How much does a corporate video cost in London?

Most B2B briefs land between £1,500 and £15,000. A solo-operator half-day with a single highlight cut sits at the lower end. A two-camera, full-day shoot with a hero film plus social cutdowns runs £3,500 to £7,500. Multi-day conference coverage with a full crew, vertical and landscape edits, and a marketing suite of deliverables sits £7,500 to £15,000. Anything above is a campaign rather than a single video.

Where are you based, and how far do you travel?

London-based, working UK-wide as standard. International on request. Most clients are in central London, Manchester, Edinburgh, or somewhere in between; expeditions have included Cornwall, France, and the open Atlantic. Travel and accommodation are scoped into the quote where relevant.

What kinds of corporate video do you produce?

Event highlight films, conference and session recording, recruitment and early-careers films, social mobility and inclusion stories, B2B video presentations and case studies, mini-documentaries, and corporate photography (often shot the same day as a video brief). All deliberately B2B, no weddings or parties.

Do you work with a crew, or solo?

It depends on the brief. Small interview-led shoots are usually solo-operator. Conferences, multi-camera events, and brand films run with a crew of two to five, including a second camera operator, audio engineer, and sometimes a separate director or producer. The crew scope is part of the project quote.

What does post-production turnaround usually look like?

A first edit of a 2- to 3-minute highlight film typically lands within 2-3 weeks of the shoot. Conference session recordings, being lighter on edit, often come faster. Brand films and longer-form work usually take 3-4 weeks. Tight turnarounds (under a week) are possible with prior arrangement and a dedicated edit slot.

Do you provide raw footage?

Yes, where it makes sense. Selects (the best takes, with audio synced) are usually the most useful version. Full uncut rushes can be provided too. Both are delivered via a cloud transfer alongside the final cut.

What do I need to send in a brief?

A one-sentence description of the project, the audience, the date and venue, and the final deliverables. A budget range. A few reference videos if you have them. We've written a longer guide on briefing a corporate videographer if you want the deeper version.

Can you film at our event in-house, with confidentiality requirements?

Yes. Most B2B work has confidentiality requirements: closed sessions, sensitive documents, client identification constraints. We work around them as a matter of course (NDAs, careful framing, pre-approved b-roll, and final-cut sign-off from your team). Tell us the constraints early and we'll scope the shoot to fit.

Do you do photography as well?

Yes. Event coverage, portrait headshots, internal socials, and firm-branding stills. Often shot on the same day as a video brief, which keeps the visual language consistent across video and stills. Available standalone too.

How do I start a project?

Use the contact form, or email hello@jahvisuals.com directly. A short message describing what you're trying to make is enough. We usually reply within a working day with the questions we need answered to scope a proper quote.

How Long Should a Corporate Video Be? (The Wrong Question, Honestly)

Every marketing team asks the question at some point. "How long should our corporate video be?" Sometimes it gets phrased confidently "we want it to be 90 seconds, that's the best length, isn't it?" Sometimes it arrives as a worried email a week before the shoot.

The honest answer, every time, is that it's the wrong question. There's no universal correct length for a corporate video. There are a small number of right lengths, each for a specific job. Pick the job, and the length follows. So here's a practical guide for marketing and HR teams trying to settle on the right runtime for their next film.

The 15 to 30-second cut: the scroll-stopper

The 15 to 30-second cut exists because that's roughly how long someone scrolling LinkedIn or Instagram will give your firm before deciding whether to keep watching. It's the version that lives on socials. It's typically vertical or square. It's almost always cut from a longer master.

What this length is good at: making a viewer pause. Building familiarity with your firm in someone's feed over time. Driving traffic to a longer piece.

What it isn't good at: explaining anything complex, or making a real argument. If the video has to convince someone of something on its own, this isn't the length.

The trick with this length is to assume the viewer has the sound off. The first three seconds need to be visually unmistakable. Captions need to be readable in a glance. The hook has to land in two beats or fewer.

The 60 to 90-second hero: the homepage anchor

This is the length most marketing teams reach for by default, and they're often right to. It's long enough to introduce the firm, say what it does, and offer a moment of distinctiveness. It's short enough to keep the prospective buyer from giving up halfway.

What this length is good at: the homepage. The top of an emailer. The first thing a prospective client sees when they Google your firm. The introduction at the start of a sales pitch.

What it isn't good at: case studies, recruitment films, anything that requires the viewer to follow a real story.

The discipline at this length is brutal. Every sentence has to earn its place. We typically write three or four scripts at this length for clients, each tighter than the last, before we settle on a final one. Anything longer than 90 seconds at this register starts to feel like a corporate slideshow.

The 2 to 3-minute case study: the conversion piece

This is the length for case studies, transformation stories, and longer recruitment films where the viewer is already paying close attention. It's the length where you can actually let a person on camera tell a story.

What this length is good at: case studies, founder stories, recruitment films, partner introductions, any film where the viewer cares about a specific person or specific work.

What it isn't good at: top-of-funnel awareness. Nobody who doesn't already know your firm is watching three minutes of you.

The cardinal sin at this length is letting it drift to four or five minutes. A 3-minute case study that could have been 2 minutes is worse than a 90-second one that nailed it. The cut is everything.

The 8 to 12-minute session: the on-demand library

This is the conference session length. Keynote talks, panel discussions, recorded explainers that live in a learning library or partner portal.

What this length is good at: showing rather than telling. A 10-minute panel discussion is the firm thinking. A keynote is the partner's expertise. Watching a real person work through real thinking is a different category of content from a marketing film, and it works at a different length.

What it isn't good at: anywhere the viewer arrives cold. Nobody clicks a 12-minute video on LinkedIn unless they were already going to. These films live behind a click, ideally on a page where the viewer is already committed.

The job here is recording quality more than runtime, really. Get the audio right. Get the camera angles right. Don't cut to fancy reaction shots. Let the speaker speak.

The long documentary: the firm at full register

We don't recommend these often, but they exist. 20-minute documentary films, sometimes longer, that profile the firm, a campaign, a year of work, a specific project. Sundance-aspirational.

What this length is good at: legacy films, anniversary pieces, ESG and social-impact campaigns where the depth is the point, internal storytelling at scale.

What it isn't good at: anything you expect a prospect to watch unprompted. These films are gifts to the firm's own people first, and the marketing team second.

If you're commissioning one, do it for the right reason. The cost is high and the audience is smaller than you think. But sometimes, for a particular firm at a particular moment, it's exactly the right film to make.

The deeper question: what does the viewer need to feel?

The length conversation almost always improves the moment a marketing team asks the better question: what does the viewer need to feel by the end of this film?

If the answer is "curious enough to click," you're making a 15 to 30-second cut. If the answer is "informed enough to consider us," you're making a 60 to 90-second hero. If the answer is "convinced enough to take a sales call," you're making a 2 to 3-minute case study. If the answer is "educated enough to make an informed decision," you're making a session recording.

The length is downstream of the feeling. Get the feeling right and the runtime almost picks itself.

What we'd recommend, if you're starting from scratch

If a B2B firm came to us today with a fixed budget and asked what the right starting suite of films looked like, the answer would almost always be three pieces: a 60-second hero, a 2-minute case study, and a 30-second cut from each, for socials.

The hero earns awareness. The case study earns trust. The cutdowns extend reach without earning more budget. Together they cover the buying journey from "never heard of them" to "booked a call," and they cost less than most firms imagine.

Then come back and ask about session recordings.