VIVARIUM

A footage library for your business

We SHOOT, GRADE and ORGANISE a bespoke library video assets. You get a physical drive, packed with curated footage so your team never runs out of content.

START BUILDING YOUR VIDEO LIBRARY

  • I’m an award-winning SA based cinematographer, ready to start building your organisation’s new high quality stock footage library, ideal for use in promotional videos, B2B presentations and across social media channels.

    Gone are the days of digging up that one shot from five years ago with a harsh colour grade, burned in subtitles. No more trying to download that ancient, low quality video off your own YouTube channel that doesn’t fit into the new video content you’re mixing it with.

    We’ll meet, discuss your needs and soon capture all of the footage you need. You choose the locations, shoot dates, and any talent/staff you may want featured. Within a couple of weeks, we’ll deliver your new video asset management system - all accessible and manageable through the file manager on your computer (Finder or Windows Explorer). Your footage will come in a variety of formats ensuring maximum versatility.

    Whether you need a few quality shots to edit in Instagram or you’re forwarding the whole library to an agency for use in a larger project, this is a cost-effective way to build on your existing footage library or start a new one.

  • I’m Riley. I’ve been working as a cinematographer/DP full-time for over five years (and working with cameras for a lot longer).

    This work takes me to some unexpected places and introduces me to a lot of different people and their industries. One day I’m shooting a commercial in an AirBnb with a crew of 20+ people; the next week it’s 3am in the desert, I’m working on a short film and wondering if it could get any colder and dustier (this short film does earn me a ticket to Europe to some film festivals woohoo).

    Through my experience working with different agencies and B2B; I’ve developed a template that can serve virtually every industry. Ranging from agricultural production, industrial fabrication and even retail or office work.

    Around half my jobs come from advertising agencies or production companies tasked with creating video content for a business/council/organisation.

    These range from; a new campaign launch, delivering a new product/service to market, a case study for a third party supplier, or the business simply delivering their story.

  • This is by no means the final solution to professional video production.

    At the smaller end; this could be all the video you need for a few years. Supplementary to incidental phone content piece to cameras.

    At the higher end; this model can work as a video library to run your entire business. Capturing and archiving new content on a recurring quarterly basis.

    If you’re a producer at an agency or production company; a marketing manager for a large corporation or even the sole owner/operator of a small business, this is designed for you.

    Some examples include; farming, tourism operators, local councils, wine industry, construction, real estate, education, retail & hospitality.
    The list goes on.

  • We go over what is important for you to have covered and discuss how the shoot will run - making sure we’re aligned with your priorities to keep you future proofed.
    We’ll discuss a few styles of shooting and work out what’s right for you.

  • At minimum, you’re hiring a cinematographer and their camera package.
    Depending on the project, we have options for;
    - Aerial video/photo
    - Stills photography
    - Gaffer/lighting van
    - Secondary video camera
    - Interview packages

    We shoot a wide variety of coverage, getting options with/without movement and making sure we’re safe with vertical crops for social content.

  • We’ll deliver an approx. 90 second edit.
    Designed for internal use; this acts as a snapshot of what we captured during the day as a reference for yourself and anyone else who might need to work with the footage.

  • All footage is refined down to the best bits. Removing any false takes, heads and tails trimmed off and delivered in a variety of formats.

    EASE OF USE

    Organised & categorised catalogue for Mac & Windows, if you can use a computer you’ll find it easy to use.

    Suitable for working in any editing software - Premiere, Resolve, CapCut, even Instagram. This collection ensures there will always be a version of the footage that suits your needs.

    LOG - A flat colour profile to deliver to other video agencies. This gives them the most flexibility possible with the footage.

    REC709 - Standard contrast and saturation for quickly adding to a project. Perfectly fine to edit and add your own look to if you don’t want to deal with colouring LOG.

    GRADED - Film-like image quality with rich colour density and texture.

    LOW RES & HIGH RES

    When delivering to other video workers, you should always send the highest resolution LOG footage but if you just need to quickly post something online or send previews over Google Drive, something smaller can be fine.

