Leith, Edinburgh | Since 2013
We're a twelve-person production crew making commercials, brand films, music videos and social content. We hear the idea from you, then take the film from script to colour grade around one table.
13
years shooting out of Leith
460+
films delivered
12
full-time crew
31
festival selections and awards
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01Selected work
A selection from the last three years. Click a project to see the client, the crew, the kit and frames from set.
From the corner café to a national building society. Budgets change, the care doesn't; these are some of the brands we've made films for in the past two years.
Food and retail
Harbour RoastCrumb & Co. BakersLarder Market
Motoring and transport
Forth MotorsFirth Fleet
Finance and tech
Caledonia MutualNorthlight SoftwareAnchorline Insurance
Music and labels
Thistle RecordsNight Owl Recordings
Sport, fashion, beauty
Granite AthleticHeather & SaltLoom & Co.
Public and third sector
Borders Grain Co-opOld Town Memory Trust
02Process
Every job moves through five stops. Click a clip on the timeline to see what happens at that stage and what you walk away with.
01
1-3 working days
We sit down and talk through the problem, the audience, the budget and the air date. Within the same week we send a written creative approach and a rough schedule; if it doesn't land, you pay nothing.
02
1-2 weeks
The script gets written, the shot list and storyboard drawn. In the same window we scout locations, run casting and sort permits with the council. By the shoot, we've already seen every frame together.
03
1-5 shoot days
Set goes up at seven. Agency and brand get their own monitor corner, so you watch the frame live and give notes on the spot. Every evening the rushes are backed up to two separate drives.
04
1-3 weeks
You see the first cut, then we go through two rounds of changes. The approved cut moves on to colour, sound design and the mix. Any graphics or animation slot in at this stage.
05
1-2 working days
The film goes out to every channel's spec: broadcast master, 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 cuts, subtitle files. We keep the rushes archived for two years, so a new cutdown never means starting over.
03Quote
Answer five questions to see an estimated budget range and production schedule. We send a firm written quote within two working days of the brief meeting.
We mostly shoot on our own kit. Rather than trusting a hire list, we know every body, every lens and every microphone on the shelf.
04Crew
There are twelve of us full time. On bigger jobs the set grows to thirty, but the core crew stays the same on every project.
CAM ACallum Reid
Founder, director
CAM BIsla Grant
Director of photography
CAM CEllie Balfour
Producer
CAM DJamie Okafor
Editor
CAM ENina Kowalska
Colourist
CAM FSami Haddad
Sound designer
And in the credits
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At the brief they told us "this idea won't fit in thirty seconds", and they were right. They shot two versions; the forty-five-second cut went to air and carried the whole campaign.
We had one night for the video. At four in the morning the sparks were still reworking the lighting and nobody moaned once. Everyone has seen the result.
The words "corporate film" used to make my heart sink. They found a way to get our people talking easily on camera, and we've watched it internally more times than I can count.
05FAQ
A thirty-second commercial usually takes four to six weeks from brief to delivery. We've turned urgent jobs round in two; when that happens we shorten pre-production and bring in a second editor.
Yes. Tell us the budget up front and we'll shape the idea around it: fewer locations, a smaller crew, a single shoot day. Social packages start from around £2,250.
We do. We cast through our agency and send you a short casting reel. Council and private property permits, insurance and set safety all sit with our producer.
Two rounds of edit changes and one round of grade changes are included. We don't count small fixes that don't need a script change.
If you'd like them, yes. We hand the rushes over on a drive or by cloud link after delivery, and keep our own archive copy for two years.
We do. In the past two years we've shot on Skye, in the Cairngorms, in Belfast and in Almería. Crew and kit travel in our own van; travel and accommodation show as a separate line on the quote.
06Enquiry
Fill in the form and our producer will call you within one working day. If you came from the quote builder, your summary is already in the message box.
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