Derby · East Midlands
Derby is a short drive from our Nottingham base, so filming there is as easy as filming at home. No travel charge.
Derby is known for engineering. Aerospace, rail and car making are all based in and around the city, and the supply chain behind them is full of firms that are excellent at what they do and rarely show it on video. Factory floors, workshops and test rigs look great on camera, and we know how to film safely around machinery and site rules.
For Derbyshire's engineering and rail firms, a corporate film or a recruitment video shot on the shop floor shows customers and future staff the work itself. Derby's training providers, agents and independent shops can use video just as well.
Engineering firms usually have two audiences: customers who need to trust the work, and skilled people who are hard to hire. Corporate video production in Derby can speak to both. A brand film shows what you can do, a recruitment video shows what it is like to work there, and a short series can cover training and safety. Real people on the shop floor, talking in their own words, tend to be more convincing than stock footage.
Sites have rules and we follow them. Tell us about inductions, protective equipment, restricted areas and quiet times when you book, and we will plan the day around them. We hold public liability insurance and can send the certificate before we arrive. For budgets, see what a corporate video costs.
Safety, induction and training videos suit the same sites. One day of filming can give you a set of short videos for new starters, with subtitles on every one. Many industrial sites have security gates and visitor sign-in, so send us the site contact and arrival time in advance and we will turn up ready.
Events in the city take place at venues such as Pride Park Stadium and Derby Arena, as well as hotels, university buildings and company sites. We can film launches, awards and open days, or live stream a conference or briefing from any of them. Streaming suits firms with staff on several sites, who can watch a briefing live without travelling to it. Open days and apprenticeship events also suit a highlights film and short clips for social media, because they are over in an afternoon.
We film across Derby and the rest of the county, including Long Eaton, Ilkeston, Belper and Chesterfield, with no travel charge. A visit to your site before the day is easy to arrange, and same-week shoots are often possible. Derby agents can also book property video, and local shops and makers can take social media video. See our recent films for the standard of work.
Every price is published, so you can budget before you call anyone. For many engineering and rail firms the first film is about people: a training or explainer series of up to five short videos from one day on site, scripted with you and subtitled, is from £1,950 plus VAT. A single customer or employee story, filmed in half a day and cut to 90 seconds with two vertical versions, is £695.
A brand film that shows the whole business, from the reception to the test bay, is from £1,950 plus VAT, with a planning call and a written shot plan before the day. A full day at an open day or apprentice event is £750, and a two camera live stream for a staff briefing across several sites is from £695. See the full price list for everything else.
Buyers of engineered parts want to see how a thing is made and tested before they trust it. A short process film follows a part from raw material to inspection: the machining, the assembly, the checks, and the people who sign it off. It sits on the product page, goes into tenders and plays on the stand at trade shows. In a tender, two minutes of film can do the job of the site visit a buyer would otherwise have to make.
We film in the gaps your production plan allows, using steady shots and close-up detail rather than staged set ups, so the line keeps moving. Anything confidential stays out of frame, and you see every shot in the edit before it goes anywhere.
A day on site goes furthest when it is planned around shifts rather than around the camera. Tell us when each team is on, when the noisy machines run and when the canteen is quiet enough for interviews, and we build the schedule from that. Two or three people talking about their own jobs, filmed where they do them, usually say more than a managing director reading a script.
Apprentices and recent starters are worth putting on camera. Young people deciding where to apply listen to people a few years ahead of them, and the same interviews cut into short vertical clips for the careers fairs and social channels that apprentices actually use. One day can give you the recruitment film, the clips and a short welcome video for new starters' first morning.
In and around the city we cover the centre and the Cathedral Quarter, Pride Park, Mickleover, Allestree, Littleover and Spondon. Across the county we go to Ripley, Ashbourne, Matlock, Swadlincote and Alfreton, and over the border to Burton upon Trent and the business parks along the A50.
Travel is included anywhere in the East and West Midlands, which covers the whole county and the Staffordshire side of the A50 alike.
Prices
The same prices wherever you are, with travel included anywhere in the East and West Midlands.
From £1,950+ VAT
Who you are and why people should pick you, in two to three minutes.
From £1,950+ VAT
Recruitment, training, onboarding or product videos, filmed in one go.
£695+ VAT
Your happiest customer, on camera, saying why.
£750+ VAT
The whole day covered, with the first clips out while the event is still fresh.
From £695+ VAT
Two cameras, mixed live and sent straight to one platform.
£745per month, + VAT
3 month minimum
One half-day shoot at your business each month, cut into 8 short videos.
Questions
No. Travel is included anywhere in the East and West Midlands, and Derby sits well inside that. Outside that area, travel is 55p a mile, agreed before you book.
Yes. Tell us your site's rules when you book: inductions, protective equipment, restricted areas and the times it is quietest. We plan the filming around them and keep out of the way of the machinery and your team.
Yes. We film real members of your team talking about the work, with shots of the site and the people at work. We can cut shorter vertical versions for social media as well.
Yes. We can stream from a Derby venue or from your own site to YouTube, LinkedIn, Facebook or a private page. Tell us about the venue's internet and sound when you enquire, and we will test both before the day.
A training or explainer series of up to five short videos from one day of filming, with subtitles, is from £1,950 plus VAT. A single employee story is £695. Travel to Derby is included.
Yes. Quiet periods are often the best time to film a factory. Out of hours work, meaning evenings, weekends and bank holidays, costs 20% on top of the listed price, and you see the total before paying.
Yes. Tell us what can't be shown before the day and we plan the shots around it. You approve the edit before anything is published.
Most short videos are ready within 7 working days of the shoot and longer films within 10. If you need a video for a launch, a tender or an open day, tell us the date when you book.
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