Budget
What should your production cost?
Most production companies make you book a call to find out. Build your project below and the range updates as you go, so you can budget before you ever talk to anyone. The figures are indicative while we finish publishing our 2026 card, and a producer confirms the real number.
Your estimate $5,700 to $8,200
What are you making?
What moves the number
Crew days
The biggest single factor. A crew on site for two days costs roughly twice a crew on site for one, and most of a production budget is people.
Cameras
Every extra camera is another operator, another set of media and another angle in the edit. It is also what makes a one-take moment usable.
What you keep
The shoot is one cost, the deliverables are another. A day of footage can become one film or twenty pieces, and the edit is where that choice lands.
How fast
Same-week delivery means an editor clears their week for you. It is worth it when the footage is selling something dated, like next year's tickets.
What you are paying for
A senior crew, gear we own and maintain, and an edit suite that does not learn on your project.
Questions about cost
What does a video production actually cost?
It depends on the crew size, how many days you need them, and what you want delivered afterwards. A single-camera social shoot and a three-day multi-camera conference are different jobs. The estimator on this page breaks that down so you can see which choices move the number.
Why show a range instead of one price?
Because an honest number needs details a slider cannot know: the venue, the schedule, what already exists, and how fast you need it. The range is where most projects of that shape land. A producer confirms the real figure.
Is the estimate binding?
No. It is a starting point so you can budget before you take a call, and so nobody wastes an hour discovering they are ten thousand dollars apart.
What is not included?
Travel outside Michigan, talent and licensing, venue fees, and anything a specific brief needs that a general model cannot guess. Those come up on the call.
Do you work with smaller budgets?
Often, by changing the shape of the job rather than doing the same job worse: fewer cameras, one day instead of two, or a package of short pieces instead of one large film.
Rather just ask?
Tell a producer what you are making and get a real number back, usually the same business day.