We hired some new employees recently.

Four legs. Questionable attention spans. Very unprofessional.

10/10 would hire again.

For one afternoon, Frizzon Productions looked less like a production house in Mumbai and more like a very poorly managed dog daycare.

Five dogs. A few props. A camera. And almost no work getting done.

That was pretty much the plan.

The Idea: Bring Your Pets to Frizzon

We asked the team and a few friends of Frizzon to bring their pets to the office for a small photoshoot. Five dogs showed up.

There wasn't a complicated concept behind it. We spend so much of our time producing things for other people that sometimes it's nice to point the camera at something purely because we think it'll be fun.

And trying to photograph five dogs in an office sounded fun. Optimistic, perhaps. But fun.

The Photoshoot Quickly Became Something Else

There were props. There were photos. There were attempts at getting everyone where they needed to be.

And then there were five dogs with absolutely no interest in following a production schedule.

At one point, the strongest and smallest members of our new team had a disagreement in the middle of the office. HR was not involved. They sorted it out themselves.

Any pretence that this was going to be an orderly office photoshoot disappeared fairly quickly, which turned out to be the best part.

When Everyone Stopped Working

At some point during the afternoon, the shoot stopped being the most interesting thing happening. Everyone stopped working.

People were sitting on the floor. Someone was playing with somebody else's dog. People were laughing. There were cuddles happening between whatever photos we managed to take.

For a few hours, the usual rhythm of a production office disappeared. No one was trying particularly hard to make the afternoon useful, and maybe that's why it was.

Not Everything at a Production House Needs a Deliverable

Production naturally trains you to think in outputs.

What's the brief? What's the shot list? How much time do we have? What are we delivering? When does it go live?

Those questions matter. They keep shoots moving and projects on track. But if every interaction inside a creative workplace is built around an output, you miss some of the things that make people actually enjoy being there.

This afternoon didn't need to become a team-building exercise. We didn't bring five dogs into Frizzon Productions because we were trying to improve workplace culture.

We just thought it would be fun. The culture part happened on its own.

Creative Teams Need Room for Chaos

Film production is already unpredictable. Plans change. People improvise. Something you thought would take ten minutes takes an hour, while something you worried about all morning works on the first attempt.

Maybe that's why a little organised chaos doesn't feel particularly foreign to us. The pet photoshoot had plenty of it.

Props moved around. Dogs moved around more. People who were supposed to be working ended up on the floor. But somewhere in that chaos, everyone got to interact differently. Not as departments. Not as people trying to finish something before a deadline.

Just as people having a good afternoon together.

A Different Kind of Behind the Scenes at Frizzon

Behind-the-scenes content from a production house usually shows cameras, lights, sets, monitors and crews working through a shot list. And that is a big part of what Frizzon looks like.

But it isn't the whole picture. Sometimes behind the scenes are five dogs taking over the office.

Sometimes it is people abandoning their desks to play with them. Sometimes it is props, photographs, chaos and cuddles.

Both versions belong here. Because the culture of a production house isn't only visible when the cameras are rolling.

It is also visible in what happens when, for an afternoon, everyone stops working. And I think that's a good thing.