Long Island Video Production
Long Island video, built to perform.
In-house video production for brands that want more than nice footage. We start with strategy, produce content built to perform, and put it where your audience already is. From brand films to social, testimonials, and ads, made end to end. Since 2001, with offices in Melville, NY, Boca Raton, FL, and soon Miami.
Two Jobs for Every Video
Build the brand, and drive the action.
Great video does both: it makes people feel something, and it makes them do something. We produce for both, and we never lose sight of the goal.
Story that makes people feel something.
Brand films, founder stories, and culture pieces that give your brand a face and a voice people remember.
- Brand and founder films
- Story and identity
- Emotion that sticks
Video that earns the click and the call.
Ads, testimonials, and social cut to convert, each with a clear job and a number attached.
- Performance and ad creative
- Testimonials and proof
- Social built to convert
Strategy, Production, Distribution
Everything video needs, under one roof.
One team from the first idea to the final cut to the last channel. No briefs handed to a separate production house, no finger pointing.
Strategy
Plan before we roll.
- Audience and goal
- Creative concept and script
- Channel and distribution plan
- Shot list and storyboard
- Budget and timeline
- Measurement plan
Production
Made end to end, in-house.
- Direction and crew
- Filming and lighting
- Interviews and B-roll
- Editing and motion
- Graphics and titles
- Color and sound
Distribution
Put where it performs.
- Cut for each channel
- Paid and organic social
- YouTube and web
- Email and sales enablement
- Video advertising
- Reporting and iteration
How It Connects
One system, from concept to conversion.
Your goal sets the direction. We carry it through strategy, production, distribution, and measurement, all the way to every viewer and every result.
The same strategy and the same standard, from first concept to every view that converts.
Why Wave
Strategy first, made in-house, built to perform.
Most video gets made backward: shoot first, figure out the point later. We start with the goal and build toward it, with one team from script to final cut.
Strategy First
Every video has a goal and a number, not just a look.
In-House, End to End
Script, shoot, and edit under one roof, no handoffs.
Built to Distribute
Cut for every channel from the start, not as an afterthought.
Measured and Iterated
We track what performs and recut what does not.
What We Produce
From brand films to scroll-stoppers.
One shoot, planned well, becomes a brand piece plus a month of social, ads, and clips.
Brand Films
Story, identity, and the films people remember.
Social and Short-Form
Vertical, fast, and built for the feed.
Testimonials and Case Studies
Proof in your customers own words.
Product and Explainer
Make the complex clear and easy to buy.
Ads and Performance
Creative cut to convert, by platform.
Events and Recap
Capture the moment and extend its life.
TV and Broadcast Spots
High-production commercials for broadcast, cable, and connected TV.
UGC and Creator-Style
Native, hand-held, and unpolished on purpose, made to look organic.
Photography
Stills shot on the same day, so one call covers both.
Verticals
We shoot across a lot of industries.
Twenty-plus years on Long Island means we have shot most of them. Each one has its own rhythm, its own lighting problem, and its own idea of what good looks like.
A Specialty
Restaurant video and photography.
Restaurants are the work we do most, and the hardest room to shoot well. Low light, a live service you cannot pause, and food that looks its best for about ninety seconds. We shoot around all three.
One booking covers video and photography together, so the menu shots, the room, and a month of social all come out of the same service. See restaurant video production and photography on Long Island.
Food and Menu
Dishes shot the moment they leave the pass, in video and stills.
The Room
Interiors, bar, and atmosphere, lit for the hour people actually visit.
Social and UGC
Vertical clips and creator-style content, cut for the feed.
Recent Work
Enology Wine Bar & Bistro, in one evening.
A wine bar and bistro in Saint James, shot around a working service rather than a closed room. One booking, one crew, and both halves of the job: the film that carries the place, and the stills that carry the menu and the bar for the rest of the year.
The Stills
The bar, lit the way people actually see it.
A drink photographs badly under the light a room is designed for, which is why so much restaurant photography is shot pale and flat and looks like nowhere. These were lit for the hour the guest is there, which is the whole point of them.
See the work in place at enologywinebar.com
One evening, both deliverables. The film and every one of these frames came out of the same booking, which is the argument for shooting them together rather than hiring a video crew and a photographer on two different nights and hoping the two sets of images look like the same restaurant. More on the specialty at restaurant video production and photography.
Where It Works
Made for every screen your audience uses.
How We Work
Strategy first, then build.
Every video is built with intention, tied to a goal and a number. The agents carry the volume; our people make the calls.
Plan
We define the goal, the audience, and the concept.
Produce
We script, shoot, and edit end to end, in-house.
Distribute
We cut for each channel, launch, and measure.
Wave Platforms
Around the clock, for video that has to earn its cost.
We do not license someone else's software and mark it up. Swell and Harbor are ours, written in house and trained on how your business actually runs. Here is what each one does for you.
Swell
Watches which cuts and placements actually return, and moves spend toward them.
Explore Swell →Swell, Inside Your BuildingHarbor
Shot lists, releases, asset delivery, and the paperwork around a production day.
Explore Harbor →You get your own dashboard. Sign in whenever you want and see exactly what moved, what the platforms changed, and why. See both platforms →
Content Creation
Content Creation.
The film and the photography are one job; the editorial, the copy and the calendar that carry them are another. Content creation has its own page.
The part you can hold.
Print still earns its place when it matches everything around it. We design it, produce it and deliver it, from large format down to the business essentials, on the same brand the digital work uses.
Large Format
Banners, signage, and wraps.
Displays and Environments
Booths and spaces.
Collateral
Brochures and one-sheets.
Business Essentials
Cards and stationery.
Packaging
Boxes and labels.
Specialty
Unique finishes and pieces.
Common Questions
Questions brands ask about video.
Do you shoot TV commercials?+
Can you shoot photography at the same time?+
Do you do restaurant video and photography?+
Can you make UGC and creator-style content?+
Where on Long Island do you shoot?+
Do you handle everything, or just the filming?+
Can you cut one shoot into many videos?+
Do you write the scripts and concepts?+
Can you run the ads the video is for?+
Do you work outside Long Island?+
Let's Talk
Let's make video that works.
Book a call with a senior member of the team. Bring a goal or a rough idea, and we will show you what is possible.