Description

In 2009, Brett Carlile and Orlin Sorensen took a lengthy business plan plus a small business loan and started Woodinville Whiskey Co. The challenge was to create a better bourbon outside of Kentucky. Now, they are distributed across the country and have received countless awards and accolades. This episode explores what makes WWCo. different, and how Graham Baba Architects was able to embrace site constraints and budget and deliver well-designed, elegant buildings.

Objective

Part of the Design vs. Build series and sponsored by Kebony, the goal was to capture the full story of Woodinville Whiskey, highlight the Kebony used on their Quincy Warehouses and capture key testimonials for Kebony brand to be used in various other deliverables.

Scope

5 Person Crew

3 Day shoot

3 Locations

Docu-Tips

No shoot goes perfectly, so always have a backup plan…

and maybe a backup to your backup.

How We Did It

There were 3 core groups of interviews needed for the story: Brett Carlisle to tell the history of Woodinville Whiskey, the Architects to talk about the design of their facilities and the Warehouse crew to talk about the actual process of barrel aging and bottling the product. The issue was Brett was in Woodinville, the Architects in Seattle and the Warehouse Crew were in Quincy - 2.5hrs away from Woodinville. Knowing we had limited time to accomplish all of our needs, we opted to split our team into two groups to work simultaneously in both areas.

Team 1 was responsible for interview capture, host spots and B-Roll of Distillery, Architect Offices and surrounding areas.

Team 2 was responsible for B-Roll capture of entire barreling and bottling process and landscape shots of Quincy.

Though we did have our share of challenges throughout the shoot, it all came together for, what we feel like, a great story!

Fun Facts

1 Drone Lost in the Mountains

1 Interviewees swapped at last min due to dog bites

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