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    Video production in Manchester, planned around the pipeline it has to move

    Corporate video production for Manchester brands who need the film to do a job: brand films, executive interviews, case-study films, event coverage and video podcasts, run by one producer from brief to published asset.

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    Type video production Manchester into Google and you get a page of companies who all promise great films. What Manchester marketing teams usually need is narrower than that: one film with one job, aimed at a buying committee that has to understand what you sell before it will book a meeting. Earworm is a B2B video production company. We make corporate films, executive interviews, case-study films, event coverage and video podcasts for brands including KPMG, IG Group, Soldo, Experian, Cisco and Infobip. Our post-production studio, edit suites and producers are in Bristol. There is no Earworm building in Manchester, and we would rather say so than imply otherwise. Manchester shoots run on location at your offices, your sites and your events, or from a studio we arrange for the brief, with our producer and crew travelling up with the kit.

    Video production Manchester teams book, on a real shoot day

    Video production Manchester shoot day, a multi-camera corporate interview set lit for two cameras
    Manchester video production crew filming city b-roll between office buildings on a bright day
    Corporate video Manchester crew rigging lights and radio mics in a client office meeting room
    Manchester

    on location, or in a studio arranged for the brief

    Bristol

    post-production studio, edit suites and producers

    Multi-cam

    every interview, panel and podcast we film

    One team

    brief, shoot, edit, delivery and distribution

    How a Manchester shoot runs

    Five stages, one producer accountable for all of them. You get a straight answer at every step, and nothing falls down the gap between a crew, a freelance editor and whoever in marketing had a spare afternoon.

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    Brief

    What the video has to do, for whom, on which channels, and how you will know it worked. Agreed in writing before we quote.

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    Pre-production

    Scripts, interview questions, shot lists, schedule, and the Manchester location or studio matched to the brief. Crew, kit and travel booked and confirmed.

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    Shoot day in Manchester

    We arrive early, rig, and run the day. Multi-camera setup at your office, your site, an event venue or a hired studio. Your people turn up and talk, we handle everything else.

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    Edit and grade

    Hero film, cut-downs, captions, motion graphics and colour grade, reviewed with you at rough cut and fine cut so there are no surprises at the end.

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    Delivery and distribution

    Files in every aspect ratio your channels need, plus publishing, paid support and sales enablement from the same team if you want it.

    Most Manchester shoot days produce a hero film plus a bank of vertical clips, quote cards and stills. One day in your team's diary, a quarter of content out the other end.

    Video production services for Manchester brands

    Brand films

    Who you are, why it matters, made to the standard an enterprise buyer expects. Built to anchor a campaign and a sales conversation rather than sit unwatched on a homepage. The wider corporate offer, including training, recruitment and internal video, lives on our corporate video production page.

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    Executive interviews and thought leadership

    Multi-camera interview formats that make your leadership the voice of the category. Filmed in your Manchester boardroom or a hired studio, then cut into a long-form piece and a clips bank for LinkedIn.

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    Case-study and customer films

    Your customers are your best salespeople. We plan the story, film the interview and the b-roll at their site or yours, and deliver versions for the website, the sales deck and the nurture sequence.

    Event and conference coverage

    Keynotes, panels and the conversations in between, filmed across Manchester venues and cut into a highlight film plus a clips bank, so one day of programming feeds your channels for months.

    Video podcasts

    Our specialism. A repeatable multi-camera conversation series, the same engine behind The CFO Playbook for Soldo and The Art of Investing for IG, planned so every episode also produces a month of social.

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    Social cut-downs and clips

    Every shoot is framed so the footage works vertically as well as wide. Captioned clips, quote cards and short edits for LinkedIn, YouTube Shorts and Reels, delivered on a schedule instead of as an afterthought.

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    Animated and explainer video

    When the product is invisible or the process is complicated, animation does what a camera cannot. Explainers, motion graphics and hybrid live-action builds, produced alongside your filmed content.

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    Podcast recording days in Manchester

    If the brief is a show rather than a film, we run podcast recording days in the north with the same crew and the same kit. Details on our Manchester podcast studio hire page.

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    Series that run across cities

    Plenty of our clients film in more than one place: guests in Manchester one month, London the next, a customer site somewhere else entirely. One producer keeps the look, the sound and the schedule consistent. Our London page covers the capital end of that.

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    Planning a video shoot in Manchester?

    Tell us the job the video needs to do and where it will be seen. We will tell you honestly what to make, and what not to bother making.

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    Where we film in Manchester, and where the studio actually is

    The straight answer, because the internet is full of agencies being vague about this. Earworm's studio in Bristol is a post-production and strategy studio, not a recording room. We do not have a Manchester premises, a Manchester HQ or a Manchester address, and we are not going to pretend otherwise on a page you can fact-check in ten seconds. What we do have is a full production team that travels. Manchester shoots run on location at your offices, your sites, your customers' sites and your event venues, or from a studio hired and arranged for that specific brief when the look needs a controlled space. Pre-production, editing, grading and distribution run from Bristol, which is why Manchester clients get a proper crew and a proper post-production team without paying for someone else's permanent studio overheads on every shoot day. If a local one-person videographer would serve your brief better, we will say that too.

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    Brief

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    Pre-production

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    Shoot day in Manchester

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    Edit and grade

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    Delivery and distribution

    Freelance videographer vs a video production company

    Both can be the right call, and Manchester has genuinely good freelancers. A single operator is excellent value for a simple, single-camera job. The difference shows up when the video has to carry a campaign, several stakeholders and a brand's reputation.

