Presupuesto: This will depend on whether there are any special effects to be done. Discuss that with the production company. If you have set a budget for the production, communicate it to the production company so that they can estimate what can be achieved and inform you of any additional charges that may occur.
Actividades: Do a complete film production with everyone in the company – from different departments - sending their Christmas or year-end wishes to their colleagues. Define one responsible by department (someone with initiative and leadership) to motivate his colleagues and lead his team. This will also give you one contact point per department and facilitate your work. If you feel the fact of getting groups to define their messages will be long, you can also get selected voluntary representatives to do it. Hire a production company and work out with them what should be the objective and theme for this production, how it should be done and define the storyboard. This should be done at least 1 month in advance to give enough time to film and edit. The earlier you start the production, the better as most production companies may be either fully booked (many companies' year-end events) or closed for the holidays. Prepare a briefing for each department to know what the theme is about, how long should be the show and what type of tone is expected. Before the filming, ensure that the departments are informed so that they have time to plan and rehearse their wishes. The group dynamics and creativity, and the fun they will have will surprise you! The night of the screening, they will be pleased and proud to see the fruit of their labour, the familiar smiles of many and the heartfelt wishes of all - a great ambience for your company's celebrations! If you want to keep this simple (and low-cost), do it in-house: rent a video equipment and define one person in the company responsible for filming each department’s messages. After the event, if the wishes have been interesting, you can still communicate them: employees can borrow the videotape, or you can post the messages (in video or in text) on the company Intranet, or (more simply) distribute the text around…
Consejos: Get an estimate of how many days the filming will take (depending on the size of your company and the number of departments), and how many days are required for editing. Be there or delegate someone from your company to be there during the filming to organise the crowd. This will avoid overtime charges for the filming sessions. It is most important that the people know when and where the filming is to be done so that they are there, on time and ready.