Budgeting and Pre-Production
Project scope and planning
- Assessing needs based on creative requirements, budget and audience; understanding what, when, where and why resources are required.
Industry standard AICP budgeting and analysis
- Knowing exactly where your budget is going before you start.
- Knowing exactly where your budget went when you're done.
Casting - local and national
- On Camera: AFTRA, SAG, Financial Core and non-union.
- Voiceover: AFTRA, SAG, Financial Core and non-union.
- Open castings, cut-downs, callbacks and everything in between.
Production
Locations and location management
- Scouting
- Negotiations
- Final sign-offs
- Security / crowd control
- Traffic control / street closures
Scheduling
- Realistic schedules based on shot lists - including contingencies.
- Strive to minimize overtime / maximize safety.
Equipment and Crews
- The right gear for the gig, with experienced, professional specialists at each position - including wardrobe & stylists, sets & props, craft service, stunt & pyro, safety & medical, etc.
- Most everything and everyone is right here in town. Anything else is just a phone call away: process trailers, car mounts, cranes, lifts, Steadicams, choppers, planes, etc.
Everything else
- Production books
- Flights / hotels
- Permissions / permits
- Clearances / releases
- Insurance
- Actualization & comprehensive wrap books
Post Production
Creative Editorial, FX & Finishing
- Avid and Final Cut based
- Tape or tapeless, any format
- Our place or yours - including on-location
- Color correction and grading
Audio layup, sweetening and 2.0 mixing
- ProTools-M and Soundtrack based
- SFX / Music libraries and custom design
Graphics
- Photoshop, Freehand, Illustrator, etc.
- AE, Motion, Boris, Marquee, plus some cool 3D stuff
File processing
- Transcoding, encoding and compression
- High quality format and standards conversions
- Pre-prep / pre-flight for edit - including P2, HD/XDCam, R3D
- Innobits / Episode / Sorenson / Procoder / Algolith / MainConcept, etc.
Delivery
- DG Fastchannel spot distribution
- Interactive DVD and CD authoring
- Powerpoint / Keynote, Electronic billboards and signage
- Outputs to virtually any file-based format
- Outputs to tape-based formats with notice