Production Consulting Services

Video production consulting is creative and operational leadership on a production a company is already running. Production Masterminds is brought in to control budget, schedule and creative direction when a team has the crew or the internal resources but nobody owning the outcome. The engagement covers pre production planning, location scouting, budgeting, creative development and direction on set.

A company needs a consultant when the capacity already exists and the control does not. If there is a crew, a budget and a deadline but nobody accountable for whether the finished piece works, that is a consulting engagement. If there is an idea and no team, that is full service video production. Production Masterminds does both and identifies which one applies on the discovery call.

Pre production planning is where the production is decided. It covers creative development and the shot plan, budget construction and contingency, scheduling and crew assignment, location scouting and permissions, casting, and the technical requirements each deliverable imposes. Production Masterminds treats this phase as the one that determines the result, because decisions made before the camera turns on cannot be fixed in the edit.

Productions go over budget when the creative is still being decided during the shoot. Every unresolved question costs a crew day, and a crew day is the most expensive unit in a production. The secondary causes are unrealistic schedules built backward from a launch date, scope added after the budget is locked, and deliverable requirements discovered in post. Production Masterminds treats all of them as pre production failures.