    Your 4K files will be exported as individual clips and your 1080 will exist as a single H265 file with timecode and file name burned in - perfect for quickly scrubbing through to find the right shot.

    HIGH IMAGE FIDELITY

    We provide high resolution, stable footage with plenty of flexibility for cropping verticals for socials.
    Deep colour depth for grading flexibility - no longer limited by whatever colour grade the last person slapped on.

  • All content is stored & delivered on physical media as well as low res versions via a Google Drive link.

    The amount of footage is dictated by a number of factors but could be anywhere from 50-200+ short clips per shoot day.
    All dependent on locations, budget and scope of the project.

    You’ll receive:
    1x SSD - faster for editing & transfers - can even plug into most modern phones!
    1x HDD - slower, cost effective backup for archive and safety

    Each of these drives contains your footage in the following 4K formats:
    LOG / ProRes 422
    Rec709 / ProRes 422 & H.265
    Graded / ProRes 422 & H.265

    As well as a simple PDF guide with recommendations on what each file type is best suited for.

THE PROCESS

EXAMPLE OF LOG / REC709 / GRADED

  • Every project is different so we don't have a ‘one price fits all’ model.
    You only pay for what you need.

    Rather than a fixed cost, labour and equipment are separated.

    If we’re not bringing a certain lens set to a shoot, why are you effectively paying for it in a fixed rate?

    Get in touch for a quote.

  • Not only are you now insured from not having the right footage - you now have a stock library that you can use for anything.

    You don’t need to settle for less with a video project. Don’t need to hunt through stock footage libraries to find something that’s kind of what you need.

    Some more examples;

    You make a few weekly Instagram reels for your business. Instead of finding old edits or trying to capture something yourself, you’ve got access to a wide array of tailored content that you can cut into your edit.

    Need to explain a technical aspect of your manufacturing business for a case study? We’ve got that recorded in a whole sequence from different angles.

    Submitting a video for industry awards? With no budget or time to shoot anything? Lucky you’ve got this hard drive up your sleeve!

  • Yes! I still absolutely work on larger scale commercial & narrative projects. Vivarium is a packaged product that addresses a need in the industry.
    It works in tandem with my regular freelance operations.

FAQ

  • Everyone knows the feeling, client and creators alike; you’ve almost finished an edit. Just waiting on one more shot from the client that someone is trying to dig up.

    Finally it arrives… in the form of a 720p YouTube link from 6 years ago.

    Even if it was higher quality, it has a big outdated logo in the middle of the shot and a saturated, contrasty colour grade baked in.
    You could try to find the original creator and see if they’ve hung onto that original file for all these years but this will inevitably add time and budget that you can’t afford.

    Just like the last time, you’re forced to settle for ‘good enough’ on this project.

    It can’t be helped; or can it…

  • LOW RESOLUTION

    Standard 1080p deliveries are around 4x and 40x lower data quality than original capture.

    FRAME RATE MISMATCH

    Sometimes the US standard of 29.97 frames is used in Australia. This results In stuttering and frame skips that can be distracting.

    LOW BITRATE

    Web compression looks noisy, blocky and falls apart the moment you try to push any of your own colour grade onto it.

  • TOO SHORT
    You need a 5-second breather in the edit but the only clip we have is a 2 second shot from a previous edit.

    TOO SPECIFIC
    The footage is focussed on something from an old campaign and doesn’t match what we’re needing it to well enough.

  • HEAVY COLOUR GRADES
    The footage looks good but has a colour grade baked in that won’t be consistent with the tone of this new edit.

    BURNED IN ASSETS
    Logos, titles, information overlays and subtitles force you to crop an already low resolution image rendering it unusable.

  • DIGITAL GRAVEYARD
    The file exists but is buried so far back in a link (that may or may not work) on an email thread that it may as well not.

    YOUTUBE TO MP4 CONVERTER
    Downloading from your own YouTube is the last resort taking us back to our first pain point; image quality.

GENERAL POST-PRODUCTION PROBLEMS

Let’s chat

If you think your own stock footage library could be the next move for you; reach out and we’ll get back to you ASAP.