Essential
£1,950+ VAT
Half day filming, one location.
- One film up to 2 minutes
- Two social cutdowns
- Three rounds of revisions
- Delivered in two weeks
For: a single testimonial, a founder piece, one service explained properly.
What video production actually costs.
Most video production companies won't tell you what they charge. You fill in a form, get a call, and find out the number after someone's spent twenty minutes qualifying you.
We think that's backwards. Here's what we charge.
Standard
£3,450+ VAT
Full day filming, up to two locations.
- One film up to 3 minutes
- Four cutdowns
- Titles and lower thirds
- Drone where the site and weather allow
- Three rounds of revisions
- Delivered in two weeks
For: most brand films, recruitment videos, case studies.
Extended
£5,950+ VAT
Two days filming, multiple locations.
- Hero film plus three supporting pieces
- Full graphics package
- Drone included
- Three rounds of revisions
- Delivered in three weeks
For: a campaign rather than a video. Multiple sites, several stories, a set of assets that work across a year.
Crew day rate
Two-person crew, full kit, one location. Rushes handed over. No edit.
For: clients with an in-house editor, or agencies who need North East crew.
£1,250+ VAT
Check availabilityWhat's included in every package
- Two-person crew, so nobody's running a camera and monitoring sound at the same time
- Cinema camera, professional lighting and audio
- Licensed music through our Artlist subscription, at no extra charge
- Colour grade and audio mix
- Travel within 30 miles of Ashington, covering Newcastle, Gateshead, Sunderland, Durham, most of Northumberland
- £5m public liability insurance
What isn't
We'd rather you saw these now than on an invoice.
- Actors and voiceover talent. Real staff are usually better anyway.
- Location hire and filming permits. Council permits for Newcastle city centre locations, private venue fees.
- Stock footage and library music beyond our subscription.
- Subtitles and translation. Burned-in captions add roughly half a day of edit time.
- Travel beyond 30 miles, and accommodation where the call time makes a return journey impractical.
- Extra revision rounds past the three included.
What moves the price
Three things, and only three.
Days of filming
The biggest single factor. A half day and a full day are not a small difference. A full day is roughly twice the footage and twice the edit.
Number of locations
Every move is an hour of derig, travel and rerig that isn't filming.
Edit complexity
A talking head with captions and a two-minute film with motion graphics, archive footage and a narrative structure are different jobs on the same timeline.
If you tell us those three things, we can quote you accurately over the phone.
Try the cost calculator if you would rather see a rough number first.
How the money works
50% deposit on approval, which holds your date and covers the planning, crew booking and kit allocation we commit to immediately. 50% on delivery, before final files are released.
Your date isn't held until the deposit lands. We'll keep taking enquiries for it until then.
Two things people get caught by
Raw footage isn't yours by default
You own the finished film and can use it as agreed. The rushes stay with us. We hold them for 90 days, then they're deleted. If you want them, it's £30 a year to keep them archived, or on an SSD at cost plus £50. Ask before the shoot, not eighteen months later.
You can't recut the film without asking
You're licensed to use it as delivered. Wanting a 30-second version pulled out of it eight months later is a normal request and usually a quick job, so just come back to us.
Cancellation
| When | Charge |
|---|---|
| More than 30 days before the shoot | Deposit retained, nothing further |
| 14–30 days | 50% of the total |
| Under 14 days | 100% of the total |
Rescheduling needs 14 days notice. Less than that and it's 25% of the total contracted fee per affected day, subject to availability.
We commit crew and kit as soon as you approve. That's what these terms cover.
Where we sit
You can hire a solo videographer in the North East for £400 a day. You can hire a Newcastle agency for £3,000. Both are legitimate; they're different products.
We're a two-person crew running broadcast-grade kit, based in Northumberland rather than a city-centre office. That's the whole reason we can charge what a small agency charges without the overhead sitting in your quote.
If your budget is £600, we're not your answer, and we'll tell you that on the first call rather than after three meetings.
Tell us the three things
Days of filming, number of locations, how complex the edit is. That's enough for a real number.
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