Zurich Video Production

Executive interviews in Zurich

Executive interviews are the most common corporate request I get in Zurich, filmed in offices, boardrooms, hotels or controlled rented locations that hold clean sound and a consistent look across several speakers on the same day.

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My standard setup is two cameras — a wider primary and a tighter secondary — on a RED Komodo 6K with Zeiss Standard Speed primes at 16, 24, 32, 50 and 85mm. Audio runs to a Sennheiser MKH-416 shotgun or a Sanken COS-11 lavalier, with an independent 32-bit float recorder as backup.

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For a communications team coordinating from another country, I structure interviews around a briefing beforehand and fast review links after filming, so people in other time zones can sign off without waiting on a shipped drive.

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AI-avatar and source-footage production in Zurich

A growing part of the work in a corporate hub like Zurich is capturing pristine source footage for AI-avatar platforms rather than a finished edit. For ODDO BHF I recorded two executives at the bank's Gartenstrasse offices to the exact specification a HeyGen avatar requires: a single continuous take per person, teleprompter-led, framed and lit for a neutral, absolutely stable image, delivered in the codec the platform ingests.

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The craft here is different from a normal interview and easy to get wrong. The avatar quality is only ever as good as the footage it's built from, so the discipline is in the capture — controlled lighting with no drift across the take, framing that holds the subject steady, clean uninterrupted audio, and a teleprompter setup that lets the participant read naturally while holding eye contact with the lens. The avatars themselves are generated by the client inside their own platform; what I deliver is the broadcast-quality source material that makes them usable. Most cinematographers haven't shot to an avatar-ingestion spec, and getting it wrong is expensive because there's no fixing it in post.

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This is the kind of controlled, specification-driven recording that also underpins good executive video generally, and it's a service I expect more Zurich clients to need.

Corporate video production in Zurich and the wider region

Corporate work around Zurich usually pairs interviews with contextual filming of the people, environments and processes behind an organisation, planned around real operational schedules so filming doesn't disrupt the working day.

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In the Zurich region I filmed a corporate production for ABB, the engineering group, on a single production day with a RED Komodo, Zeiss primes and an Aputure lighting package. Industrial and corporate environments like this reward preparation over improvisation — you plan the coverage, light for the space you're given, and move efficiently so the people on camera aren't held up longer than they need to be.

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B-roll on this kind of job might include offices, work environments, meetings and exterior establishing shots, giving the edit structure and continuity. Post-production runs in staged review rounds: assembling the narrative, integrating brand elements, balancing audio and preparing delivery formats for the intended platforms.

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Case Study: Executive AI-avatar production for ODDO BHF, Zurich

In June 2026 ODDO BHF, the Franco-German private bank and asset manager, commissioned me to produce the source footage for an executive AI-avatar project at their Zurich offices on Gartenstrasse. Two members of the leadership team were recorded to drive avatars generated on the HeyGen platform, for use in the bank's internal and client-facing communications.

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This is a deceptively difficult brief. On the surface it's two people reading a script to camera. In practice the entire value of the shoot lives in technical consistency, because an AI avatar inherits every flaw in its source. The platform's own guidance is exacting — a single continuous take with no cuts, direct eye contact held throughout, natural but minimal movement, even lighting, a quiet acoustic, and a steady frame from start to finish. My job was to build a setup that let each executive deliver a clean, unbroken read while every one of those conditions held.

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I scouted the room in advance, which for this kind of session isn't optional. I checked the space for lighting conditions, background, power and acoustics, so that on the recording day the setup was already solved and the focus could stay on the two participants rather than on troubleshooting. Each executive read a prepared script from a teleprompter positioned at the lens, in a single language, in one take. The footage was delivered in the format HeyGen ingests, ready for the bank to generate its avatars.

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What transfers from work like this to corporate production generally is the value of controlled, specification-led capture: getting the conditions exactly right on location, in one pass, for a client who needs the result to be flawless and discreet. It's the same requirement as a board-level interview or an executive appearance, with an even lower tolerance for anything that can't be fixed afterwards.

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Filming logistics and production workflow in Zurich

Permits: most corporate shoots — offices, boardrooms, private venues, bank premises — need no municipal authorisation, since they take place on private property with the owner's permission. Filming on public ground in the city is different and is coordinated through Film Commission Zurich. At the time of writing, a shoot on public ground needs a permit once it runs longer than about an hour, uses infrastructure such as lights or camera rails, or brings more than five people to a location; a small handheld crew below all three thresholds that doesn't obstruct traffic generally doesn't. Applications go through Film Commission Zurich in German, and straightforward commercial permits typically clear in around ten business days, so I build that lead time into the schedule when a public-space location is involved.

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Equipment is mine: RED Komodo 6K, Blackmagic Pocket 4K, Sigma fp, Zeiss Standard Speed PL primes, DJI RS 3 Pro with LiDAR and Focus Pro, Zoom F3 recorder, Sennheiser and Sanken microphones. No rental surprises, no last-minute substitutions.

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Billing is straightforward for international clients: I invoice from Italy, and I organise all local logistics for the shoot myself.

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Deliverables and turnaround

Deliverables are prepared for the client's intended use: master files for internal distribution, compressed versions for web, shorter edits for social platforms, or platform-ready source footage where the project calls for it.

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Interview-based productions deliver a first cut within 24 to 48 hours of wrap. Two revision rounds are included, and each revised cut arrives within 24 hours of your feedback. Source-footage and multi-day productions follow a schedule agreed in the quote. Final exports: ProRes masters, H.264 web versions, 9:16 social cutdowns, burned-in or sidecar subtitles on request.

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Colour grading, sound mix and original music composition are handled in house.

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Pricing

Every Zurich project is quoted individually based on crew size, shoot days, deliverables and post-production scope. No hidden surcharges — insurance and contingency are itemised separately so you see what you're paying for. Payment terms are 50% on signing, 50% within five business days of final delivery.