The following timelines reflect the entire production journey — from your first enquiry to final delivery of the finished film.

While most films involve just 1–2 days of filming and a few days of editing, the overall process includes planning, scheduling, and feedback rounds. That’s why the full timeline is usually longer — especially for brands and organisations working at scale.

As a London-based video production company, we often work to tight deadlines. We can turn a film around in under a week when needed, especially for PR and event content.

Here is a rough guide to production timelines:

Corporate Videos: 3–6 weeks total

Includes briefing, scripting, a one/two-day shoot, and editing. Typically used for testimonial films, recruitment videos, internal comms, or company overviews. These can take longer, especially for more ambitious, polished videos like our recent edit for Centrical Software.

Brand Films: 4–8 weeks total

Brand films often take more time than a traditional corporate video. They have much more creative development and often represent a much more important piece of content in a companies content plan. Some of the steps that increase the time are the creative workshops, casting, location scouting, storyboarding, shoot planning, several rounds of client feedback, a colour grade.

Most of the videos we’ve made for FatFace are what you’d call a brand film.

Event Videos: 1–3 weeks total

Event films are usually pretty quick to plan, film and edit. Not always, but most of the time event films are to simply capture the runnings of the day. Filming is usually 1 day. Editing can be delivered within a few days — or even same-day if needed for quick publishing.

PR / Viral Campaigns: 2–6 weeks total (sometimes 24hours)

PR and activation film production is usually incredibly fast turnaround with 24hours-48 hours being very normal. That being said, there is often a good whack of time that goes into the pre-production to make sure everything goes to plan on the day.

As an example, our PR videos we made for TUI Travel and Dominos both took a week to plan but only a few hours to film. Both films were delivered within 48 hours.

Documentary Projects: 2–6 months total

When it comes to documentaries, production timelines can vary from a few days for a micro documentary all the way up to months, or even years for certain progress following projects. These are often filmed across multiple locations or over a long time period. Timescales have to account for research, evolving narratives, and layered post-production.

We’ll always agree clear timelines and delivery milestones from day one — so whether you’re based in London or further afield, you’ll know exactly what to expect and when.