San Francisco video production company for tech and life sciences

Most San Francisco projects run $6,000 to $15,000 for a corporate or brand video filmed on a single day, including script, crew, equipment, edit, colour, sound and captions. Larger brand films and multi day campaigns run $9,000 to $35,000, and concepted commercials for paid media or broadcast run $9,000 to $50,000. Bay Area travel and accommodation is itemised separately at approximately $1,000 to $2,000, and it is shown as its own line on every estimate rather than hidden in the rate.

No, and we would rather say that than imply otherwise. 7 Hills Productions is headquartered in Irvine, California, with our own studio and equipment. We travel to San Francisco and the wider Bay Area as one team, which is the important difference: the producer who scopes your project is on set on the day, rather than a local crew assembled from freelancers who have never worked together.

Travel and accommodation for a Bay Area shoot adds approximately $1,000 to $2,000 depending on crew size and whether the schedule runs more than one day. It appears as its own line in the estimate before you approve anything. If we are filming several locations on the same trip, that cost is shared across them rather than charged per location.

For filming on public property in San Francisco, including streets, sidewalks and city parks, a permit from the San Francisco Film Commission is required, and we handle the application. You do not need a city permit to film inside your own office, a private studio, or a venue whose management has approved the shoot. National park land around the bay, including the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, is administered separately and needs its own permit, which takes longer to obtain.

Yes. Conference and summit coverage is a large part of what we do in the Bay Area: keynote capture, booth and demo interviews, attendee reaction and a same week highlight cut. Venue rules vary, so we confirm load in times, badge requirements and any in house labour requirements with the venue before quoting. Where a venue requires its own crew or rigging, that cost is billed at cost and quoted separately once the venue confirms it.

Yes, as standard. Most of our technology and fintech work happens before launch, so NDAs, controlled footage handling and restricted access to rushes are normal parts of the engagement rather than exceptions. We can also work to your security requirements on site, including device restrictions and escorted access.

Mostly life sciences and technology. Clinical-stage biotech, therapeutics, diagnostics and medical device companies in South San Francisco, Oyster Point and Mission Bay, and enterprise software, AI and fintech teams in SoMa and on the Peninsula. We have made films for Abbott, Fisher and Paykel Healthcare, Carevature, Surgtime, Kaiser Permanente, Databricks and Google.

Most Bay Area shoots are booked about a week out, which gives us time to script, scout and schedule properly. When a launch date or an executive calendar forces it, we have turned a shoot around in a few days. The whole project, from first call to final delivery, averages twenty eight days.

Yes, and it is usually the cheapest way to work. A single trip can cover a San Francisco office, a Peninsula campus and an Oakland or Berkeley site, with the travel cost shared across all of them instead of charged three times. Tell us everything you want filmed this quarter and we will schedule it into as few trips as possible.

Yes. South San Francisco and Oyster Point are most of what we do in the Bay Area. We follow your gowning, safety and no-go rules, walk the space with your team before the shoot day, and sign your NDA before we see anything unreleased. For clinical-stage work we agree the claim set with your regulatory team before scripting, and where a Business Associate Agreement is required we sign yours.

Two or more crew depending on the setup, a cinema camera package, lighting and professional audio, a producer running the day, and a director when the piece needs one. We bring our own equipment rather than renting locally, which is part of why the travel line stays small. A typical day covers an executive interview, b roll of the workspace or product, and any customer or team interviews scheduled around it.

You do, with full commercial usage rights to the finished films. Raw footage can be handed over as an add on, and we archive project files so recuts, new lengths or translated versions are possible later without filming again.