OneDay

Visual storytelling, unbound.

Director-led  ·  Craft-first  ·  Human at every stage
Contents

What's inside.

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Why OneDay
Our passion, and filmmakers first.
02
The approach
How we think about AI, enhance, not replace.
03
Our values
Craft, process, execution, collaboration.
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Three ways we work
Enhancement, hybrid and AI-led.
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Selected work
Case studies across the spectrum.
06
How we work with you
Five ways we slot into your team.
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Our process
Directed by people, powered by technology.
08
Ethical AI
How we protect you and your IP.
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Our story

Our passion for filmmaking is why OneDay exists.

We grew up obsessing over a single frame, a piece of music against a cut, the way light falls on a face at the exact right moment. For a long time the stories we wanted to tell were too big for the budget, too cinematic for what the tools could deliver. Then the tools caught up with our imagination.

“AI is not scary. The need for an idea, for story, for experience to curate and guide, to make choices, that remains.”
Hal Curtis [Got Milk, Nike, Coca cola]
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Why OneDay

Filmmakers first.

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Award-winning directors
Cannes Lions, a Sundance nomination, billion-view music videos.
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Cinematographer instinct
Lens, light and depth, directed like a DP on set.
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Craft at every stage
Considered, cohesive, intentional, frame by frame.
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Audit-grade provenance
Shot records, enterprise licences, no client data in training.
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How we think about AI

Enhance.
Not replace.

AI is our most powerful production tool, the way colour grading, motion-control and VFX changed filmmaking before it. It speeds exploration, opens possibilities budgets couldn't reach, and carries the heavy lifting in post. The creative decisions, the eye, the taste, that stays human. It is unique and it is rereplaceable.

It starts with a vision
A brief, a writer or director's vision.
Craft throughout
Storytelling  guides every output.
Made by people
Every generation has a person deciding.
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Our values

What we stand for.

Craft
Every frame is a decision. We obsess over detail, because that is where taste lives.
Process
The strongest outcomes are built from hundreds of intentional micro-decisions.
Execution
We work smarter, without ever losing the work.
Collaboration
Great work is built together, in close partnership with our clients.
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Our approach

Three ways we work.

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Fully live action + AI enhancement
A traditional shoot, real locations, talent, cameras. AI only in post: extension, cleanup, atmosphere. Indistinguishable from conventional production.
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Hybrid production
Real performances on camera; AI builds the world around them. Large-scale, period or impossible locations, without the full-shoot budget.
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End-to-end AI production
Epic, abstract or conceptual worlds, generated end to end. Director-reviewed, client-approved. The vision stays entirely human.
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HYBRID PRODUCTION

Six spots. Eight delivered.

Booking.com came to Arts & Sciences with a question, not a brief, keep the human truth the brand is built on, and use AI as the creative unlock.

The challenge
AI elements that live beyond the shoot and re-version as the work travels, on a timeline real destination shoots could never meet.
Working with Fiona
Director Fiona McGee led; we integrated from prep. Her first concern was the actors, protecting performance and likeness at every step.
From wary to convinced
She came in asking for safeguards, and left using AI to develop her ideas and see them realised.
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END-TO-END AI PRODUCTION

The Decisive Moment.

News cycles move in hours; documentaries typically take years to catch up. The Decisive Moment closes that gap by transforming real-world events into cinematic short films while the story is still unfolding.

A new format
It represents a new content format at the intersection of journalism, entertainment, and AI production, combining the emotional depth of a feature film with the immediacy of breaking news.
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END-TO-END AI PRODUCTION

Impossible. Made anyway.

Set in a snow-covered mountain resort, the film follows a group of thrill-seekers caught in a relentless cycle of pursuit, impact, and repetition, each crash met with the irrational need to go again. Through an AI-native workflow, we brought Hal Curtis and Chuck McBride’s original vision to life.
Why AI?
Adrenaline Junkies began as a Nike proposal from Hal Curtis and Chuck McBride, a concept they had always wanted to make but that was ultimately too ambitious for traditional production.
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Tailored production

Every project.
Its own process.

