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August 26, 2024
Robert
A behind-the-scenes documentary. Finally.

Since the dawn of The Film Guys have we said that it would be valuable to document our process, if anything to remember this unusual phase of life. Normally there just aren’t enough hands to make it happen, but in the Spring of 2024, the moment was ripe.

A behind-the-scenes documentary. Finally.
March 24, 2020
Robert
The Sincerest Form of Flattery?

We found a pretty absurd video and we need to share it with all of you. Let’s just call it an homage of epic proportions.

The Sincerest Form of Flattery?
November 24, 2019
Robert
Taking Ownership of Your Story: Salisbury Case ...

Everybody already knows that Salisbury is an athletic powerhouse, but what they don’t know is that it raises boys to become truly thoughtful, nice and emotionally available men. The challenge is that these points are difficult to articulate without sounding cliché or making big, hard-to-substantiate claims, so we had to figure out how to get around this.

Taking Ownership of Your Story: Salisbury Case Study
June 24, 2019
Robert
Q&A with Omer the Admissions Guy

There’s a reason why companies hire spokespeople. It’s difficult to connect to the buildings or the history of a place, but a face and a person is universal. Somebody to latch on to for your mental associations is very valuable. Boarding schools tend to both literally and figuratively put up high walls, despite the fact that the funnel for families interested residential schools is shrinking. I think we should be doing everything we can to make the admissions experience as welcoming and familiar as possible.

Q&A with Omer the Admissions Guy
April 24, 2019
Robert
Making of: Your Second Home

The ladies lit up with excitement and immediately started imagining it. I looked across the table to our producer, Alesi, and quietly apologised. A musical would be a substantial (near impossible) task given the circumstances: we had 16 days (to present a final product), we were a two person team, neither of us had ever done a musical and neither of us are musicians. Meg, Sarah and Rose did have reservations about how realistic a musical would be, but they were so enamored with the idea that they were willing to take the plunge and trust that we could do it. We do like challenges.

Making of: Your Second Home
Robert
January 20, 2025

Noah's Arc - A Recommendation Letter

Robert
January 20, 2025
Noah's Arc - A Recommendation Letter

At every school, there are bright sparks, and at WRA, in 2018, that was Noah Frato-Sweeney.

A down to earth, friendly and joyful kid flowing with creative talent. A natural performer and songwriter, with a sense of humor that crosses between boyish, mischievous, and wholesome; he shines.

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  • January 2025
    • Jan 20, 2025 Noah's Arc - A Recommendation Letter Jan 20, 2025
  • October 2024
    • Oct 9, 2024 Films that Create Culture - St. Bernard's School of New York Oct 9, 2024
  • August 2024
    • Aug 26, 2024 A behind-the-scenes documentary. Finally. Aug 26, 2024
  • June 2024
    • Jun 18, 2024 A New Era for TFG - Spring Intensives at Pingry Jun 18, 2024
  • March 2023
    • Mar 30, 2023 An Oration for Boarding School Mar 30, 2023
  • August 2022
    • Aug 11, 2022 Sun, Surf and Academics - Our Project with Cate Aug 11, 2022
  • October 2021
    • Oct 16, 2021 Know Your Audience: German Edition Oct 16, 2021
  • February 2021
    • Feb 22, 2021 A Video Fit for a King Feb 22, 2021
  • September 2020
    • Sep 4, 2020 Project Spotlight: Concordia's Musical Sep 4, 2020
  • May 2020
    • May 30, 2020 3 Timezones, 2 Film Guys, 1 Virtual Graduation May 30, 2020
  • April 2020
    • Apr 24, 2020 A Positive Spin on Things Apr 24, 2020
  • March 2020
    • Mar 24, 2020 The Sincerest Form of Flattery? Mar 24, 2020
  • January 2020
    • Jan 24, 2020 Project Spotlight: Madeira Unexpected Jan 24, 2020
  • November 2019
    • Nov 24, 2019 Taking Ownership of Your Story: Salisbury Case Study Nov 24, 2019
  • June 2019
    • Jun 24, 2019 Q&A with Omer the Admissions Guy Jun 24, 2019
  • April 2019
    • Apr 24, 2019 Making of: Your Second Home Apr 24, 2019
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Deerfield Days
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Pingry BTS - Coming Soon
R-MA - RISE - Coming Soon
An Ode to St. B's - Coming Soon
The Good, The Bad and the Pingry
A Different School - Lawrenceville
Sarum
Madeira Unexpected - The Madeira School
Queensland's Best Kept Secret
Even Wizards Can't Believe It - St. George's School
'Twas the Night Before - Andover
WRA Oh! Hio! - Coming Soon
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It's Not a Competition - King's Academy
Pingry School
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A Joeyboy For Life
Salisbury Gentleman - Salisbury School
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Randolph Macon Academy
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Lights, Camera, Bishop's!
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KA-Cocurriculars
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The Feeling: Scientifically Proven [2021]
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Dog Days at Masters - The Masters School
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Noah's Arc - A Recommendation Letter
Jan 20, 2025
Robert
Noah's Arc - A Recommendation Letter
Jan 20, 2025
Robert

