Video / Motion
Faculty Films — University of Belgrade
Overview
Some films play once a year — and have to be right the first time.
The Relationship
It started on paper: a master-studies brochure for the Faculty of Transport in 2018, then the boards and press walls for their anniversary the year after. By 2020 a second faculty was in — Civil Engineering — and the job had changed shape: films.
Two faculties of the University of Belgrade now mark their big moments on camera: anniversaries, open days, enrolment season. The footage and the script arrive through UKT, a two-person production outfit that has been sending work my way for years. My part starts when the hard drive lands on the desk.
The Work
Editing first: hours of speeches, interviews and campus footage cut down to a film that holds a full hall. Then the motion layer — animated crests, lower thirds, title cards, openers and end screens. Then sound: voices recorded in echoing amphitheatres levelled out, music licensed, the dean audible over the applause.
Every film ships twice — a long cut for the ceremony, a short one for the screens after it.
The same call, every year
Before the films, paper
Transport · master-studies brochure, templates, poster & billboard
Anniversary production
Transport · press wall, amphitheatre boards, banners
The first films
Civil Engineering · promo & enrolment series, three spots
70 Years of the Faculty of Transport
Transport · anniversary film
Open Day
Civil Engineering · main film + laboratory shorts
72 Years of the Faculty of Transport
Transport · anniversary film + party aftermovie, long & short cuts
Open Day & Ceremonial Academy
Civil Engineering · two films + enrolment spot
International Projects
Transport · narrated film on Horizon research programmes
Deadlines here are set by the calendar, not the client: the anniversary happens on the 18th whether the film is ready or not. It has always been ready.
The Film
One of them, in full — the way the hall saw it first.