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AI generation
Shot-specific prompting built on cinematographer instinct, so every frame holds up on screen.
02
Post production
Environment extension, matte painting, atmosphere and scale, with AI-accelerated roto and rig removal.
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Cinematographic logic
Focal length, grain, colour temperature, synthetic images that feel photographed.
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Collaboration

How we work with you.

01
Directors
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Producers
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IP Holders
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Creatives
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Actors
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We close the gap between idea and execution.

The first thing we do is sit down, one to one, and talk through your approach, and your comfort level with AI: what you feel should be AI, and what needs to stay live-action. We've been on the other side of this ourselves, so we know every director draws that line in a different place. We start from yours.

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World building
We create the key images that bring a VFX-heavy or period vision to life.
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Treatment
We come in at treatment with a view on where AI fits how you already think.
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On set
Our AI supervisor stays on set, responding in real time to any change.
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In post
Director's feedback first. You note the images; we work out the rest.
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Bring us in early.

The earlier we get the call, the more we can do. Love a brief before the script is fully formed? That is exactly when to bring us in.

Consulting
At brief stage we tell you what is AI, hybrid or traditional, in writing, straight into budgeting.
Execution
We work with your team to execute the AI side inside your workflow.
Asset planning
Language versions, sync and cutdowns, strategised at the start.
Hard packages
Directors first, AI second, we see paths through that a normal quote misses.
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Expand what you already own.

We help you do more with the IP you already hold. Everything sits inside your creative core. Human in the loop, always.

Conversation
We start by understanding where you are on AI and what you want to protect.
Ideas
We return with proposals, and a demo when there is specific IP on the table.
Library analysis
We can analyse your library and bring back the strongest options.
Scalable systems
Systems that leverage your IP. AI accelerates; the creative core stays human.
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Script first. AI after.

We work the way any creative collaborator does. Script first, then references, then the visual world. AI comes later, once direction is set.

Writers' room
We are writers too. The first thing we do has nothing to do with AI.
References & bible
References, tests, then a living production bible we build with you.
Approval stages
Storyboards, stills, an AI-matic to time, then video. You approve every stage.
The AI advantage
Once in video it is a normal edit, but we can always generate a missing shot.
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Real actors. Real performances.

Their performance, their likeness, their consent on everything. AI puts those performances into worlds we could not otherwise build.

Digital doubles
An actor's likeness, used only in scenes and ways they have approved.
Performance
Their actual take, carried into the scene, the breaths, the interruptions, all of it.
Transcreation
Not dubbing. The essence and intent of a performance, carried into another language.
Performance capture
We shoot the actor for real, then build the world around them. The human stays human.
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Directed by people. Powered by technology.

Our process.

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Humans in the loop, always

How a project moves.

01
Brief & Director
Brief and director assigned. Vision before any technology.
02
Storyboard & Concept
The team develops the concept and frames the visual language.
03
Generate & Review
With direction and shot list approved, we move into generation.
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Client Approval
Motion shots presented for approval; final polish through post.
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Final Delivery
Approved shots completed. A full audit trail, per shot.
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Trust

Ethical AI.

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The tools we use

The number one tool is our creativity.

Every project this year has been different. The tools change so fast, and the ask shifts brief to brief, that there is no fixed toolset. We start from the idea; the tech comes up to meet it as another layer, never the other way around. Whatever the idea calls for, we run on business or enterprise licences, with control of our data and a zero-training policy across every tool we use.

Higgsfield Google Nano Banana fal Runway Kling AI Stable Diffusion Flux Luma AI
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Our commitment to ethical AI

How we protect you.

Factual. Transparent. Audit-ready.
No third-party copyrighted inputs
Only our own storyboards, sketches and text descriptions, never copyrighted imagery, footage or audio.
Your data stays yours
Enterprise licences that explicitly exclude your material from model training.
Every output is human-reviewed
A derivative-content review before any client sees a single frame.
Full audit trail
A shot-provenance and prompt record for every approved shot.
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OneDay
Director-led. Craft-first.
Human at every stage.