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Corporate Video Production

Updated September 2026 · Written and maintained by the Progression Agency strategy team

Corporate video rarely fails on craft. The camera work is fine, the edit is competent, the music is inoffensive. It fails because eleven people had opinions, nobody owned the decision, legal saw it after the edit was locked, and the finished film was posted once and never used again. This page is about that problem: how corporate video actually gets made inside an organization, why thirty-eight per cent of the calendar is review rather than production, what a brief needs to survive that review, and how to plan a shoot so it yields eight assets instead of one.

The short answerThe shoot is under a tenth of a corporate video project’s calendar. Review and approval is nearly forty per cent. So the decisions that determine whether a corporate video succeeds are made before anyone books a camera: one named decision-maker with actual sign-off authority, the message stated in a single sentence, every placement listed in advance, legal review at script stage rather than after the edit, and review rounds capped at two with a round defined as one consolidated set of notes. Get those five right and the production is the easy part.

Corporate video, in five facts
Corporate video rarely fails on craft. It fails because eleven people had opinions, nobody owned the decision, and the finished film was posted once and never used again.
One — Named decision-maker. The single highest-value decision in the brief.
One — Message, in one sentence. If it takes three, it is three films.
Named — Audience, specifically. 'Stakeholders' is not an audience.
Listed — Every placement. Before the shoot, not after.
Capped — Review rounds. Two, with a round defined.
Agreed — The measure. Before anyone books a camera.

Where a corporate video project actually spends its time

Answer first: about thirty-eight per cent of the calendar goes to review and approval, twenty-two per cent to scripting and stakeholder alignment, fourteen per cent to scheduling around availability, thirteen per cent to post-production, eight per cent to the shoot and five per cent to legal review. These are proportions of elapsed calendar time on a typical corporate film with executive participation, not proportions of effort or cost.

Where elapsed time actually goes on a corporate video
The shoot is under a tenth of the calendar. Any plan built around shoot dates rather than approval dates will slip, and it will slip in review.
38% — Of calendar is review. The largest single block.
22% — Scripting and alignment. Before a camera is booked.
14% — Scheduling. Executive diaries drive it.
13% — Post-production. Edit, grade, sound, graphics.
8% — The shoot. One or two days, usually.
5% — Legal review. Small, unless left to the end.

Read that chart against how corporate video projects are usually planned, which is backwards from the shoot date. A plan anchored to the shoot will slip, and it will slip in review, because review is the largest and least controlled block in the whole project.

The single decision that determines whether the project finishes

Answer first: one named person with genuine sign-off authority. Projects with one approver finish. Projects with a committee of equals negotiate, and negotiation has no natural end.

A corporate video brief that will survive review
The first row does more for a corporate video than any other decision. Projects with one named approver finish; projects with a committee negotiate.

Why committees produce worse films, not safer ones

  • Every approver adds their own emphasis, and the result is a film that says six things and therefore nothing.
  • Nobody can overrule anyone, so the resolution to every disagreement is to include both versions.
  • Feedback arrives serially, because people respond at different speeds — and each round of serial feedback adds a week.
  • Late approvers reopen settled decisions, which is the most expensive form of feedback there is.
  • The safe choice wins every disagreement, which is how corporate video acquired its reputation.

What to do when a committee is unavoidable

  1. Name one person as decision-maker and make the others advisers. Say so explicitly, in the brief.
  2. Collect feedback in writing, in one place, by a stated deadline.
  3. Have the decision-maker resolve conflicts before anything is sent to the production team.
  4. Send one consolidated set of notes. Never forward a chain.
  5. Close the gate: once a stage is signed, it does not reopen without a change order.

An approval structure that does not collapse

Answer first: six gates, each closed with a signature before the next opens — brief, script, legal, shoot, first cut, final. The gate that saves the most money is legal at script stage.

An approval structure that does not collapse
The gate that saves the most money is the third. Legal review after the edit is locked means reshooting; at script stage it costs a paragraph.
The six gates and what each one costs to reopen
GateWhat is agreedCost of changing it later
BriefMessage, audience, placements, measureEverything downstream is rebuilt
ScriptEvery word, by every approverA reshoot if it changes after filming
Legal and complianceClaims, data, people, confidentialityA reshoot, or an unusable film
ShootLocations, participants, scheduleRescheduling executive diaries
First cutStructure and storyRe-edit, sometimes from scratch
FinalGrade, sound, versionsMinor, if the earlier gates held

The conclusion: put legal at gate three, not gate six. A compliance objection at script stage costs a rewritten paragraph. The same objection after the edit is locked costs a reshoot, and it is the single most common way a corporate video budget doubles.

