Find an award-winning crew for your Minneapolis video production
Do you have a reliable city to return to and film corporate video content, year after year? If not, it can pay to find such a destination. Today’s business media landscape is highly competitive, and it’s worth finding a locale that combines diverse filming backdrops with infrastructure to support your shoots. If your company has easy access to the Midwest, Minneapolis can become your new home base.
Located close to scenic natural surroundings, including lakes, wetlands and the Mississippi River, Minneapolis also gives you not one but two bustling downtown areas. It and its neighbor St. Paul are the so-called “Twin Cities,” each worth exploring with your video crew. Whether capturing unique landmarks like the Stone Arch Bridge or engaging in more general production design, Minneapolis can welcome you with great views.
Locations around Minneapolis range from sports stadiums and arenas for the Twins, Vikings, Timberwolves and Wild to First Avenue, the iconic music venue where Prince filmed much of Purple Rain. Your crew can return to favorite spots in different seasons to capture different sides of these destinations and craft varied, intriguing content.
Why find experts for video production in Minneapolis?
Making sure your team is filled out with locally experienced video professionals is the No. 1 way to make Minneapolis feel like home, even if you’re new to the area. These experts can help you with the little logistical matters that can make or break a shooting schedule, including helping you plan around the tough traffic between the airport and downtown.
Minneapolis-based crew members can also help you navigate the permit application process. The system is relatively straightforward, but there are some nuances you’ll need to grasp. For instance, there is one type of permit for a shoot that will obstruct a street or sidewalk and another for filming on parkland, which includes the lakes or the waterfront. City Hall even has its own permit type, from the Municipal Building Commission.
When you work with Crews Control as your video production company of choice, you’re always paired with locally based video experts. These crew members can guide you every step of making a high-quality Minneapolis corporate video, taking pressure off your internal stakeholders. They’re also well-versed in the creative and technical sides of filmmaking, increasing the quality of the finished product.
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Our video production services in Minneapolis
There are near-unlimited uses for corporate video today. You can craft external content designed to entertain or inform a wide audience. These deliverables can range from product explainers and tutorials to brand visibility videos, TV commercials, event live streams and much more. Internal content such as custom training modules or quarterly management messages, on the other hand, can help you achieve higher levels of loyalty and engagement among your employees.
When you have an expert video crew on your side, these videos can suit any aesthetic preferences or brand guidelines you propose. Creating the ideal corporate video means matching the content’s aesthetic with its purpose. This could mean choosing a casual, off-the-cuff style for candid behind-the-scenes video, embracing Hollywood-level production values for a feature-length documentary or landing anywhere between these two poles. You can vary your content style drastically from one project to the next to ensure a perfect match between intention and execution.
Our video services in Minneapolis include:
- Interviews and B-roll
- Event coverage
- Presentations
- Drone production
- Animation and motion graphics
- Motion pictures
- Live streaming
- Panel discussion
- Man on the street interviews
- Corporate meetings
- Behind-the-scenes footage
- Commercials
- Broadcast television media
- Employee training materials
- Sizzle reels
- Time-lapse videos
- Happy-face videos
- Focus group recordings
- Testimonials
- Video news releases
- Documentaries
- Web conferencing
- Red carpet coverage
- Action and sports video
- Product demonstration clips
- …and whatever else you can imagine!
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What’s it like to film corporate video in Minneapolis?
No two cities are exactly alike when serving as locations for corporate filming. Even Minneapolis, a literal Twin City, has its own unique details worth grasping. Once you and your Crews Control video crew start looking around, you’ll quickly discover traits such as these, as described by Director of Photography Kevin Galligan:
- Seasons differ widely: The freezing, snowy winters in Minnesota are completely different from the scorching, humid summers. Each season comes with interesting visuals to capture, but for maximum comfort, your crew can film outdoor clips from September through early November.
- B-roll destinations abound: If you want to capture Minneapolis’ distinctive lakes on film without leaving the metro area, you can film the Chain of Lakes. Lake Calhoun, Lake Harriet and Lake of the Isles are popular destinations for boating and sightseeing, and the skyline looks stunning when filmed from the south bank of Lake Calhoun. Beyond the lakes, the Sculpture Garden is perhaps the most beloved green space in the city and makes another top B-roll location.
- Museums cover a variety of subjects: By filming in and around Minneapolis’s museums, you can add visual intrigue to your videos. These include the Minnesota Museum of Art, the Walker Art Center and the Mill City Museum, and they can serve as an exciting contrast to the outdoor footage captured in the city’s green spaces.
- Cars are likely necessary to navigate downtown: Unless your crew is traveling very light with gear and personnel, a car or van is probably the best way to move around town. There are plenty of parking spaces available, though you should be sure to plan your trips around the city’s busy rush hour, as well as hazards like snow and construction closures.
