From the edit room
Case studies, filming tips and notes on what actually works, written by the people cutting the videos.
Get off the back wall. The shot list, angles and sound for a conference highlight video people watch, plus how to get day one's wrap on screen by morning tea.
A corporate video edit in Australia usually costs $1,500 to $2,000. Freelancers charge $65 to $120 an hour, production companies $150 to $250. Lumberjack: $330 to $1,650, fixed.
Lumberjack didn't start as a plan. It started as a job for a client called Safer Together, and the realisation that we'd built something worth offering on its own.
A stills job in Cooktown, a teacher named Katie, a camera propped on paint cans because there was no tripod. A month of waiting for budget, three days once it existed, and one of the best videos Teach Queensland has made in years.
First cut in three business days, every time. Here's what that actually looks like day by day, including what happens if you upload on a Thursday.
Yes. About half the footage we get is shot on a phone, and it's usually better than what people expect us to say about it.
Half the interview was out of focus and none of the footage was shot for this video. Here's how a sponsor video for Empower Assistance Dogs still landed, and why the story mattered more than the shot.
Anglo American sent us an hour of raw GoPro footage on a Google Drive. Three finished videos came back: one for LinkedIn, one telling a frontline worker's story, one for an industry award. Here's what that job looked like.