At every school, there are bright sparks, and at WRA, in 2018, that was Noah Frato-Sweeney.

A down to earth, friendly and joyful kid flowing with creative talent. A natural performer and songwriter, with a sense of humor that crosses between boyish, mischievous, and wholesome; he shines.

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Jan 20, 2025
Robert
Films that Create Culture - St. Bernard's School of New York
Oct 9, 2024
Robert
Films that Create Culture - St. Bernard's School of New York
Oct 9, 2024
Robert

We make videos for schools. Though designed to represent culture, they also create culture. Our project with the St. Bernard’s School of New York is a wonderful example of this.

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Oct 9, 2024
Robert
A behind-the-scenes documentary. Finally.
Aug 26, 2024
Robert
A behind-the-scenes documentary. Finally.
Aug 26, 2024
Robert

Since the dawn of The Film Guys have we said that it would be valuable to document our process, if anything to remember this unusual phase of life. Normally there just aren’t enough hands to make it happen, but in the Spring of 2024, the moment was ripe.

Read More →
Aug 26, 2024
Robert
A New Era for TFG - Spring Intensives at Pingry
Jun 18, 2024
Robert
A New Era for TFG - Spring Intensives at Pingry
Jun 18, 2024
Robert

To give kids a big team project to work on that produces a final product that lasts forever is wonderfully rewarding for everybody involved.

There are other schools that host intensive periods, often called J-terms. At the outset of this Pingry project, we are now officially open to this model of collaboration.

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Jun 18, 2024
Robert
An Oration for Boarding School
Mar 30, 2023
Robert
An Oration for Boarding School
Mar 30, 2023
Robert

Two boys who discovered a passion for filmmaking at boarding school, come back fifteen years later to share it with their school.

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Mar 30, 2023
Robert
Sun, Surf and Academics - Our Project with Cate
Aug 11, 2022
Robert
Sun, Surf and Academics - Our Project with Cate
Aug 11, 2022
Robert

Yet sometimes the California dream takes up the room. How does your real, quality, intensive academic offering balance its reputation against “California: chill out and surf“?

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Aug 11, 2022
Robert
Know Your Audience: German Edition
Oct 16, 2021
Alesi
Know Your Audience: German Edition
Oct 16, 2021
Alesi

When marketing to German families, we were advised to stick to the facts and leave emotion out of the equation. That’s exactly what we did. Sort of.

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Oct 16, 2021
Alesi
A Video Fit for a King
Feb 22, 2021
Robert
A Video Fit for a King
Feb 22, 2021
Robert

We typically have three days to come up with the full, completed script of a video that will meet the commandments. Three days, otherwise we make Alesi’s job much harder. Each day we take for writing takes one day from her production planning. The relationship has a perfect pressurised balance. Pressurised, indeed, because each day I don’t deliver a script is added pressure to the creative process that is already drowning in expectation.

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Feb 22, 2021
Robert
Project Spotlight: Concordia's Musical
Sep 4, 2020
Robert
Project Spotlight: Concordia's Musical
Sep 4, 2020
Robert

The proof is in the pudding as they say. As of now, enquiries and applications are up 129% and 182% respectively as compared to the previous year. Video is simply a medium. For most, it does little. For those who use it right, it will make all the difference. We’re in the business of results. If you’re going to hire a film crew, you better hope to see return on your investment.

