CASE STUDY

SOUTH ESSEX
WILDLIFE HOSPITAL

ROOT POWER SOUTH ESSEX WILDLIFE HOSPITAL

Root Power commissioned us to create a film about its partnership with South Essex Wildlife Hospital in Orsett, documenting how support from its Coryton BESS Community Wealth Fund helps the charity continue its wildlife rescue and rehabilitation work.

Client: Root Power
Location: Orsett, Essex
Project: Community Partnership Film
Service: Video Production

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THE BRIEF

DOCUMENTING THE PARTNERSHIP

Root Power commissioned The Camera Guys to create a film about its partnership with South Essex Wildlife Hospital in Orsett, Essex.

Through the Community Wealth Fund associated with Root Power’s Coryton Battery Energy Storage System (BESS), the hospital receives financial support towards the work it carries out rescuing, treating, rehabilitating and releasing sick and injured wildlife.

The purpose of the film was straightforward: show where that support goes and introduce people to the work taking place at the hospital. Rather than making the funding itself the whole story, we wanted the staff, animals and day-to-day work at SEWH to demonstrate its impact naturally.

South Essex Wildlife Hospital team member carefully holding a rescued bird outside the hospital

WHAT WE DELIVERED

THE PROJECT

Partnership film

A finished film explaining the relationship between Root Power and South Essex Wildlife Hospital.

On-location filming

A day spent filming the staff, animals and work taking place around the wildlife hospital.

Editing & delivery

The footage was edited into a concise film for Root Power to use when communicating the partnership.

Multi-location production

The SEWH shoot formed part of a wider Root Power filming day that also included its Tillingdown project.

The Camera Guys operator filming the veterinary team at South Essex Wildlife Hospital

THE PRODUCTION

FILMING AT SOUTH ESSEX WILDLIFE HOSPITAL

We spent the day working around the South Essex Wildlife Hospital team while they carried on with the job they do every day. That gave us plenty to film without needing to manufacture scenes purely for the camera.

We captured the staff, animals, treatment areas and general activity around the hospital, while spending time with the team and learning more about what goes into caring for wildlife before it can eventually be released.

It was also simply a really enjoyable shoot. We got to meet the people behind the charity, interact with some of the animals and get a much better understanding of the work taking place there. That made it considerably easier to tell the story properly rather than treating SEWH as just another filming location.

ONE DAY. MULTIPLE STORIES.

TWO PROJECTS. ONE FILMING DAY.

The wildlife hospital wasn’t the only Root Power project we filmed that day. The same booking also took us to Root Power’s Tillingdown site, allowing us to capture content for two very different stories within one production schedule.

For clients with several sites, teams or projects to cover, this can make a lot of sense. With some planning beforehand, we can often use the same crew and filming day to build content for several separate films rather than treating every piece of content as an entirely separate production.

In this case it meant moving from an energy project to a wildlife hospital in the same day — very different environments, but both part of the wider story Root Power wanted to tell.

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Root Power and South Essex Wildlife Hospital representatives beside the seal rehabilitation pool

PROJECT IMAGERY

FROM THE SHOOT

Gloved wildlife carer holding a young rescued bird

South Essex Wildlife Hospital team showing Root Power the wildlife care ward

South Essex Wildlife Hospital rescue van at the Orsett site

Wildlife hospital staff transferring a rescued bird for treatment

Young wild animals undergoing rehabilitation at South Essex Wildlife Hospital

A seal swimming in the wildlife hospital rehabilitation pool

South Essex Wildlife Hospital staff caring for an animal in the treatment room

THE FINISHED FILM

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The finished film brings together the people, animals and work we documented at SEWH with the story of Root Power’s support, giving the partnership something tangible that can be shared online and used to explain where the Community Wealth Fund is making a difference.

ABOUT THE PARTNERSHIP

THE CLIENT AND ORGANISATION FEATURED

THE CLIENT

ROOT POWER

Root Power develops battery energy storage projects across the UK. The South Essex Wildlife Hospital film was commissioned as part of its work communicating the local initiatives supported through the Coryton BESS Community Wealth Fund.

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THE ORGANISATION FEATURED

SOUTH ESSEX WILDLIFE HOSPITAL

South Essex Wildlife Hospital is an independent wildlife charity based in Orsett, Essex, rescuing and caring for sick, injured and orphaned wildlife before animals are rehabilitated and, where possible, returned to the wild.

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