The people, places and history behind your story.
Grammar develops and produces documentary films and series for brands, destinations, cultural organisations and the agencies that work with them.
Our work sits where history, culture and exploration meet – often in places that are complicated to reach, on journeys that take careful planning to film.
Three ways to start
Bring us a question
You know what you need people to understand, but not yet what film to make. We find the story with you, then produce it.
Bring us a brief
The idea is agreed. We take it into production: research, contributors, presenters where appropriate, expedition and location management, and the finished films.
Bring us in on a client brief
You hold the client relationship, the strategy and the budget. We bring factual development and production for documentary and location-based briefs.
Who we make films for
Destinations and cultural organisations
When people need to understand a place beyond its familiar attractions, or connect with an exhibition or collection: a series that reveals it through its people, culture and history.
Brands with a connection to travel, heritage or exploration
An anniversary, a new direction or a campaign that needs a stronger story: a documentary film or series connecting what the brand cares about to real people and experiences.
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Foundations and organisations working through change
When a project or a region needs explaining through its human consequences: carefully researched factual storytelling, made on clear editorial terms.
In their words
It’s one thing to make films like this, it’s another to pull it off.
Grammar Productions’ obvious eye for creativity generated some wonderful and inspiring content, from videos and photography to the written word. Wherever they trotted around the world, headlines were sure to follow. It was a pleasure to work with them.
How a commission begins.
New ideas start with a defined, paid development stage – so there is something concrete to decide on before anyone commits to production.
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Audience and objective
Who the film is for, and what it needs to change in how they see you.
- 2.
Story directions
A small number of researched directions, each with the people and places that could carry it.
- 3.
Treatment and feasibility
A preferred treatment and format, with a first honest assessment of what it will take to make.
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Budget and audience plan
An indicative production budget, and a plan for where the work will be seen: your channels, paid media or a publishing partner.
Production is then commissioned separately, on the strength of an agreed story and plan.