Advertising Agency

Stinghouse

Years of production work for a South Florida agency and its clients: a philanthropic video series for Florida International University, a healthcare interview campaign for Baptist Health, and shoots for Broward College and the Quantum Foundation.

Stinghouse

Agency Video Production

Stinghouse Advertising is an agency, and agencies hire a production company the way a general contractor hires a trade. The creative is already decided. What the agency needs is a crew that can execute it on schedule, in someone else’s building, without the client having to manage anyone.

C&I Studios has done that work for Stinghouse across several of their accounts: a five part philanthropic series for Florida International University, a multi day interview campaign for Baptist Health that ran from Miami to Palm Beach, and production days for Broward College and the Quantum Foundation.

INDUSTRY

Professional

SERVICES

Video Production

Working With Stinghouse

This reel is cut from behind the scenes footage and finished work across the Stinghouse accounts. Campus shoots, healthcare interviews, a police academy, a lab, a training field. Different clients, different buildings, the same crew structure.

Agency work rewards a production company that shows up with its own answers. Location scouting, permits, talent, hair and makeup, catering, and the drives the footage goes home on are all part of the job before a camera turns over.

Philanthropic Series

Florida International University

Five videos made to support a university fundraising campaign, covering the programs and the people the money actually reaches.

EMBRACE and the Everglades

The series covered areas the university wanted donors to understand rather than simply hear about. EMBRACE, a special educational program for deserving students. How FIU invests its resources to sustain and protect the Everglades. The key figures behind the university’s largest philanthropic donations.

Each video had to stand on its own and still belong to the set. We shot faculty, alumni, and students on campus and in the field, and kept one visual language across all five so the campaign reads as a single piece.

Together the five show the reach of FIU’s global mission and the legacy of future leaders its teaching produces. Stinghouse Advertising brought us in on the strength of a track record producing fundraising video that works, and the schedule was built around the university so classes and campus operations were never disrupted to make it.

Man putting on glasses at an office table in a room with artifacts on shelves behind him

Stinghouse FIU video production welcome sign

Healthcare Campaign

Baptist Health

Four shoot days from Miami to Palm Beach, filming physicians, staff, and donors for a healthcare campaign built almost entirely on interviews.

Physicians, Staff, and Donors

Baptist Health runs across South Florida, so the schedule moved with it. Four days spread across August, locations from Miami up to Palm Beach, a mix of interior interviews and outdoor work.

An interview campaign lives or dies on how the subjects look and sound. Physicians came in between shifts. The window we had with each one was short, so the room was lit and the audio was set before anybody sat down.

Beyond the real physicians, staff, and donors, C&I Studios cast and provided five non union talent for the campaign, with exclusivity to Baptist Health across the healthcare category in Florida for two years. Wardrobe, hair and makeup, and the location scout were ours as well.

The client kept their own editor on set and wanted a DIT working alongside the crew, so footage was checked and handed off as the days ran rather than after them. Producer Amy Joy Miller held the schedule across all four days, which is the part of a shoot like this that decides whether the crew ever gets to think about the picture.

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Stinghouse Baptist Health video production physician portrait

Stinghouse Baptist Health video production physician interview on camera

Stinghouse Baptist Health video production surgeon interview scrubs

Documentary Shoots

Quantum Foundation

Two shoot days in West Palm Beach documenting the historic Roosevelt High School campus and the alumni working to preserve its history.

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stinghouse quantum foundation archive boards

Roosevelt High School

The Quantum Foundation is based in West Palm Beach, and this project sat a few blocks from its office. Stinghouse brought us in on a shoot only basis. The agency owned the concept and the script. We provided the camera and field sound.

The first day, in July 2022, was a tour. A driving pass through the neighborhood, then the historic Roosevelt High School campus itself: the gym, the breezeways, the empty classrooms. Two alumni walked it with us and spoke about their memories of the school and why they want its history preserved. From there the group went on to archival collections and memorabilia.

The second day, in September 2023, was interviews. Alumni and project stakeholders sat down at the Quantum Foundation office to tell their own part of the story, and the crew went back out for b-roll of the neighborhood around the school. Two visits, more than a year apart, shot to cut together as one piece.