    Freelance videographerVideo production company
    Best forSimple single-camera shoots, tight budgets, one asset needed quicklyMulti-camera shoots, campaigns, series and anything with several stakeholders
    CrewUsually one person covering camera, sound and lighting at onceProducer, director, camera operators, sound and edit as the brief needs
    PlanningYou bring the brief, the script, the schedule and the run orderStrategy, scripting, locations, questions and run orders handled for you
    DeliverablesTypically one edit, sometimes a short cut alongside itHero film plus cut-downs, captions, stills and channel-specific versions
    DistributionNot usually offeredPublishing, paid support and sales enablement available from the same team
    Being localA Manchester freelancer is round the corner, which is a real advantage on short-notice jobsWe travel to Manchester for the shoot and finish the work in Bristol, so plan a few days ahead
    AccountabilityOne person, one diary, limited cover if they are illOne producer accountable for the outcome, with cover built in
    CostLower day rate, more of your team's time absorbedHigher project cost, less of your team's time and more finished assets per pound

    What the system looks like when it runs

    Two series produced with exactly the process on this page: planned around pipeline, shot multi-camera, cut for every channel. Neither was filmed in Manchester, and we are not going to dress them up as though they were. They are here because they show the machine you would be hiring.

    Video production Manchester FAQs

    Almost nobody in this market publishes a number, so here are honest ranges instead of a shrug. A simple single-camera interview or social piece usually lands somewhere around £1,200 to £2,500. A polished corporate film with a small crew, one Manchester shoot day and full post-production commonly sits in the £3,000 to £12,000 range, and published UK guides put professional corporate and brand film projects at roughly £3,000 to £10,000. Multi-day shoots, several locations, animation, presenters or large crews push past £15,000, and a multi-day conference film can reach £12,000 to £18,000. Filming outside London helps: rate guides put costs in Manchester and other UK regions roughly 15 to 25 per cent below capital rates for equivalent work. Earworm quotes per project, not per month, and you get a fixed price after one scoping call with the number of finished assets written down. Our UK pricing guide, linked below, breaks the ranges down by video type.

    Length is a poor unit of price, which is why the honest answer is a range. UK guides use a benchmark of roughly £800 to £1,500 per finished minute for live action, which puts a straightforward two-minute film at about £1,600 to £3,000. Add a scripted narrative, a second camera, motion graphics, a location move or a day of b-roll and the same two minutes can comfortably reach £5,000 to £8,000. What moves the number is shoot days, crew size and how many versions you need at the end, not the runtime. Two minutes cut from a shoot day that also produces twenty social clips costs the same to film as two minutes on its own.

    For a five-minute brand film with a small crew, one or two shoot days and a proper edit, published UK ranges sit around £8,900 to £13,200. Below that you are usually looking at a single-camera interview cut long rather than a built film. Above it you are paying for extra days, multiple locations, presenters, drone, original music or animation. Worth saying plainly: five minutes is longer than most B2B audiences will watch on a first visit. We would normally propose a shorter hero cut plus a longer version for sales conversations, from the same footage and the same budget.

    No, and we will not pretend we do. Our post-production studio, edit suites and production team are in Bristol. In Manchester we film on location at your offices, sites and event venues, or from a studio hired and arranged for the specific brief when the shoot needs a controlled space and a clean backdrop. If you specifically need a permanent Manchester studio with a resident team down the road, there are good local companies who can offer that, and we will happily tell you so on the call rather than after the invoice.

    Yes, regularly. Travelling is normal for us: our crews film across the UK at offices, sites, conferences and customer premises, and Manchester is a well-worn route. We bring the producer, the crew and every piece of kit the brief needs, arrive early enough to rig properly, and build the travel into the schedule so your people are only booked for the hours they are actually needed. Travel arrangements and any associated costs are set out in the quote before you commit, never added afterwards.

    Yes, and for executive interviews, case studies and culture pieces it is often the better option. Familiar surroundings make people talk like themselves. We scout the space beforehand or work from photos you send, bring lighting and sound to make a meeting room look like a set, and keep the footprint small enough that the rest of the floor carries on working. If the office genuinely will not work, because of glass walls, noise or ceiling height, we will tell you before the shoot day and suggest a location or studio that will.

    Start with the job, not the showreel. Write down what the video has to achieve, who has to watch it, where it will be published and what success looks like, then ask every company to respond to that rather than to a runtime. Ask four questions: who will actually be on set and in the edit, how many finished assets the price includes, what happens if the first cut misses, and who owns the footage afterwards. Ask for work in your sector rather than their prettiest film. Then ask for a fixed, itemised price so you can compare like with like. Any company worth hiring will also tell you when your brief does not need them.

    One clear job, one clear audience, one clear next step. Practically that means a hook in the first few seconds, real people from your business instead of stock footage, a customer or a proof point rather than adjectives, and a call to action that matches where the video will be seen. Write the interview questions before the shoot rather than hoping for a good soundbite on the day. Keep it short for social and as long as it needs to be for sales. And plan the shoot so the same day produces the hero film and the clips, because that is where the value in a shoot day actually sits.

    A single film usually runs four to six weeks from brief to delivery: one to two weeks of pre-production, the shoot day itself, then two to three weeks of edit, grade and revisions. Social clips cut from the same footage normally land in the first week after filming. Faster turnarounds are possible for events and announcements when we agree the edit plan before the shoot rather than after it, and we have turned event highlights around inside a week when the schedule demanded it.

    You do, everywhere, for as long as you like. Full usage across web, social, paid, events and internal channels is included, with no per-channel licensing and no re-use fees later. We archive the rushes, so a cut you need next year does not mean booking a reshoot.

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    Let's make something in Manchester.

    Bring the job the video needs to do. We will bring a producer, a plan, a crew and a fixed price, and we will tell you if a local freelancer would serve you better.