Grand Union Creative

FOR BRAND STUDIOS & AGENCIES

THE WHOLE JOB, OR JUST THE SHOOT.

Brand studios at publishers and networks, agency content teams and in-house studios call us when the story is out in the field and the calendar is tight. Hand us the whole project and we develop, produce and deliver it under your name. Or plug us in as production support: a documentary unit that knows how to work a plant floor, a farm, a depot and a control room, delivering the way your post team wants it.

Brand studios exist because advertising works better when nobody can find the seam between the story and the sponsor. So do we. The name is the idea: brand and story, joined so well you can't find where one ends and the other begins. When the sponsor's values and a true story want the same thing, the product doesn't have to be in the frame.

Your client stays your client. We produce under your name or ours, whichever the job calls for, and we never go around you. Agencies and brand consultancies have hired us to work this way for years. The Food Group and Figure Agency are on our reviews page.

WHO IT'S FOR

Studios with more slate than crew.

Publisher and network brand studios producing sponsored series. Agency content and entertainment units. In-house brand studios with a season to deliver and a bench that's already booked. Anyone who needs real people on camera in a real workplace, and needs it to look like it was easy.

WHAT'S INCLUDED

  • 01 The whole job, or production support.

    Give us the brief and we develop, produce and deliver. Or use us as your unit: director, producer, DP, sound, gaffer and stills, working to your director and your edit.

  • 02 Casting and access.

    Finding the right real people, getting plant and site access, releases, and scheduling around shifts, planting and harvest.

  • 03 Midwest by car, national by air.

    Based in Chicago, so most plants and farms in the Midwest are a drive. We travel nationally and have produced in Mexico.

  • 04 Paperwork, handled.

    We carry production insurance: general liability, auto, workers' comp and equipment. Certificate of insurance on request, plus site safety protocols and PPE, NDAs and MSAs, talent and location releases.

  • 05 Post, your way or ours.

    Edit, color, sound, mix, captions, cutdowns, verticals and stills delivered to your specs. Or selects, transcripts and a string-out handed to your editors.

  • 06 Rights, spelled out.

    Work for hire. Your client owns the deliverables. Raw footage terms and music licensing written into the SOW before we roll.

THE WORK

Proof we've been in the room.

See all work 

HOW IT STARTS

Send us the brief.

Send the brief or the deck. We'll scope it in two days and work as long as the project takes. Day rates and package pricing on request.

QUESTIONS

Things studios ask us.

  • Not unless the story calls for it. When the sponsor's values and the story line up, the credit does the work and there's no seam. When the product is the story, we shoot it like it matters.

  • Either. Give us the full project and we develop, produce and deliver it. Or use us as production support: a crew under your director, and selects and transcripts to your editors.

  • Yes. Credited or uncredited, your call. We don't contact your client directly unless you ask us to.

  • In the Midwest, often within a week. Most plants and farms we shoot are a drive from Chicago, not a flight.

  • Yes. We carry production insurance: general liability, auto, workers' comp and equipment coverage. Certificate of insurance on request.

  • We've produced in Mexico and travel across the United States.

  • Your client, under a work-for-hire agreement. Raw footage terms are written into the SOW.