What I produce
Most bookings fall into a handful of formats, and knowing which one you want before you call saves both of us time on the phone.
Multi-camera podcasts
Two or three cameras running at once, so the edit can cut between hosts and guest without a static wide shot for forty minutes straight. I’ve shot two-handers in a Hoxton meeting room and three-way panel conversations in a hired studio off Old Street; the setup is the same kit, scaled up a camera at a time.
Talking-head, interviews and thought leadership
One person, one camera, a clean background and a mic that does not pick up the office aircon. This is the format for a founder explaining a product update or an executive doing a recurring LinkedIn video series. Corporate video from £600 covers a single polished piece if a podcast series is not what you need.
Short-form clips and screen-record content
Vertical clips cut from a long-form recording, and screen-record demo content stitched in when the conversation turns to a product walkthrough. See video work for London businesses for examples of both.
Prices
A half day covers up to three episodes recorded back to back, the point at which this service produces a full month of content from one booking. Everything below is built from that base, plus add-ons for a longer day, a monthly rhythm or an extra camera.
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| Half day (up to 3 episodes) | From £500 |
| Full day (up to 6 episodes) | From £850 |
| Single episode, no minimum day | From £300 |
| Monthly retainer, fortnightly show | From £900/month |
| Third camera | +£120 |
| Studio hire, if not shooting on-site | From £45/hr |
| Vertical clip package (12 clips) | £300 |
| Thumbnail and titling, per episode | £40 |
- Included in every day rate: camera operation, sound recording and basic lighting
- Included: one round of edits per episode
- Not included: scripting, guest booking or growing your subscriber count
See full pricing across every service for how this compares against a corporate video or a one-off social shoot. The retainer suits a show that runs on a fixed fortnightly slot; anything less regular is cheaper booked episode by episode, and I’ll say so if that is clearly your situation.
One recording, a month of content
Three episodes recorded back to back is one day, one lighting setup, one sound check. Cut down afterwards, that same day produces twelve to twenty vertical clips for Instagram and TikTok alongside the three full-length episodes for YouTube and the podcast feed. That is the arithmetic that makes this booking worth it over trying to run video in-house.
The clips come from the same footage, not a second shoot. A good forty-minute conversation might yield eight usable moments; a flat one might yield three. The honest caveat is this: the framing only works if there’s something worth clipping in the conversation itself, and no amount of editing manufactures a moment nobody said. I would rather tell a client that upfront than deliver twenty clips nobody watches past the first three seconds.
Pair the vertical output with monthly content packages if a fortnightly podcast is only part of your feed. The full workings behind how much content one day produces and cutting vertical clips from long-form are both on the blog if you want the detail rather than the summary above.
Sound, which matters more than picture
People forgive soft focus. They abandon bad audio within about fifteen seconds, whatever the picture looks like. I would rather turn up with one good mic and average light than the other way round, and I will push back on a client who wants to spend the budget on a second camera before the sound is sorted.
A lapel mic on each speaker beats a single boom overhead for a two or three-person conversation; a boom works better for one presenter moving around a room. Either way, the space matters as much as the mic. A properly treated room helps, but a folded blanket behind the camera or draped over a hard surface does most of the same job for free.
The worst podcast space in London is a glass-walled meeting room: hard surfaces on every side, an aircon unit humming into the mic, and a table that amplifies every tap and shuffle. Plenty of companies book one anyway because it is the room they have, and I’ll flag it on arrival rather than pretend the recording will sound fine.
Your space or a studio
A room with soft furnishings, no aircon hum and at least one wall that is not bare glass works for most recordings. Carpet, curtains, a sofa or bookshelves all absorb sound that a boardroom throws straight back at the mic. A fintech office near Liverpool Street sounded noticeably better with three sofa cushions leant against the glass wall than it had during the trial run without them.
Studio hire earns its cost when your own space genuinely doesn’t have a quiet room, or when the look of a boardroom does not match what you want the show to feel like. It is not worth booking just because a studio sounds more professional than a spare meeting room that is actually fine.
Editing and delivery
Every episode gets cut for pacing, colour graded to match across cameras, and the audio cleaned of hums and background noise before export. Vertical clips carry burned-in captions as standard, since most people watch social video with the sound off. Thumbnails come on request rather than automatically, since not every show wants the same style.
Edited episodes arrive within seven working days of the recording. One revision round is included, covering:
- Pacing or trim changes
- Swapped clip selections for the verticals
- Caption corrections
A full re-edit from new instructions is billed separately. See what video editing costs for how that compares against hiring an editor directly.
When you shouldn’t start a podcast
No audience and no plan to build one means a podcast is expensive audio nobody hears. The format only pays off with an actual guest list booked six months out, not three names you have already used.
Fortnightly for a year is fifty-plus hours between recording, editing and promotion, and most people underestimate that before the first episode airs. If you don’t have that time, or someone on the team to own it, a single YouTube video or a short interview series shot in one week builds the same trust without the standing commitment.
Tell me your episode length and how often you’ll record, and I’ll reply within one working day with a day rate and the next available date.