Video crew for hire in Washington, DC
Looking for a video crew for hire in Washington, DC? You have the client and the concept. You need a local crew that knows the venues, the permits and the buildings. Send us the scope and we will staff it.
Looking for a video crew for hire in Washington, DC? You have the client and the concept. You need a local crew that knows the venues, the permits and the buildings. Send us the scope and we will staff it.
Agencies and production companies based somewhere else who have landed a shoot in Washington. Brands sending a national campaign through DC. Corporate video teams who need a second unit, an extra camera, or a full crew for a day.
Flying a crew in costs you travel, lodging, per diem and a team that has never set foot in the building. Hiring local means the money goes into production value instead of plane tickets.
Director of photography, camera operator, second and third camera, audio engineer, gaffer, grip, teleprompter operator, drone operator, digital imaging technician, production assistant, and stills photographer.
Camera, lens, lighting, audio and grip packages come with the crew, or we work off your package if you are shipping gear in. Tell us the deliverable and we will tell you the smallest crew that can actually pull it off.
Washington is not a city you can just show up and shoot in. Federal property, the National Mall, Capitol Hill, embassies, museums and most association headquarters each carry their own access rules, credentialing timelines and security screening. Downtown venues have loading dock windows and union considerations. Half of what looks like a permit problem is really a scheduling problem.
Filming on District streets and public space runs through the DC Office of Cable Television, Film, Music and Entertainment, while anything on the Mall or other federal parkland falls under National Park Service permitting, and the lead times are not the same.
We shoot here every week. We know which venues need a certificate of insurance three weeks out, which ones will not let you bring a light stand through the front door, and how long you actually need on site to get everything on your shot list.
Booking a video crew for hire in Washington, DC starts with the basics. Send the dates, the location, the deliverable and any gear you are bringing. We will come back with availability, the crew we would put on it, and a rate. If the dates are tight, say so in the first message and we will tell you straight away whether we can cover it.
We work as a subcontracted crew under your production, with your call sheets, your client relationship and your name on the final piece. We are also happy to handle post if you would rather hand off the whole thing.
For recurring work we can hold dates on a retainer basis, which matters if you are producing a conference series or a quarterly content shoot and want the same operators each time.
Washington DC proper, plus Arlington, Alexandria, Tysons, Reston, Fairfax County, Bethesda, Silver Spring and the rest of the Maryland and Northern Virginia suburbs. We travel nationally for existing clients.
If you are looking for a full production rather than crew only, see corporate video production or event videography in Washington, DC.