Motiohead pricing

Video production cost: one rate, by the day

Every job is priced from the days it takes, and the price is fixed in writing before anything starts. If it takes us longer than we said, that is ours, not yours.

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What a day is

Three kinds of day, one rate.

An editing day

Your footage, stills or product shots cut, graded and finished with motion graphics, then taken into every aspect ratio, length, language and market, with the claims checked against your sheet before delivery.

An animation day

2D or 3D, from a script or a storyboard: explainers, product films, interface animation, set and screen graphics.

A filming day

A shoot planned around what the edit needs, so the day produces footage that cuts rather than footage that looks nice.

Three ways to buy days

The same rate in each. What changes is how the days are booked, and that is what decides how fast and how cheaply the work arrives.

1. Fixed-price projects

One launch, fully covered at a fixed price: a hero film, its cutdowns, retouched stills and every social format, delivered on a date agreed before we start.

How it works

2. Versioning and localisation

Cutdowns, aspect ratios, translations, AI voice and market or compliance versions, made from a film you already own. Quoted per batch, before anything starts.

How it works

3. Monthly production

A fixed number of finished films, versions and stills every month, with the same studio on your account and next-business-day turnaround on routine work.

How it works

What takes more days

Nothing here is a surcharge. The rate does not move; the number of days does, and these are the things that move it.

How much you publish

Fifteen films a month take fewer days each than four do, because the setup, the brand assets and the approvals are shared.

Whether we shoot or work from what you have

Editing, animating and versioning your existing footage is the cheapest way to get more. A filming day is the most expensive line on any quote.

How much of it is new

A new hero film costs more than ten versions of one you already own. Most calendars need some of both.

3D, VFX and retouching

These take more days per second of film than editing or 2D, so a job that leans on them takes more days.

Languages and markets

Subtitles, re-voicing and swapping claims or packshots per market are counted per batch, and a batch is usually well under a day.

How fast you need it

Routine work turns round next business day inside a monthly booking. A date that needs other work moved is said so up front rather than absorbed quietly.

What you get in writing

  • ●Every deliverable named, with its length, its formats and how many versions
  • ●The number of days, the rate, and what would change the count
  • ●The date each thing lands, not a range
  • ●Two rounds of revisions inside the price
  • ●Terms of Business signed before work begins, carrying confidentiality and copyright, with an NDA included

Questions people ask

One day rate, the same for editing, animation and filming, and a written number of days before anything starts. A social cutdown is a day or less; a 60-second explainer is usually two to three weeks of days; a monthly video production package is a fixed number of finished films, versions and stills a month. Tell us what you need and you have a price within one working day.

Per film, yes: the same studio on your account, no re-briefing, the days booked ahead and next-business-day turnaround on routine work. The rate is the same; the days are used better.

Within one working day of telling us what you need. If the job is big enough to need questions first, you get the questions that day and the price the next.

Yes. The number of days and the dates are agreed in writing before anything starts, and two rounds of revisions are inside them. If it takes us longer than we said, that is ours.

Two rounds are inside the price. A new direction after approval is quoted as a new job, so you decide whether to buy it rather than finding it on an invoice.

Yes, and it is the fastest route. Tell us the number and we say what fits inside it, instead of quoting something you cannot buy.

No. A single day is a normal job here, and short jobs are quoted for what they take. Monthly bookings exist because publishing every week goes faster with the days planned ahead, not because small jobs are turned away.

What you want made, roughly how much of it, when you need it, and whether footage exists. Brand guidelines and a claims sheet if you have them.

Tell us what you need and when


One message is enough. You will have a reply within one working day, with the questions we need to ask first, if any.


What is it, for whom, and by when?

What happens next


  • 1.

    Tomorrow, a reply. From the studio, with our answer or a couple of questions.

  • 2.

    This week, a plan. What you get, when, and what it costs, in writing. NDA first if you like.

  • 3.

    Then we make it. You watch the first cuts on a link and say what you think.

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