Depending what you want to record, to cover a conference we often use two cameras per room, in up to three rooms. One camera will be wide to capture the whole screen, speaker and front audience. The second camera will be a mid-shot the speaker which we pan as the walk. This is generally the setup when you want to record whole presentations or sessions.

We will often also use a third camera on a gimbal to get audience reaction shots, filmed from the front/side of the conference space and looking back. This is mainly if we’re making a highlights clip.

For audio, we have various lapel and shotgun microphones. We will often set up lapel mics for the speakers and shotgun mics for panel discussions. However if you have an audio visual team helping, we will take an audio feed from them, rather than double up on microphones.

One of the challenges recording presentations, is the screen showing the presenters slides is bright relative to the rest of the room, and it can look washed out on camera. Also you sometimes want to show slides really clearly in the final video, full screen. We have solutions.

We can cut in the presenter’s slides later during editing, or better still: we can split the HDMI signal from the presenters laptop and record the slides as they go up on the screen in a special recorder box. This creates a video file for the whole presentation of just the slides, in high resolution, which is then easy to edit together with the camera footage of the presenter.

Here’s a full presentation for Stripe where we edited the slides in. If you scrub to different spots in the 1 hour presentation, you’ll see that sometimes we’ll show the speaker full screen, sometimes the speaker and the slides.

Absolutely. In many cases, one day of filming can produce a range of content.

For example, a single filming day may provide:

• A main video for your website.
• Short social media videos.
• Customer testimonial videos.
• Recruitment content.
• Photographs and behind-the-scenes material.

By planning ahead and capturing a variety of interviews and supporting footage, it is often possible to create content that can be used for months or even years.

Creating multiple videos from one shoot is one of the most cost-effective ways to maximise the value of your investment in video production.

Absolutely. In many cases, videos created for your website, events or presentations can also be edited into shorter versions for social media.

For example, a longer video may be repurposed into:

• Short LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram or TikTok videos.
• Customer testimonial snippets.
• Short promotional clips highlighting key messages.
• Behind-the-scenes content.

Repurposing content is often one of the most cost-effective ways to maximise the value of your investment in video production, as it allows you to create a library of content from a single filming project.

When planning a project, we will discuss all the possible ways the footage could be used and ensure the right material is captured to suit different platforms and formats.

Depending on the complexity and number of videos, most projects are completed in under a month, including planning, filming, editing. There may be a few days going back and forth on pre-production or scripting, filming may take half a day or a day. We’ll usually have a first draft video back to you within a week of filming. Subsequent rounds of changes will be made in a couple of days of your feedback.

If we’re making multiple videos we will write shot lists and batch like scenes/ locations together and film them at the same time to keep costs down.