Minneapolis is a city worth exploring for corporate video creators. There are enough points of interest in and around the metropolitan area to keep you and your Crews Control team busy for many productions to come.
Our Minneapolis video crews: Experience and gear
The people working on a video shoot can determine how smoothly the whole project unfolds. This is why Crews Control’s directors of photography come with over 10 years of industry experience. These seasoned professionals know what it takes to guide a video production to a satisfactory conclusion, even when unexpected circumstances threaten to throw the shoot off schedule or push it over budget.
In addition to their knowledge and expertise, Crews Control professionals are equipped with the latest and greatest in filmmaking technology. Access to high-quality gear allows video crews to capture footage that will impress for years to come, even as audience expectations rise. This advanced equipment extends from shooting to post-production and includes assets from Sony, Panasonic, JVC, Ikegami, Thompson (Philips), Hitachi, RED and Arriflex.
Manufacturers
- Canon
- Eclair
- JVC
- Panasonic
- RED
- Sony
Check Out Our Extensive Camera List:
2K
- Silicon Imaging SI-2K
- Silicon Imaging SI-2K Mini
- Vision Research Phantom v12.1
- Vision Research Phantom v640
8K, 4K, UHD & 2k
- RED Scarlet
- RED One
- RED Weapon
- RED Epic
- ARRI Amira
- BlackMagic URSA
- BlackMagic Cinema Camera
- BlackMagic URSA Mini
- Canon EOS C500
- Sony F65
ARRI RAW
- Arriflex ALEXA
AVC Intra (NTSC)
- Panasonic AJ-HPX3000
- Panasonic AJ-HPX 3700
- Panasonic AJ-HPX3100
- Panasonic AJ-HPX2700
- Panasonic AJ-HPX2100
- Panasonic AG-HPX 300
- Panasonic AJ-HPX 2000 AJ-YBX200G
- Panasonic AG-HPX 370
AVCHD (NTSC)
- Sony HXR-NX5U
- Canon EOS C100
DVC PRO EX (NTSC)
- Panasonic AJ-HDX 900
DVC PRO EX (PAL)
- Panasonic AJ-HDX900E
DVC Pro HD (NTSC)
- Panasonic AJ-HDC-27H
- Panasonic AJ-HDC-27HE
- Panasonic AJ-HDC-27F
- Panasonic AJ-HDC27FE
- Panasonic AJ-HDC-27FP
- Panasonic AJ-HDC-27VP
- Panasonic AJ-HPX2000
- Panasonic AG-HPX500
- Panasonic AJ-HDC 20A
- Panasonic AG-HPX 170
- Panasonic AG-HPX171
- Panasonic AG-HVX200A
DVC Pro HD (PAL)
- Panasonic AG-HVX200E
- Panasonic AG-HPX 171E
- Panasonic AG-HVX 200E
- Panasonic AG-HVX 200P
XDCam EX
- Sony PMW EX1
- Sony PMW EX3
- Sony PMW-EX1R
- Sony PXW-X70
- JVC GY-HM700U
- Sony PMW 300
- Sony PMW 320
- Sony PMW-350
- Sony PMW 400
- Sony PMW-F3
XDCam HD
- Sony PDW-F355
- Sony PDW-F350
- Sony PDW-F330
- Sony PDW-700
- Sony PDW-F800
- Sony PDW-335
XF
- Canon EOS C500
- Canon EOS C300
- Canon EOS C100
The combination of knowledge and technology can deliver impressive results for your Minneapolis video shoot, no matter what type of content you’re producing. Request a free quote now!
By pairing expert crews with technologically sophisticated equipment, Crews Control delivers top-quality results for clients every time.
Some of our Happy Clients
Crews Control has spent the past 30-plus years becoming the go-to video production company for organizations of all sizes and descriptions. Our client list now extends from fast-moving startups to household-name corporations, including over half of the Fortune 500. These businesses have benefitted from services tailored to help them meet their specific goals and long-term objectives. Your carefully planned and executed Minneapolis video production could become the next Crews Control success story.
Prepared, Creative, Professional and on the 10 scale an 11
I’ve been producing and directing videos for Broadcast (NBC/ABC/CNN/C-SPAN) and Corporate for over 30 years – and Matthew and Dan were one of the best crews I have EVER worked with.
Thanks
Dan
The footage was well done.
Just got out of the edit. Tim did a great job. Considering the talent we gave him to work with, I would go as far as to say he’s a bit of a magician.
Thanks for the help!
Jim
Thanks for the great shoot yesterday.
Everything was great and I wanted to let you know that our Executive Producer said the footage we got from the different regions was the best footage he had ever seen come from remote crews that we didn’t have control over. That is a great compliment coming from him.
I appreciate all your help and look forward to working with you again!
Carol