Script — Where legal belongs. Changes are free at this stage.
Edit — Where legal costs money. A late objection means reshooting.
Claims — The usual objection. Anything comparative or superlative.
People — Releases on the day. Not chased afterwards.
Data — Sourced and dated. On screen, if it is on screen.
Confidential — Watch the background. Screens, whiteboards, documents.

Answer first: comparative and superlative claims, unsourced data, people without releases, confidential material visible in the background, and regulated-industry language. All five are cheap to fix in a script and expensive to fix in an edit.

  • Claims. Anything comparative — best, fastest, leading, number one — or any performance claim. If it is on screen it needs to be substantiated.
  • Data. Any figure shown or spoken needs a source and a date, and both usually need to appear on screen.
  • People. Everyone identifiable signs a release on the day. Chasing releases after a shoot is how films get re-edited to remove someone who left.
  • Background. Screens, whiteboards, printed documents, customer names on shelves. Walk the location before filming and clear it.
  • Regulated language. Financial services, healthcare, legal and food all carry their own advertising rules on top of general ones.
  • Music and stock. License term, territory and media — a one-year web license on a film you intend to run for three years is a problem discovered late.

The brief: what a corporate video brief has to contain

Answer first: one message in one sentence, one named audience, one named decision-maker, every placement listed, the length and aspect ratios, the number of review rounds, and the measure of success. Seven items, one page.

A corporate video brief, item by item
ItemWhat good looks likeWhat to avoid
The messageOne sentence a stranger would understandThree sentences, or a list of themes
The audience‘Mid-market operations directors in manufacturing’‘Stakeholders’ or ‘our audience’
The decision-makerOne name, with sign-off authorityA committee, or ‘the leadership team’
PlacementsWebsite hero, LinkedIn, sales deck, onboarding, trade stand‘Digital channels’
Length and formats2:30 master, 60s, 30s, 15s; 16:9 and 9:16‘Short and punchy’
Review roundsTwo, each one consolidated set of notesUnlimited, or undefined
The measureCompletion rate, sales-deck usage, applications‘Raise awareness’
ConstraintsBrand guidelines, legal review point, availability windowsDiscovering these in week nine

The conclusion: if the brief cannot fit on one page, the project is more than one film. That is a useful discovery to make in week one rather than in the edit.

Which type of corporate video you actually need

Answer first: no single film serves recruitment, sales, training and brand simultaneously. Commissioning one and expecting all four is the commonest corporate video mistake.

What each corporate video type is actually for
No single film does all five. The commonest corporate video mistake is commissioning one film and expecting it to serve recruitment, sales and training simultaneously.
Profile — Who we are. Trust and recruitment, not selling.
Customer — Someone else says it. The most persuasive format there is.
Demo — How it works. Sales enablement, not brand.
Recruitment — Why work here. Real people, real spaces.
Training — How to do it. A library, not a film.
Executive — A message to camera. Cheap, fast, and rarely watched twice.
Corporate video formats and what each is genuinely for
FormatPrimary jobTypical lengthWhere it earns its costWhere it is wasted
Company profileTrust and recruitment90-150 secondsWebsite hero, onboarding, trade standsExpecting it to sell a product
Customer storyPersuasion2-4 minutesSales decks, mid-funnel contentAs a homepage hero
Product demonstrationExplanation60-180 secondsSales enablement, support deflectionAs brand content
Recruitment filmAttraction90-120 secondsCareers page, job posts, campus eventsOn a corporate homepage
Training moduleInstruction3-10 minutes eachA library used repeatedlyAs a one-off film
Executive messageInternal communication60-90 secondsA specific momentAnything with a shelf life
Event filmRecord and recap60-120 secondsPost-event follow-upAnywhere after two months

Planning one shoot to produce eight assets

Answer first: list every placement before the shoot, frame for vertical on the day, and ask for stills. A shoot day planned for reuse yields a master film, three cutdowns, two vertical versions, a set of stills and a caption file. The same day planned for one film yields one film.

