The Secret Squirrel Society Entertainment Group, Inc. · Media Production

Scripted, shot, cut and delivered by the people who wrote the campaign.

Media production is the original business and it is still running. Commercial and branded video, documentary and narrative work, from the first page of the script to the delivered master.

The company was founded by a retired U.S. Navy Combat Cameraman — ten years shooting in the field, on deadline, with no second take. That is a different discipline from a studio crew, and it is the reason a shoot that has to happen on the morning a dealership opens its doors happens on the morning the dealership opens its doors.

  • Founded2007
  • Field disciplineCombat Camera, ten years
  • DeliveryScript to master
  • Service areaNorth America

Direct

  • Emailinfo@secretsquirrelent.com
  • ShootsAnywhere in North America
  • CrewField-run and self-sufficient
  • AlsoCampaign, print and the event itself

Recent work

Three delivered commercials, written, shot, cut and graded in house. Each one ran on the schedule the campaign, the print and the event for the same night ran on.

Steel & Grace

Toad Suck Harley-Davidson

Broadcast and social spot for a women-forward riding event. Written, shot, cut and graded in house, on the same schedule as the poster and the signage for the same night.

Steel & Grace, second cut

Toad Suck Harley-Davidson

The second delivered cut of the same campaign, built for a shorter break. Same footage, different argument.

Ives Brothers Thrill Show Blood Drive

Toad Suck Harley-Davidson

Event spot for a blood drive run alongside a wall-of-death thrill show. Shot on the day, cut overnight, on air before the event.

What we shoot

Five kinds of production, run by the same team that writes the campaign the content belongs to. If the job needs artwork, print or an event on the same date, that is one schedule rather than four.

Commercial & Branded Video

Spots, dealership and retail promotion, product films and the cutdowns the same shoot has to produce for social and paid placement.

Documentary

Long-form and short documentary work, shot on location, with the field discipline the company was built on.

Narrative & Short Film

Scripted work from development through delivery, including the company’s own productions.

Event & Live Coverage

Openings, rides, shows and the nights a campaign lands on. One team can be running the activation and shooting it at the same time.

Post Production

Edit, colour, sound and delivery. Work we shot and work we did not, cut to the specification the platform or the broadcaster actually publishes.

Production is where this company started.

Six lines of work, run by the same team. The list has grown the way the company grew — a client asked for the next thing, and we built it rather than handing them to somebody else.

How a job runs

Five stages, in this order, on every production. The point of writing them down is that a client knows what is happening this week and what is expected of them next week.

01 · Brief and script

What it is for, who has to see it, and when it has to be live. The script or the outline comes back before anything is scheduled.

02 · Pre-production

Locations, permissions, cast or staff, kit and a schedule that fits the day the client actually has, not the day a crew would prefer.

03 · Shoot

Field-run and self-sufficient. Most of this company’s work happens on a lot, in a service bay, at a venue or outdoors, on one pass.

04 · Post

Edit, colour, sound, graphics and revisions, with the campaign the content belongs to already in the room.

05 · Delivery

Masters and every cutdown, sized and encoded for where each one is going.

Who we work with

We have done work for:

  • Toad Suck Harley-Davidson
  • Rock City Harley-Davidson
  • Ft. Smith Harley-Davidson
  • Bold Theatre
  • The Rialto Community Arts Center
  • Foundry Entertainment Hall
  • Bold Studios LA

Start a project

Tell us what is being shot and when it has to be delivered. We will tell you what it takes.

  • Emailinfo@secretsquirrelent.com
  • Arkansas511 N El Paso Road
    Russellville, AR 72802
  • West coast2201 E Willow Street
    Signal Hill, CA 90755

Vendor & trade information

  • Legal entityThe Secret Squirrel Society Entertainment Group, Inc.
  • StructureFounded 2007 as an LLC. Incorporated 2017.
  • OwnershipVeteran owned.
  • CreativeDesigned in house. No brokered creative.
  • W-9On file and available on request.
  • AR sales & use tax permitApplied for. Not yet issued.
  • AR resale certificateApplied for. Not yet issued.
  • Service areaNorth America.