Case Studies & Projects

TVC production Jakarta crew preparing aerial shoot logistics on location, TDR FILMS

TVC PRODUCTION IN JAKARTA: WHAT BRANDS NEED TO KNOW

TDR FILMS is a production house serving Jakarta brands across corporate, commercial, and event video production, and the TVC category has changed more than almost any other format we work in. Traditional television commercials once relied on repetition, jingles, and exaggerated demonstrations to stay memorable. That approach has stopped working.

TVC production company Jakarta director briefing crew on set, TDR FILMS

HOW TO CHOOSE A TVC PRODUCTION COMPANY IN JAKARTA

Choosing the right TVC production company Jakarta brands can trust is one of the most consequential decisions in advertising. It determines whether a campaign gets executed properly from start to finish. TDR FILMS is a production house serving Jakarta brands across corporate, commercial, and event video production. We have watched brands make this decision both well and poorly. Even the best marketing idea falls flat if it does not get executed professionally. Some agencies transform a concept into something compelling. Others merely film it. The difference between the two is significant.

TDR FILMS crew reviewing footage with UI researchers during an innovation documentary shoot on ceramic foam filter research

INNOVATION DOCUMENTARY PRODUCTION JAKARTA: TELLING UI’S CERAMIC FOAM FILTER RESEARCH TO A NON-SPECIALIST AUDIENCE

TDR FILMS produces innovation documentary production Jakarta universities can trust with genuinely technical research, and Universitas Indonesia brought us in to document its ceramic foam filter research. The work studies how a porous ceramic filter reduces defects during aluminum casting. That is precise, valuable engineering. In its raw form, it is nearly impossible for a non-specialist to sit through. Our job was to keep the science accurate. We also had to make it watchable for people who had never heard “inclusion volume fraction” before.

TDR FILMS filming a lab scientist operating a fluidity tester for an engineering equipment video production in Jakarta

ENGINEERING EQUIPMENT VIDEO PRODUCTION JAKARTA: MAKING A LAB TESTING DEVICE WATCHABLE

TDR FILMS delivers engineering equipment video production Jakarta research teams can use to show their work, and Universitas Indonesia called us back for a second project: documenting an inclusion and fluidity testing device built to support the same casting quality research we had already covered. The device measures how molten metal flows. It also tracks how many impurities end up trapped inside a casting. On paper, that is a lab instrument most people never think about. On camera, it needed to explain itself.

Large-scale event video production by TDR FILMS at the G20 FMCBG

WHEN THE G20 CAME TO BALI, TDR FILMS WAS TRUSTED BEHIND THE LENS

TDR FILMS is a production house based in Bali, and one of the projects in our body of work did not start as a brand brief at all. It started with an event organizer who needed a photography partner they could trust completely, for meetings and events held during Indonesia’s G20 Presidency in 2022, the year that built toward the 2022 G20 Bali Summit.

TDR FILMS crew preparing camera equipment on location for an NGO video production partner project

HOW TO CHOOSE AN NGO VIDEO PRODUCTION PARTNER

TDR FILMS produces documentary and impact video for NGOs, foundations, and social impact organisations across Indonesia, and choosing an NGO video production partner takes considerably more than watching a polished highlight reel. We have seen organisations get burned by agencies that pitched beautifully but had never actually worked inside the emotional and ethical complexity that impact storytelling genuinely requires.

Yudi Suarbawa filming on location at Pantai Kedonganan, Bali — TDR FILMS (2025)

FIELD DOCUMENTATION INDONESIA: FILMING BEYOND JAKARTA

TDR FILMS produces documentary and impact video for NGOs, foundations, and social impact organisations across Indonesia, and field documentation Indonesia NGOs actually need rarely happens anywhere near a Jakarta office. Most of the country’s largest NGOs, from health and education organisations to environmental and conservation groups, run headquarters out of Jakarta while their actual programme work happens in villages, forests, coastlines, and remote islands scattered across the archipelago.