Where corporate video value actually comes from
Top-right is where the money is. A film planned for eight placements and a two-year life is a completely different purchase from the same film planned for one showing at a conference.
Placements — List them first. You cannot cut what was not filmed.
Vertical — Frame for it on the day. Costs nothing then, a reshoot later.
Captions — Most video plays muted. Not optional.
Cutdowns — Plan them in the brief. 60s, 30s, 15s from the same shoot.
Stills — Ask for them. A shoot day yields photography free.
Shelf life — Avoid dating it. No visible years, no seasonal decor.
  1. List the placements in the brief. Website, LinkedIn, sales deck, onboarding, trade stand, email, careers page, internal meeting.
  2. Frame for vertical on the day. Costs nothing then; requires a reshoot afterwards.
  3. Shoot the interviews longer than you need. Extra answers become social cutdowns at no additional shoot cost.
  4. Ask for stills. A crew on site can produce photography for the website and the careers page in the gaps.
  5. Capture more b-roll than the script requires. It is the raw material for every future version.
  6. Get captions with the delivery. Most corporate video plays muted, particularly on social and on office screens.
  7. Avoid dating the film. No visible years, no seasonal decoration, no headcount figures that will be wrong in a year.

Distribution: where corporate video usually goes to die

Answer first: the intranet. Nobody browses an intranet. A corporate film needs a distribution plan written at brief stage, with named placements and named owners, or it gets posted once and forgotten.

Intranet — Where films go to die. Nobody browses an intranet.
Email — Still the best internal push. With a thumbnail and a reason.
Meeting — Show it, do not link it. Attention is the scarce thing.
Onboarding — The highest-value slot. Every new hire, forever.
Sales — Put it in the deck. Where it does commercial work.
Measure — Completion, not views. A view is three seconds.
Distribution routes, honestly ranked
RouteReachEffortBest for
Onboarding sequenceEvery new hire, foreverOne-off setupProfile and culture films
Sales deck or follow-up emailHigh intentLowCustomer stories, demos
Website hero or key pagePassive but sustainedLowProfile films
Email to a segmented listModerate, measurableLowAnything with news value
Shown in a meetingTotal attentionLowExecutive messages
LinkedIn and socialVariableMediumCutdowns, not full films
Intranet postVery lowLowAlmost nothing on its own
Trade stand loopCaptive but distractedLowSilent, captioned, looping cuts

The conclusion: the two highest-return routes — onboarding and sales follow-up — are the two least often planned. Both are set up once and then run indefinitely, which is exactly the property you want from a video you paid for.

What corporate video costs, and why the approval chain changes it

Answer first: a corporate film typically runs $4,000 to $30,000 depending on shoot days and crew, and the approval chain adds cost in post-production time rather than in production. A film with fourteen approvers costs more than the same film with one, and the difference lands in the edit.

Where an approval chain adds cost
Approval characteristicEffect on productionEffect on postTypical uplift
One decision-makerNoneNoneBaseline
Three approvers, consolidated notesNoneSlight5-10%
Committee with equal authorityLonger scriptingExtra rounds20-35%
Approver added after first cutNoneStructural re-edit15-30%
Legal review after the editPossible reshootRe-edit40-100%
Regulated-industry complianceLonger scriptingSubstantiation on screen10-20%

The conclusion: the cheapest thing you can do to a corporate video budget is fix the approver list before scripting starts. Full line-by-line production pricing is in our video production rate card.

What to budget beyond the film itself

  • Versions and cutdowns. Plan them in the brief; they cost a fraction of a reshoot.
  • Captions. Cheap, and necessary because most corporate video plays muted.
  • Music license term. Matched to the film’s intended life, not to the launch.
  • Stills. Usually available from the shoot day at little extra cost.
  • Refresh. A profile film shot to avoid dating itself lasts two to three years; budget the replacement rather than being surprised by it.

Where video creation companies differ on price for the same brief

Answer first: shoot days, crew size and post complexity, in that order. Two quotes for one corporate brief can differ threefold and both be honest, because one assumed a one-day shoot with three crew and a simple edit, and the other assumed two days with seven crew, a grade, a sound mix and three versions. Compare the assumptions, not the totals.

Corporate video for regulated industries

Answer first: financial services, healthcare, legal and food carry advertising rules on top of general ones, and those rules mostly constrain what may be said rather than what may be shown. That makes the script the controlled document and makes early compliance review non-negotiable.