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Sep 4, 2020
Robert
3 Timezones, 2 Film Guys, 1 Virtual Graduation
May 30, 2020
Robert
3 Timezones, 2 Film Guys, 1 Virtual Graduation
May 30, 2020
Robert

From a production perspective, this project was beyond extraordinary. Having to coordinate so many people, describe to them how to film, how to get good sound and how to send it to us all the while not personally knowing any of the senior class and doing it between three totally different timezones was, as the cliche has now come and gone, an “unprecedented circumstance”.

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May 30, 2020
Robert
A Positive Spin on Things
Apr 24, 2020
Alesi
A Positive Spin on Things
Apr 24, 2020
Alesi

Coronavirus has proved a difficult time for many of us. Though for some, it’s been a treat having people home all the time.

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Apr 24, 2020
Alesi
The Sincerest Form of Flattery?
Mar 24, 2020
Robert
The Sincerest Form of Flattery?
Mar 24, 2020
Robert

We found a pretty absurd video and we need to share it with all of you. Let’s just call it an homage of epic proportions.

Read More →
Mar 24, 2020
Robert
Project Spotlight: Madeira Unexpected
Jan 24, 2020
Robert
Project Spotlight: Madeira Unexpected
Jan 24, 2020
Robert

I’m a filmmaker, so when I describe the things I deem fun I will quickly gravitate towards creative pursuits that involve the combination of moving images and sound. It took me a lot of years to realize that others weren’t as pumped about this as I am. Consider the fact that you’re putting educators in front of the camera to talk about pedagogy. Big surprise they’re buzzing about it, it’s literally their job. You WANT teachers who dig pedagogy, you just need to separate that from how you market to 13 year-olds.

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Jan 24, 2020
Robert
Taking Ownership of Your Story: Salisbury Case Study
Nov 24, 2019
Robert
Taking Ownership of Your Story: Salisbury Case Study
Nov 24, 2019
Robert

Everybody already knows that Salisbury is an athletic powerhouse, but what they don’t know is that it raises boys to become truly thoughtful, nice and emotionally available men. The challenge is that these points are difficult to articulate without sounding cliché or making big, hard-to-substantiate claims, so we had to figure out how to get around this.

Read More →
Nov 24, 2019
Robert
Q&A with Omer the Admissions Guy
Jun 24, 2019
Robert
Q&A with Omer the Admissions Guy
Jun 24, 2019
Robert

There’s a reason why companies hire spokespeople. It’s difficult to connect to the buildings or the history of a place, but a face and a person is universal. Somebody to latch on to for your mental associations is very valuable. Boarding schools tend to both literally and figuratively put up high walls, despite the fact that the funnel for families interested residential schools is shrinking. I think we should be doing everything we can to make the admissions experience as welcoming and familiar as possible.

Read More →
Jun 24, 2019
Robert

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The Bishops School - Lights, Camera, Bishops
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Concordia - Queensland's Best Kept Secret
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The Frederick Gunn School - The Highlander Journey
IS Stuttgart - Degerloch Campus
IS Stuttgart - Sindelfingen Campus
King's Academy [Omer Series]
King's - Admissions Guy '16
King's - Admissions Guy '18
King's - He Chose It
King's Academy [Advancement]
Lawrenceville - A Different School
Lawrenceville [Athletics]
Madeira - Madeira Unexpected
Madeira - Madeira Unbelievable
Madeira - Write Those Checks
Masters - Do It With Thy Might
Masters - Dog Days at Masters
Phillips Academy Andover - 'Twas the Night Before
Pingry - Don Bugliari
Pingry - School is Banned
Pingry - The Good, The Bad and the Pingry
Pingry - Documentary
Randolph-Macon Academy - But That's a Military School
Randolph-Macon Academy - RISE
Roland Park Country School - A Soup Epic
TMI Episcopal [Corps of Cadets]
TMI Episcopal - A Place Called TMI
Salisbury - Salisbury Gentle-man
Salisbury - Sarum
Shattuck-St. Mary's: Forest City
Sun Valley Community School - Excuse Me, Idaho
St Bernard's - An Ode to St. B's
St. Stephen's & St. Agnes
St. George's School - Wizards
St. George's - The Legend of St. George's
St. Joseph's Sydney - A Joeboy for Life
WRA - Did You See That?!
WRA - The Moments
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