Portfolio of Ms. Marion Berdoati Sauzedde

Currently Head of Production at Kazam! (Biggie Group), a French agency-integrated production company. I previously worked in indie film production (UK & Portugal), TV production at Publicis (France), and as a junior producer Quad (France), one of the biggest French advertising production company. I handle budgets ranging from -10K€ to 1M€ and manage team sizes that adapt to the technical and creative demands (from 1 to 50 people) for clients such as Stellantis, Bumble, L'Oréal, Unibet and more on long lasting collaborations (contents for a year produced in several phases) or short turnarounds (two weeks from pre production to delivery) for social networks (Instagram, YouTube, TikTok & more) and TV/VOD. For more information contact me on my LinkedIn ↙

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TVC for Unibet (360 campaign with print and billboards)

The brand wanted to challenge the traditional model of betting commercials that played on street culture or were very lifestyle and opted towards a more playful creative. We pushed comedy thanks to British director Zac Ella and shot 2 films in Belgium in 3 days plus a print campaign and billboards for each character.

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TVC for Epitact

Another client who wanted to make a creative jump from their previous campaigns which were more medically oriented and less strong (art direction-speaking). They trusted us to make this commercial all shot under a day with a wonderful team that crafted the project to its core. It was an interesting experience for me as a manager as I managed someone of my team to handle the project with much more liberty and less involvement as a leader to give him space to experience a junior producer role.

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Best Western - Billboads and digital ad

Fun campaign to produce within a restricted time and budget for a client happy to make a change in its communication and take a more comedic route. Quite the challenge to create a sunny atmosphere in a room and spa under a national storm warning...

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TVC for Axonaut

Quick turnaround again and extra short budget for that film where the reference was the "Step by Step" credits. Made with a young, diverse team and with actor happy to push comedy forward, it helped put our client "out there" and generated traffic for them.

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This is a series produced for financial services company Qonto.

The idea was to make finance accessible so we found a creative concept that with a twist of words to make finance people cook "financiers". Quite a thorough journalistic work on our end and a lot of fun interviewing everyone for me. Defining the art direction part of a series to make it a knowledgeable was also a fun work challenge that went beyond production all the way to the end of post. The shoot of series 1 was spread over 3 sessions. The programme was quite a success and has been renewed for a 2nd season!

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TVC for relationship marketing company Brevo.

The biggest ad the company had ever made and quite a challenging project to handle all on my own production and line production-wise. We shot this one abroad with Factor (Romania) and it has both the touch of our director Greg Bray, the help of talented local technicians and artists and the twist from the creative agency. The campaign was quite the success and helped the rebranding of Brevo (previously SendInBlue).

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TVC for CRM software Axonaut.

This was an opportunity for me to finally work with a director I've been looking forward to working with forever, Pierre Amstutz Roch! An intense but fun day of shoot to make 2 TVCs out of it. We worked from a super short budget and produced the comedy spots as if they were film students, but we were all extremely proud of the results! Client was also pleased as we had the opportunity to work with them again later on more TVC projects.

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This is a series produced for business planning company Pigment for YouTube.

"The Art of Decision" is a 6 episodes series + behind the scenes. In this one we did a lot of research on finance to interview selected specialists and make bring them to open up on their profession and life. I had a lot of fun playing journalist and interviewer. It was one big day of production but weeks of post and pre-production to coordinate guests and content production through it all.

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Un date qui va droit au but 👶 #dating #shortvideos #fruitz #pourtoi

Content series (15 videos) produced for dating app Fruitz featuring personal stories and debates of their target audience.

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Chandon Garden Spritz (food demo)

I supervised production on the D-day of this shoot. The images were used in both the TV commercial and any content relating to the drink such as this tutorial.

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Immortals Fenyx Rising - Trailer Making-of

This was a project shot alongside the making of an animated trailer for Ubisoft.

It was very interesting to follow the CRCR (directors) in their process of making the film and breaking it down for us as we shot the live action excerpts for 2 days, going back on their process of making the film.

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Une histoire de 🍑 #fruitz #shorts

Fruitz, pour des rencontres sans prise de tête#shortvideos #couplestatus #date

Fruitz - Une Belle Histoire / Peach

An ambitious project with 3 days of shoot for 12 films (and more than 60 assets in the end!) for the French and European market, all directed by Sarah Jacquier! A cool project imagined for its 18-25yo target audience and broadcast on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok with films lasting 30" tops.

"Une Belle Histoire" is 1/3 of this project with 4 date stories targeted at the French market, representing the 4 types of relationships you can seek on Fruitz.

The whole project was hectic with little time to prep and high ambitions to jump on something extremely crafty. Having 3 very different concepts forced us to have a lot of flexibility to provide 12 ambitious films to the clients. Our full production team was devoted to the preproduction which included casting, location scouting, scripts breakdown, team hiring, style and art department conception, etc.

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Velouté de champignons aux noisettes | Lidl Cuisine part à la rencontre des producteurs français !

Another piece of work for the Lidl YouTube channel is the "Producer" format where influencers roam around France to meet local producers who provide goods sold at Lidl.

A challenging, TV documentary-like shoot, where we use the conditions and locations at hand to provide an entertaining and informative episode. The teams are also regular and the idea is to be flexible and inventive to fit to any circumstance.

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Cinnamon rolls revisités | Les p'tits cordons bleus | Lidl Cuisine

One of the many episodes for the Lidl French YouTube channel centered around cooking. This section Les p'tits cordons bleus features kids cooking with the two influencers who mostly personify this program.

This program comes from a long lasting collaboration between Lidl and Kazam! who was accompanying for a fourth season this year. The teams working on those shoots are regular so the prep time varies. We try to instill energy to keep the day going and don't hesitate to reassure or provide what the influencers need throughout the day as we shoot several recipes back to back (a season is about 100 episodes).

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ILEK — Energies vertes

This is "ILEK — Energies vertes" by Raphael Dussud on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

Ilek 'Burst' - L'énergie renouvelable

A series of comedy 3 films shot in 2 days for a green energy provider that used to work only on digital assets with this production company.

Film 2 - L'énergie proche

Film 3 - L'énergie positive

This was my first "bigger" project in my new company Kazam! as Head of Production (producer and line producer) following the digital campaign I produced for this same client from them, which was a step forward in storytelling/craft compared to the ones they shot before. It was quite a technical one with shots outside in stormy weather, including one quite a windy lake! It was a pleasure to work again with Raphael Dussud who did a great job bringing his quirkiness to those films.

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Ilek 'Fil rouge' - Nouveau départ

Part one of 12 films to shoot - 6 films in a day for digital broadcast.

Film 2 - Bébé arrive

One of the first projects I worked on as I arrived at Kazam! to take the reins of the production department. On this project I was focused on educating the agency and my production team about preproduction, the necessity to have a lengthy discussion about a breakdown and appropriate equipment for the kind of image we wanted to give out. I also insisted on having a bit of set design which was not a cost killing element but really brought craft and brand identification (keeping it in the brand's color universe) to all the films.

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L’Oréal - XXL

Campaign shot in December 2021 in studio. We had to shoot packshots, textures and targeted brush shots for the whole XXL range in one day.

It was quite a technical shoot for which we made tests in preproduction. It was a collaborative process with the client on set because we were matching what they had just shot live with a model a day prior to our product shoot. We did not handle post on this one.