What changes in a regulated brief

  • Every claim needs substantiation that can be produced on request, and often shown on screen.
  • Disclosures may need to be legible, which affects the edit’s pacing and the lower third design.
  • Customer and patient stories carry consent requirements beyond an ordinary release.
  • Comparative claims are frequently restricted outright, so the script has to work without them.
  • Approval may sit outside the organization — with a compliance function, a regulator or a franchisor — which lengthens the calendar rather than the effort.

How to plan around it without losing the film

  1. Bring compliance in at the brief, not the script, so constraints shape the idea rather than damaging it.
  2. Write the substantiation alongside the script, in the same document.
  3. Design the disclosure into the layout early rather than bolting it on at the end.
  4. Budget an extra week of calendar, not an extra round of production.
  5. Ask your production company directly what regulated work they have done, and in which sector.

Sector-specific context in healthcare marketing and B2B software marketing.

Measuring corporate video honestly

Answer first: completion rate, not views. A view is commonly counted at three seconds, which measures the thumbnail rather than the film. Then measure the specific job the film was made to do.

  • Completion rate tells you whether the film held attention. Under thirty per cent on a two-minute film means the opening failed.
  • Drop-off point tells you where. It is almost always in the first fifteen seconds, and almost always because the film opened with a logo animation.
  • Sales-deck usage — is the sales team actually sending it? Ask them, and check.
  • Application rate for a recruitment film, measured against the period before.
  • Support ticket volume for a product or training film. Deflection is a real, measurable saving.
  • Not impressions, not views, not ‘engagement’. None of the three survives scrutiny.

Video creation companies, production companies and agencies: the words

Answer first: none of these labels is protected, so they describe emphasis rather than capability. Video creation companies and video production companies are used interchangeably; a creative agency sells the idea and usually subcontracts the shoot; a full-service marketing agency sells the program the film sits inside.

What each label usually signals
LabelUsually signalsAsk about
Video creation companyProduction capability, often small teamApprovals process and post capacity
Video production companyThe same, with more crew scaleWho directs, and who edits
Creative agencyThe idea, with production subcontractedWho actually shoots, and their day rate
Full-service marketing agencyThe film inside a wider programWhether video is in-house or bought in
Freelance directorOne person, strong point of viewCover, crew sourcing, post arrangement
In-house teamSpeed and product knowledgeCraft ceiling and capacity at peak

Where corporate video sits alongside everything else

Answer first: video is an asset, not a channel. It performs when it is placed inside something that already works — a sales process, an onboarding sequence, a careers page, a campaign. A film with no surrounding program is the most common form of wasted production budget.

For the wider program, see our digital marketing services, video marketing and performance marketing.

Working with video creation companies: what to ask

Answer first: ask how they handle approvals, not how they shoot. Every competent production company can shoot. Far fewer have a process for surviving a corporate approval chain.

Who signs off? — Ask. One name, in writing.
What is the one message? — Ask. In a single sentence.
Where will it run? — Ask. Every placement, listed.
How many rounds? — Ask. And what a round means.
Who owns the footage? — Ask. Before the shoot.
What does success look like? — Ask. Agreed before production.
  1. How do you structure approvals, and at what points do you require sign-off?
  2. When do you bring legal or compliance into the process?
  3. What is a review round, and how many are included?
  4. How do you handle a new approver appearing after the first cut?
  5. What do you deliver besides the master film — cutdowns, verticals, captions, stills?
  6. Who owns the raw footage, and in what format is it handed over?
  7. What happens if an executive cancels on the shoot day?
  8. Can you show a corporate project where the approval chain was difficult, and what you did?

That last question is the most useful. Every experienced corporate production company has a story about a fourteen-person approval chain, and how they answer it tells you more than any showreel.

The mistakes that cost the most

Committee — The commonest failure. Equal authority means no authority.
Late approvers — The second. Added after the first cut.
Vague brief — The third. 'Modern and dynamic' is not a brief.
One film — Expected to do five jobs. Recruitment and sales are different films.
No plan — For distribution. Posted once, never used again.
No measure — So nobody can say it worked. Or that it did not.
Corporate video mistakes and what to do instead
MistakeWhy it costsInstead
A committee with equal authorityNo decision is ever finalOne named decision-maker, others advise
Approvers added after the first cutSettled decisions reopenFix the approver list in the brief
Legal review after the editA reshoot, or an unusable filmLegal at script stage
One film expected to do five jobsIt does none of them wellOne film per job, or one shoot per several films
No placement list before the shootYou cannot cut what was not filmedList every placement in the brief
Opening with a logo animationDrop-off in the first ten secondsOpen on the message
No distribution planPosted once, never usedNamed placements and named owners at brief stage
Measuring viewsA view is three secondsCompletion rate, then the film’s actual job

A realistic calendar

A realistic corporate video calendar
Sixteen weeks, of which the shoot is one. Compressing this is possible but it is done by removing approvers, not by rushing production.

