenge to create motion graphics that portrayed the shifting light look they were aiming for while maintaining the vertical banding look that existed in the still image materials. We think it turned out great though, and added a few new skills along the way.

Post-production concluded with professional voice overs, colour correction, sound design and closed captioning. Client review and approvals were easy though our online process and every step of the project was tracked on Trello to allow complete transparency and seamless communication between our teams.

The final product was delivered in two formats. High quality HD video ready for broadcast for the live event, and web ready with caption files for online distribution.

The Results