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Cinematography & Film Production

Video Production & Brand Films

Today, video matters more than anything else when it comes to marketing products, events or artists.

A session starts at 250 euro plus VAT. How pricing works

Chapter 1

Brand Films & Commercial Trailers

Films for companies, hotels, restaurants and brands: from the full brand film to the short teaser for a launch.

Aerial view of a hotel and its grounds in evening light — a location for event productions

Chapter 2

Event trailer projects

Whatever direction it should take, I put your product in the foreground. An event trailer takes your advertising up a level, and it can be used in many ways, for example live on a big screen at large events.
This kind of marketing is very popular. Moving pictures, music and a sense of drama keep an artist, your logo or your product in people’s minds for a long time. Picture and sound together stir emotions and make you easy to recognize.
Music video shoot: a camera operator with a gimbal filming a performer in a sequin dress under red and teal light

Chapter 3

Music Video Productions

A music video is by far the most important part of marketing your new song. Even though music channels on television matter less than they did, a music video has big advantages. What are they?

The main goal of a music video is to make your band better known. Your song should win the attention of the audience and your fans and stay with them, and a music video does that best. A song stirs emotions; whoever sees it as well as hears it links sound and picture, and that builds a stronger bond.
A music video also introduces your song to a wide audience. Almost every music video today is watched, shared and commented on thousands of times on YouTube, Instagram and TikTok, so a song can take off on its own without much time, money or effort. Streams and downloads rise noticeably too.

Chapter 4

Formats & Service

What applies to every genre above: advertising without a shoot day, animated trailers, a recap straight after your event and a new cut of footage you already have.

How a film is planned before the shoot
Title card reading “Bushido” in glitched lettering on black

Advertising without a shoot day

Advertising without

your own footage

Creative concepts, complex editing and effects make for effective advertising – without a single shoot day.

Commercial Without Shoot Days
Frame from an animated trailer: a stage photograph beside the caption “Live on Stage 19:20”
Animated Commercial Trailers

Creative & Efficient

Animated

Promo Trailers

For digital storefronts, trade show video walls, and paid social campaigns — created 100% through 3D animation, vector styling, and sound architecture.

Big results in little time
Strong messages with little shooting time

Big results in little time

Videos are often about getting a message across and touching the viewer. Picture and music have to suit the message and bring out the feeling that belongs to it.

It is not always necessary to book elaborate shooting days in several places across Germany. With well-chosen stock footage, a professional project can be filmed in under a day and, when time is short, finished the next day. A good mix of my own clips and stock footage gives an excellent result for a small investment.

Big results in little time
Shown right after your event
The video is ready when your event ends

Shown right after your event

If you need finished results quickly, I can help. A team prepares and edits the material almost in parallel, so the results are produced while your event is still running.

That means you can show your participants the first results at the close of the event or give them to take home, and while they travel back you share the final photos and videos.

Shown right after your event
Polishing finished projects
Professional post-production of your existing footage

Polishing finished projects

If you have shot a project yourself or had it shot and are not happy with the result, in most cases there are still ways to save it.

For a good video, preparing and editing the raw footage matters at least as much as the footage itself. Unusual effects can also make a big difference to the result. I pay particular attention to creative composition and a good story.

Get in touch and I will show you the original project for comparison.

Polishing finished projects
Patrick Schmetzer

Patrick Schmetzer

A film can say in thirty seconds what a page of text can’t. Creativity here lies in what happens between the images: where the cut lands, when the sound leads and when it drops away. A single cut decides what a film ends up saying.
Born in the US, based in Frankfurt. Photography and film have been my thing since I was eighteen, and my profession since 2014. Brand films, commercials, event trailers and music videos — from the first idea to the final cut, with sound, sound design and editing done in-house rather than outsourced.

Your Cinematographer & Photographer in the Rhine-Main Region

Frankfurt am Main – Mainz – Wiesbaden – Darmstadt

Planning something like this?

Tell me what the film should say and where it will run. Anything still open we settle by phone or email; after that you get an offer covering the shoot and the edit. Scope and price are fixed before filming starts. The inquiry itself commits you to nothing.

A session starts at 250 euro plus VAT. What lies above that is decided by the scope. How pricing works

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Events, employee portraits and image film

From briefing to delivery: events, employee portraits and image films, with a sample briefing and checklists.

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