THE WORK IT TAKES, ON CAMERA

Yes. We wear required PPE (safety glasses, hi-vis, hard hat, steel-toes, hearing protection — whatever your facility requires) and we follow your safety officer’s brief before we ever pull a camera out of the case. If your site needs a contractor orientation, a sign-in, or a specific badge before we walk the floor, we plan for that.

Absolutely. We sign your NDAs as a matter of course — most of our industrial work involves proprietary processes, tooling fixtures, or customer-specific work-in-progress on the floor that the client doesn’t want on camera. If there are specific machines, cells, or product runs you want kept out of frame, walk us through it during the pre-shoot site visit.

We shoot around your production windows, not through them. In pre-production we sit down with your plant manager and map the shoot against your shift schedule — what’s running, what’s down for changeover, what can we capture during scheduled breaks. For shots that genuinely need the line stopped, we batch those into the shortest windows possible.

Yes — and honestly, the unstaged footage is usually what sells the work. Buyers and recruits can tell the difference between a posed beauty shot and a real operator on a real cycle. We default to documentary-style capture on the floor, with staged shots reserved only for safety demos and detail beats. Final review is yours.

Yes. Out-of-DFW travel is fine — IMTS, FABTECH, Pack Expo, ATX, the regional shows — we quote travel transparently in the project agreement and crew the show with whoever fits the booth footprint and the recap deliverables you want. Same-day daily recaps for your sales team’s follow-up emails are a standard add-on.

We’ve worked in restricted-access manufacturing environments where parts of the floor are off-limits and certain product lines can’t appear on camera. Be specific in your inquiry about the restriction level (ITAR, EAR, CUI, customer-specific) so we can plan crew, equipment, and post-workflow accordingly. If your program requires a clearance level we don’t currently hold, we’ll be straight with you about it.

Standard turnaround for a 2–3 minute facility tour or capability video is 3–4 weeks from shoot day to final deliverable, including a review round with your marketing lead and the plant manager. Safety training series and multi-line process documentation run on a milestone schedule we set in the project agreement. Rush deliverables are possible — say so up front and we’ll quote it transparently.

Send a quick note through the contact form with the basics — facility location, what you want to produce, when you need it, and any NDA or safety-orientation requirements we should plan around. We’ll respond within 24 hours with a quote, a timeline, and a brief creative direction. From there, signed agreement, deposit, and we’re on calendar.