SmartCuts Creative in Lausanne, Switzerland

Documentary in Lausanne with National Geographic

National Geographic called us up one day to say that a producer was on his way to Lausanne and needed crew to shoot two interviews and some broll (covering footage). The documentary was about flying on solar power, and the two founders of the project Solar Impulse were going to join us at Lausanne’s Blecherette Airport for the interviews.

We had little time to prepare, but the producer sure was counting on us to get it right and to give local advice: where, how, transport, parking and so on. He was incredibly cavalier, but he must have had a good feeling because his trust in us was almost disconcerting. We lived up to it, the shoot went very well, and we got a great recommendation letter from one of the world’s best known documentary outfits.

Co-production for Nestlé in Vevey (near Lausanne)

For the second year running, we have worked with Hogarth Worldwide to co-produce Nestlé’s end-of-year video. The most recent edition featured AI-generated content. This technology is opening more and more possibilities in the audiovisual field, as in so many more. We’re excited to push the use of AI in our productions. This was a great start.

Creative content for Nespresso in Lausanne

We often worked for Nespresso while the company had its headquarters in Vidy, Lausanne. Over the years we did corporate videos, live and virtual events, photography and web and interactive design for the Swiss multinational company. We were also mandated to put together media reels and broll footage compilations, notably of Nespresso’s factory in Romont.

Every year the company also holds a competition called Gold Capsule, for which we do promotional video ads and other communications content. The event draws employees from all around the world, who converge on Lausanne, and now Vevey, Switzerland to try their luck at blind tasting the coffees they help design, market and sell.

Corporate Promo Video for Medtronic near Lausanne

SmartCuts is a long-standing partner of the Tolochenaz-based multinational Medtronic. For this customer, we regularly produce corporate videos, live and virtual events, photography and documentaries.

To view other samples of work we have done in the medical sector, please visit the page of our website dedicated to medical video production.

Corporate Video for Nagra Kudelski

The Swiss multinational digital security company, Nagra Kudelski, is based just up the road from our studios, in the western suburbs of Lausanne. We have been working together on audiovisual production for almost ten years now. This video is among the latest, shot in our studio and put together with a combination of stock footage and archival video. It’s a classic example of B2E corporate video. We do a lot of this type of video production, in both French and English, in the Lake Geneva Region.

Live video streaming for Lausanne’s University Hospital

It came as a bit of a shock when we got the call to shoot live open-heart surgery at Lausanne’s University Hospital. This seemed a specialized type of video production that only a hospital crew would dare undertake, but, as it turned out, the CHUV’s crew was too busy and we were called in as reinforcements.

The mission was to stream an operation to surgeons around Europe who would follow a new procedure in real-time and be able to converse with the surgeon in a two-way set up. We sanitized our kit, hung a camera above the operating table with a jib and in rolled the patient. It’s not every day you get to see a heart pumping for real. We made a sped up version of the operation. Viewer discretion is advised!

Video & animation for Lausanne’s University, EPFL

This mandate was fascinating because of its visionary understory. The idea was to communicate on a smart grid and totally digitally connected society in which a centralized brain processess masses of data in split seconds to literally orchestrate a highly-efficient ballet of smart street lights, buildings, cars and what have you.

We used a combination of animation and video to explain this ambitious project. The goal was to get truck from the federal authorities, among others, for concrete steps to go ahead. Lausanne’s federal university EPFL is known for this sort of futuristic research, and we were all too happy to be part of the adventure.

Video production for the ITA in Lausanne

The International Testing Agency is a regular client of SmartCuts Creative’s. The agency regularly reaches out for video producition: training videos, corporate video and event coverage. Based in Vidy, Lausanne, the ITA recruits and trains IDCOs, or International Doping Control Officers, whom they send to sporting events around the world to “keep sports clean.”

We’re all for it, and enjoy working for their friendly and cooperative communications team. ITA speakers are often in our video production studio for shoots on green-screen too.

Virtual Event Production for Galderma, Lausanne

The dermatological company Galderma firsrt reached out to SmartCuts Creative during the Covid lockdown in 2020 for virtual event production. The company needed a venue close to its headquarters in Lausanne and our 360 degree green-screen video production studio fit the bill perfectly.

We ran a virtual event for a whole week and have since kept working with Galderma on video production and various other communications services.

Watch Galderma’s testimonail video reviewing SmartCuts Creative.

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