FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
Every project is custom quoted because no two corporate video shoots are the same. A founder testimonial filmed in your office with one camera and one subject is a totally different scope than multi-camera conference coverage at Moscone West. After the discovery call, we send a fixed fee proposal with everything itemized. Shoot day, crew, gear, post-production, deliverable formats, music licensing, travel if any. Standard inclusions on every project: pre-production planning, two rounds of revisions in Frame.io, color grade in DaVinci Resolve, final masters in every aspect ratio you need (16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for Reels and TikTok, 1:1 for feed posts, 4:5 for LinkedIn), and one year of project file archival. Add-ons quoted separately if needed: drone coverage with our FAA Part 107 licensed pilot, additional shoot days, casting and on-screen talent, hair and makeup, motion graphics packages, burned-in subtitles, and live streaming. Everything called out in the proposal up front so there are no surprise line items at the end.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
Step one is a discovery call with Tim and Gio, our director and lead cinematographer. Not a sales pitch. More of a working session where we map out what the video actually needs to do, where it lives after delivery, and what success looks like to your team. Marketing or creative directors are welcome on the call too. Within 48 hours of the discovery call, you get a written creative brief and a fixed fee proposal. Once booked, Edd and Eegii start scripting and breaking talking points down to the sentence level. We engineer hook moments and pull-quote sections directly into the script so social cutdowns write themselves later instead of having to be hunted in the edit bay. For complex SF venues like Moscone West, the Fairmont, Chase Center, or Terra Gallery, we run a full tech scout before shoot day. Permits, Certificates of Insurance, and coordination with house AV teams (Encore and similar) all get handled before the gear leaves the case. Shoot day is led by Gio and Tim with a teleprompter calibrated to each speaker's natural pace. Sony FX6 and FX3 cinema bodies, matched primes, dual-recorded audio on Sennheiser lavs, redundant data backups before anyone leaves the venue. First cuts back in 7 to 10 business days, reviewed in Frame.io with timestamped notes. Two rounds of revisions included. Final masters delivered in every format your campaign needs.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Over twenty years of combined production experience between the four of us. Gio leads cinematography with eight plus years shooting brand and commercial work across the Bay Area. Tim directs and produces with seven plus years in production, cinematography, and on-set direction. Eegii handles post and documentary story development with six plus years of editorial experience. Edd runs editorial, color finishing, and motion graphics with five plus years. Most of what we know we picked up on actual shoots, not in classrooms. Production sets at Moscone West, the Fairmont, Chase Center, Terra Gallery, and dozens of other San Francisco venues. Cinema training on Sony FX6 and FX3 bodies, color finishing in DaVinci Resolve, multi-camera event coverage, broadcast-grade audio engineering, and FAA Part 107 drone certification for aerial work. Hundreds of hours of executive coaching too. We've directed CEOs, founders, surgeons, lawyers, and clinical directors who'd never been on camera before. Knowing how to relax someone in the chair is its own kind of training. Big reason our testimonials and executive interviews don't come out stiff.