2026
University of Bristol
Mini-Lectures
The brief
The University of Bristol Business School wanted to give prospective postgraduate (PGT) students a genuine feel for their teaching before they arrived on campus. The idea: a pre-arrival platform of short, engaging "mini-lectures" — real academics introducing their subject in bite-sized, screen-friendly pieces, so applicants could sample the teaching style and get excited about their course.
It was a first for the department — no existing template to copy — so a big part of the job was defining what "good" looked like and setting a house style the team could build on for future sets.
The idea
We built the mini-lectures around clarity and warmth. Each academic was filmed delivering a 15–20 minute lecture, structured into three or more self-contained parts so the content could be published as short, digestible chapters rather than one long sit-down. Clean, considered framing; the academic front and centre; slides integrated so the ideas land visually as well as verbally.
The goal throughout was to make serious academic content feel approachable and modern — the kind of thing a prospective student actually wants to watch.
The process
Pre-production
Because this was new territory for the department, prep mattered. We ran preparation sessions with the academics ahead of the shoot to talk through structure, pacing, and how to break a lecture into parts that stand on their own. Each contributor supplied their slides in advance so we could plan graphics and on-screen timing, and we worked to the Business School's brand guidelines to keep everything on-brand from the first frame.
The shoot
A two-day shoot in April 2026 at the Business School — Howard House and the Bristol Digital Futures Institute — with the Student Experience team on hand throughout to coordinate contributors and keep the day moving.
We filmed a run of academics back-to-back, each delivering their subject to camera: sessions covered topics from shareholder wealth and finance through to management and beyond. To-camera academic filming lives and dies on making non-professional presenters comfortable, so a calm, efficient set and a clear structure did a lot of the heavy lifting — contributors were relaxed, sessions ran smoothly, and we captured everything we needed across the two days.
Alongside the lectures we shot a bank of B-roll around the department for the Business School's social channels — flexible content they could cut for Instagram and beyond.
Post-production
Each lecture was edited into its clean, chaptered format with slides and captions integrated, graded, and finished to the Business School's brand. We handled revision rounds directly with the team and academics — including caption corrections and slide updates — and delivered the finished mini-lectures for the pre-arrival platform, plus the B-roll package for social.
Credits
| Client | University of Bristol Business School |
| Production | Singularity Film |
| Director / Producer / Editor | Moss Davis |
| Format | To-camera academic mini-lectures + social B-roll |
| Location | Howard House & Bristol Digital Futures Institute, Bristol |
| Deliverables | Chaptered mini-lecture films · captioned · B-roll package for social |
The Results
A complete first set of pre-arrival mini-lectures, delivered on brand and warmly received by both the academics and the Student Experience team — with the department keen to film the next set.
"We thought it looked great — looking forward to filming the next one!" — Student Experience team, University of Bristol Business School
"Thank you for your and Moss's help today in making the filming run so smoothly." — Contributing academic, University of Bristol Business School
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