Event & Summit Coverage

A summit is not a one-camera job — and you don't have to hire an agency to cover it properly.

Every project I take on is solo-led: I direct, shoot, and edit, so the person you brief is the person who makes the film. For summits and multi-track events, I scale the crew from a bench of Bay Area contract professionals — up to six of us on site — covering the stage, interview stations, and the moments happening in between, under one director and one edit.

That model is how the PayPal AI Summit work was produced (with FUEL): an executive-level event, covered as a team deliverable, without an agency layer between you and the filmmaker.

What summit coverage includes

• A pre-event coverage plan built around your agenda — keynotes, breakouts, and interviews prioritised before doors open
• Scaled crew and multi-camera coverage where the programme needs it
• A lead filmmaker on site directing the whole coverage team, and one consistent edit afterwards

Event & Summit Coverage: $10,000–$30,000 — scoped to your agenda, crew size, and deliverables. Multi-event series qualify for the published 15–20% series discount.

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Coverage is built around your run of show. A typical plan can include:

• ◆Keynotes and main-stage sessions, filmed with multiple cameras so talks can be published in full or cut into clips
• ◆Executive and speaker interviews, set up at the event so your leaders and guests are recorded while they're already in the room
• ◆A live podcast or interview studio on the show floor, if your event format supports one — the format used at the PayPal AI Summit
• ◆Atmosphere and b-roll — the hallway conversations, the demos, the room energy — the footage that makes recap films feel like the day actually felt
• ◆A post-event highlight film that tells the story of the day, plus shorter cuts for social and internal channels

What I don't do is hand you a hard drive of raw footage and wish you luck. The deliverables are decided in planning, and the edit is part of the job: planning, shooting, and editing are all in-house.

A summit has a point of view — your company is making an argument to an industry. Coverage should capture the argument, not just the attendance. That's why the planning starts with your message: which sessions carry it, which voices prove it, and what your marketing team needs in hand the week after. The PayPal AI Summit format — planned interviews plus a podcast studio, edited into a series — is one way to do it. A leadership summit, a user conference, or a gala each gets its own plan, built the same way: story first, cameras second.

Every event is scoped to its size and agenda, but most coverage starts from the same core package, with add-ons chosen per event.

Core package (one-day event)

• 1 highlight film — a 60–90 second highlight reel, or a 3–4 minute highlight film for events with more story to tell (summits, conferences, races); the format is set when we scope
• 3 interview cuts (30–60 seconds each) — speakers, attendees, sponsors, or testimonials
• Multi-camera coverage with dedicated audio capture (standard conference setup: 3 cameras, 2 camera operators, gimbal)
• Filmed in 4K; delivered in HD or 4K depending on where the videos will run
• 2 revision rounds
• Delivered through whichever channel is easiest for your team — Google Drive, Dropbox, WeTransfer — or on a drive you provide for your archive

Full session edits

A full session edit is a polished recording of an entire talk, panel, or presentation — a 45-minute panel becomes a roughly 40–45 minute video, ready for YouTube, your event site, or an attendee resource library. Session edits are scoped per event (number of sessions, rooms, and camera coverage) and bundled into your package as their own line item. Each includes:

• Opening title with the event name, session title, and speaker names
• Clean cuts between speakers, wide shots, and relevant audience reactions
• Presentation slides inserted full-screen or alongside the speaker
• Cleaned, balanced audio
• Speaker name and title labels on first appearance
• Captions, burned in
• Closing card with event branding
• Audience Q&A, when it was recorded clearly and agreed in scope

Setup time, technical interruptions, and dead air are removed; the substance stays. Short clips pulled from a session are separate deliverables.

For multi-day summits and larger conferences, the same pieces scale into a content system: the highlight film, executive and attendee interviews, a full session-edit library, and social cuts — one production, a library of assets your team keeps using after the event.

Add-ons

• Social cutdowns — packs of short vertical edits (15–30 seconds) with captions, cut from the highlight and interviews
• Additional interview cuts
• Sponsor recap cut — a short cut built for your sponsors (their moments, their branding), for sports and sponsored events
• Same-day or next-day highlight edit — by prior arrangement, with the scope locked before the event
• Live streaming — with a dedicated streaming operator
• Drone coverage
• Additional revision rounds
• Raw footage purchase

$10,000–$30,000

Event/Summit Coverage runs $10,000–$30,000. Where a project lands in that range depends on the number of event days, crew size, and how many deliverables the edit includes. The exact quote comes from me personally after a conversation about your run of show — I reply personally within one business day.

If you're running a series of events — a roadshow, a quarterly summit, an annual conference with regional stops — published pricing includes 15–20% off a multi-project series, which is the only discount I publish.

For context, my other published ranges: Story Short $5,000–$8,000 · Campaign Film $8,000–$20,000 · Documentary Project $20,000–$60,000+.

1. 1. A conversation about the event.

   Date, venue, run of show, and what the footage needs to do afterward. If we're a fit, you get an exact quote.

2. 2. A coverage plan.

   Crew size, camera positions, interview schedule, and the deliverables list — agreed before the event, not improvised during it. My core crew is lean and scales with a trusted Bay Area contract bench when an event needs more hands.

3. 3. The event day.

   We film to the plan, including interviews and studio segments while your speakers are on site.

4. 4. The edit.

   Highlight film and agreed deliverables, edited by me — not handed off.

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