Questions people ask before booking a crew

It depends on the length of the shoot, how many of the crew you need, and what you want back at the end: a single after-movie, a set of vertical social cuts, or both. We do not publish a rate card because a two-hour club night and a three-day festival are not the same job. Send the date, the venue and what you need and you will get a fast, fixed quote with travel included, so there are no surprises later.

Yes. We are based in Darwen and work across the UK. Blackburn, Bolton, Preston, Manchester, Liverpool, Blackpool, Burnley, Leeds, Sheffield, Birmingham and London are all regular. Travel and any accommodation are quoted upfront as a line on the quote, never added on afterwards.

Standard edits are delivered in 5 working days. If you need it sooner, there is a 48 hours express option. Tell us the deadline when you book and we will say plainly whether it is achievable before you commit.

Everything lands in a shared Google Drive folder: the full-resolution masters and the social cuts, organised so you can find the vertical version for a story without asking. You can share the folder with your team or your client straight away.

Yes. Vertical social cuts are part of how we shoot, not an afterthought: we frame for them on the night and deliver them alongside the main edit. If you only want socials and no long-form film, say so and the quote will reflect that.

4K multi-camera coverage, gimbals for moving shots through a crowd, professional audio, and studio lighting where the job needs it. The kit is chosen per shoot: a festival main stage and a podcast recording do not want the same setup.

Often, yes. The honest variables are locations, how many shoot days, and how much of the look is built in the edit rather than on set. Bring the track and a rough idea and we will tell you what is possible for what you have, rather than quoting for something you cannot use.

Aerial photography and videography is one of our services. Every aerial shoot is planned around the location first, because some sites, city centres and event grounds have airspace restrictions. If a location cannot be flown, we tell you before the day, not on it.

The studio is a fully equipped space for podcasts, live streams and filming, and it can be hired with or without our team operating it. If you have never recorded before, having one of us in the room for the first session is usually the difference between a good episode and a re-record. Ask and we will suggest which option fits.

A set space built for multi-camera video podcasts, live broadcast and YouTube content, with professional audio and lighting already in place. You bring the conversation. The photos on the studio page are the actual room, not a stock image of someone else’s.

As early as you have a date. Friday and Saturday nights and festival weekends go first, and a four-person team can only be in so many places. A short-notice booking is still worth a call on 07591 933565, because sometimes the date is free.

Both. Portrait sessions run in our studio in Darwen town centre, with versatile backdrops and controlled lighting, and are deliberately relaxed and personal rather than a conveyor belt. On-location work covers events, promo shoots and aerial photography.

You get full-resolution masters and the social cuts to use for your event, your brand or your release. If a job has specific licensing needs, for example broadcast or a paid advertising campaign, tell us at quote stage and it goes in writing.

Four people in house who plan, shoot, photograph, record and edit under one roof, a studio in Darwen, and a track record of nightlife and festival coverage across the North West, with 21 reviews on Facebook and a 100% recommend rate. A freelancer can be excellent; a crew can be in three places at once.

Yes. Drone is its own service line: aerial videography and aerial photography, on location across Lancashire and the North West. Every aerial job is planned around the site first, because some grounds and venues sit under airspace restrictions and you want to know that before the day rather than on it. Send the location with your enquiry and we will check it before we quote. Aerial is usually delivered alongside ground footage as part of a bigger shoot, but it can be booked on its own.

Yes. The studio is a film studio and a photography studio, and it holds a green screen and custom film sets as well as the podcast desk and the vocal booth. You can hire the room with our crew operating, or on your own if you would rather run it yourself. Content creation days, where you shoot several things back to back in one booking, are what the space gets used for most.

Yes. Multi-camera live streaming runs out of the studio, switched live rather than cut afterwards, and that covers DJ set streaming and online shows and broadcasts. Tell us where it needs to go out to and how long it runs, and that is most of the quote.

Yes. There is a treated recording booth, which is a real vocal booth rather than a corner of a room. It covers vocal recording and voiceover recording, and mixing and mastering can be added if you want to leave with something finished rather than raw files.

Both. Podcast recording, multi-camera podcast filming and podcast editing and post-production are all available, and you can take any part of that on its own. Plenty of people record with us and edit themselves. Plenty of others hand the whole thing over and get episodes back cut, captioned and ready to publish.

Video editing, colour grading, motion graphics, animation, and captions and titles. It is all done in house by the same four people who filmed the job, which is the reason the turnaround is what it is: nothing waits in a queue at a third party, and if a note comes back on an edit it goes to the person who shot it.