Film and video production in Wigan, the North West & beyond!
The best stories are often the ones nobody thought to tell.
We look beyond the obvious to find the people, moments and stories that make organisations worth caring about. Then we turn them into films that make people feel something.
Capturing the personality of people and places.
Est. 2006
Why Aposs
There’s a story beneath the surface.
Every organisation has an official version of itself. The ambitions, the values, the plans.
Some of the most telling material sits somewhere else: with the people who make things happen. The problems they’ve solved. The skills they’ve built. The small moments nobody thought to mention.
When people see that side of an organisation, they start to understand what makes it different.
We’re a video production studio in Wigan with more than twenty years behind the camera. We bring the curiosity, the outside eye and the filmmaking experience to find those moments and make them count.
How we workHow we work
Discover. Create. Preserve.
One way of working, from the first conversation to footage you’ll still be using years from now.
01
Discover
Find what matters
We spend time with your organisation and the people in it. We ask questions, listen properly and look past the obvious for the stories that connect real experience with what you’re trying to achieve.
That can be the first stage of a single commission, a dedicated discovery project or part of an ongoing partnership.
02
Create
Make people care
We turn the strongest material into films with a job to do: brand films, documentaries, recruitment campaigns, case studies, internal communications and short-form for social.
Every creative decision serves the audience. We’re not here to fill a content calendar.
03
Preserve
Make every story count
Good footage shouldn’t vanish when a campaign ends. With Aposs Archive, we’re developing a way for organisations to keep, search and reuse everything they’ve filmed.
Capture once. Use forever.
Ethos
Our work
What the brief didn’t say.
Projects where finding the right angle mattered as much as the filming.
Wigan Council
People Make Wigan
A regeneration brief that became a film about the people who make the borough: its makers, its history and why the place matters to the people who call it home.
It grew into a series of short films about individual makers, from a foundry and a glass studio to Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls.
250,000 organic views on Facebook in its first two weeks.
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Critical-power engineering
We Are Anord Mardix
Six sites, seven films and no script. “One team, one fight” came from the factory floor and became the heart of the film. We’ve worked with them ever since.
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St Helens Borough Council
St Helens Together
A spoken-word thank-you to the borough’s volunteers. The name outlived the campaign: it’s now what the council calls its whole strategy for the voluntary sector.
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Wigan Council · The Fire Within
Steam Giants
Three of the last big steam engines in the country, and the volunteers who keep them running. No music telling you what to feel.
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Working together
More than a production company. A creative partner.
You don’t always need another film. Sometimes you need someone who can see what’s hiding in plain sight.
We work alongside communications teams, marketing departments and leadership to understand what’s happening, spot the opportunities and develop the ideas worth sharing.
That means learning the organisation and its people, and being there when something is worth telling, not just when the next deadline lands.
Not just making the films. Helping you find the stories.
Plenty of our work is a single film, and that’s fine too.
Some of the people we keep working with
- Winstanley CollegeRecruitment films since 2020.
- Anord MardixA company film and six site films, then exhibitions, campaigns and new facilities.
- Wigan CouncilPeople Make Wigan, the makers films and Steam Giants.
- St Helens Borough CouncilSt Helens Together, bereavement services and town-centre safety.
Who we work with
Places and public services
Councils, regeneration programmes, colleges and public services. Films about identity, belonging, pride, trust and change.
Industry and engineering
Manufacturers, engineers, infrastructure and growing businesses. The people behind the technical work, and what changes as a company grows.
We also work with charities, brands and smaller organisations. If you’ve got something to say, we’d like to hear it.
Before you get in touch
Questions
The things people usually want to know before they commission a film. Written the way you'd actually ask them.
No. Some clients arrive with a fully formed brief, others with a feeling they can't quite name yet — a sense that their story isn't landing the way it should. Either is a fine place to start. Shaping the story into something that actually moves people is the job, not a prerequisite for hiring us.
Rather than one fixed in-house crew, we bring together a trusted network of experienced creative professionals around each brief — the right director, the right editor, the right eye, chosen for what your project specifically needs. You get one point of contact throughout; the team behind it changes to fit the work.
Yes, and often that's exactly the setup. We're used to slotting into an existing internal process — reviewing against brand guidelines, working to sign-off chains, briefing in alongside a wider campaign. You keep control of the message; we bring the outside perspective that makes it land.
A genuine mix — public sector bodies like local councils and NHS services, through to engineering and manufacturing companies like Anord Mardix, over more than twenty years. What they tend to share isn't sector, it's the reason they come to us: a message that matters to them, and a sense that a plain, functional video won't be enough to make people feel it.
A conversation first, not a form. We'd rather understand what you're actually trying to change — in how people feel, think, or act — before anything gets scoped. From there we shape an approach around that goal, not a generic package.
Start a project
Got a brief? Or just a hunch?
If you know what you need, send it over and we’ll tell you how we’d make it. If you’re not sure yet, tell us what’s going on. Working out what’s worth filming is part of the job.
“I’ve worked closely with Aposs for over a decade across a wide range of projects. They’ve always been professional, reliable and easy to work with.”
Dan Whitehead · Google review