Video production in Wigan

What we make

Every film starts with a question: what needs to change once someone has watched it? The format follows from the answer, never the other way round.

• Brand and campaign films — work that carries the character of an organisation rather than a list of its services.
• Social media video — short, emotionally driven pieces built to travel and to be watched without sound.
• Case study and testimonial films — real people describing real outcomes, filmed so they sound like themselves.
• Event and documentary coverage — a record of what actually happened, cut so it holds attention.
• Recruitment and internal communication — films that help people understand a place before they join it.

Who we work with

The mix is wider than people tend to expect. Local authorities and public sector bodies at one end, independent brands and owner-run businesses at the other, with colleges, international manufacturers and national brands in between.

What they share is not a sector. It is a reason for calling: a message that genuinely matters to them, and a suspicion that a plain, functional video will not be enough to make anyone feel it.

• Councils and public sector — campaign work that has to speak to a whole borough rather than a target demographic.
• Manufacturers and makers — we have filmed on foundry floors, in glassworks and on production lines around Wigan, where the process is the story. See our critical-power case study for Anord Mardix, made across six manufacturing sites.
• Independent brands — launch and brand films for businesses where the owner is the personality.
• Education and training — films that show a place honestly to the people deciding whether to join it.
• National brands and large organisations — films that have to carry one story across a whole company, not just one site.

Why a Wigan production company is worth choosing

Local knowledge is not a sentimental argument. It is practical. We know the venues, the parking, the light at different times of day, and who to ask for permission. A crew that already understands the town spends its time filming rather than finding its way around.

It also means we can meet you properly. Most projects are better for a conversation in a room than a call, and being ten minutes away makes that easy.

That covers the whole borough rather than just the town centre — Leigh, Standish, Ashton-in-Makerfield, Hindley, Orrell and the villages around them — and the wider North West when a project takes us further.

On location around Wigan and the North West — here, filming the Tom Aspinall mural in Hindley.

Recent work

Three films made from this town, for very different reasons — the most recent from this year.

Wigan Council

People Make Wigan

A campaign telling the stories of the businesses and people who make the borough what it is — from Uncle Joes Mint Balls to Haigh Foundry.

Viral

Rogan Rascals

A launch film for a local food business with a deliberately over the top tone. It passed 25,000 views and helped establish the brand locally.

Education · 2026

Winstanley College

Recruitment films for the Billinge sixth form — students describing the place in their own words, for the people deciding whether to join them.

“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, consistently delivering high-quality work and understanding exactly what’s needed.”

Dan Whitehead · Google review

How we work

Our films are built around emotion as strategy, because how people feel determines what they think, say and do next. In practice that comes down to four things.

• Clarity — an outside perspective that cuts through the complexity and finds what actually needs saying.
• Connection — the moment a story stops feeling distant and starts feeling personal.
• Confidence — work an organisation genuinely believes in, which is what makes people share it.
• Change — the shift in perception or behaviour that the film existed to create.

You do not need a script or a finished brief to start. Some clients arrive with one; others arrive with a feeling they cannot quite name yet. Shaping that into something that moves people is the job, not a prerequisite for hiring us.

What a film costs

There is no price list, because there is no standard film. What moves the number is straightforward enough though, and worth understanding before you ask anyone for a quote.

• Shoot days — usually the biggest single factor. One day in one location costs very differently to four days spread across a borough.
• Crew size — a single-camera interview setup is a different proposition to a director, second camera, sound and lighting.
• Locations and access — permissions, parking, closures, and whether we can film while a place is still working.
• What happens in the edit — grading, motion graphics, animation, subtitles, original music or licensed tracks.
• How many versions you need — one film, or a main cut plus a set of social edits in different ratios.

Tell us the budget you have rather than asking us to guess at it. If it will not stretch to what you have described, we would rather say so at the start than discover it halfway through.

Questions we get asked

The things people usually want to know before they commission a film, answered the way we would answer them on the phone.