An empty meeting room prepared for a documentary interview
corporate DOCUMENTARY FILM / COMMERCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Your thinking. In your voice.

A small creative studio making expert-centric films for companies who want to lead the conversations in their industries and earn the trust of their prospects and partners. Photography is available to support and extend the impact of a given project across platform.

CURRENT OFFER

A documentary-style company profile: $950 in November (normally $2,375)

Four client spots, GTA and surrounding region only. This is an introductory rate for new clients, using the same interview-led approach behind our work for Interac. Watch the Nanopay profile on the right (or below, if on mobile) to see the finished result.

How it works

  1. A 30-minute call. We talk through your company and what makes it different.
  2. A one-hour interview at your office, with b-roll of your space and team.
  3. Your video, within a week of filming. Four to six minutes long, ready to post and promote.

What’s included

  • One substantive interview, edited into a four-to-six-minute profile
  • Office and team b-roll
  • A first round of revisions at no charge

To get your company on the shooting schedule, email imason@hassardfay.com or simply grab a slot on Ian's calendar (button below) to set up a friendly introductory call.

CLIENTS + COLLABORATORS

Stories told across industries.

Interac
Shopify
TMX Group
Cboe Canada
Kids Help Phone
HSF Kramer
Miller Thomson
Ontario 211
CE Records
Capco
Invesco Canada
Lawyer's Financial

Insights that build trust.

Documentary-led films for organisations, founders and teams doing meaningful work. The camera is a way in, not the point of the story.

Navigating New Channels

Documentary film

The Long Goodbye

Corporate film

Data as a Product

Brand story

Finance After Blockchain

Corporate film

Hire a sparring partner, not a camera guy

What is it that makes a B2B corporate video actually compelling? In my experience, it's the quality of the interviews: the urgency of the issue being discussed, the genuineness of the expert expressing their thoughts, and the clarity and originality of the thoughts themselves. The aim of all B2B videos is two-fold. First, to build a rapport with the audience, so that prospective clients and partners feel like they can trust your experts, that you're a company to do business with. And second, to cause a prospect to exclaim "Aha! This person gets it." because the expert on camera has cleared away the fog around an issue and illuminated the dynamic at the heart of the problem. Trust and competence, in other words. So drawing out both of these is key. I find that the real value I bring to my clients is that as an outsider I'm much more free to challenge an interviewee's statements where they've drifted into corporate jargon or hand-waving vagueness, and to coach them back into clarity. Further, as a former strategy, governance, and technology consultant I bring my own background knowledge and point of view to most issues, and can help a client both address potential objections and hone in on the truly useful aspects of their intended talking points. In that sense, I'm not merely the expert's videographer and interviewer; I'm their sparring partner.
Ian G. Mason / filmmaker + photographer
Portrait of the lead filmmaker and photographer
ABOUT THE MAKER

Filmmaker. Photographer. Multi-decade background in business and technology.

Raised in Prince Edward Island and now residing near Toronto, Ian Garrick Mason is a documentary & corporate filmmaker (and commercial & fashion photographer) with decades of experience as a content marketer, as a strategy, governance, and technology consultant working with some of Canada's largest enterprises, and as a journalist and magazine editor. In his personal work he has produced documentaries on architects and their ideas, film festivals, actors, painters, and photographers, and even intelligent cities; his films on urban planning philosophies and on the innovative re-use of infrastructure for parks were both featured by Canadian Architect magazine. Ian was also the founding editor of the interview-based magazine of ideas and visual culture SCOPE, and of the journal Gravitas. He is an avid rucker and, formerly, an amateur rallycross driver.

BASED IN
Toronto. Available for projects in Canada, the United States, and Europe.

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