Sixteen weeks, of which the shoot is one. That is not slow production; it is an accurate account of how long approvals take inside an organization. Compressing it is possible, and it is done by removing approvers rather than by rushing the edit.

For what the production itself costs line by line, see our video production rate card. For what the services actually cover, see video production services.

Updated August 2026. The time-allocation percentages on this page are Progression Agency’s own planning estimates for corporate video projects with executive participation and a formal approval chain, stated as estimates rather than as survey findings. Length and format recommendations are conventions rather than rules.

Have a corporate video that needs to survive an approval chain?

Tell us who signs it off, what the one message is and where it needs to run. You will get a brief and a gate structure back before any production quote — because that is the part that decides whether the project finishes.

Start with the brief

Filmmaking craft, from the people who do it

A working library on directing, cinematography, lighting, sound, interviewing and editing — the craft behind the production half of a corporate video project. None of these are ours; each is credited to its channel by name, every identifier was verified live before publication, and each tile loads its player only when you click it.

Getting found in search

AI, AEO and what is changing

Paid media and lead generation

Websites and design

Choosing and working with an agency

Social, content and brand

By industry and by situation

Two cost questions clients ask late

What actually drives a production quote

Crew size and shoot days dominate; equipment is a smaller line than most clients expect. A one-day shoot with a large crew usually costs more than a two-day shoot with a small one.

Where the budget goes when the brief changes mid-project

Reshoots and re-edits are priced separately from the original scope for a reason: they consume the same crew and suite time as new work. Agreeing a revision count before the shoot avoids the conversation later.

Owning the footage versus owning the film

These are different purchases. Delivery of a finished film does not usually include the raw footage, and if you expect to re-cut it later that has to be specified in the contract before the shoot.

A corporate video production studio, in the sense of a company with its own stage and edit suites, is a different proposition from a producer who books facilities per project — the first is usually better value for recurring volume, the second for occasional work. The best corporate video production companies for a given brief are the ones whose recent work matches yours in format and budget, because crews and workflows are built around those constraints rather than around industries.

