M1 Pacific Motorway

A case-study film on the M1 extension to Raymond Terrace, shot on the alignment and cut to explain the engineering to people who are not engineers.

Client: BG&E, for Transport for NSW
Type: Video
Role: Camera, edit, titles and motion
Year: 2025
Kit: Fujifilm X-S20, Premiere Pro, After Effects

Title frame. The film itself runs 2:35.

The brief

The project team wanted the work on the record: a long alignment, flood management. The audience was clients and the industry, not the public.

What made it hard

Engineers who do not want to be on camera, a site that is mostly earthworks, and a story that is genuinely about hydrology. None of that is a picture by default.

Storyboard first

Thirty slides before a frame was shot: what each section needs to say, which interview answers it, and which graphic carries the part the camera cannot.

Storyboard grid for the M1 film — The storyboard, which became the shot list and the edit order.

Interviews that explain

Questions written so the answers cut together as narration. The interviewees explain the flood design in their own words; the titles only name things.

Section graphic treatment from the storyboard — The section graphic, drawn to match the real alignment.

Graphics that carry the hydrology

Flood-management is invisible on site. A short motion sequence shows where the water goes, timed to the engineer describing it.

Flood management map treatment — Flood map treatment from the board.

What happened

YouTube views, seven times the channel’s next video: YouTube views, seven times the channel’s next video
LinkedIn reactions on launch, with senior industry commenters: LinkedIn reactions on launch, with senior industry commenters
running time: :35running time

Still the most-watched thing on the firm’s channel, and the reference cut for every case-study film since.

Camera, edit, graphics: Eddy Huang
Interviewees: The BG&E project team
Approval: Transport for NSW

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