I want enough usable footage for weeks of content
A video filming session gives you an organized library of usable footage for planned content.
Filmed on an iPhone, at your place of work or an agreed location, against a shot list you send beforehand. You get the raw footage, all of it, by shared drive or transfer.
Two things this is not. It is not directing: what gets filmed is decided by you before the day, and the shot list gets checked as filmable before the date is held. And it is not editing: cutting, captioning and sizing the footage is its own service, and the two can be bought together.
Your direction notes. What you want filmed, roughly in what order, and anything that has to be in shot. They get read and confirmed as filmable before the day is booked, so nobody arrives to find the thing you wanted needs a permit, a second person or a different time of day.
Not sure what to film? Deciding that is Content Strategy & Planning, and it is what stops a session producing footage nobody can use.
The service is a booked half day of filming, and the raw files. Short form for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, longer form for YouTube, or talking to camera from prompts you prepared.
You end up holding every clip. Nothing is held back and nothing is licensed back to you.
The footage cut, captioned and sized for where it is going, on a look built once from your brand. Filming and editing bought together are quoted as one project.
Half the session is paid at booking and it comes off the bill. It is the same money earlier, not extra money. It is kept only if you cancel inside 24 hours, or if nobody is there when I arrive, because that is the one case where the morning cannot be refilled.
Bad weather reschedules at no cost. Weather is nobody's fault.
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Plenty of people do at first. Plenty of content also works without you in it: the work itself, the process, the before and after. Say so in your notes and the shot list gets built that way.
Yes, and for social it is usually the right call. The camera matters much less than the light, the sound and knowing what you are filming. A phone also films in the shape the platforms actually want.
This is filming, not directing. What gets filmed is your decision, made before the day. If you want that decided for you, Content Strategy & Planning is the service that does it.
Yes, all of it, and nothing else. The footage is yours and anybody you work with later can use it. Cutting it is a separate service.
The session reschedules at no cost. Weather is nobody's fault. A cancellation inside 24 hours, or nobody being there on the day, keeps the deposit, because that morning cannot be refilled.
Yes. That is video editing and it is priced separately, by how much footage there is.
I read it and reply with the scope and the price before any work starts.
Tell me the result you want and where I can see the business now. I use that information to identify the most useful service or package and decide whether I can quote it in writing. If one missing detail changes the work or price, I will ask for that detail or suggest a short call.
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