Video Production Bristol

Twenty years of video production in Bristol. The brief has changed.

We started in 2005, when a film was something you commissioned once and put on your homepage. Today, our films are built to perform successfully.

Book a free video production consultation with Skylark Media Bristol
Multi-platform campaigns – one shoot for every screen

We capture once and cut for purpose. Your hero for TV, then social edits, stills, reels, carousels, even BTS cuts – so that one production budget covers your whole campaign.

Our Video Production Work

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The Proof

Wins for our clients

At Skylark, our multi-talented team can handle the entire TV advertising production under one roof. Or we can work as your production partner to realise your creative. As a direct result of our streamlined processes, our clients achieve remarkable efficiency:

  • £500k

    raised from a single Christmas DRTV. This charity’s highest-ever TV appeal income

  • 8%

    improvement in cost per acquisition in celebrity-led TVC campaign

  • 20+

    years of broadcast-cleared TV adverts

  • 6 months

    of upfront bookings secured for home improvement category disruptor

Our Video Production Services

  1. TV advertising and DRTV

    Clearcast-cleared commercials, from the thirty-second brand spot to the response-driven work that has to pay for its own airtime.

  2. Brand and corporate films

    The film that positions the business. Founder stories, impact films, testimonials that sound like people rather than press releases.

  3. Social content

    Made for the platform it lives on, not cropped down from something else and hoped for the best.

  4. Animation and Motion

    For the ideas you cannot film: the process, the product that does not exist yet, the abstract thing a client needs to understand in ninety seconds.

  5. Performance creative

    Ad variants built to be tested, read and iterated. Creative that reports back.

  6. Integrated campaigns

    One shoot, every channel. For Yankee Candle that meant 130 assets from a single production and a 9% sales uplift over Mother’s Day.

Most people commissioning video have been burned once by a process nobody explained. Ours runs like this.

How a project actually runs

  • The brief

    What are you trying to move, who has to sign it off, and what has been tried already. We will tell you at this stage if we think video is the wrong answer, which happens more often than you would expect from a production company.

  • Treatment & budget

    You get a written treatment, a schedule and a line-by-line budget. The budget is the budget. If something changes it changes in writing, before it is spent.

  • The shoot

    One to three days for most projects. AdGreen carbon reporting runs alongside it as standard, so you have the numbers if you need them for reporting.

  • The edit

    First cut, two rounds of amends, grade and sound.

  • Delivery

    Master file, platform-specific versions, subtitles, and the cut-downs. If it is going to broadcast we handle Clearcast and the clock numbers.

Got a brief?

Tell us what you’re trying to move.

A twenty-minute call, no treatment, no pitch theatre. If we are not right for it we will say so and point you at someone who is.

FAQs

  • 1.

    How long does a video take to produce?

    Seven weeks from brief to delivery is typical for a brand film: one week briefing, two weeks treatment and budget, one shoot week, two weeks edit, one week delivery. Social work can be turned round in less time. Our event films can be turned around in 24 hours. A TV commercial with talent and Clearcast approval usually runs six to ten.

  • 2.

    Do you only work with Bristol clients?

    No. We are based in Clifton and roughly half our production happens elsewhere, including overseas. Clients come to us from London and across the UK; being in Bristol tends to mean day rates that London agencies cannot match on comparable work.

  • 3.

    Do you write the script, or do we?

    We do, unless you would rather. Scripting, treatment and creative direction are included in every project we quote. If you arrive with a script already written we will tell you honestly whether it will work on screen.

  • 4.

    Do you use AI in production?

    Yes, selectively. We use it for rough-cut assembly, transcription, subtitling, storyboard visualisation and clean-up – work where it cuts the schedule and the saving goes to you.

  • 5.

    What does being a B Corp mean for a production company?

    It means our environmental and social performance is independently audited and recertified, rather than asserted on a website. Practically, it matters on tenders with sustainability criteria. We also carry Clearcast, AdSmart and AdGreen accreditation, and we can supply carbon reporting for any shoot.

  • 6.

    Can you work to a fixed budget?

    Yes, and we would rather you told us the number at the start. We build the treatment to the budget instead of quoting a dream and then value-engineering it down, which is how most production overruns begin.