Filming Day: Provital's team building turned into a film shoot

The goal was to strengthen the bond between teams: to foster cohesion, creativity, teamwork and a sense of belonging. Four goals at once is a lot to ask of a single activity, and it's easy for a team building to stop at the first one, having a good time together, without touching the rest.

In a format like this, the challenge is to design an activity where everyone has a real role, where people have to coordinate to reach a shared result, and which leaves something tangible at the end. You don't foster creativity with a talk about creativity, and you can't decree a sense of belonging either: it has to come from having made something together that's worth showing. All without the activity feeling alien to the company's culture and values.

The idea was to turn participants into the stars of a genuine professional film shoot. An original script adapted to the company's values and culture was written, and the roles of any production were handed out: make-up, directing, acting, cameras and production. With indoor and outdoor sets in a medieval castle, the teams shot a complete short film in real time.

The finale was a celebration with music, food and a screening of the short, and afterwards the film and a making-of were delivered. It fits because a film shoot is teamwork in its purest form: nobody finishes their part without depending on someone else's. And the final product gives something most team buildings don't leave behind: a piece the company can watch again and share, loaded with its own story.