Financial services video production
Video for banks, asset managers, advisers, and insurers, produced to a broadcast standard and built to move through compliance review rather than fight it.
The review cycle is the schedule
In this sector the shoot is the easy part. Approval is the project.
Every other industry treats compliance as a step at the end. In financial services it is the shape of the whole job. A film that would take three weeks anywhere else takes six here, and almost none of that difference is production. It is review: legal, compliance, and often a supervisory principal, each with the authority to send a cut back.
Most production companies discover this on their first project with you, and you pay for their education in delay. We plan for it. Scripts lock before the camera moves, on-screen claims are agreed in writing rather than improvised on the day, disclosures are designed into the frame instead of bolted on afterwards, and review rounds are named in the schedule with dates against them.
We have produced this work for Synchrony, Neuberger Berman, Invesco, and SunTrust: audiences that read carefully, and copy that has to survive scrutiny before it ever reaches them.
Work for the firms you know
A sample of the financial services work our team has produced and delivered.
Financial services video production services
Leadership and Market Commentary
Recurring pieces from the people your clients want to hear from, produced to a repeatable format so each round gets faster.
Firm and Capability Film
Who you are and how you invest, made to be understood by allocators, advisers, and clients without three readings.
Compliance and Onboarding
Required training that people actually finish, plus adviser and client onboarding built to reduce inbound questions.
Conference and Investor Events
Multi-camera coverage of investor days, annual meetings, and summits, with cutdowns delivered alongside the full record.
Explainers and Motion
Products, structures, and strategies made legible through motion graphics rather than a wall of text on a slide.
Recruitment and Culture
Films that win analysts and advisers from firms with bigger names, by showing the work rather than describing it.
What the work actually requires
Your compliance team decides what can be said. Our job is to build the film so that decision is quick, cheap, and does not require reshooting. That comes down to a handful of habits.
Lock the Script Before the Camera
Every claim on camera should already have been through review as text. Improvising a line on the day is how a finished film gets sent back, and re-recording a single sentence usually means recalling talent, crew, and location.
Design Disclosures Into the Frame
Required disclosure text added at the end of post is the thing that most often makes a good film look cheap. We reserve space in the composition and choose type sizes that stay legible on a phone, so nothing has to be squeezed in later.
Shoot Modularly
If a claim, a figure, or a date is likely to change, we structure the film so that segment can be replaced without recutting the whole thing. In a sector where numbers age, this is the difference between an update and a reshoot.
Name the Review Rounds
Two named rounds with dates against them, agreed before the shoot, rather than an open loop. The difference between two rounds and six is almost always the delivery date rather than the budget.
Plan Talent and Consent Early
Employees on camera, client voices, and any third-party footage all carry their own permissions. We collect releases up front rather than discovering a gap when the film is due to publish.
Deliver an Archivable Record
Firms in this sector often need to retain what was published and when. We deliver clean masters, versioned files, and the camera originals on request, so your records team has what it needs.
What financial services video production costs
Most production companies will not put numbers on a page. Here are ours.
Cost is driven by crew size, shoot days, locations, and how much post the project needs. In this sector the thing that moves most is not the budget but the calendar, because review rounds sit outside our control and inside your firm.
$3,000 to $10,000
Single video. One location, one shoot day, a compact crew. Leadership messages, market commentary, single explainers. Includes production, edit, color, sound, captions, disclosure treatment, and versioning.
$5,000 to $20,000
Firm film or multi-location project. Several locations or shoot days, larger crew, motion graphics for products and structures, and more involved post.
$10,000 and up
Series or recurring program. A repeatable format produced across the year. Cost per video falls sharply once the template and its disclosures are approved.
A production partner, not just a camera crew
We do not advise on what your firm may say, and we would be wary of any production company that offered to. What we do is build the film so your compliance team can approve it quickly, and structure the schedule so their review is planned for rather than discovered. One producer stays accountable from the first call to final delivery.
Financial services video production questions
How much does financial services video production cost?
A single video typically runs $3,000 to $10,000. A firm film or multi-location project runs $5,000 to $20,000. A recurring series starts around $10,000 and has the lowest cost per video, because the format and its disclosures are approved once and reused.
How do you handle compliance review?
By planning for it instead of reacting to it. Scripts are approved as text before the shoot, claims are agreed in writing rather than improvised, and we put named review rounds with dates into the schedule from the start. We do not advise on what your firm may say; that is your compliance team’s call. Our job is to make their review fast and to make sure their decisions do not require a reshoot.
Can we use client testimonials?
Sometimes, and the rules differ depending on how your firm is registered and what is being claimed. It is genuinely a question for your compliance team rather than for us. What we can say is that we shoot these so the disclosure treatment is designed in from the start, which is usually the difference between an approved testimonial and one that gets shelved.
Who writes the disclosures?
You do, or your compliance team does. We design how they appear: where they sit in the frame, how long they hold, and what type size keeps them legible on a phone rather than technically present but unreadable. Reserving that space at the storyboard stage is far cheaper than retrofitting it in post.
How long does a project take?
Two to four weeks of production and post for a standard project, but plan for longer end to end because review sits on top of that. Firms with a defined approval process usually land at four to six weeks; firms without one take longer, and that is worth knowing before you commit to a launch date.
Can you film in our offices?
Yes, and it is usually the best option. It needs building access arranged, a plan for confidential material on desks and screens, and a quiet window if the floor is trading or client-facing. We scout first and work in a way that keeps the disruption short.
Do you work with advisers, banks, and insurers?
Yes, across asset and wealth management, advisory firms, banking, insurance, and fintech. The production discipline is the same; what changes is which approvals apply and how many people hold one.
What if a figure in the film goes out of date?
We build for that. Where a number, date, or claim is likely to change, that segment is structured so it can be replaced without recutting the film. In a sector where data ages on a schedule, this turns a reshoot into an update.
What is included in the price?
Pre-production planning, scripting support, crew and equipment, direction, all quoted shoot days, editing, color grading, sound mix, licensed music, captions, disclosure treatment, and delivery in every format you need. Paid talent, permits, and specialist equipment are quoted separately and itemized up front.
Who owns the footage?
You do. You receive the finished deliverables and, on request, the camera originals and clean masters, which matters if your firm retains a record of what was published and when. We archive projects so a later update can reuse existing material.
Ready to get something through review?
Tell us what you need to say, who has to approve it, and when it has to publish, and we will come back with an approach, a review schedule, and a quote.