Award-winning crews for your Shanghai video production

When you’re expanding your company’s reach into mainland China, Shanghai can be an irresistible location for a corporate video shoot. This massive and ever-expanding city of 26 million residents is a business and financial hub, and home to an illuminated skyline that shows off its futuristic appeal — and can be a compelling video backdrop.

Shanghai’s sprawl encompasses vast parks and Buddhist temples, tourist-packed squares and ultra-modern glass skyscrapers that house corporate offices. As a historic port, the city sports an extended waterfront, and the northern Chongming Island is also considered part of the city. Amidst all this expanse, you can find numerous exciting locations and subjects for your video.

While Shanghai is an exciting place to film, it can also be a very hard place for overseas productions to get started, at least without expert assistance. Everything from language barriers and cultural differences to technology access will need to be dealt with for a Shanghai video production to go smoothly.

Expert video crews from Crews Control can serve as the steady hand guiding a Shanghai video shoot to completion. Collaboration between these seasoned professionals and your company’s personnel will help open up Shanghai as a fruitful filming location.

Why work with an experienced Shanghai video production company?

The need for assistance on a Shanghai video production starts at the very beginning, with the visa application process. Receiving permission to work on a corporate project in China requires a company that already has operations in the area to issue an invitation so that teams from outside the country can enter and get to work. The process can be lengthy and, depending on your country of origin, the timing can be inconvenient.

Getting started on your Shanghai video production is far easier when you partner with crew members who have handled similar work before. Simple communication can be a challenge for outsiders — every production should have an interpreter who speaks the local Shanghainese dialect or Mandarin, preferably both.

Navigation within Shanghai also demands expert assistance. The city is so large it takes two-plus hours to cross by car. Simply because two places are both in Shanghai city limits, that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re close to each other. Issues with maps and directions are complicated by the fact that apps such as Google Maps don’t function in mainland China.

Even payments can be complex without assistance from an experienced local video crew. When businesses in Shanghai go cashless, accepted payment methods may include ones that are difficult for visitors from overseas to use, such as linking a bank account to the app Wechat. Approval of a new account takes time, and if it is not used for a period of time, it will be shuttered.

To spare your team from the logistical headaches and get down to business creating great video content, you can partner with Crews Control. We’ve spent 30 years providing video production services for corporate clients, and our crews are attuned to every local requirement, from languages and payments to the latest COVID-19 rules.