Visual Media Production

Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?

A. Make sure you can jive with your collaborator. When you come to an agency with a project, you are entering into a relationship. Feel them out before you put a ring on their finger...

Q. If you were a customer, what do you wish you knew about your trade? Any inside secrets to share?

A. Package work together, get it done at the same time!

It'll ensure better results:
Most projects are time sensitive, they depend on cultural timing, seasonal timing, technological timing... there are so many variables. The more that you can have done at once, the more cohesion you'll have among your visuals, the better they will fit together.

It'll be more cost effective:
Projects also depend heavily on your brand and your audience. It takes time for us understand you and your audience. If you have your identity designed in January but wait until August to have your website designed, we'll have to do evaluate the project anew including your brand, audience, etc. That's not to say we'll forget you, but once you're in a groove, things move quickly :)

Q. What important information should buyers have thought through before seeking you out?

A. The most important thing is always purpose. If you've got a purpose in mind, then you can envision a goal. If you can envision a goal, then you can set a budget, a time line, deliverables, etc.

Beyond that, know your brand, know your peers and know your audience.

Q. Why does your work stand out from others who do what you do?

A. We approach every visual communication project with curiosity. We ask questions and get to know the brand we are working with and their audience. From there, we let our curiosities inspire our visual creativity to align with the brand's goals and their audience's curiosity. When we are able to spark curiosity in an audience, we can expect them to action on behalf of their curiosity.

Q. What do you like most about your job?

A. We have the joy of interacting with other curious individuals! Business owners, marketing managers and the like are often interesting people to interact with and interested in other things!

Aside from that, we are able to demonstrate our creativity and curiosity with every project we collaborate on. Each completed project has our blood, sweat and tears (mostly sweat though :)...

Q. What questions do customers most commonly ask you? What's your answer?

A. Q: What are your rates?
A: $55/hr or flat rate per project starting at $2,000.

Q: Can I call you during the project?
A: Of course! If you don't call us, we'll surely be calling you. This is a collaboration, a partnership. Be prepared to dedicate some time and energy into that collaboration.

Q: I've got a campaign launching on several platforms. Can you help coordinate the visuals among them?
A: Yes! Our versatility sets us apart. We can manage and coordinate the concept and visuals for entire campaigns as well as produce identity design, print design, print photography, web photography, web design and development, mobile design and development, video production for TV and web and motion graphics animation.

Q. How did you decide to get in your line of work?

A. We are passionately curious about people and the world. We want to positively affect our environment and those in it, but we don't want to be limited to one industry, one region, one ideal. With our business, we are able to form intimate partnerships with movers and shakers that spark our curiosity.

Q. Tell us about a recent job you did that you are particularly proud of.

A. As of March 7th, 2011, we are just wrapping up an overhaul of Brehmlab Ltd's web presence. Brehmlab's website was outdated, hard to update and visually did no justice to the brand. We redesigned the Brehmlab logo, designed and developed a new website from scratch and designed and developed a mobile website.

The website is organized around the videos. A landing page of the freshest videos and a gallery page to filter through the videos both lead you to the video player. The video player is concise, interactive and responsive. Descriptions appear when you look for them and hide when not needed.

Brehmlab had an existing paid subscription to Vimeo where they had already stored all of their videos, descriptions, photos, everything. We programmed an API to gather content from Brehmlab's Vimeo account to keep him from having to keep two locations updated.

Additionally, we programmed a custom-tailored backend for his clients to upload and download files for their project.

Lastly, the mobile site allows visitors on Android and Apple mobile devices to watch his videos and get contact information.

Make sure you check it out at http://brehmlab.com.

Q. Do you do any sort of continuing education to stay up on the latest developments in your field?

A. We're pioneers really. With our websites especially, we've been able to push the envelope on current technologies and lately pushing them beyond the envelope. In our latest project, we found several bugs in browser technology that will be addressed in future updates.

We keep our practices fresh and interesting (to both us and audiences) by following peers that we admire, by watching online tutorials, by collaborating with peers on independent projects (a feature film at the moment) and by attending industry speakers.

Q. What are the latest developments in your field? Are there any exciting things coming in the next few years or decade that will change your line of business?

A. Everything is going online. Not to say it won't be elsewhere, but everything will be online. And everything that is online will need to be accessed on a variety of platforms including mobile phones, desktop computers, laptops, television sets... so we're excited to have the opportunity to learn new skills and work with such diverse platforms!

Q. If you have a complicated pricing system for your service, please give all the details here.

A. Our pricing system isn't complicated. Like all aspects of our client relations, we work with the client. If you want the highest quality product on an extensive project, we'd suggest billing hourly to ensure no obstacles to perfection. If you're on a shoestring budget, we can do a flat fee for the project while delivering you with an exceptional product.

Q. Write your own question and answer it.

A. What kind of relationship can I expect if I work with you?

In a word: intimate. We are typically in touch with a client no less than once a day while working actively on a project and we prefer to interact as much as possible. We prefer to immerse ourselves in a project.