Introducing Barayip
Dream Engine produced a walkthrough video for Barayip Primary School to showcase its new campus and give local families a look inside.
We also created a second video focused on the exterior, showing the school buildings, grounds and surrounding neighbourhood.
For a school tour, the planning starts with what families need to see: the spaces their children will use and how those spaces fit together.
Background
A new primary school for Tarneit
Barayip Primary School opened in 2025, providing a new school for children from Prep to Grade 6 in Melbourne’s growing western suburbs.
Known as Riverdale North Primary School during planning, it received its permanent name following community and Traditional Owner consultation. Barayip is a Bunurong word meaning “spring”.
The school’s facilities include classrooms, a library, art and science spaces, a gymnasium and an on-site kindergarten. With facilities spread across several buildings, there was plenty for families to become familiar with.
The challenge
Helping families picture the school
With the school preparing to open, it needed a way to introduce itself to the community and show families what had been built.
Parents needed to see where their children would learn, play and spend their school day. They also needed a sense of how the classrooms, shared areas and outdoor spaces fitted together.
The focus of our education video production was to make those spaces accessible to families before an in-person visit. A video tour could be watched at home, shared with children and revisited whenever it was useful.
Our approach
Taking viewers inside the learning spaces
We approached the walkthrough from a family’s perspective, showing the rooms children would use and the spaces between them.
Steady camera movement gives viewers time to take in the layout, furniture and natural light. The film moves through classrooms and shared learning areas, then shows specialist facilities, the gym and outdoor spaces.
These details help parents picture their child’s day at the school. The aim was to make the new campus feel more familiar and give families a useful first look inside.
Our guide to walkthrough and virtual tour videos explains how this approach can help people become familiar with a location before arriving.
The exterior film
Showing how the campus fits together
We also produced a separate exterior video using drone footage to show the campus from above.
This wider perspective shows the arrangement of the buildings, the landscaped courtyard, play areas and sports courts. It also places the school within the surrounding neighbourhood, giving local families a view they wouldn’t get from the street.
The exterior film complements the walkthrough, providing an overview of the site alongside the closer look inside.
The outcome
Two ways to explore the new school
Barayip received two videos it could use to introduce its facilities to the community: a school walkthrough and a dedicated exterior film.
Together, they gave families a way to explore the campus without being on site. The school also had material it could continue using after opening to help prospective families become familiar with the buildings and grounds before their first visit.
Planning a video for your school?
Tell us about the facilities you want to show, who the video is for and when you need it. We’ll help you work out what to film and how to approach the tour.
Ryan Spanger is the founder and managing director of Dream Engine, a Melbourne video production company established in 2002. Over the past two decades, he’s produced hundreds of videos for businesses, government departments, universities and healthcare organisations across Australia. Ryan specialises in helping organisations explain complex ideas through clear, engaging video content, with particular experience in corporate communications, training and education.
