Why Dream Opera
A Studio or Stock Footage and Templates
Stock footage and template edits are the quickest and cheapest way to fill a timeline, and they are the right choice for internal videos, simple social posts and real news or documentary footage. The trade-off is footage any company can license and a cast that changes from clip to clip. We build the cast and the world for your film, so every shot belongs to one story and to you.
When Stock Is the Better Choice
- Internal and training videos where speed and cost matter most.
- Simple social posts that need a background, not a story.
- Real archive, news or nature footage, where the footage being real is the point.
Where Stock Runs Out
A stock edit is built from shots made for no one in particular. The people change between clips, the light changes, and the same clips appear in other companies' ads. You can only tell the stories that the library already contains.
What We Build Instead
We design the world your film happens in. Each location is designed once, as a fixed place, and every shot there is built from that design. Characters are designed once and appear the same in every shot. The result is footage that exists only in your film, made for your idea, cut to your script.
Side by Side
| Stock and templates | Dream Opera | |
|---|---|---|
| Footage | Licensed, available to anyone | Made for your film |
| Cast | Different people in each clip | One cast across every shot |
| Story | Limited to what exists in the library | Written for your brief |
| Cost and speed | Lowest, often the same day | A quote per brief. A :30 with cutdowns in 3 to 7 days when approvals come back quickly |
Send Us the Brief
The product, the problem, where it runs and roughly when it needs to air. We come back with a route and a quote.
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