The Short
From$6,400
- One founder-story film, 2–3 min finished
- Single-day, single-location interview
- Color grade, sound mix, captions
- 16:9 + 9:16 + 1:1 masters
Founder films · Kintnersville, PA
A founder's story deserves a documentary, not a sizzle reel.
We shoot interview-led brand films on cinema sensors, cut them from the transcript — not a storyboard — and hand back graded masters your homepage, sales team, and investor deck can all run. Billed per project, no monthly retainer.
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01 — Working principle
“We don't light a scene until we know the sentence it has to prove. The transcript is the edit.”
— The Halloran Films method
02 — How we actually work
Same eyes on the interview and the timeline
The director who asks the questions is the editor who finds the line. Nothing gets lost in a handoff, because there isn't one — the person across from you in the chair knows exactly which answer earns the cut.
Cut once, delivered six ways
One story edit, then the ratios and lengths each surface needs: 16:9 for the site, 1:1 and 9:16 for social, a 90-second deck cut, burned-in and sidecar SRT captions, and a thumbnail-ready still export. One shoot feeds every channel.
Your camera-original stays yours
You keep the graded master and every frame of 4K camera-original on a labeled drive at delivery. No footage held hostage, no re-licensing fee the next time you need another cut two years from now.
03 — Project tiers
Fixed scopes, quoted before we roll a frame.
Each tier is a complete deliverable — not an hourly rate that balloons. Final quotes depend on shoot days and travel; these are the starting floors.
The Feature
Project$14,800
- Founder film, 4–6 min, two-camera
- Three customer-testimonial cuts
- Two shoot days + B-roll pass
- 90-second deck cut + still exports
The Series
From$28,500
- Multi-part brand documentary
- Episodic cutdowns for rollout
- Multi-location, scheduled over weeks
- Full camera-original archive handoff
Billed per project — 50% deposit locks your shoot dates, balance on master delivery.
04 — Pre-interview to master
The path every film runs, in order.
No step gets skipped to save a day — the structure is what keeps a loose interview from turning into a loose edit.
- 01
Field brief
A 45-minute call plus a written question bank built from your deck, hiring page, and customer list.
- 02
Interview day
Two cameras, lavalier plus boom, lit for clean 24fps capture. Usually a single day.
- 03
B-roll pass
Hands, product, floor, light — the texture that proves what the interview claims.
- 04
Story edit
Paper edit from the transcript first, then assembly, then a reviewed rough with timecoded notes.
- 05
Master & delivery
Grade, mix, captions, and every ratio on a labeled drive you keep.
05 — Start a brief
Tell us what you're building.
Send the shape of the project — who the founder is, where the shoot would happen, and the deadline you're working against. We'll reply with a scope and a quote within two business days.
06 — Where we shoot
Come to the room, or we load the kit and come to you.
In the studio
A controlled room for clean, repeatable interview setups — lighting rigged, sound treated, nothing to schedule around.
573 Haycock Run Rd
Kintnersville, PA 18930
Hours — Daily 10am – 5pm
Plot the drive up Haycock Run →On location
We pack the cameras and shoot at your HQ, factory floor, or storefront. Travel inside 90 minutes of Kintnersville is included in every quote; anything beyond the mid-Atlantic is billed at cost and agreed up front.
Call to check a date — (215) 804-5746
Call about a shoot