Frequently asked questions

What is corporate video production?
The making of video for an organization’s own communication purposes rather than for advertising: company profiles, customer stories, product demonstrations, recruitment films, training modules, executive messages and event films. What distinguishes it from other production is not the filmmaking but the approval chain, the availability of participants and the compliance requirements.
Why does corporate video take so long?
Because the shoot is under a tenth of the calendar. Roughly thirty-eight per cent of elapsed time goes to review and approval, twenty-two per cent to scripting and stakeholder alignment and fourteen per cent to scheduling around availability. A plan anchored to the shoot date will slip, and it will slip in review.
How long does a corporate video take to produce?
About sixteen weeks from brief to delivery for a film with executive participation and legal review: two weeks on the brief, three on scripting and approval, one on legal at script stage, three on scheduling, one shoot week, three on the first cut and review, two on finishing and versions, one on delivery and distribution setup.
Who should sign off a corporate video?
One named person with genuine authority, with everyone else designated as an adviser. This is the single highest-value decision in the whole brief. Projects with one approver finish; projects with a committee of equals negotiate, and negotiation has no natural end.
When should legal review a corporate video?
At script stage, which is gate three of six. A compliance objection at script stage costs a rewritten paragraph. The same objection after the edit is locked costs a reshoot, and it is the most common way a corporate video budget doubles.
What does legal usually object to in a corporate video?
Comparative and superlative claims, unsourced or undated data, identifiable people without signed releases, confidential material visible in the background, regulated-industry language, and music or stock licensed for a shorter term or narrower territory than the intended use.
How many rounds of revision should a corporate video include?
Two, with a round defined as one consolidated set of notes from all approvers. A third round is a scope change and should be priced as one. Serial feedback from individuals arriving at different times is what turns a two-round project into a six-week negotiation.
What should a corporate video brief contain?
Seven things on one page: the message in a single sentence, the named audience, the named decision-maker, every placement listed, the length and aspect ratios, the number of review rounds, and the measure of success. If it cannot fit on one page, the project is more than one film.
Can one corporate video serve recruitment, sales and training?
No, and expecting it to is the commonest mistake in this category. Those are three different audiences with three different jobs. What you can do is plan one shoot that produces several films, which is a different and much better idea — but it has to be decided before the shoot, not after.
How do I get more than one asset from a corporate video shoot?
List every placement in the brief, frame for vertical on the day, shoot interviews longer than the script requires, capture more b-roll than needed, ask for stills, and get captions with delivery. A shoot planned for reuse yields a master, three cutdowns, two verticals, stills and captions. The same day planned for one film yields one film.
Where should a corporate video actually be published?
The two highest-return routes are the onboarding sequence and sales follow-up, and both are the least often planned. Both are set up once and run indefinitely. The intranet is the lowest-return route and the most commonly chosen, because nobody browses an intranet.
How should corporate video be measured?
Completion rate first, because a view is commonly counted at three seconds and therefore measures the thumbnail. Then measure the film’s actual job: sales-deck usage for a customer story, application rate for a recruitment film, support ticket volume for a product or training film.
What is a good completion rate for a corporate video?
It depends on length and placement, but under thirty per cent on a two-minute film usually means the opening failed rather than the film did. Check the drop-off point — it is almost always in the first fifteen seconds, and almost always because the film opened with a logo animation instead of the message.
How long should a corporate video be?
Ninety to one hundred and fifty seconds for a company profile, two to four minutes for a customer story, sixty to one hundred and eighty seconds for a product demonstration, ninety to one hundred and twenty for recruitment, and three to ten minutes per module for training. Executive messages should be under ninety seconds.
What happens if an executive cancels on the shoot day?
Ask this question before you sign. A good production company will have a contingency — reordering the schedule, shooting b-roll and other participants, or holding a half-day at a reduced rate. A bad one will charge the full day and reschedule. It happens often enough that the answer matters.
Who owns the raw footage from a corporate video shoot?
Ask explicitly and get it in writing before the shoot. Many production companies retain raw footage by default and deliver only the finished film, which matters the day you want a different edit from a different supplier or a cutdown two years later.
What is the difference between corporate video and a commercial?
Purpose and constraint. A commercial is advertising, made to be paid into media, and is judged on response. Corporate video is the organization’s own communication, usually distributed through owned channels, and it carries an approval chain and compliance requirements that advertising production rarely faces in the same form.
How do I stop a corporate video looking generic?
Cut the abstractions. Real people from your organization rather than actors, real spaces rather than stock, a specific claim rather than a general one, and an opening that states the message rather than animating a logo. Generic corporate video is almost always the residue of committee approval, not a failure of production.
Should we use employees or actors?
Employees, in almost every case, for profile, culture and recruitment films — they are more credible and cheaper. Use actors when the script requires performance the employees cannot deliver, or when confidentiality prevents showing real people. Either way, get releases signed on the day.
What should we do about music licensing?
Get the license term, territory and permitted media written into the quote. Library music licensed for one year of web use on a film you intend to run in a sales deck internationally for three years is a problem you will discover late. Budget for a term that matches the film’s intended life.
How do we handle a fourteen-person approval chain?
Name one of them as the decision-maker and the rest as advisers, in writing, in the brief. Collect feedback in one place by a stated deadline, have the decision-maker resolve conflicts before anything reaches the production team, and send one consolidated set of notes. Then close each gate with a signature so it cannot reopen.
Can corporate video be produced remotely?
Partly. Scripting, editing, grading, sound, graphics and versioning are all location-independent. The shoot needs someone present, and for a company profile or recruitment film that presence is the point. A common structure is a local crew with a remote director and post team.
What is the biggest avoidable cost in corporate video?
A reshoot caused by a late approval — either legal seeing the film after the edit is locked, or an approver appearing after the first cut and reopening the structure. Both are prevented by fixing the approver list in the brief and putting compliance review at script stage.
How far in advance should we start?
Four months for a film with executive participation and formal approval. Less than that is possible but it is achieved by reducing the number of approvers rather than by compressing production, and it is worth being honest about that trade-off at the start rather than discovering it in week nine.

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