Corporate video production in the UK and worldwide

A film a company makes for the people it answers to: its staff, investors, customers and partners. Announcements, launches, leadership films, fireside chats and customer stories are all corporate films. We’d go further: there’s no such thing as a corporate film, only a film, and it has to hold whoever’s watching as well as any documentary or brand film. So ours are made the way we make brand films and micro-documentaries: real people talking rather than reading, in the places where the work actually happens.

Every production we make starts at £9,500, and most single corporate films land between that and £25,000. A shoot-only day, with a two-person crew for camera and sound, is £2,690. In New York, productions start at $20,000. What moves the number is shoot days, cities, how many people are on camera and how many versions the edit has to produce. Work across several cities is scoped from the brief, and the first call and the estimate cost nothing.

No. Our producers run the shoot wherever it is and book the local crew themselves. Four of AlTi Tiedemann Global’s six productions were filmed in New York with New York crews, and Nevis × Focus was shot on the Upper East Side the same way. For Toast’s story in British Columbia we booked a Vancouver crew, briefed them with our shot list and directed the interviews live from London. Where flying a crew adds nothing to the film, you shouldn’t be paying for flights.

Yes, and it goes better when they’re in from the start. Toast’s legal team reviewed our questions and shot lists before each shoot and the transcripts and cuts after it, and asked for substantiation behind any figure said on camera. For AimHi Earth’s film with PepsiCo, language and claims were agreed with PepsiCo before the first interview. Nevis × Focus went through five cuts in eight days, reviewed by both firms. NDAs are standard.

Usually, if the day is built around them. Nevis × Focus was one afternoon: three interviews of about half an hour each, then the three executives in conversation. We light the set before anyone senior arrives and send the questions ahead, so their time goes on answers.

Like a brand film, with the conversation left alone. AlTi’s fireside chat on AI in New York had three cameras, controlled light and sound recorded for nuance rather than volume. The speakers had a structure, not a script, so they think on camera instead of reciting. You usually get the long-form conversation, a shorter interview and cutdowns for LinkedIn and YouTube.

It depends most on diaries and the review chain. Nevis × Focus went from Mark Swan’s first email to the shoot in 12 days, and from the shoot to the final film in 22. Miro’s crew loaded in at Endava’s headquarters 30 days after Miro’s first email. Legal review goes into the schedule on the first day, not the last week.

Yes. Agencies bring us in to produce for their clients, and plenty of companies skip the agency and come straight to us. Either way you deal with the people making the film. For agencies and in-house teams with their own edit, a shoot-only day in the UK is £2,690.

Yes. We carry £10m public liability and £10m employers’ liability, and risk assessments and NDAs come as standard. We’ve filmed on live London sites for JA Brooks and inside Endava’s City headquarters for Miro. The policies are on our insurance and compliance page.