Stinghouse video production for Baptist Health by C and I Studios

Stinghouse Baptist Health video production employee interview

Agency Video Production for Stinghouse

Agency video production is its own discipline, and C&I Studios has been the execution partner behind it for Stinghouse across South Florida. Stinghouse is an advertising agency, and the work an agency hands a production company is different from the work a brand hands one directly. The creative is settled. The client has already approved a direction. What remains is the part that decides whether the campaign happens on time: crewing it, scheduling it, getting permission to be in the building, and delivering footage an editor can actually cut. C&I Studios has carried that role for Stinghouse across Florida International University, Baptist Health, Broward College, and the Quantum Foundation.

Philanthropic Video Series for Florida International University

The Florida International University work was a five part philanthropic series produced to support a university fundraising initiative. Stinghouse Advertising brought C&I Studios onto the account on the strength of a proven track record producing fundraising video that performs, and the series became a central piece of the agency’s advertising strategy for the campaign. Each video covered an area of significance the university wanted donors to see rather than read about. EMBRACE, a special educational program for deserving students who need a different route through higher education. How FIU invests its resources to sustain and protect the Everglades. The key figures responsible for the university’s largest philanthropic donations. Producing a multi part series for a major university takes meticulous planning and a clear editorial vision, because the series had to work two ways at once, with every video strong enough to stand alone and consistent enough that the five read as one campaign. We coordinated interviews with faculty, alumni, and students and captured on campus footage that reflected the energy and diversity of the university community, and the production schedule was structured so that campus operations were never disrupted to accommodate the crew. Taken together the five videos show the expansiveness of FIU’s global mission and the rich legacy of future leaders its dedication to education produces, ending on a comprehensive look at the people guiding the advancement of education in America. Fundraising video carries a particular responsibility, because it has to move an audience toward a decision without manipulating anyone into it. Our approach was to let the programs and the people speak, supported by clean cinematography and thoughtful editing that stays out of the way. This is what agency video production looks like when the deliverable is a set rather than a single film.

Agency Video Production for the Baptist Health Interview Campaign

The Baptist Health campaign was a shoot only engagement across four production days, with locations running from Miami to Palm Beach. The deliverable was interview footage: physicians, staff, and donors, filmed indoors and outdoors, handed off on Qubee and on two drives. C&I Studios also cast and provided five non union talent with exclusivity to Baptist Health across the healthcare category in Florida for two years. Interview campaigns at this scale are a logistics problem disguised as a camera problem. Physicians came in between shifts, so every room was lit and every audio chain was set before the subject arrived. Hair and makeup, wardrobe, location scouting, craft, and transport were all inside our scope, along with a DIT on set because the client wanted their own editor working alongside the crew. Producing under those conditions is the reason an agency brings in an agency video production partner instead of assembling a crew each time.

Broward College and the Quantum Foundation

Stinghouse has also brought C&I Studios onto production days for Broward College and the Quantum Foundation. Campus work of that kind means shooting around a schedule nobody is going to move for a film crew. Classes run, shifts change, and a training field or a laboratory is in use by the people who actually work there. The crew adapts to the institution rather than the other way around, which is the same discipline a hospital shoot demands, and it is a standing requirement of agency video production on any campus.

Why Agencies Choose C&I Studios for Agency Video Production

C&I Studios is a full service production company with studios in Fort Lauderdale, Los Angeles, and London, working across video production, photography, post production, and creative services. Agency video production clients get a single point of contact for scoping, crewing, location logistics, talent, and delivery. Our roster includes work for brands and institutions across healthcare, education, hospitality, fashion, and sport, and the range is deliberate, because a company that only shoots one kind of thing is a company an agency can only call once. Good agency video production is measured on the second call, not the first. For reference on how healthcare organizations approach patient and physician storytelling, the American Hospital Association publishes guidance on communicating clinical work to the public. See more of our work on the portfolio, or read about our team.

From Concept to Final Cut

Some clients arrive with the creative settled and need a crew who can execute it. Some arrive with an idea and need the concept built before anything gets shot. Some already have footage and need it cut. All three are normal, and C&I Studios takes on any one of them.

The full range is here under one roof: concept and creative development, scripting, casting, crew, location and permits, wardrobe, hair and makeup, and the shoot itself, then editing, color, sound, motion graphics, and final delivery. Take the parts of that you need and leave the rest.

Tell us where the project stands and we will tell you what it takes.

From Concept to Final Cut

Bring us the creative and we will crew it. Bring an idea and we will build it. Bring footage and we will cut it.

Concept, production, post. C&I Studios does all of it, and you take only the parts you need.

Tell us where the project stands and we will take it from there.