Scripted, shot, cut and delivered by the people who wrote the campaign.
Brand films · Training · CommercialsDocumentary · Live coverage · Media trainingThe Secret Squirrel Society Entertainment Group, Inc.
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.
The original business
Production is the core of the company, and corporate content is the core of that.
Brand films, training and instructional video, internal communication, recruitment and safety content, executive and interview work. First page of the script to the delivered master, in house.
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 why a shoot that has to happen on the morning a dealership opens its doors happens on the morning the dealership opens its doors.
Commercial spots, documentary, live and event coverage, media and spokesperson training, and our own film and television projects run alongside that work, on the same crew and the same kit.
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.
Corporate & Organizational Content
The main focus. Brand and capability films, internal communication, executive and interview pieces, recruitment, safety and public information video, and the cutdowns the same shoot has to produce for a site, an intranet and a feed.
Training & Instructional Video
Procedural and instructional pieces, courseware media, onboarding and compliance video, delivered in the formats a training program actually runs on — classroom, mobile and LMS.
Media & Spokesperson Training
On-camera technique, interview preparation, message discipline and holding a line under a hostile question, run on site with a real crew and a real lens. Delivered commercially, and grounded in the two years our founder spent running media training events for Navy, Marine Corps and Army officers in a U.S. Navy public affairs office.
Commercial & Branded Video
Spots, dealership and retail promotion, product films and the paid and social cutdowns that come off the same day.
Documentary
Long-form and short documentary work, shot on location, with the field discipline the company was built on.
Event & Live Coverage
Openings, ceremonies, rides, shows and the nights a campaign lands on. One team can be running the activation and shooting it at the same time.
Film & Television
Scripted work from development through delivery, including the company’s own narrative and television projects.
Post Production
Edit, color, sound, graphics, captions and delivery. Work we shot and work we did not, cut to the specification the platform, the broadcaster or the publishing system actually accepts.
Production is where this company started.
A media production company that grew a marketing and advertising practice around its own cameras. Everything below is run by the same team, which is why the content, the campaign it belongs to and the night it lands on do not have to be scheduled across four companies.
- Media Production
- Media Training
- Marketing & Advertising
- Event Activation
- Photography
- Print & Signage
- Theatre & Venue Management
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, color, 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
- Emailinfo@secretsquirrelent.com
- Arkansas511 N El Paso Road
Russellville, AR 72802 - West coast2201 E Willow Street
Signal Hill, CA 90755
- Field disciplineCombat Camera, ten years
- Main focusCorporate content
- DeliveryScript to master
Vendor & trade information
- Legal entityThe Secret Squirrel Society Entertainment Group, Inc.
- OwnershipService-disabled veteran owned. SDVOSB.
- StructureFounded 2007 as an LLC. Incorporated 2017.
- Clients since2010.
- 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.