Plenty of people can shoot a nice-looking video. Far fewer will ask what it is supposed to do before they turn the camera on. A recruitment film, a nine-by-sixteen advert and a job walkthrough are three completely different jobs, and shooting them the same way is why so much business video gets watched by nobody.
A morning on site gets you a month of short-form. This is the most cost-effective video any small business can buy and it is most of what we do.
Built for paid social, in vertical, with hooks written before the shoot rather than found afterwards in the edit.
Especially for trades and construction — before, during and finished, cut into something a prospect can actually follow.
Shot to move properly rather than to lurch, with the layout readable from the footage.
The one people put on their homepage. Interview-led, so it sounds like you and not like a voiceover artist.
We record it and cut the short-form out of it, which is where most of the value in a podcast actually sits.
What it is for, who is watching, where it will be posted and what you want them to do. Fifteen minutes of this saves a day of shooting the wrong thing.
Guildford and the surrounding Surrey towns. Site, office, unit or property. We bring everything — camera, audio, lighting.
Notes in plain English. You do not need to know any editing vocabulary to tell us the intro is too long.
Vertical for social, wide for the site and YouTube, square where it is needed. Captions burnt in as standard, because most of it gets watched on mute.
If you are filming it yourself, these are the ones worth having. They are the difference between footage that cuts together and footage that sits on a phone forever.
One steady, wide shot at the start so a viewer knows where they are before anything else happens. It is the shot people most often forget and the one an edit cannot do without.
Close, tight, no faces needed. This is the footage that holds attention, because watching someone who is good at something is genuinely interesting.
One smooth pass, taken slowly. Slower than feels natural. Fast pans are the single most common reason home-filmed footage is unusable.
Ten seconds at the very start of a job, shot from the same spot you will stand in at the end. Nothing improves a finished video more and it costs nothing.
Not a speech. One line about what the job was or what the problem had been. It gives the edit a spine and it sounds like a person rather than an advert.
Wind noise ruins more clips than bad picture does. If it is blowing, film it silent and we will build the audio in the edit.
A day rate makes sense when there is a specific thing to capture: a finished project, a launch, a brand film, an event. You get the footage and the edits and that is the job done.
A monthly retainer makes sense when the problem is that your feed keeps going quiet. Filming once and stretching it across a year does not work; the algorithm and your audience both notice. If the goal is consistent content, the retainer is cheaper per video by a wide margin and it is what most of our clients end up on.
If you are not sure which you need, say what you are trying to achieve and we will tell you. We have talked people out of retainers before when a single day was genuinely all they needed.
A filming day with edits delivered is quoted on what is being shot and how many finished videos come out of it. Ongoing content is folded into a monthly retainer, which starts at £799 a month. We quote after a conversation because a one-hour product shoot and a full day on a construction site are not the same job.
For short-form social, typically a month’s worth. The exact number depends on how much is happening on the day and how much you want to appear on camera, and we agree it up front rather than leaving it vague.
Yes — Woking, Godalming, Farnham, Haslemere and the rest of that ring, plus most of Surrey and Hampshire. We are based in Hindhead so Guildford is a short drive.
Always. We do not hand over raw footage and wish you luck. Editing, captions, colour, music and the different aspect ratios are all part of it.
Yes, and for advert work we usually insist on it, because the hook has to be decided before the shoot rather than rescued afterwards.
Yes to both, and we are used to working around live sites and staying out of the way of the actual job.
We are based in Hindhead, so Guildford and the towns around it are a short drive. Filming days and first meetings happen in person.
The main Guildford page — everything we do, in one place.
Social media marketing for Guildford businesses.
Web design in Guildford for businesses that need the phone to ring.
Google Ads management for Guildford businesses.
Marketing for builders and trades in Guildford.
Plenty of people can point a camera. What decides whether the video does anything for you is what happens after the shoot — the cut, the captions, the hook in the first two seconds, and whether it is delivered in the right shape for the platform it is going on. A videographer Guildford side of Surrey should be turning a morning of filming into weeks of content, not one long corporate film nobody watches. You can see the sort of thing we put out day to day on our Instagram.
Most Guildford clients start with one of these and pick up the others later. We also do social media marketing in Guildford, web design in Guildford, Google Ads management in Guildford and marketing for builders in Guildford. If you would rather see the whole picture first, start with our digital marketing in Guildford page.
A quick conversation about what it is for, and we will tell you whether it wants a day or a monthly arrangement — and roughly what it costs.
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