Global recruitment video · Sydney

A day in the life at Workday Sydney

For the Australian chapter of a global recruitment film, we followed a Workday employee from a ferry across Sydney Harbour into the company’s North Sydney office.

ClientWorkday

ProjectGlobal recruitment film

LocationsNorth Sydney and Sydney Harbour

ScheduleTwo filming days

Camera crew filming a Workday employee near the Sydney Harbour Bridge — Filming the Sydney commute story beside the Harbour Bridge.

Make the Sydney story feel part of something global

Workday was creating a recruitment film about what it feels like to work for the company around the world. Each local story needed to show more than an office. It had to give prospective employees a genuine sense of the people, the culture and the opportunities that come with being part of an international team.

The Sydney chapter followed one employee through a typical day, from the journey across the harbour to interviews and everyday moments inside Workday’s North Sydney office. The visiting production team brought the creative direction and core camera package. We supplied the local crew, equipment and practical support needed to make the two-day shoot happen smoothly.

Local crew

Gaffer, sound recordist, hair and make-up artist, and gimbal technician/operator.

Camera support

Lighting and grip, client monitor, slider, location audio and stabilised camera equipment.

Production support

Local equipment coordination, location preparation and on-the-ground help across both filming days.

Camera operator preparing a gimbal inside Workday's North Sydney office — Preparing stabilised camera moves inside the North Sydney office.

Inside the office

Interview, workplace footage and the rhythm of a normal day

The office filming combined a carefully lit interview with more observational material: working with colleagues, moving through the space and the small details that make an organisation feel human. A gimbal and slider helped give the workplace footage movement without making it feel staged or overly polished.

Workday recruitment video crew filming around Sydney Harbour — The employee’s commute gave the global film an unmistakably Sydney setting.

Across Sydney Harbour

Recreating the journey to work

Part of the story followed the employee’s ferry commute into North Sydney. We filmed around the harbour and beneath the Harbour Bridge, building a sequence that felt like a real morning journey while giving the international editors strong, recognisable Sydney pictures to work with.

Small camera crew filming a Workday employee in a Sydney cafe — Capturing the smaller moments that helped the day-in-the-life story feel believable.

Building the story

A working day is more than one interview

The final film also needed the connective moments between the main scenes. We captured additional material in and around Sydney, including a café sequence, so the story could move naturally from the commute into the office rather than feeling like a collection of corporate set-ups.

A Sydney chapter that belonged in the global film

Across two filming days, the production came away with the interview, office scenes and location footage needed to tell a complete day-in-the-life story.

For the overseas team, the local crew and equipment were already organised and ready to go. For the editors, the material had a distinctly Sydney character while still matching the wider visual approach of the international campaign.

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