Interviews get a boom and a lav, not a camera mic ‘for safety’. Safety is a second recorder, not a worse microphone.
Wild tracks and room tone are shot even when the day is stills-heavy. A future cutdown will need them.
Music is licensed for the territories in the contract. A temp track that cannot be bought is not a creative direction; it is a trap.
Mix happens with picture, on speakers that resemble the client’s world , a laptop and a television, not only a suite.
We deliver stems when versions will be recut. A printed mix alone is how a six-month-later social cut sounds like a different film.
Northfirst is a photo and video studio on Broughton Street, between the New Town and Leith Walk. We work for distilleries, textile mills, festivals, hotels and the agencies who represent them. The weather here changes fast, so we plan short sessions and wait for the gap in the cloud rather than fight the rain. We know the old rooms of the city well: panelled bars, libraries, stair halls. We light them gently with tungsten so they still look like themselves. Stills and film are made by one crew, so a festival programme, a bottle label and a short film share the same look.