Williams Racing driver Alex Albon on the IRIS shoot, seated on a Gulf oil drum among the Gulf-liveried heritage race cars
Gulf × Williams Racing Driver Series · Social-First

READY BEFORE THEY WALK IN

Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon, four hours with each driver, twenty pieces of content to capture. So we're built, lit and rolling before the door opens.

A Formula One driver's diary doesn't bend for a film crew. So ours doesn't ask it to.

Gulf and Williams Racing brought us in to make social-first content with Carlos Sainz and Alex Albon. The catch is the clock: you get each driver for a tight window, the schedule is fixed, and there's no coming back tomorrow for the shot you missed. Every set-up has to be lit, framed and tested before they arrive, so their time goes on the content, not on us finding our feet.

We shoot a full run of vertical pieces to a running order, moving from one look to the next without resetting the room. Clean takes, a polished finish, no scramble. It's the reason we've been asked back for every shoot in the series.

Client
Gulf × Williams Racing
Agency
SAMY
IRIS
Production · film
Talent
Carlos Sainz · Alex Albon
Format
Social-first · 9:16 vertical
The films · social-first, vertical

Four cuts from the series · shot 9:16 for feed and story · tap to play

Key Performance Metrics
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Total Reach

on Instagram, across the series.

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Total Engagements

likes, comments, shares and saves on Instagram.

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Content Velocity

finished vertical pieces delivered across the series.

Ready on the clock

Lit and rolling before the door opens

The set is built, balanced and framed before the driver's called. Lighting locked, sound checked, first piece lined up, so the moment they sit down, we're already shooting.

Get it wrong and you've spent a driver's only window watching a crew catch up. Get it right and a tight schedule turns into a full set of finished content, cut and ready.

A monitor showing the lit set on the IRIS shoot, an empty director's chair on a white cyclorama, framed and ready for the driver
Anywhere the schedule sends us

Studios, garages, a room in Monaco

The series has moved through photo studios, the prestige of a race garage, and hotel function rooms in Monaco tight enough to plan the crew's footprint before we arrive. Every room gets the same setup (same cameras, same lighting, same crew), so a piece shot in a hotel suite cuts together with one shot on a studio floor.

Different walls, same standard. That's the reason the invitation keeps coming back.

The full IRIS crew around a gelled interview set on the driver shoot: softboxes, monitors and camera in silhouette, the talent lit at the far end
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